Digital & Society

Digital & Society

Lead

Professor Amanda Taylor-Beswick

 

Brief description

The appointment of a Professor of Digital and Social Sciences, within the University of Cumbria’s Institute of Health, signals a new area of focus for the Institute. Working at digital and health and social work/ care intersections, Professor Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick brings the expertise and experience to drive forward digital, health, and social work/care research work. Her work includes problematising traditional and analogue health and social work /care processes, practices, and interventions; and an associated interest in student, educator, and practitioner digital development, aligned with the need for clinicians and practitioners that are real-world ready and relevant.

 

Publications

  • Taylor-Beswick, A.M.L. (2025) (Accepted/In press). Digital literacies in social work. In C. Fouche, & L. Beddoe (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopaedia of Social Work, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Taylor-Beswick, A. M. L and Hornung, E. (2024) Doing Phenomenography: A Practical Guide. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Romero, M., Frosig, T., Taylor-Beswick, A. M.L., Laru, J., Bernasco, B., Urmeneta, A., Strutynska, O., Girard, M. (2024) ‘Manifesto in Defense of Human-Centred Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.’ In Urmeneta, A. and Romero, M. (eds) (2024) Creative Application of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 1st ed. France: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55272-4.
  • Taylor-Beswick, A.M.L. (2024) ‘Technology Assisted Child Sexual Abuse.’ In Clawson, R., Warwick, L. and Fyson, R. (eds) 4th ed. The Child Protection Handbook, London: Elsevier.
  • Campbell, A., Millen, S., Taylor-Beswick, A. M. L. and Guo, Li. (2023) ‘Reducing opioid related deaths for individuals who are at high risk of overdose: a co-production study.’ In Hucklesby, A. and Holt, R. (eds) 1st ed. Tracking People Wearable Technologies in Social and Public Policy, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
  • Taylor-Beswick, A.M.L. (2021) ‘Social Work, Technologies, Covid19.’ In Turner, D. (ed). Social Work and Covid19: Lessons from Education and Practice, pp.7-14. St Albans: Critical Publishing,
  • Campbell, A., Millen, S., Guo, L., Jordan, U., Taylor-Beswick, A., Rintoul, C. and Diamond, A. (2023) ‘Reducing opioid related deaths for individuals who are at high risk of death from overdose: a co-production study with people housed within prison and hostel accommodation during Covid-19’. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, pp. 1080629–1080629. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1080629.
  • MacDonald, M., Conley Wright, A., Taylor-Beswick, A., Gillespie, K. and Collings, S. (2023) ‘Digital Relationality, Rights, Resilience: Conceptualising a Digital Social Ecology for Children’s Birth Family Relationships When in Care or Adopted.’ The British Journal of Social Work, 53(1). pp.216–235. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac140.
  • Taylor-Beswick, A.M.L. (2023) ‘Digitalising social work education: preparing students to engage with 21st century practice need.’ Social Work Education, 42(1). pp.44-64,. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2022.2049225.
  • Taylor-Beswick, A.M.L. and Belluigi, D.Z. ‘At the interstices of ethics, the digital and research in higher education.’ British Educational Research Journal BERA Research Intelligence, 155. pp.38-39, 2022.
  • Goldkind, L., LaMendola, W. and Taylor-Beswick, A.M.L. (2020) ‘Tackling Covid19 is a Crucible for Privacy.’ Journal of Technologies in Human Services, 38(2). pp.89-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228835.2020.1757559.
  • Insights on emerging trends in digital, innovation and science, developed for Horizon Scan 2024 to support decision-makers in the UK Parliament. [Invited reviewer] UK Parliament, POST NOTES https://post.parliament.uk/horizon-scan-2024/digital-innovation-and-science/#heading-3.
  • Campbell, A., Millen, S., Jordan, U., Guo, L., Taylor Beswick, A.M.L, and Diamond, A. (2022) ‘Reducing opioid related deaths for individuals who are at risk of death from overdose on release from prison and within the homeless hostels for drug users; an issue further complicated by the impacts of COVID-19. [report]’ Queen’s University Belfast. 35 pages. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/files/382037212/Final_Report_Wearables_study.pdf.

 

Contact

a.taylor-beswick@cumbria.ac.uk

 

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