Biography
Kate Fennell is a professional doctorate candidate, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and social work lecturer on the integrated Allied Health Professions and Social Work Masters programme at Edinburgh Napier University. Kate’s professional practice experience, spanning 30 years, included senior social work positions across a range of community and hospital settings in Scotland and England. Specifically, Kate worked as Mental Health Officer as well as an adult protection lead officer in Edinburgh in the first decade following the implementation of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007.