RNMH (SE Wales School of Midwifery and Nursing); DipSW; BA(Hons) Social Work and Social Welfare (Northumbria); PostGrad Cert Social Research Methods (Glamorgan); PhD Candidate (Glamorgan) 

Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett has spent much of her career working within the health and social care sector as a nurse (RNMH) and social worker. She has worked with diversity of groups and across the voluntary and statutory, community and hospital settings. 

In 2003, Tracey commenced a full time PhD concerned with immigration policy and asylum seeking children’s rights and wellbeing. Tracey has undertaken other research on a number of projects. These include narrative biographical work with Holocaust survivors in the NE of England for the Northumbria University Narrative Archive project; an audit of Barnardos Projects within the NE of England to explore the barriers to inclusion of asylum seeking children and families; a mixed method small scale research project to explore the links between playworkers’ childhood experiences of play and their playwork practice; and lastly, qualitative research into the experiences of children and families seeking asylum in Wales.

Tracey joined Swansea University in 2006 wherein she lectured on the BSc (Econ) Social Work programme in 2006/2007 before joining the Center for Social Care Work Research.  Tracey is contributing to a number of projects. Current projects include a study on the international recruitment of social care workers across Wales, an evaluation of CSIP’s commissioning tools, research capacity in social care in Wales, development of social outcomes research for services for older people in Wales and the the PQ Framework. She also intends to develop research relating to improving the skills and knowledge of frontline workers supporting dispersed asylum seeking families and unaccompanied children and young people.

Publications:

Huxley, P., Evans, S. and Maegusuku-Hewett, T. (2007). “ ‘Social care’, the ‘care ethic’ and ‘carework’: New definitions- new directions?”  Research, Policy and Planning, 25,(1), 3-11.  

Maegusuku-Hewett, T., Dunkerley, D., Scourfield, J. & Smalley, N. (2007)   Refugee Children in Wales: Coping in the face of adversity, in Children and Society (Special issue on refugee children), 21(4), 309-321.  

Dunkerley, D. & Maegusuku-Hewett,T. (2007)Immigration, Asylum and the European Union Policy, In Morrissey,H.A. & Silander,D. (eds)  The EU and the Outside World:. Global Themes in a European Setting; Gothenburg: Vaxjo University Press, Chapter 7, pp. 139- 154.  

Dunkerley, D., Maegusuku-Hewett, T., Smalley, N. and Scourfield, J. (2006) Children seeking asylum in Wales. Journal of Refugee Studies, 19, 4. 

Dunkerley, D., Scourfield, J., Maegusuku-Hewett, T. and Smalley, N. (2005) The experiences of front-line staff working with children who are seeking asylum. Social Policy and Administration, special issue on migration, 39, 6: 640-652. 

Hewett, T., Smalley, N., Dunkerley, D. & Scourfield, J. (2005) Uncertain Futures: children seeking asylum in Wales, Cardiff: Save the Children.  

Contact Details:

Room 402a, Vivian Building

Email: t.maegusuku-hewett@swansea.ac.uk