Professor Claudia Bernard
- Position
- Professor of Social Work
- Areas of expertise
- Social work with children and families; gender-based violence; critical race theory; equalities and social justice.
- C.Bernard@gold.ac.uk
- Location
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- School
- Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies
Claudia Bernard is Professor of Social Work and Co-Head of the Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
She has a background in social work and her research interests lie in the areas of social work with children and families, gender-based violence, critical race theory, equalities and social justice. She has written widely on these topics, including a book entitled Constructing Lived Experiences: Representations of Black Mothers in Child Sexual Abuse Discourses (2nd Edition, Routledge, 2017), and an edited collection entitled Safeguarding Black Children: Good Practice in Child Protection (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016).
She has a book forthcoming book for Routledge called Intersectionality for Social Workers: Theory and Practice.