Cambridge
0845 196 2561
peter.scourfield@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• CQSW
• PG Cert
• MA Social Work
• MA Social Policy

Courses

• BA Social Work
• MA Social Work
• PQ Specialist Award Social Work with Adults
• BA Social Policy

Outline of career

Peter qualified as a social worker in 1984, and since then he has worked in variety of social work and educational settings before taking up a full-time post at Anglia Ruskin in 2003.

Research Interest

• older people's experiences within the social care system
• direct payments/personalisation
• advocacy
• service-user involvement
• older people's participation agenda

His PhD research involves looking at the statutory review system for older residents of care homes.

Selected Publications

Scourfield, P. (2008) Going for Brokerage: A Task of 'Independent Support' or Social Work? British Journal of Social Work, doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcn141.
Sussex, F., Scourfield, P. and Herne, D. (2008) Advanced Health and Social Care for NVQ Level 4 and Foundation Degree: Oxford: Heinemann.
Scourfield, P. (2007) A commentary on the emerging literature on advocacy for older people. Quality in Ageing, 8(4), December 2007.
Scourfield, P. (2007) Reviewing residential care reviews for older people Practice, 19; 3, 199-209 Birmingham: British Association of Social Workers.
Scourfield, P. (2007) Are there reasons to be worried about the 'caretelization' of residential care? Critical Social Policy, 27(2), 155-180.
Scourfield, P. (2007) Social Care and the Modern Citizen. British Journal of Social Work. 37(1), 107
Scourfield, P. (2007) Helping older people in residential care remain full citizens, British Journal of Social Work, 2007 37(7):1135-1152
Scourfield, P. (2006) The Symbolic Value of Tai Chi for Older People. Quality in Ageing. 7, 2, June 2006, 4-11
Scourfield, P. (2006) What Matters is What Works. How discourses of modernization have both silenced and limited debate on domiciliary care for older people. Critical Social Policy, 26(1), 5-30.

For a complete list of publications please contact Peter