Victoria Arnold

Senior Lecturer

School of Society
v.arnold@chester.ac.uk
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I joined the University of Chester in January 2020. Previously I worked in statutory children and families social work; on a Child Protection Assessment team and as a senior social worker in Fostering services for 10 years. I have lived and worked in Japan, Australia and Romania in both teaching and practice roles for 11 years.

I completed the JET programme in Japan and stayed for 5 years teaching and completing my MA Social Anthropology of Japan; specific focus on the Japanese Mafia (Yakuza), their public symbolism and the sex industry.

I earned my CELTA in Barcelona via Cambridge University and was employed by various universities in Tokyo and Monash University in Melbourne teaching EAP to international students. I have also taught EAP in the UK; Oxford Brookes University and Liverpool University.

I worked in Târnăveni Psychiatric hospital in Transylvania, Romania as a Psychologist Assistant (volunteer) for ‘Ceaușescu’s children’ providing therapeutic activities to adult in-patients with high-risk behaviours. 

Programme Lead for the Social Work BA degree.

I am the lead for the following modules:

  • SW5007 Social Work Practice with Children & Families
  • SW7026 Social Work Practice with Children & Families

I have taught/teach on the following modules:

  • SW4007 Social Work Law & Policy
  • SW4007 (PWA) Social Work Law & Policy
  • SW4008 Human Growth & Development
  • SW4008 (PWA) Human Growth & Development
  • SW7023 Social Work Law & Policy
  • SW7035 Independent Study
  • SWXX02 Skills days

I supervise/have supervised the following:

  • Postgraduate Dissertations

Please note: The above is subject to change.

I am interested in organised crime and its connection to child sexual exploitation and child criminal exploitation both nationally and internationally. I am specifically interested in the following:

  • Trafficking of children within the UK for the purpose of sexual exploitation 
  • Teaching in partnership with students
  • Interprofessional & Interdisciplinary Education; specifically, criminology and anthropology
  • Ethnography and Co-Production as research methods

Previous PGR study includes the following:

  • The Trafficking of Looked After British Children within the UK for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation.
  • An Exploration into Public Symbolism of the Yakuza (Japanese mafia), particularly Irezumi (a style of tattoo).
     

Book

Co-edited the following:

Slaughter, Y. (2000). Team Taught Pizza (5th ed.). AJET Publications.

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE)- The University of Chester.
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (Advance HE)- The University of Chester.
  • MA Social Work- Manchester Metropolitan University; taught via the University of Chester on the first cohort of the Step Up to Social Work Program.
  • MA Social Anthropology of Japan- Oxford Brookes University.
  • CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults)- University of Cambridge; International House Barcelona.
  • Certificate in Mentoring- University of Lincoln.
  • BSc (Hons) Psychology- University of Lincoln.

Memberships:

  • I am a member of Social Work England- registered Social Worker (SW946)