Mr David Woodger
With thirty years’ experience in community development, David works with young people on issues of race and adoption.
Staff details
Position
Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, BA Social Work Programme Convenor
School
Subject
Social, Individual and Community Wellbeing
David has been active in community development and working with young people for 30 years and continues to work in the field.
He has written and published on race and adoption, institutional racism and group work.
He has undertaken work on numerous school issues including exclusions, truancy, sex and relationship education, learning and teaching and introducing group work approaches to teaching. David teaches organisation and management, race, identity and institutional racism, international development and a range of social policy areas and community and youth work. He is also one of the course group workers.
Academic qualifications
BA (Hons) Social Science and Qualification in Social Work and Msc International Development (SOAS)
Teaching
Race and racism/organisation development/international development/group work/youth and crime/education.
Presentations and exhibitions
Recent presentation to group-work conference and faith and community cohesion conference summer 2010.
Papers presented
Group-work paper and Cohesion project paper
Research Interests
Institutional racism/race and racism/ school and professional responses to vulnerable young people / group work impact and effectiveness in personal and social development/ faith islamaphobia and community cohesion.