Dr Darren Hill, Reader

Dr Darren Hill

Reader

Darren's contemporary academic deployment is situated within the School of Health and his primary teaching resides within the Social Work & Community Studies Group. Darren also contributes to Youth Work, Nursing and Mental Health awards through the inclusion of substance use related teaching.

Darren’s professional background includes community social care experience within housing support, mental health, family support and community drug treatment services. Darren is also available for bespoke CPD training, he regularly delivers commissioned motivational interviewing and psychoactive substances training for a range of community-based services at a regional and national level.

Current Teaching

  • BA & MA Social Work
  • BSc Social Care Justice & Recovery
  • MSc Child & Adolescent Mental Health
  • Working with Dual Diagnosis (Mental Health & Substance Use)

Research Interests

Darren undertakes research and evaluation within health and social care services as both an independent and commissioned researcher. He favours qualitative research methods using an ethnographic approach within practice. Darren also acts as a Director of Studies and Supervisor for postgraduates undertaking research awards.

Dr Darren Hill, Reader

Ask Me About

  1. Addiction
  2. Community
  3. Mental health
  4. Social work

Selected Outputs

  • Hill D; Laredo E; Penson B (2023) ‘Strange Bedfellows’: A Critical History of Social Work and the Working-Class in the UK. In: Baikady R; Przeperski J ed. The Oxford Handbook of Power, Politics and Social Work.

  • Hill D; Salisbury P (2022) A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Exploring and Understanding Drug Misuse in the UK. In: Stanley S ed. Contemporary Social Problems in the UK. Routledge,

  • Hill DJ; Frost N (2018) Social work in England: regulation, competition and change. In: TRABAJO SOCIAL EN EL SIGLO XXI: Desafíos para la formación académica y profesional. Social Work in the XXI st century: Challenges to educational and professional training. Dykinson: Madrid.. Madrid: Dykinson,

  • Hill D; Maurer S; Zavirsek D; Hauss G; Hörler D; Lau D (2023) Stories ’from below’ - Silenced or forgotten voices and counter-narratives of social work histories. In: European Conference for Social Work Research of ESWRA, 12 April 2023 - 14 April 2023, Milan.

  • Hill D (2022) Exploring and locating solidarity as a theory and practice within community social work practice. In: ECSWR 2022, 6 April 2022 - 8 April 2022, Amsterdam.

  • Hill D; Bell M; Laredo E (In press) Solidarity is not a dirty word: Exploring and locating solidarity as a theory and model for a radical community social work practice. Critical and Radical Social Work: an international journal

  • Bell M; Hill D (2023) Responding to mental health crisis at a street level: mental health practitioners as street level bureaucrats. European Social Work Research, pp. 1-14.

    https://doi.org/10.1332/QINL4154

  • Hill D; Laredo EA (2020) The personal is political: reframing individual acts of kindness as social solidarity in social work practice. European Journal of Social Work

    https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2020.1805587

  • Laredo EA; Hill DJ (2019) First and last and always: Streetwork as a methodology for radical community social work practice. Critical and Radical Social Work, 7 (1), pp. 25-39.

    https://doi.org/10.1332/204986019X15491042559682

  • Beesley P (2023) Practice educators’ and students’ themed narratives on social work student supervision.

  • Robinson O (2022) Understanding the care and support needs of nursing home residents with dementia and comorbid cancer.

  • Hill D; Howe D (2024) A Brief Introduction to Social Work Theory. Bloomsbury.

  • Hill DJ; Agu L; Mercer D (2018) Exploring and Locating Social Work: A Foundation for Practice. Basingstoke- England: Palgrave - Macmillan.

  • Hill D; Penson B; Charura D (2015) Working with Dual Diagnosis A Psychosocial Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.