Sheila Fish
Sheila is a senior research analyst at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), where she is engaged in creating evidence-based resources to support practice across children’s services.
Her main focus has been on developing the systems approach for case reviews, including serious case reviews (SCRs), of multi-agency safeguarding and child protection work. This has involved theoretical as well as practical collaborative development work, and increasingly, providing training and support to those who want to put the model into practice for themselves.
Her academic background is in social anthropology with a particular focus on children and childhood. She spent several years in Indonesia working in the field of child welfare as well as conducting ethnographic fieldwork.
Her current research interests are focused on the interface between formal knowledge and professional practice in child welfare, including the use of ethnographic methods as a means of inquiry in this field.
