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Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Moore, Coco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7379-3556, Evans, Nick and Howie, Frances (2026) Using the Candidacy Model to Understand Service Users’ Experiences of Access to Social Prescribing. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2026 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN Online: 1365-2524 (In Press)
Molnár, Győző ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1732-5672, Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Cisneros, R., McPhee, S., Hulmes, A. and Hodgkins, S. (2026) Recognition and Risk: Ethnic Monitoring, Healthcare Access, and Everyday Discrimination in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in the UK. Sociology of Health & Illness, 48 (4). pp. 1-13. ISSN 0141-9889
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2025) The Exclusion of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers from Health Services. In: Worcestershire Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership Event: ‘Supporting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities in Worcestershire’, 10th December 2025, Warndon Community Hub, Worcester, UK. (Unpublished)
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Hulmes, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6508-4771 (2025) Inequalities in Mental Health Services for Romani and Travellers - Time for Social Work to Step up? Critical and Radical Social Work, Early (View). pp. 1-17. ISSN 2049-8675
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Jones, Alexandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4158-9064 and Meakin, B. (2025) Looking past the stereotypes – Disabled people as foster carers. Adoption & Fostering, 49 (1). pp. 35-51. ISSN Print: 0308-5759 Online: 1740-469X
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Molnár, Győző ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1732-5672 and O'Driscoll, J. (2025) Time for a Change in the ways that UK Health Services categorise Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers. Travellers' Times.
Allen, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5687-3623, Bolton, J., Dove, D., Hulmes, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6508-4771, Kidd, C., Moloney-Neachtain, M., Rees, I., Rogers, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7214-4375, Smith, A. and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2024) A scoping review of social work with Roma and Traveller communities: introducing the ROMA model. European Journal of Social Work. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1369-1457 (Print); 1468-2664 (Online)
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Meakin, B. and Jones, Alexandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4158-9064 (2024) Disabled people as foster carers - closing the recruitment gap and more. Disability and Society. pp. 1-19. ISSN Print: 0968-7599; Electronic: 1360-0508
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2024) Who Cares? - Caring in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities. In: Who Cares! Care-Full Conversations - supporting those who care, October 2nd 2024, Focolare Centre for Unity, Welwyn Garden City. (Unpublished)
Shomai, Shilla, Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Sealey, Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3997-6949 (2024) Kidfluencers' lived experiences of influencer culture: a time for regulation? International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 44 (11/12). pp. 1109-1122. ISSN 0144-333X
Hughes, M., Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Beresford, P., Mohamed, O., Levin, L. and Golding, F. (2024) Editorial: the Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience: our Reflections One Year on. British Journal of Social Work, 54 (5). pp. 1783-1789. ISSN Online: 1468-263X Print: 0045-3102
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2024) Including the Excluded - Social Work with Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities. In: BASW UK Conference - A Sustainable Future for Social Work, June 18th-19th 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Unpublished)
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Hulmes, A. (2024) Rural Social Work with Romani and Travellers. In: Rural Social Work in the UK: Themes and Challenges for the Future. Rethinking Rural (RR) (Chap 4). Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 91-112. ISBN Hardcover ISBN 978-3-031-52439-4 • Softcover ISBN 978-3-031-52442-4 • eBook ISBN 978-3-031-52440-0
Moore, Coco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7379-3556, Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Evans, Nick and Howie, Frances (2023) ‘Winging it’: An exploration of the self-perceived professional identity of social prescribing link workers. Health and Social Care in the Community. Article ID 8488615. ISSN Online: 1365-2524
Beresford, P., Golding, F., Hughes, M., Levin, L., Mohamed, O., Schön, U. and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2023) Editorial—Special Issue. The British Journal of Social Work, 53 (3). pp. 1275-1281. ISSN 0045-3102 (print) 1468-263X (online)
Mohamed, O., Schön, U. and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2023) Introduction to Academic Papers Section. The British Journal of Social Work, 53 (3). pp. 1282-1284. ISSN 0045-3102 (print) 1468-263X (online)
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2023) Book Reviews—Introduction. Oxford University Press.
Price, L. and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2022) Being a Gypsy. In: Social Exclusion in the UK: The Lived Experience. Critical Publishing, St Albans, pp. 139-152. ISBN 978-1-915080-38-7 • EPUB ISBN: 978-1-915080-39-4 • Adobe e-book ISBN: 978-1-915080-40-0
Moore, Coco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7379-3556, Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Evans, Nick and Howie, Frances (2022) Social prescribing: Exploring general practitioners' and healthcare professionals' perceptions of, and engagement with, the NHS model. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30 (6). e5176-e5185. ISSN Online: 1365-2524
Grant, S., Allen, R., Nosowska, G., Cree, V., Cullen, A., Holloway, M., Golightley, M., Higgins, M., Pinkerton, J., Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Ward, D. (2022) Editorial: Resilient, Steadfast and Forward-Looking: The Story of Social Work in the UK Told through 50 Years of the British Journal of Social Work. The British Journal of Social Work, 52 (2). e1-e25. ISSN 0045-3102 (print) 1468-263X (online)
Sealey, Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3997-6949 and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2022) Social Policy, Service Users and Carers: Lived Experiences and Perspectives, edited by Clive Sealey, Joy Fillingham and Peter Unwin. Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. ISBN 978-3-030-69876-8 ISBN: 978-3-030-69875-1
Rooney, Joy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-7479 and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2021) Service user and carers' views of best practice in student selection at an English University. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45 (5). pp. 641-653. ISSN 0309-877X Online: 1469-9486
Sarbu, Raluca and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2021) Complexities in Student Placements Under COVID-19 Moral and Practical Considerations. Frontiers in Education, 6 (654843). ISSN 2504-284X
Rooney, Joy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-7479 and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2021) Effects of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of a University-Based Group of Service Users and Carers. [Video]
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Jones, Alexandra (2021) ‘Educate, Empower and Inspire’: An evaluation of a preventative service for young people at risk of sexual exploitation. Child Abuse Review, 30 (1). pp. 62-70. ISSN Print: 0952-9136 Online: 1099-0852
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2020) We need to reach out to disabled people in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. The Municipal Journal. ISSN 0143-4187
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Rooney, Joy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-7479 (2020) The 'nuts and bolts' of including service users and carers in the recruitment of health and social work students in an English university - An interdisciplinary critique. Health Expectations, 23 (6). pp. 1523-1532. ISSN 1369-6513 Online: 1369-7625
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Meakin, B. and Jones, Alexandra (2020) The Missing Voices of Disabled People in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities. Project Report. University of Worcester, Worcester.
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2020) Excluding Disabled People from Fostering is Letting Down Children. Local Government Chronicle. ISSN 0024-5534
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2020) Disabled people could be part of the answer to the fostering crisis. The Municipal Journal. ISSN 0143-4187
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Meakin, B. and Jones, Alexandra (2020) 'Mutual Benefits' – The Potential of Disabled People as Foster Carers. Project Report. University of Worcester, Worcester.
Mills, S. and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2020) Perspectives of volunteers and professionals working County Lines. Youth & Policy. ISSN 2057-4266
Rooney, Joy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-7479, Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Shah, Prag (2019) Keeping Us Grounded: Academic Staff Perceptions of Service User and Carer Involvement in Health and Social Work Training. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43 (7). pp. 929-941. ISSN 0309-877X Online: 1469-9486
Misca, Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5153-5513 and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2018) Child and Adolescent Psychology for Social Work and Allied Professions: Applied Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230368439 Ebook: 9781137359223
Rooney, Joy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-7479, Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Osborne, Nina Dawn (2018) Gaining by Giving? Peer Research Into Service User and Carer Perceptions of Inclusivity in Higher Education. In: Service User Involvement in Social Work Education. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-8153-7830-3
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Rooney, Joy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-7479, Osborne, Nina Dawn and Cole, C. (2017) Are Perceptions of Disability Changed by Involving Service Users and Carers in Qualifying Health and Social Work Training? Disability & Society, 32 (9). pp. 1387-1399. ISSN 0968-7599 Online: 1360-0508
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959, Rooney, Joy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-7479 and Cole, C. (2017) Service User and Carer Involvement in Students’ Classroom Learning in Higher Education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 42 (3). pp. 377-388. ISSN 1469-9486 Online: 1469-9486
Stephens-Lewis, Danielle and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2017) ‘So Your Own Health Needs Just… They Just Go Out of the Window’: Exploring the Health Implications of Child Sexual Exploitation on Parents. In: XXXVth International Congress on Law and Mental Health, 9th - 14th July 2017, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague. (Unpublished)
Misca, Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5153-5513 and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2017) Psychology and Social Work: Applied Perspectives. Polity, Cambridge, UK. ISBN Hardback 9780745696300 Paperback 9780745696317
Shennan, G. and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2017) Social Workers, Service Users and Austerity – A Common Cause. Professional Social Work. pp. 22-23. ISSN 1352-3112
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Stephens-Lewis, Danielle (2016) The Health Implications of Child Sexual Exploitation on Parents. In: The Third International Conference on Law Enforcement & Public Health, 2nd - 5th October 2016, Amsterdam.
Rooney, Joy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-7479, Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Osborne, Nina Dawn (2016) Gaining by Giving? Peer Research into Service User and Carer Perceptions of Inclusivity in Higher Education. Social Work Education, 35 (8). pp. 945-959. ISSN Print: 0261-5479 Online: 1470-1227
Hayes, Sarah and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2016) Comparing the Cultural Factors in the Sexual Exploitation of Young People in the UK and USA: Insights for Social Workers. Social Work Review, 2016 (1). pp. 27-39. ISSN 1583-0608
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Stephens-Lewis, Danielle (2016) Evaluating the Health Implications of Child Sexual Exploitation on Parents. Project Report. Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (PACE).
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Misca, Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5153-5513 (2015) “It Doesn't Happen Here” - Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness In Rural Settings. In: "Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation" Getting it right...? NWG Network Annual Conference, 18th - 19th March 2015, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham.
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2014) INBOX: Fathers and Maternity Services (Letter to editor). International Journal of Birth and Parent Education, 1 (3). p. 6. ISSN Print: 2054-0779 Online: 2054-0787
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2013) The Role of Agency Social Work in England: a Case Study. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Misca, Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5153-5513 (2013) The Changing Face of Adoption in England: Opportunities and Dilemmas. Revista de Asistenta Sociala / Social Work Review, 12 (2). pp. 1-9. ISSN 1583-0608
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Hogg, R. (2012) Effective Social Work with Children and Families: A Skills Handbook. SAGE Publications Ltd, London. ISBN Print: 9780857027306 Online: 9781473914865
Jackson, G. and Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2011) Sons and Daughters of Foster Carers – Invisible, Vulnerable or Valued? In: Working with children, young people and families: Co-constructing practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 118-130. ISBN Paperback: 978-0230280083
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Leverett, S. (2009) “Having Your Say” – Reflections on a Training Course For Older People Volunteering to Become Peer Visitors in Care Homes. Worcester Journal of Learning and Teaching (1). ISSN 2024-8032
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 (2009) Modernisation and the Role of Agency Social Workers. In: Modernising social work: critical considerations. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781847420053
Unwin, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1959 and Harris, J. (2009) Modernisation and Managerialism: Performance Management in Modernised Social Work. In: Modernising social work: critical considerations. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781847420053

My Most Viewed As Author

#	Item title
1.	Perspectives of volunteers and professionals working County Lines	980	923
2.	Kidfluencers' lived experiences of influencer culture: a time for regulation?	813	3373
3.	The Missing Voices of Disabled People in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities	698	218
4.	Psychology and Social Work: Applied Perspectives	451
5.	Comparing the Cultural Factors in the Sexual Exploitation of Young People in the UK and USA: Insights for Social Workers	447
6.	Keeping Us Grounded: Academic Staff Perceptions of Service User and Carer Involvement in Health and Social Work Training	398	266
7.	“Having Your Say” – Reflections on a Training Course For Older People Volunteering to Become Peer Visitors in Care Homes	392	176
8.	The Changing Face of Adoption in England: Opportunities and Dilemmas	369	353
9.	'Mutual Benefits' – The Potential of Disabled People as Foster Carers	341	74
10.	Social Workers, Service Users and Austerity – A Common Cause	337
11.	Modernisation and Managerialism: Performance Management in Modernised Social Work	328
12.	Child and Adolescent Psychology for Social Work and Allied Professions: Applied Perspectives	299
13.	Editorial: Resilient, Steadfast and Forward-Looking: The Story of Social Work in the UK Told through 50 Years of the British Journal of Social Work	293
14.	“It Doesn't Happen Here” - Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness In Rural Settings	288	92
15.	Service User and Carer Involvement in Students’ Classroom Learning in Higher Education	286	287
16.	Are Perceptions of Disability Changed by Involving Service Users and Carers in Qualifying Health and Social Work Training?	276	174
17.	The 'nuts and bolts' of including service users and carers in the recruitment of health and social work students in an English university - An interdisciplinary critique	269	117
18.	Service user and carers' views of best practice in student selection at an English University	262	105
19.	Excluding Disabled People from Fostering is Letting Down Children	259	1
20.	Social Policy, Service Users and Carers: Lived Experiences and Perspectives, edited by Clive Sealey, Joy Fillingham and Peter Unwin	254
21.	Rural Social Work with Romani and Travellers	247	63
22.	Gaining by Giving? Peer Research Into Service User and Carer Perceptions of Inclusivity in Higher Education	245	4
23.	Editorial: the Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience: our Reflections One Year on	245	2
24.	Who Cares? - Caring in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities	242	84
25.	The Health Implications of Child Sexual Exploitation on Parents	242
26.	‘So Your Own Health Needs Just… They Just Go Out of the Window’: Exploring the Health Implications of Child Sexual Exploitation on Parents	242
27.	Including the Excluded - Social Work with Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities	236	58
28.	The Role of Agency Social Work in England: a Case Study	231	49
29.	Gaining by Giving? Peer Research into Service User and Carer Perceptions of Inclusivity in Higher Education	228	258
30.	Sons and Daughters of Foster Carers – Invisible, Vulnerable or Valued?	227
31.	Modernisation and the Role of Agency Social Workers	222
32.	We need to reach out to disabled people in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities	218	2
33.	‘Winging it’: An exploration of the self-perceived professional identity of social prescribing link workers	215	67
34.	‘Educate, Empower and Inspire’: An evaluation of a preventative service for young people at risk of sexual exploitation.	213	7
35.	Complexities in Student Placements Under COVID-19 Moral and Practical Considerations	208	77
36.	Social prescribing: Exploring general practitioners' and healthcare professionals' perceptions of, and engagement with, the NHS model	205	227
37.	Disabled people as foster carers - closing the recruitment gap and more	203	44
38.	Disabled people could be part of the answer to the fostering crisis	195	2
39.	Effective Social Work with Children and Families: A Skills Handbook	194
40.	Being a Gypsy	192	1
41.	Introduction to Academic Papers Section	188
42.	Evaluating the Health Implications of Child Sexual Exploitation on Parents	188
43.	Looking past the stereotypes – Disabled people as foster carers	172	60
44.	INBOX: Fathers and Maternity Services (Letter to editor)	170
45.	Editorial—Special Issue	164
46.	Book Reviews—Introduction	164
47.	A scoping review of social work with Roma and Traveller communities: introducing the ROMA model	128	63
48.	Effects of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of a University-Based Group of Service Users and Carers	123
49.	Inequalities in Mental Health Services for Romani and Travellers - Time for Social Work to Step up?	111	4
50.	Time for a Change in the ways that UK Health Services categorise Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers	105	1
51.	Recognition and Risk: Ethnic Monitoring, Healthcare Access, and Everyday Discrimination in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in the UK	50	9
52.	Using the Candidacy Model to Understand Service Users’ Experiences of Access to Social Prescribing	37	2
53.	The Exclusion of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers from Health Services	31

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