Dr Valerie Wigfall

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BA PhD CQSW
    • Research Officer
    • Postgraduate Research Tutor
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Childhood, Families and Health
  • Centre:
    • Thomas Coram Research Unit
  • Summary:
    • My research interests include family and children's services; looked after children; adoption, fostering and permanency planning; residential child care; leaving care; social pedagogy; early childhood education and care; parenting; fathers and fathering; community development; inter-professional working.
  • Research Projects:
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Social Pedagogy in practice, paper presented at the Dare to be Human Conference in Edinburgh, November 2009.

      Building on strength: Community support for families and children, paper presented at the International Community Work and Family Conference, Utrecht, 2009.

      Evaluation of link social worker post in two Islington Children's Centres, London Borough of Islington, February 2007.

  • Languages Spoken:
    • French (intermediate)
  • Languages Written:
    • French (Intermediate)
Dr Valerie Wigfall

Contact details

Contact details

  • Email:

  • Address:
  • Childhood, Families and Health
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room B6
    27-28 Woburn Square, WC1H 0AA

Publications

  • Wigfall, V., (2009) Thamesmead: A Social History. The History Press.
  • Boddy, J.,  Ghate, D.,  Hauari, H.,  Smith, M.,  Statham, J., and Wigfall, V., (2009) 'International perspectives on parenting support: non-English language sources.', DCSF Research Report RR114 June 2009
  • Cameron, C., Moss, P,. Owen, C,. Petrie, P,. Potts, P,. Simon, A,. and Wigfall, V,. (2009) 'Working together in extended and children's centres- A study of inter-professional activity in England and Sweden', DCSF Research Report RBX-09-10 2009
  • Cameron, C,. Moss, P,. Owen, C,. Petrie, P., Simon, A., and Wigfall, V,. (2008) 'Secondary analysis of the Labour Force Survey to map the numbers and characteristics of the occupations working within Social Care, Childcare, Nursing and Education, ', Working Together: Volume 1. Research Report DCFS
  • Wigfall, V,. (2008) 'Young people in care spell out their needs, Research Review', Community Care, (5 June 2008)
  • Wigfall, V., Boddy, J. and McQuail, S. (2007) 'Parent Involvement in Sure Start: a continuum of engagement in the development of services', Chapter in 'Supporting Children and Families Jessica Kingsley, Dec 2007
  • Boddy, J., Wigfall, V.,  and Simon, A., (2007) 'Re-discovering Community Social Work? An Evaluation of a Social Worker Based in Children's Centres', Community Care
  • Wigfall, V., Holtermann, S., and McQuail, S. (2007) 'Building on Strengths: Key Findings of an evaluation of Families in Focus', Research report for the London Borough of Camden