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Mike Adler
Lecturer in Social Administration, 1971
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Norma Campbell
Lecturer in Medical Social Work, 1961
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Judith Brearley
Certificate in Medical Social Work 1963
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Marjorie A Brown
Director of the School of Social Study, 1951-1962
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Megan Browne
Lecturer PSW, 1948, Acting Director of School, 1966-1968
Book cover: The Management of Innovation, Tom Burns, G. M. Stalker
Tom Burns
Research Lecturer, 1949; Professor of Sociology, 1965
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Chris Clark
Lecturer from 1978; PhD 1990; Personal Chair in Social Work Ethics, 2007; Professor Emeritus, 2009
Book cover: Community Care in Practice, Davidson, R. and Hunter, S. (eds)
Ralph Davidson
Lecturer, 1970-1999
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Mary Joanne Farquharson Gregor
Lecturer, 1946; Acting Director 1964-1966
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Susan Hunter
Diploma in Social Administration 1972 & CQSW 1973 1973
Book cover: Child Welfare from the Social Point of View
Nora Milnes
Director of School of Social Study & Training, 1918-1951
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Richard Parry
Lecturer in Social Policy from 1983
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Wendy Paterson
Certificate in Social Study 1965, Certificate in Medical Social Work 1966
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Susan Sinclair
Lecturer PSW then Social Policy, 1953-1988
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Adrian Sinfield
Professor of Social Policy 1978-1995; Emeritus Professor 1995-
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Jean Snelling
Lecturer MSW, 1950s-1958
Book cover: Criminology in transition. Essays in honour of Hermann Mannheim. Edited by Tadeusz Grygier, Howard Jones. John C. Spencer
John C Spencer
Professor of Social Administation & Director of School of Social Study, 1967-1978
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Liz Timms
Lecturer in Social Work, 1998-2003
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John Triseliotis
Diploma in Psychiatric Social Work 1960
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Vivienne Triseliotis
Lecturer MSW, 1958-1970
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Florence Estelle (Stella) Waldron
Lecturer PSW, 1946-1951
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Lorraine Waterhouse
Lecturer from 1976, Professor of Social Work 1994-2014
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Peter Yates
Master of Social Work 1994
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