Dr Gaia Cetrano

Senior Lecturer

Gaia Cetrano

  • School Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education

  • Department Mental Health & Social Work

  • Location London

Research activities

Gaia's research interests include mental health social work, homelessness and social exclusion, health and social care systems analysis, social care outcomes evaluation, professional quality of life, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and SPSS. 


Current Teaching

Gaia currently teaches on the following modules as part of the Think Ahead Programme, a two-year fast-track training scheme for mental health socialworkers: 

  • Module tutor SWK 4700 Readiness for Direct Social Work Practice
  • Module tutor SWK 4701 Law and Social Policy for Social Work
  • Module tutor SWK 4702 Social Work Knowledge and Application
  • Module tutor SWK 4703 Placement Stage One
  • Module tutor SWK 4705 Placement Stage Two
  • Module leader SWK 4706 SocialWork Dissertation and Preparation for Advanced Mental Health Practice
  • Module supervisor SWK 4707 Social Work Practice Portfolio and Preparation for Advanced Mental Health Practice


    • Biography

    Gaia holds aBA in Social Work Sciences, an MA in Design and Realisation of Highly ComplexSocial Work Interventions, and a PhD in Psychological and PsychiatricSciences from the University of Verona (Italy). Gaia holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education and is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

    Gaia is a qualified andregistered social worker and her practice background is in mental health,social work with older people and criminal justice social work. As part ofher doctoral studies, Gaia worked on a number of research studies including anEU-funded project, her contribution being the mapping of mental health servicesin nine European countries and the development of a set of tools for theassessment of mental health care provision in Europe. Before joining MiddlesexUniversity in 2019, Gaia worked in the Social Care Workforce Research Unit atKing's College London as a Research Associate on a national study on thedelivery of primary health care to people with experience of homelessness. Gaiaalso worked as a Lecturer on the Social Work BA course at the University ofVerona and as an Associate Lecturer at the University of York. Gaiaresearch interests include mental health social work, homelessness, health andsocial care systems analysis, social care outcomes evaluation, burnout and professionalquality of life. 

     

    Publications

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