Dr Denise Turner is an experienced, registered Social Worker and currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work.

Her research interests encompass digital practices and death, loss and bereavement. She was Chair of the Advisory Group for the national Digital Capabilities project for Social Work, delivered by SCIE and BASW and is interested in the positive challenges of digital media. She has authored a book on parents' experiences of the professional response to sudden, unexpected child death and is currently involved with research focused on bereavement and grief resulting from Covid19.

Dr Michael Fanner works an applied social researcher in various areas of health visiting policy and practice. Michael is also a clinician and has previously worked in higher education on a number of health and social care professional programmes. Michael is passionate about ensuring health and social care delivery and interventions are evidence-based, and are informed by those who work in practice and those who receives services.