Key details
Mariam Raja
Senior Teaching Fellow
Mariam is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Social Work in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Greenwich. She has been in post since September 2020.
Mariam is a Qualified Social Worker and a Best Interest Assessor. Her teaching areas and professional interests include adult social care and disaster based social work.
Previously held positions
2013-2018 / Qualified Social worker and Best Interest Assessor / Various Local Authorities in London
Mariam has practise as a social worker in the social work field, across charities, hospital, prisons, youth clubs, local authorities.
Duties and responsibilities:
Assessing care and support needs of resident who are in the local authority based on eligibility of Care Act 2014.
- Completing Core assessments and support plans following statutory guidance.
- Working on complex cases with multiple different agencies including police, community support, and medical services.
- Working with carers to support them with their care needs under Care Act 2014.
- Undertaking safeguarding training and formal investigations.
Responsibilities within the university
- Module lead – introduction to social work, Introduction to Diversity, Ethics and Values, Safeguarding Children and Adults, The Changing Context for Social Work
- Dissertation supervisor
- Personal tutor
- University Placement tutor
- Admission support
Recognition
British Association of Social Work – Disaster based social work and CPD development group
Research / Scholarly interests
- Adult social work
- Mental Capacity Act in practise
- Disaster Based social work
Key funded projects
2021, Social work England Tender, Social Work Education and Covid 19 responses.
Recent publications
Monograph
Pentaris, Panagiotis , Raja, Mariam, Hanna, Susan, Oresanya, Abiola (2021), Social work education and training in England in 2020-21: attitudes, perceptions and experiences about the specialist regulator, COVID-19 experiences and responses, and equality, diversity and inclusion. Social Work England. In: , , , . Social Work England, London (1st) (doi: http://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/media/4098/social-work-education-and-training-in-england-in-2020-21-report_accessible.pdf).