Emily Weygang | University of Chester

I started off my career as a teacher in a Young Offenders prison which sparked my interest in young people, mental health, offending behaviour patterns and poverty.

Following this I worked for the Youth Offending Service and then for a Local Authority carrying out research on young offender’s rehabilitation back into mainstream school. I then worked at Manchester’s Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Unit for 6 years. More recently I have been a senior manager for a mental health charity which uses creativity to support adults and young people in their personal recovery journeys. I am a qualified Practice Educator and still practice for part of the week.

Module Leader for Values and Ethics for the Apprentices.

I regularly contribute to Readiness for Practice for BA1, BA2 and MA1 and MA2.

I will be running a module on Critical Reflection for Wirral NHS Trust.

I am PAT for tutees at MA level and for the Apprentices.

Over the past two years I have designed and run a project called The Curiosity Project in collaboration with The University of Manchester. We ran a 12 week programme with people suffering from mental health conditions and thought about what curiosity means today and the spaces in which one can be curious. The project culminated in a film and I delivered a paper called ‘What Space for Curiosity’ at the University of Manchester.

I am interested in the ways in which social work is depicted through cultural forms and how this feeds back into social work education and practice.

Practice Educator Stage 1 and 2
MA Social Work
PGCE
Master of Philosophy
MA English Literature
BA (hons) English Literature and Art History