Stefan Brown

I am a senior lecturer in Social Work in the Department of Law and Criminology. I am also a registered social worker having completed Social Work  training as an undergraduate at Hertfordshire in 1992. I have practised in community mental health settings, Forensic Mental Health settings as a social worker and assistant team manager.

I completed a Masters in Social Policy and Administration at Brunel University in 1999, specialising in Comparative Social Policy.

I trained and worked as an Approved Social Worker and latterly a Approved Mental Health Practitioner throughout my social work practise career. In 2002 I was awarded a Post-Graduate award in Social Work and a Practice Teaching Award in 2004.  I've trained and practised as a Best Interests' Assessor (BIA) training under the Mental Capacity Act (2005) Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.

Since 2009 I have worked in At Royal Holloway University of London. I am the Course Lead for the MSc in Social Work. I teach on this course as well as the PG Diploma in Social Work. My areas of teaching are social policy for social work practice, law for social workers, mental health policy and practice, mental capacity law and practice, practice with people with dementia, disability and social work.  I also teach on the BSc Social Sciences Course, specialising in Law in the Social Context, Contemporary Welfare States and Research Methods. 

My research and scholarship interests include the mental health social work, mental capacity law and practice, dementia, equality and diversity in higher education, race and social policy.

My PhD topic is the Mental Capacity Act decision making and young-onset dementia.

I am part of the Department of Law's Health and Social Care research cluster.

I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).