Dr Claire Cameron

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BA PhD CQSW
    • Senior Reader in Education
    • Faculty Co-Director: Learning and Teaching.
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Thomas Coram Research Unit
    • Faculty Central Administration
  • Summary:
    • I run and support research and development projects in relation to children's services, children looked after and social pedagogy. I support teaching and learning in the Faculty of Children and Health, and teach on MA and Foundation Degree Programmes, and supervise MA and PhD students. I write for academic and professional audiences and speak at relevant conferences. I run workshops and training events in social pedagogy.
  • Teaching:
    • Foundation Degree in Arts: Working with Children: Education and Wellbeing
      MA Sociology of Children's Rights (Researching Childhood); MA Social Pedagogy: Working with Children in Care
  • Research Projects:
    • Young people from a public care background: pathways to education in Europe (YiPPEE)
      Social Pedagogy in Children's residential care: pilot progamme
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Children's workforce, social pedagogy, early childhood services, gender issues, looked after children, visual methods
      Yoshie Kaga - What influence does early childhood pedagogy have on primary education?
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Social Pedagogy: care and education for the children's workforce, Kings College, April 2010

      The Social Pedagogy Pilot Programme: the first year, Capita Looked After Children Conference, March 2010

      How Research Changed Policy for the Education of Children in Care - England, March 2010, Barcleona, Spain

      Social Pedagogy: integrating care and education for the children's workforce, Holyrood Looked After Children conference, January 2010, Edinburgh

      Socail Pedagogy: integrating care and education for the children's workforce, National Care Commissioners Conference, September 2009

      What is social pedagogy: an approach to integrating care and education, practice development training, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, December 2008

      Professional identity: early childhood care and education, Programme of Continuing Education for early years professionals in Camden and Islington, October 2008.

      Care work in Europe: current understandings and future directions, symposium on care work, Korean Women's Development Institute, Seoul, October 2008.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Denmark/Germany/Sweden/Hungary/Spain: social pedagogy, children in care, children's services
Dr Claire Cameron

Contact details

Contact details

  • Email:

  • Address:
  • Thomas Coram Research Unit
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Cameron, C. and Petrie, P. (2009) 'Importing social pedagogy?' Kornbeck, J. (Ed), Social pedagogy in Europe Today. Europaischer Hochschulverlag: Bremen.
  • Cameron, C. (2009) 'Social Care: A view from the UK' Share, P. and Lalor, K, Applied Social Care: An introduction for students in Ireland (2nd edition). Gillmacillan, Dublin.
  • Cameron, C. and Moss, P. (2009) 'La atencion a personas dependientes en Europa:conceptos actuales y perspectivas futures', Intervencion psicosocial 16 17-22,
  • Cameron, C. and Moss, P. (2007) Care Work in Europe: Current understanding and future directions. Oxford, Routledge.
  • Boddy, J. and Cameron, C. (2007) 'Staffing, Training and Recruitment: Outcomes for Young People in Residential Care in Three Countries ' Kendrick, A. (Ed), Prospects and Challenges. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
  • Cameron, C. (2007) 'Understandings of care work with young children: reflections on children's independence in a video observation study', Childhood: a global journal of child research 14, 467-486.
  • Cameron, C. (2007) 'Education and self-reliance among care leavers', Adoption and Fostering 31, 1,
  • Cameron, C. and Petrie, P. (2007) Implementing Social Pedagogy (Report). DfES/PMSU.
  • Bennert, K., and Cameron, C., Simon, A. and Wigfall, V. (2007) Using health education, housing and other services: a study of care leavers and young people in difficulty (Research Brief). DfES.
  • Cameron, C. (2007) New Ways of Educating: Pedagogy and Children's Services (Published Research Report). Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education University of London.
  • Boddy, J., Cameron, C. and Petrie, P. (2006) Working with Children in Residential Care: European perspectives. Buckingham, Open University Press.
  • Cameron, C. and Statham, J. (2006) 'On the front line: variations in duty practices in safeguarding children', Health and Social Care in the Community 14, 2, 167-176.
  • Boddy, J. Cameron, C. and Moss, P. (Eds) (2006) Care Work: Present and Future. Oxford, Routledge.
  • Boddy, J. Cameron, C. and Petrie, P. (2006) 'The professional care worker: The social pedagogue in northern Europe' Boddy, J. Cameron, C. and Moss, P. (Eds), Care Work: Present and Future. London, Routledge.
  • Cameron, C. (2006) 'Men in the Nursery Revisted: Issues of Gender and Professionalism', Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 7, 1, 68-79.
  • Cameron, C., Moss, P. and Owen, C. (1999) Men in the Nursery: Gender and caring work. London. Paul Chapman Publishing.