Kish Bhatti-Sinclair

Position within Board of Directors and Terms of Serving: Chair, International Committee, Joint University Social Work Association, UK.

Affiliation and Position (other than IASSW): Joint University Social Work Association, University of Chichester
Membership of organisations (other than IASSW)

Educational Qualification/s: (Degrees): MA and PhD

Languages written and spoken: English, Punjabi and Urdu

Interest Areas (social work teaching, research and practice): decolonization, anti-racist social work practice, child exploitation, research methodologies, research inclusion, ethics and
values.

Current Activities (social work teaching, research, practice, others): Kish has a lifelong commitment to combating racism, shaping the debates on black perspectives and de-colonising social work practice. This includes the development of methodologies and theories, such as modern racism, to test attitudes and behaviours. Kish has undertaken studies on child sexual exploitation and hard to reach children using quantitative data and sensitive methods.

Kish has written many journal articles including the books: Anti-Racist Practice in Social Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) which examines attitudes and behaviours in relation to law, policy and practice. Diversity, Difference and Dilemmas (OUP/McGraw Hill, 2017) promotes the idea that disproportionate attention is paid to immigrants and terrorists in populist policy and media reporting.

Kish has led a number of local authority and NHS commissioned projects which have contributed to strategic planning and policy development. Kish leads on research inclusion for the Applied Research Collaboration, South East England and is a Committee member of many national bodies.

Kish is Co-editor-in-Chief of the Wiley journal: Child Abuse Review (CAR) and Board member of the Association of Child Protection Professionals. Kish leads the Social Work Education Anti-Racist Network.