Dr Denise Tanner

Dr Denise Tanner

Department of Social Work and Social Care
Associate Professor of Social Work

Contact details

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 2941
Email
d.l.tanner@bham.ac.uk
Address
Department of Social Work and Social Care
Muirhead Tower
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Denise Tanner is Associate Professor (Social Work). She teaches on BA and MA Social Work courses.  Her areas of teaching and research interest include adult social work/social care policy and practice; social work with older people; social work skills; social perspectives of mental distress; and service user involvement in education and research.

Qualifications

  • PhD Social Work (University of Warwick, 2005)
  • Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Coventry University, 1998)
  • Certificate in Supervisory Management (Distinction) (Coventry University, 1995) 
  • M.Soc.Sc. Mental Disorder Studies (University 麻豆精选, 1985)
  • BSc. Sociology (1st class) with Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (University of Bath, 1982)

Teaching

  • Adult social work/social care policy and practice
  • Social work with older people
  • Relationship-based practice
  • Social work skills
  • Qualitative social research
  • Service user involvement in research

Postgraduate supervision

Denise Tanner's current doctoral supervision covers the following areas:

鈥� Evaluation of the teaching of communication skills to social work students
鈥� Navigation of safety and risk by people with dementia and their carers
鈥� Older people and carers鈥� experiences of 鈥榟ospital-at-home鈥�
鈥� New relationships in permanent care settings from the perspective of the non-
care dwelling spouse/partner.


Other activities

  • Senior Fellow, NIHR School for Social Care Research
  • Member of ‘G8’ a group of social work academics who promote social work with older people as a specialist area of practice, requiring distinctive knowledge and skills.
  • Member of British Society of Gerontology.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Tanner, D, Willis, P, Beedell, P, Nosowska, G, Milne, A, Nelson-Becker, H & Perry, E 2025, '', British Journal of Social Work.

Bartlett, R, Tanner, D, Hussain, N, McKelvie, S, Kaley, A, Ahmed, F & Malcolm, G 2025, '', Journal of Dementia Care, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 23-26. <>

Iqbal, A, Kinghorn, P, Glasby, J, Tanner, D & Roberts, T 2023, '', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 2023, 8675499.

Litchfield, I, Glasby, J, Parkinson, S, Hocking, L, Tanner, D, Roe, B & Bousfield, J 2023, '', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 2023, 9174873.

Tanner, D, Ray, M & Ward, L 2022, '', Ageing and Society.

Willis, P, Lloyd, L, Hammond, J, Milne, A, Nelson-Becker, H, Perry, E, Ray, M, Richards, S & Tanner, D 2021, '', British Journal of Social Work, vol. 2021, no. 00, bcab004.

Duggal, S, Miller, R & Tanner, D 2021, '', International Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 21, no. 4, 19, pp. 1-11.

Tanner, D 2020, '', British Journal of Social Work, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 1688鈥�1705.

Allen, K, Needham, C, Hall, K & Tanner, D 2019, '', Social Policy and Administration, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 311-325.

Chapter

Tanner, D, Nelson-Becker, H, Lloyd, L, Milne, A, Perry, E, Ray, M, Richards, S & Willis, P 2020, . in AN Menenhall & MM Carney (eds), Rooted in Strengths: Celebrating the strengths perspective in social work. University of Kansas, pp. 327-346.

Tanner, D, Ward, L & Ray, M 2020, . in P Urban & L Ward (eds), Care ethics, democratic citizenship and the state. Springer, pp. 219-239.

Commissioned report

Glasby, J, Litchfield, I, Parkinson, S, Hocking, L, Tanner, D, Roe, B & Bousfield, J 2022, . NIHR Journals Library, Southampton:.

Digital or Visual Products

Kinghorn, P & Tanner, D, , 2024, Digital or Visual Products. <>

Other contribution

Kinghorn, P, Ince, B, Tanner, D, Hastings, A, Baxter, K & Birks, Y 2024, . University 麻豆精选.

Glasby, J, Litchfield, I, Parkinson, S, Hocking, L & Tanner, D 2023, . BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre. <>