Dr Donna-Maree Humphery
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Lecturer in Social Work
Biography
Donna-Maree is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Salford, where she has been employed since 2019. She is currently the programme leader of the Social Work MA programme.
Donna-Maree is a qualified and Social Work England registered Social Worker. She holds a BA with a double major in Psychology and Sociology and a PGDip in Social Work, which were both awarded from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She has significant practice experience as a social worker, specifically in sexual assault trauma recovery with children and young people and in youth offending with young women considered high risk of recidivism.
In 2012 Donna-Maree was offered a department scholarship to Lancaster University in England to complete an MA in Feminist Cultural Studies and in 2015 she was awarded a university funded scholarship to the University of East Anglia to complete her doctoral studies with the school of Social Work.
Donna-Maree's PhD – which was awarded in 2021 - is titled 'Working with female offenders in care: The perspectives of practitioners from youth offending teams'. This thesis examines contemporary youth offending practice with female offenders in care and advocates for a trauma informed approach to youth offending practice which applies an intersectional lens.
Areas of Research
Donna-Maree's research interests include trauma informed approaches to criminal justice; gender and intersectional approaches within the criminal justice system; the intersection of care experience and criminal justice; experiences of transitional periods within criminal justice.
Donna-Maree currently leads and has previously led on the following Social Work modules:
Context for Social Work Practice
Skills for Social Work Practice
Research in Practice (dissertation)
Donna-Maree also delivers guest lectures across programmes on the following topics:
A History of Youth Offending Policy and Practice.
Intergenerational Trauma.
Gender, Vulnerability and Youth Criminal Justice.
Social Work, Domestic Violence and Social Constructions.
Psychological and Sociological Constructions of Parenting
Grief and Loss.