Assoc ProfessorHilda Loughran

Associate Professor Hilda Loughran's areas of interest include;alcohol and drugs policy and practices, social work education, counselling and brief interventions and crisis interventions. She has been engaged in policy and practice research projects for many years. She has been instrumental in developing qualitative research approaches that focus on the inclusion of clients, service users perspectives. Her most recent research projects include work in the areas of alcohol use, crisis pregnancy, community drugs issues and brief interventions. Her latest publication Counselling skills for social workers (2019) has received resounding endorsements from international academics in the field. She edited Substance Use in Social Work Education and Training (2016). Her publications including Understanding Crisis Therapies (2011) serve as important contributions for social work education and research. She is also working on research related to engaging service users in social work education. Her teaching commitments are primarily in the Masters in Social Work programme where she is responsible for courses on social work counselling skills, group work, social work and addiction and brief interventions. She also supervises a number of PhD students.