Dr Katrin Bain is a qualified social pedagogue and registered social worker, with a PhD in Applied Social Studies from the University of Warwick. She is the Deputy Head of Department Social Professions (Social Work) and teaches on our Social Work BSc and Social Work MSc. Katrin is a dissertation supervisor for both MSc and BSc social work students. She is an experienced PhD supervisor and available to support PhD projects that fit her research interests, are located within children's services or in higher education teaching and learning.
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Dr Katrin Bain is a qualified social pedagogue and registered social worker with a PhD in Applied Social Studies from the University of Warwick. She is the Deputy Head of Department Social Professions (Social Work) and the academic lead for the BeSpoke (Lived experience facilitator) group.
Katrin is an experienced lecturer and teaches on the Social Work BSc and Social Work MSc. She is student focussed and passionate about relationship-based approaches and innovative pedagogy. She has a particular interest in the implementation of the university’s Education for Social Justice Framework and in creating inclusive learning spaces.
Before moving into academia, Katrin worked in Germany and England in the children and families social work sector, including youth work and training.
Her research interests include:
• social pedagogy in England
• the relationship between state organised and provided social services with citizens and service users
• the representation of parents within social policy and social work practice
• universal design and inclusive education and workplaces
Katrin is a dissertation supervisor for both MSc and BSc social work students. She is an experienced PhD supervisor and available to support PhD projects that fit her research interests, are located within children's services or in higher education teaching and learning.
Katrin currently teaches 'Research mindedness for practice' on our Social Work MSc and 'Becoming research minded for practice' and ‘Introduction to research' on our Social Work BSc.
Current: Meaningful involvement of people with lived experience in social work education – analysis of strategies and transferability across national borders (with Marlene-Anne Dettman and Katharina Scholz, HAW Hamburg / Germany)
June 2023 - September 2024: Design-Based-Research: Integrating Research Mindedness into the BSc and MSc Social Work degrees
April 2018 to March 2021: Replication Study: New Public Management, Citizenship and Social Work: Children’s Services in England Revisited
April 2012 to December 2013: Research project with Professor Tony Evans (RHUL): The Internationalisation of Social Work: The migration of German social work practitioners and ideas to England.
September 2003 to November 2008: New Public Management, Citizenship and Social Work: Children’s Services in Germany and England (part-time PhD)
- Bain, K. / Eichsteller, G. (forthcoming) Listening to Understand: The Power of Shared Activities and the Common Third in Human Professions in: Solvanson, C., Hodgkins, A., Laurence, E. Transformative Tales: The powerful potential of valuing human stories within education, health and social care practice, Routledge
- Bain, K. (forthcoming) Social pedagogy and social work systems in child protection in: Jobling, H., Quinn, N., Evans, T., Social Work Systems: Politics, policy and practice. Routledge
- Harris, J./ Bain, K. (forthcoming) Child Protection Social Work in England – What is it for? in: Baikady, R. ‘Social Work What is it for?' Oxford University Press, New York
- Bain, K. (2025) ‘#Take5 #141 Inclusive assessment: From theory to practice - ALDinHE’, 6 November. Available at: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-141-inclusive-assessment-from-theory-to-practice/
- Bain, K. / Harris, J. (2024). Social Work, Parents and the Child Protection Process. Representations of Parents in Policy, Organisation and Social Work Practice. Policy Press
- Bain, K. (2024). Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research. Qualitative Social Work, 23(1), 165-178. https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231175386
- Bain, K. (2023). Inclusive assessment in higher education: what does the literature tells us on how to define and design inclusive assessments?, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (27). doi: 10.47408/jldhe.vi27.1014.
- Contributor to: Harris, J. / White, V. (2018) A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care (2nd Edition). Oxford University Press
- Bain, K. / Evans, T. (2017) Europeanisation and English Social Work: The Migration of German Social Work Practitioners and Ideas to England. British Journal of Social Work. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcw144
- Wagner, T. / Bain, K. / Schaarschuch, A. (2011) Zur politischen Produktivität das Citizenship in der Sozialen Arbeit. Adressatenkonzepte in der Sozialen Arbeit zwischen Staatsbürgerqualifikationsarbeit und Entbürgerlichung. in: Kommission Sozialpädagogik (Hrsg.) Bildung des Effective Citizen Sozialpädagogik auf dem Weg zu einem neuen Sozialentwurf. Juventa. pp. 115-126
- Bain, K. (2009) Modernising children's services: partnership and participation in policy and practice. in: Harris, J. and White, V. (Eds). Modernising Social Work. Policy Press. pp. 89-106
- Bain, K. (2009) Parental Responsibility. in: Social Work and Society, Vol 7, No1, pp. 138 - 141
- Lapierre, S / Bain, K (2008) Parental Responsibility and Partnership: Citizenship and Gender in British Children and Families Social Services in: Oleksy, E / Petö, A / Waaldijk, B (Eds) Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context. Peter Lang. pp. 77-92
• Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) winner 2024
• Board member of the International Journal of Social Pedagogy
• Member of the Social Pedagogy Reading Group and Social Pedagogy Development Network
- Social Work BSc
- Social Work MSc
- Social Work (including foundation year)