Professor Bill Whyte
Bill Whyte is Professor of Social Work Studies in Criminal and Youth Justice at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Criminal Justice Social Work Development Centre for Scotland, University of Edinburgh.
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Bill teaches on youth justice and criminal justice social work, on policy and law, and on effectiveness research for undergraduate, post qualifying and post graduate programmes.
Bill has worked as a social work manager and field social worker in the Lothians area, as a residential care worker in a (former List D) residential school, and as an independent local authority chair of child protection. He provides advice and consultancy to managers and workers in criminal justice social work, youth social work and to other related professionals across Scotland.
His research has included:
- Routes out of Prison (Wise Group / Scottish Executive funded)
- Community Reparation Orders (Scottish Executive funded)
- Parenting Orders (Scottish Executive funded)
- Young People involved in sexually harmful behaviour (CJSW funded)
- Restorative Justice (City of Glasgow Council funded)
- Evaluation in Youth Justice Practice (Scottish Executive funded)
- Community Sex Offenders Groupwork Programme (C-SOGP) (CJSW Centre funded)
- Youth Justice Social Work (CJSW Centre funded)
- Children's Hearings (Scottish Executive funded)
- Young people in public care and youth justice systems in Europe (EC funded)
- Youth Homelessness (Scottish Executive funded)
- Education and training in criminal justice social work (Scottish Executive funded)
- Mental health officers and guardianship in Scotland (Scottish Executive funded)
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