Dr Dawn Clarke joined the University of Huddersfield in 2007. Prior to that she began her research career at the University of Bradford where she completed her first degree, the main focus of which was domestic abuse (DA). During this time she was also responsible for developing and delivering training to raise awareness about DA to the Metropolitan Police Force in the local divisions.  After which her professional background spanned across both the statutory and voluntary sectors, in which she worked in child protection and housing support as both a front – line worker and a trainer. It was the policies and practices of these services that became the research focus of her doctorate in which she explored the impact of the Supporting People Programme on women survivors of domestic abuse; this was completed in 2007. Currently she is a Research Fellow on the REQUALLO project which is producing web based re – usable learning objects for doing qualitative data analysis - see onlineqda@hud.ac.uk. She also works on the Climbie project to develop a web based coded data set using the Climbie inquiry data corpus to create materials to teach, learn about and research social work practices specifically in child protection.

Teaching responsibilities

Undergraduate:

• Health and Social Identity
• Social Theory in Contemporary Society
• Evidence Based Practice for Social Workers
• Debates in Social Work
• Doing Research in the Social Sciences
• Research Methods.
• Investigating The Social World

Post Graduate:

Module Leader:

• Research Informed Practice
• Social Theory, Social Change and Health and Social Care
• Evaluating Health and Social Care Delivery

Other Roles:

• Methods for Enquiry
• Evaluation, Policy and Practice.

Supervision for undergraduate and post graduate research projects and personal tuition.

Domestic abuse and: the State; professional knowledge and practices in health and social care and their impact on the individual; child protection and support services both statutory and voluntary and their impact on mothering; forced marriage specifically in the Pakistani (Mirpuri) communities; education for effective qualitative data analysis.

Research groups

Current:

• Member of the centre for research in the social sciences (CRISS).
• Member of the Applied Childhood Studies Centre.

2010

Stone, G. and Clarke, D. (2010) Climbié Inquiry Data Corpus Online: JISC Final Report (Public Report) Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield (Unpublished)

Gibbs, G., Clarke, D., Teal, A., Lewins, A. and Crowley, C. (2010) ‘Learning Theory and RLOs: The REQUALLO Experience’. In: Requallo C-SAP e-Learning Conference, June 2010, London

Gibbs, G., Clarke, D., Teal, A., Silver, C. and Crowley, C. (2010) ‘Learning Theory and OERs: The REQUALLO Experience’. In: Open Educational Resources 2011 (OER11), 11 - 13 May 2011, University of Manchester

Clarke, D. and Gibbs, G. (2010) ‘The Victoria Climbié Corpus Project. ’. In: Open Educational Resources 2011 (OER11), 11 - 13 May 2011, University of Manchester

Gibbs, G., Clarke, D., Hall, C., Stone, G. and Osborne, A. (2010) ‘Teaching and Research use of the Victoria Climbié Corpus: Launch of the Victoria Climbié Corpus Website and Project’. In: Launch of the Victoria Climbié Corpus Website and Project, 29 April 2010, University of Huddersfield

Gibbs, G., Clarke, D. and Teal, A. (2010) The Victoria Climbié Corpus [Dataset]

2009

Gibbs, G., Clarke, D., Teal, A. and Lewins, A. (2009) ‘E-learning as apprenticeship for large numbers’. In: C-SAP E-learning conference, 16th January 2009, London

• Domestic violence and abuse
• Gender
• Professional and institutional practices in domestic abuse and child welfare
• Forced marriage in minority ethnic communities
• Child protection and welfare