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Role

Dr Vicky Palmer is a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Youth Justice course in the Department of Social Work, Care and Community and she currently teaches on the ‘Evolution of the Youth Justice System’ module for year one students, the ‘Effective Practice in Youth Justice’ module for year two students, and the ‘Dissertation’ and 'Law, Sentencing and the Role of the Courts' modules to year three students. She has also taught on the ‘Young People, Crime and Justice’ module to third year BA (Hons) Criminology students and teaches ‘Youth Justice’ on the MA Social Work course. She completed her Doctoral studies in 2016 with her thesis entitled: ‘A Critical Approach towards the Professionalisation of the Youth Justice Workforce: A Research-Led design of a Mental Health Module’. Vicky has completed five separate visits to the Republic of Belarus where she has been instrumental in the training of Judges, Prosecutors, Police, Defence Lawyers and charitable organisations in all areas of Youth Justice in readiness for their own development of a separate juvenile justice system. Her research interests include comparative youth justice, children in conflict with the law, mental disorder, neurodiversity and learning difficulties and their connection to youth offending, violent offending, and the written histories of ‘Mental Health in the Archives’. Vicky has 20 years’ experience of working as a probation officer and she remains a qualified and registered social worker.

Career overview

Vicky is a qualified and registered Social Worker who has worked in practice for 20 years. Her roles have included:

• Probation Officer
• Youth justice Social Worker
• Youth Offending Team Case Manager (Probation Service secondment).

She practised in both Leicestershire and Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈéshire (mainly the old North Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈéshire mining communities).