Cambridge
0845 196 2128
Shula.Ramon@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• BA in Social Work, Hebrew University, Israel
• BA in Psychology and Sociology, Bar Ilan University, Israel
• MA in Clinical Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Israel
• PhD, Birmingham University, UK

• Chartered clinical psychologist, BPS member
• Registered social worker, GSCC
• Member of BASW
• Member of IPSP
• Member of the editorial board International Journal of Social Psychiatry
• Member of the editorial board International Social Work

Courses

• International MA in Social Work and Social Policy
• INDOSOW European Ph.D. in Social Work
• Ph.D. supervision

Outline of career

Prof. Shula Ramon is a qualified social worker and a chartered clinical psychologist by her training, who has researched extensively various mental health issues, initiated innovatory participation of service users as co-researchers in mental health and in social work education.

She has put on the map of European and international research the issue of the impact of political conflict on social work. Her interest in comparative research has led to a number of projects and several books and articles on a variety of mental health and social work research topics. She is currently the principal investigator and project manager of the RfPB NIHR project on Shared Decision Making in Psychiatric Medication Management, a partnership between the Cambridge Partnership Foundation Trust and Anglia Ruskin University (2011-2014).

Prof. Ramon has been awarded the Katherine Kendall Award for her contribution to international social work in 2008 by the International Association of Schools of Social Work.

Selected Publications

Books published since 2000:

A Stakeholder's Approach to Innovation in Mental Health Services: A Reader for the 21st Century, Pavilion Publishing, 2000. Editor and author of Chapters 1 and 13.

Users researching Health and Social Care: An Empowering Agenda? Venture Press, 2003, editor and author of chapter 1.

Mental Health at the Crossroads: The Promise of the Psychosocial Approach, Ashgate Publishing, 2005 (first editor and author of chapter 13, with Janet E. Williams as the second editor).

Social Work in the Context of Political Conflict, International Association of Schools of Social Work, Venture Press, July 2008.

Cutting Edge Issues in Comparative Social Work and Social Policy Research, first editor with Darja Zavirsek. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, September 2009.

Ryan, P., Ramon, S., Greacen, T. (ed) (2012) Recovery, Empowerment and Lifelong Learning: Towards a New Paradigm. Palgrave MacMillan

Key articles since 2006:

The Impact of Political Conflict on Social Work: experiences in Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine (2006). British Journal of Social Work, invited paper (first author, with Jim Campbell, Jane Lindsay, Patrick McCrystal and Naima Baidun), 36, 3, 435-450

Recovery from mental illness as an emergent concept and practice in Australia and Britain (first author, with Bill Healy and Noel Renouf), International Journal of Social Psychiatry 2007, 53, 2, 108-122.
The above publication appears also in Hebrew, in:
Hadas-Lidor, N., Lachman, M. (ed) Rehabilitation and Recovery in Mental Health, Litam Publication, Kfar Saba, February 2007,

Anghel, R., Ramon, S. (2009) User involvement in social work education: an English case study, European Journal of Social Work 12, 2, June, 185-201

Ramon, S. (2011) Organisational Change in the Context of Recovery Oriented Services. Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice: Issue for Workforce Development, 6, 1, 37-45. Awarded best article of the year.