Dr Martin P Webber  BA (Hons) MSc DipSW PhD
Lecturer
Programme Leader
Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator

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tel	020 7848 5096
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address	Institute of Psychiatry Box  P032 De Crespigny Park London United Kingdom, SE5 8AF
location	H0.03 David Goldberg Centre
departments	Health Service and Population Research Learning and Teaching Centre
also	Centre for Public Mental Health

biography

I am a qualified and registered social worker with experience of working with adults with mental health problems. I came to the Institute of Psychiatry in 2002 as a social science research fellow and have been Programme Leader of the MSc in Mental Health Social Work with Children & Adults since 2006.

activities and interests

Research interests

My main interest is in developing and evaluating social interventions for people with mental health problems. I am currently leading a project funded by the NIHR School for Social Care Research to develop a social capital intervention for people with psychosis. The Connecting People study is using ethnographic methods to identify good practice in social capital enhancement activities and, through a critical appreciation of the context of this practice, develop a new intervention that can be readily applied across a range of health and social care settings. This study will be completed in August 2012.

I am also interesting in evaluating learning and teaching at the Institute of Psychiatry and within the College. I am currently leading a randomised controlled trial of multi-disciplinary online academic literacy learning materials for postgraduate students. This is due to be completed in September 2012. A project examining reasons for non-response to the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) will begin in May 2011.

teaching activities

MSc in Mental Health Social Work with Children & Adults

Programme Leader

Teaches research methods and critical appraisal (year 1), research protocol writing (year 1) and supervises student research projects (year 2).

I am also the programme leader for the two e-learning courses that have been developed from modules in this programme: Research Methods & Critical Appraisal for Social Workers and Research Protocol Writing for Social Workers.

publications

Publications since 2007:

Bookle, M. & Webber, M. (in press) Ethnicity and access to an inner city home treatment service: a case-control study. Health and Social Care in the Community

Webber, M. & Currin Salter, L. (in press) Gearing practitioners up for research: evaluation of a pilot online research training course for social workers. Research, Policy and Planning

Webber, M. & Nathan, J. (eds.) (2010) Reflective Practice in Mental Health. Advanced Psychosocial Practice with Children, Adolescents and Adults, London, Jessica Kingsley

Webber, M., Huxley, P. & Harris, T. (2010) Social capital and the course of depression: six-month prospective cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders, Advance access published on September 6, 2010, doi:10.1016/j.jad.2010.08.005

Webber, M. (2010) ‘Helping women with depression to access social capital: A role for social workers’ in Sekar., A, Rajaram, P., Shekhar, R. & Mubarak, A.R. (eds.) Women and Mental Health, Bangalore, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, 19-27

Dutt, K. & Webber, M. (2010) Access to social capital and social support amongst South East Asian women with severe mental health problems: a cross-sectional survey, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 56 (6), 593-605

Kingsford, R. & Webber, M. (2010) Social deprivation and the outcomes of crisis resolution and home treatment for people with mental health problems: an historical cohort study. Health and Social Care in the Community, 18 (5), 456-464

Webber, M., Currin, L., Groves, N., Hay, D. & Fernando, N. (2010) Social workers can e-learn: evaluation of a pilot post-qualifying e-learning course in research methods and critical appraisal skills for social workers. Social Work Education, 29 (1), 48-66

Bhugra, D., Gupta, S., Smyth, G. & Webber, M. (2010) Through the prism darkly: how do others see psychiatrists? Australasian Psychiatry, 18 (1), 7-11

Nathan, J. & Webber, M. (2010) Mental health social work and the bureau-medicalisation of mental health care: Identity in a changing world. Journal of Social Work Practice, 24 (1), 15-28

Huxley, P., Sheppard M & Webber, M. (2009) ‘Mental health social work research’ in Shaw, I., Briar-Lawson, B., Orme, J. & Ruckdeschel, R. (eds.) SAGE Handbook of Social Work Research, London, Sage Publications, 418-432

Webber, M. (2009) ‘Social capital and mental health’ in Reynolds, J., Muston, R., Heller, T., Leach, J., McCormick, M., Wallcraft, J. & Walsh, M. (eds.) Mental Health Still Matters. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 179-183

Furminger, E. & Webber, M. (2009) The effect of crisis resolution and home treatment on assessments under the Mental Health Act 1983. An increased workload for Approved Social Workers?, British Journal of Social Work, 39 (5), 901-917

Webber, M. (2008) Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Mental Health Social Work, Exeter, Learning Matters


Briddon, J., Baguley, C. & Webber, M. (2008) The ABC-E Model of Emotion: a bio-psychosocial model for primary mental health care, Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, 3 (1), 12-21

Slack, K. & Webber, M. (2008) Do we care? Adult mental health professionals’ attitudes towards supporting service users’ children, Child & Family Social Work, 13 (1), 72-79


Webber, M. & Huxley, P. (2007) Measuring access to social capital: The validity and reliability of the Resource Generator-UK and its association with common mental disorder, Social Science and Medicine, 65 (3), 481-492

van der Gaag, M. & Webber, M. (2007) ‘Measurement of individual social capital: questions, instruments and measures’ in Kawachi, I., Subrumanian, S.V. & Kim, D. (eds.) Social Capital and Health, New York, Springer-Verlag, 29-49

last updated: Thursday, December 09, 2010