Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman

Research Projects

• The state of social work education and research report 2020-2021. Researcher(s): Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Project report]

Research Supervisor

• 'Breaking the Silence about Institutional Child Abuse in the Buddhist Monastery in Sri Lanka'. Researcher(s): Mr Namal Rathnayake Mudiyanselage. Supervisor(s): Dr Bob Cecil, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• A REALIST EVALUATION OF THE LEARNING AND PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN A CLINICAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME (CLP) TO IDENTIFY WHAT WORKS, IN WHAT CONTEXT AND FOR WHOM, TO IMPACT ON EFFECTIVE WORKPLACE CULTURES AND PERSON-CENTRED CLINICAL LEADERSHIP. Researcher(s): Mrs Helen Stanley. Supervisor(s): Professor Kim Manley, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mrs Muthunaidelage Uthpala Harshinie Perera. Supervisor(s): Dr Bob Cecil, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Safeguarding Supervision for Nurses in an Acute Setting: Model Development and Application. Researcher(s): Mrs Ann Guindi. Supervisor(s): Dr Jacqueline Wier, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]

• The deeper context of coercive control: New insights into behavioural patterns in coercive controllers to support greater precision in social worker assessments of critical risk Mitchell, K., Melville-Wiseman, J., McFarlane, Felicity, (2025): SAGE Publications. [Journal article]
• Care-experienced social workers as relational activists in the United Kingdom Rodgers-Gray, Trevor, Starr, Michael, Melville-Wiseman, Janet, (2024), The Oxford Handbook of Power, Politics, and Social Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Book chapter]
• Care experienced social workers as relational activists in the UK Melville-Wiseman, J., Rodgers-Gray, T., Starr, M., (2025), The Oxford Handbook of Power, Politics and Social Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Book chapter]
• Examining relational practice through the unique experiences of care experienced social workers and students Janet Melville-Wiseman, Dr Trevor-Rodgers-Gray, Carol Namata, Mike Starr, Joint Universities Council Social Work Education Committee JSWEC2023. [Conference paper]
• The Association of Care Experienced Social Care Workers Melville-Wiseman, J., The anthology of care experienced social workers. UK. [Book chapter]
• Elusive tensions in everyday relationship-based social work practice: exploring the challenges for social work education at the interface between religion and sexuality Melville-Wiseman, J., Queering Paradigms IX: Peter Lang. [Book chapter]
• Illusions of consent – Police and Crown Prosecution Service responses to victims of professional sexual abuse in mental health services Melville-Wiseman, J., JSWEC 2021 Cardiff University – on-line conference 8th – 9th July 2021 . [Conference paper]
• Legal protection of title - how far should this extend? Melville-Wiseman, J., JSWEC 2021 Cardiff University – on-line conference 8th – 9th July 2021 . [Conference paper]
• Listening to the voices of care experienced individuals and communities – the disconcerting values of the Government Children’s Social Care Review Melville-Wiseman, J.: Social Work Under COVID-19. [Journal article]
• Elusive tensions in everyday relationship-based social work practice Melville-Wiseman, J., Second CIRQUE Conference and 10th Queering Paradigms Conference. [Conference paper]
• When is it right to buy: an instrumental case study of 'out of area' rehousing for families in temporary accommodation and implications for social work Odell, T., Melville-Wiseman, J., Joint Social Work Education and Research conference: Grand Challenges for Social Work. [Conference paper]
• When is it right to buy? an instrumental case study of 'out of borough' rehousing for families in temporary accommodation and implications for social work Odell, T., Melville-Wiseman, J., Joint Social Work Education and Research conference: Grand Challenges for Social Work. [Conference paper]
• Spirituality and sexuality: exploring tensions in everyday relationship-based practice Melville-Wiseman, J., (2017), Routledge Handbook of Religion, Spirituality and Social Work: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• A case study of an incident of professional sexual abuse in UK mental health services Melville-Wiseman, J., (2016), International Womens Issues Conference 2016 - Selected Papers, International Women's Issues Conference: University of Central Florida. [Book chapter]
• The sexual abuse of vulnerable people by registered social workers in England: an analysis of the health and care professions council fitness to practise cases Melville-Wiseman, J., (2016): Oxford University Press. [Journal article]
• Mental health law in the UK and the professional sexual abuse of women. Melville-Wiseman, J., Eastern Mediterranean University, Selected Papers from the 4th International Conference - Gender Equality and the Law: Famagusta, Cyprus: Eastern Mediterranean University Press. [Book chapter]
• Profiles and institutional context of doctors who sexually abuse their patients or colleagues Melville-Wiseman, J., Interpersonal Violence Interventions - Social and Cultural Perspectives. International Conference,. [Conference paper]
• Teaching through the tension: resolving religious and sexuality based schism in social work education Melville-Wiseman, J., (2013): SAGE. [Journal article]
• Taking relationships into account in mental health services Melville-Wiseman, J., (2012), Rights, Risks and Responsibilities: Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care. Basingstoke: Palgrave. [Book chapter]
• Pathologies or apologies? The usefulness of Luke 17:3 as a model for responding to professional sexual abuse of vulnerable adults in the mental health system Melville-Wiseman, J., (2011), Beyond Belief: Exploring the Impact of Religion and Belief on Professional Practice’. [Conference paper]
• Professional sexual abuse in mental health services: capturing practitioner views of a contemporary corruption of care Melville-Wiseman, J., (2011): Whiting & Birch. [Journal article]
• Teaching through the tension – an approach to resolving schism in the classroom Melville-Wiseman, J., (2011), Beyond Belief: Exploring the Impact of Religion and Belief on Professional Practice’. [Conference paper]