Dr Natalia Farmer
Head of Department
Department of Social WorkNatalia is Head of Department and Lecturer in Social Work. Her research interests include social injustice, homelessness, migration, postcolonial bordering and human rights in social work.
She focuses on amplifying the voices of marginalised individuals and communities with lived and living experience. She has published in journals and edited books exploring the impact of insecure immigration status, drawing from critical theory within intersectionality and controversy analysis to interrogate the tensions between immigration legislation and social work practice.
She is currently Co-Investigator for a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded project exploring the longitudinal impacts of no recourse to public funds on health and wellbeing for children and families in England.