Dr Duncan Helm (Principal Investigator)
A registered social worker with experience of child welfare and protection work in local authorities and in integrated services. An academic since 2003. my expertise is in child welfare and in assessment and working with risk and uncertainty. I am currently the Head of Social Work at the University of Stirling. My doctoral research was in judgement and decision making and my areas of interest include intuition in judgement, analysis and assessment in professional practice and practice-near research methods.
https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/256008
Dr Barbara Ann Schuler (Research Fellow)
I have extensive experience of working in children’s and young people’s policy in both Scottish Government and in the voluntary sector. Since 2016, I have been an ESRC 1+3 doctoral researcher and am also a research fellow on the Safeguarders project. My doctoral research is in education and is specifically concerned with the relationship between creativity and assessment in the context of Scottish school education.