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Dr Philip Heslop

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

My interests are social work with autistic people, foster care, kinship care, fathers and male carers.

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My interests are social work with autistic people, foster care, kinship care and male carers.

Key Publications

Adapting Safety Plans for Autistic Adults with Involvement from the Autism Community, Goodwin, J., Gordon, I., O'Keeffe, S., Carling, S., Berresford, A., Bhattarai, N., Heslop, P., Nielsen, E., O'Connor, R., Ogundimu, E., Pelton, M., Ramsay, S., Rodgers, J., Townsend, E., Vale, L., Wilson, C., Cassidy, S. 28 May 2025, In: Autism in Adulthood
Performing social work: Young fathers’ reflections on social work, Heslop, P., Atkinson, K. 1 Aug 2025, In: British Journal of Social Work
Feasibility and acceptability of autism adapted safety plans: an external pilot randomised controlled trial, Rodgers, J., Cassidy, S., Pelton, M., Goodwin, J., Wagnild, J., Bhattarai, N., Gordon, I., Wilson, C., Heslop, P., Ogundimu, E., O'Connor, R., Ramsay, S., Townsend, E., Vale, L. 1 Jul 2024, In: EClinicalMedicine
The Benchmarking Exercise Programme for Older People (BEPOP): Design, Results and Recommendations from The First Wave of Data Collection, Caulfield, L., Arnold, S., Biase, S., Buckland, C., Heslop, P., Hurst, C., Sayer, A., Skelton, D., Witham, M. 1 Sep 2024, In: Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls
Adapted Suicide Safety Plans to Address Self-Harm, Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Behaviours in Autistic Adults: Protocol for a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial, Rodgers, J., Goodwin, J., Nielsen, E., Bhattarai, N., Heslop, P., Kharatikoopaei, E., O'Connor, R., Ogundimu, E., Ramsay, S., Steele, K., Townsend, E., Vale, L., Walton, E., Wilson, C., Cassidy, S. 28 Feb 2023, In: Pilot and Feasibility Studies
Autistic Parents’ Personal Experiences of Parenting and Support: Messages from an Online Focus Group, Hwang, S., Heslop, P. 1 Jan 2023, In: The British Journal of Social Work
Book Review: An A-Z of social work theory by Malcom Payne, Heslop, P. 1 Sep 2023, In: Journal of Social Work
Reporting Findings from an Exploratory Study of Social Workers’ Perceptions about autism Training, Heslop, P., Bushell, M. 1 Sep 2023, In: British Journal of Social Work
Social Work with autistic People: A BASW Practice Guide, Heslop, P. 15 Feb 2023
Book Review: Social Work with Autistic People: Essential Knowledge, Skills and the Law for Working with Children and Adults by Yo Dunn, Heslop, P. 1 Nov 2022, In: Journal of Social Work

Current and Recent Projects

Supporting autistic people as they age: equipping social workers to work with autistic people, Heslop, P. (Principal Investigator), Instituto Nacional de Investigaço em Saúde, Angola, 01/07/23 - 30/12/25, £14,919.00

Professional Activity

Oral presentation: BASW Webinar - Social work with autistic people during COVID 19 and beyond. 2020
Examination: Experiences of foster care parents caring for non-family related foster children in de Deur, Gauteng Province, South Africa 2020
Membership of committee: BASW Special Interest Group social work with autistic people and people with learning disabilities (External organisation) 2020
Membership of committee: BASW - CPD pathway BASW capabilities statements re autistic people and people with a learning disability (External organisation) 2019
Membership of committee: BASW Homes not Hospitals (External organisation) 2019
Oral presentation: BASW Capabilities Statement Launch - Contextualizing social work and autism 2019
Oral presentation: Social work and autism 2019
Membership of committee: British Association of Social Work (External organisation) 2019
Hosting an academic visitor: Gerard Jefferies 2019
Other: Loneliness and young men 2019

Qualifications

PhD June 26 2015
Childcare MA June 30 2007
Education September 01 2005
Sociology and Social Policy BA (Hons) September 02 1985
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015
Social Worker Health & Care Professional Council (HCPC) 2014

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