Staff profiles
Dave Phillips
BEd, MEd, MA, Diploma in Practice Teaching, course leader
Phone 0114 225 5804
E-mail d.philips@shu.ac.uk
My name is Dave Phillips and I succeeded Simon Feasey as course leader in August 2005.
My career began as a teacher in comprehensive schools in London and Bristol. I sought a change of direction and so between 1981 and 1983 I trained as a probation officer at the University of Sheffield. I developed my experience in a number of different settings in the Nottinghamshire Probation area, including working in courts, prisons, field teams and group programmes. I also qualified as a practice teacher and then became a PDA and acquired the relevant NVQs.
In 2001 I joined Birmingham University, on secondment, and taught on the DIPs programme. I then worked for the Midland Consortium before joining Sheffield Hallam University in September 2004. I also contributed to the making of an interactive CD-rom (2003) with the University of Birmingham. This provided an interactive and individual learning experience to enable students to examine aspects of diversity and combat racism.
I am co-review editor of the British Journal Of Community Justice. My continuing interests are in the future structure of the Probation Service, the measurement of risk, and organisational theory.
I enjoy working with colleagues in training. One of the great pleasures, for me, is in working with people from diverse backgrounds and experience and learning from them.
I teach on the following modules
- Working in an inter agency and Organisational and Community Context Developing Effective Practice
- Continuing Professional Development
- Managing Offenders and implementing Sentences including Accredited Programmes
I also teach on the PSO induction programme.
Publications
Co-authored a chapter 'Transpeople:working with Gender Dysphoria' IN Head, P and Buckley, K, (Eds) (2000) Myths, Risks and Sexuality, Devon, RHP.
The Risk principle, IN Canton, R and Hancock, D (Eds)(2007) Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management, Devon, Willan.
Beyond the risk agenda IN Green, S, Lancaster,E and Feasey,S (Eds)2008 Addressing Offending Behaviour, Context, practice and values Devon, Willan
Contributions in: Senior,P(compiler)(2008) Moments in Probation: celebrating the century of probation, Crayford, Shaw and Sons.
