, since 2006, working alongside mental health service users and carers, and previously worked in the Institute of Applied Social Studies at Birmingham on evaluations of national and local government health and social care initiatives. Before that, she worked in Australia at the NSW Federation of Housing Associations and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Dawn River is a lecturer and social work admissions tutor at the University of Birmingham. Previously, she was employed as a research fellow at Warwick University; as a social worker working with children and families, with experience as a practice teacher and manager of a Duty and Assessment Team; and in the voluntary sector in the fields of domestic violence and developing services for carers. Latterly, she has been involved with the Survivor Movement as a service user. Rosemary Littlechild is a senior lecturer on the qualifying social work programmes for the BA and MA in Social Work, University of Birmingham, with a particular interest in involving service users and carers in social work education and with strategic responsibility for their involvement in the social work programmes. She is a qualified social worker and previously worked in generic and specialist teams for older people in the statutory sector. Dr Theresa Powell is a lecturer and the associate director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Birmingham. Research interests include neuropsychological rehabilitation of people with acquired brain injury, adjustment and coping after traumatic brain injury and stroke and health beliefs associated with acquired brain injury.
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