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Dr Pamela Louise Graham

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

Pam is an Assistant Professor in Community Wellbeing with particular interests in child and adolescent development; poverty; food insecurity; and inclusion. She has expertise in quantitative questionnaire and observational methods and qualitative focus groups and interviews, and has experience of utilising these methods across various school and community settings.    

Across the Department of Social Work, Education & Community Wellbeing, Pam supervises undergraduate and postgraduate research students in Health & Social Care; Childhood & Early Years Studies; Social Work; and Public Health. She also leads Core Project (level 6) and Learning at University (level 4) modules across Health & Social Care and Guidance and Counselling and teaches quantitative research methods across various modules in Health and Social Care and Social Work.

Pam is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is also a member of the Department Self-Assessment Team for Athena SWAN and a member of the Faculty Access and Participation Special Interest Group.  

Prior to her PhD, Pam spent time working within primary and secondary education taking on Learning Support and Social Inclusion roles. She also spent time volunteering as a mentor for Barnardo's.

Pamela Louise Graham

Food insecurity

Food habits

Poverty

Child and adolescent development

Education

Inclusion

  • Connie Dalton An investigation of the policies that exclude children and young people from accessing free school meals: discourses, policies, and stakeholder experiences Start Date: 01/10/2021
  • Diego Melo Understanding Persistent School Absenteeism Through Students’, Parents’, and Educators’ Lived Experiences. Start Date: 01/10/2023

  • Psychology PhD April 23 2015
  • Psychology BSc (Hons) September 01 2005


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