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Dr. Liz Walker

Dr. Liz Walker - Lecturer in Social Work 

PhD, MA, BA (Hons), BA (Social Work), PGCHE, RSW.

Senior Lecturer

Director of Social Work

Room: 239 Wilberforce Building

Tel: 01482 (46) 6221

Email: e.walker@hull.ac.uk

 

Liz Walker returned to the UK in 2004 after living and working in South Africa for many years. She trained as a social worker in the mid-1980s in South Africa where she was involved in the anti-apartheid movement. She completed her honours degree in Sociology in 1987 and joined the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1990 as a lecturer. She completed her master’s degree in 1993 and continued to lecture full time in the department specialising in the sociology of health. Throughout the 1990s, Liz worked in a voluntary capacity for the Community AIDS Support and Information Centre, Johannesburg, doing HIV/AIDS counselling work and running support groups for families and partners of people living with HIV/AIDS. The social and cultural context of HIV/AIDS has been the central subject of Liz’s research where she has published widely. She completed her PhD in 1999, which explored the experiences of women doctors through a study of the ‘South African Society of Medical Women’. In 2001, she joined the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand where she continued her research on HIV/AIDS. At WISER she developed research projects in the area of masculinity, risk and resilience, specifically working with ex-perpetrators of domestic and criminal violence. She took up appointment at the University of Hull in 2004.

 

Research Interests

Liz continues to conduct research on HIV/AIDS in South Africa. She has recently completed a National Research Foundation (NRF) funded study examining the social and cultural complexities of adherence to Anti-Retroviral Therapy. She is researching the effects of imprisonment on fatherhood as part of a wider project on Marginal Masculinities. In a project entitled ‘Transitions to Illness’, Liz is co-investigator on a study which explores the relationship between long-term chronic illness and identity, focusing specifically on the auto-immune condition, SLE (Lupus).

 

Publications (from 2004)

Books

  • Gilbert, L., Selikow, T. and Walker, L. (2010, 3rd edn.) Society, Health and Disease. An Introductory Reader for Health Professionals. Johannesburg: Ravan Press/ Macmillan.
  • Reid, G. and Walker, L. (eds) (2005) Men behaving differently. South African men since 1994. Cape Town: Double Storey/ Juta.
  • Walker, L., Reid, G. and Cornell, M. (2004) Waiting to Happen. HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers /Cape Town: Double Storey Books/Juta.

 

Chapters in Books

  • Walker, L. (2007) 'HIV/AIDS: Challenging stigma by association' in Burke, P & Parker, J (eds) Social Work and Disadvantage. London: Jessica Kingsley.
  • Walker, L. (2005) ‘Negotiating the boundaries of masculinity in post apartheid South Africa, in Reid, G & Walker, L (eds) (2005) Men behaving differently. South African men since 1994. Cape Town: Double Storey/ Juta
  • Reid, G. and Walker, L. (2005) ‘Masculinity in Question’, in Reid, G & Walker, L (eds) (2005) Men behaving differently. South African men since 1994. Cape Town: Double Storey/ Juta

 

Journal articles

  • Walker, L. (2010) ‘His mam, my dad, my girlfriend, loads of people used to bring him up’: The value of social support for (ex) offender fathers’, Child and Family Social Work, vol 15, pp 238 – 247.
  • Gilbert, L. and Walker, L. (2009) ‘They (ARVs) are my life, without them I am nothing’ – experiences of patients attending a HIV/AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, Health and Place, vol 15, pp 1123 – 1129.
  • Gilbert, L. and Walker, L. (2009) ‘My biggest fear was that people would reject me once they knew my status...’ – stigma as experienced by patients in an HIV/AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 18, no 2, pp 139 – 146.
  • Walker, L. (2009) ‘My son gave birth to me’.  Offender fathers: Generative, reflexive and risky?  British Journal of Social Work doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcp063. pp 1 – 17.
  • Walker, L. (2008) ‘Offending Fathers: Navigation the boundaries between risk and resource?', Prison Services Journal, No 177, pp 8 - 12.
  • Wray, J., Walker, L. and Fell, B (2008) ‘Student nurses' attitudes to vulnerable groups: A study examining the impact of a social inclusion module', Nurse Education Today, vol 28, pp 513 - 520.
  • Posel, D., Kahn, K. and Walker, L. (2007)  ‘Living with death in a time of AIDS: A rural South African case study, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, vol 35, pp 138 - 146.
  • Walker, L. (2005) ‘Men behaving differently: South African men since 1994’, Culture, Health and Sexuality, vol 7, no 3, pp 225 – 238.
  • Reid, G. and Walker, L. (2005) ‘Sex and secrecy: A focus on African Sexualities’, Culture, Health and Sexuality, vol 7, no 2, pp 185 – 194.
  • Walker, L. (2005) ‘The colour White: Racial and gendered closure in the South African medical profession’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol 28, no 2, pp 348-375.
  • Reid, G. and Walker, L. (2004) ‘Sex Then and Now: Exploring South Africa’s Sexual Histories’, South African Historical Journal, vol 50, pp 77-83.
  • Reid, G. and Walker, L. (2004) ‘Public Discourse, Private Realms: Concerning the Constitution, Editorial, South African Journal on Human Rights, vol 20, part 2, pp 177 – 178.
  • Walker, L. and Gilson, L. (2004) ‘We are bitter but we are satisfied’. Nurses as street level bureaucrats in South Africa. Social Science and Medicine, vol 59, no 6, pp 1251-1261
  • Reid, G. and Walker, L. (2004) Sex and Secrecy: 4th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society. Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, vol 1, no 1, pp 1-6

 

Teaching Responsibilities

Liz teaches in the areas of social inequality and health, social inclusion/exclusion, sociology and social work.

 

Postgraduate Supervision

Liz is supervising PhD and Masters Degree students in different areas, including health inequality, gender, HIV/AIDS, Health Professions, and Sexuality.

 

Practice and Professional Interests

Liz is a referee for Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Journal of Clinical Nursing, British Journal of Social Work, Child and Family Social Work.