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Smith has received and responded to criticism in popular media.  
Smith has received and responded to criticism in popular media.  


Our page on Dr. [[Richard Yuill]] mentions Smith and his co-authors Vivien E. Cree and Gary Clapton at the university of Edinburgh, as they were attacked in print by the same professional [[Anti]], Dr. David Pilgrim. Cree, Clapton and Smith had applied moral panic theory to analyze UK child protection discourses in articles such as ''Moral panics and social work: Towards a sceptical view of UK child protection'' (2013)<ref>[https://sci-hub.wf/10.1177/0261018312457860 Moral panics and social work: Towards a sceptical view of UK child protection ]</ref>, and edited the volume ''Revisiting Moral Panics'' (2015)<ref>[https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xwr Revisiting Moral Panics]</ref> which Pilgrim took issue with. In the authors' words, Pilgrm decided "to use our book, ''Revisiting moral panics'' (Cree et al, 2015), to construct a straw man, which needs to be knocked down to preserve his own particular view of child sexual abuse."<ref>[https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/crsw/5/2/article-p223.xml Cree et al p223]</ref> Pilgrim responded, making "a brief concession [...] to a couple of points".<ref>[https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/crsw/5/3/article-p351.xml Cree et al p351]</ref>
With Jane Fenton, Smith co-author a contribution ('You Can’t Say That!': Critical Thinking, Identity Politics, and the Social Work Academy')<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc9040071 Jane Fenton and Mark Smith, 'You Can’t Say That!': Critical Thinking, Identity Politics, and the Social Work Academy', in ''Societies'', 9: 71 (2019)].</ref> to a special issue of the academic journal ''Societies''.<ref>[https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/special_issues/challenging_academia ''Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues'', ed. by Heather Piper and Else-Marie Buch Leander (2021)]. Special issue of ''Societies''.</ref> The special issue was edited by Else-Marie Buch Leander and Heather Piper, the latter of whom has co-authored a book on false allegations of teacher-student sex-contact in schools<ref>See Piper and Sikes, "''Researching Sex and Lies in the Classroom: Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools''" (2009, Routledge); (For a review, see [[Steven Angelides]] (2011). Review of Sex and Lies by Angelides (2011). [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1080/1743727x.2011.552188 Sci-hub link]).</ref> alongside [[Pat Sikes]], a university lecturer who has spoken out about her mutually willing, positively experienced, and (at the time) socially accepted sexual relationship with an older male teacher when she was an adolescent.


With Jane Fenton, he co-author a contribution ('You Can’t Say That!': Critical Thinking, Identity Politics, and the Social Work Academy')<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc9040071 Jane Fenton and Mark Smith, 'You Can’t Say That!': Critical Thinking, Identity Politics, and the Social Work Academy', in ''Societies'', 9: 71 (2019)].</ref> to a special issue of the academic journal ''Societies''.<ref>[https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/special_issues/challenging_academia ''Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues'', ed. by Heather Piper and Else-Marie Buch Leander (2021)]. Special issue of ''Societies''.</ref> The special issue was edited by Else-Marie Buch Leander and Heather Piper, the latter of whom has co-authored a book on false allegations of teacher-student sex-contact in schools<ref>See Piper and Sikes, "''Researching Sex and Lies in the Classroom: Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools''" (2009, Routledge); (For a review, see [[Steven Angelides]] (2011). Review of Sex and Lies by Angelides (2011). [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1080/1743727x.2011.552188 Sci-hub link]).</ref> alongside a university lecturer [[Pat Sikes]], who has spoken out about her mutually willing, positively experienced, and (at the time) socially accepted sexual relationship with an older male teacher when she was an adolescent.
Our page on Dr. [[Richard Yuill]] mentions Smith and his co-authors Vivien E. Cree and Gary Clapton, at the university of Edinburgh.<ref>Yuill and these authors have been attacked in print by the same professional [[Anti]], Dr. David Pilgrim. Cree, Clapton and Smith had applied moral panic theory to analyze UK child protection discourses in articles such as [https://sci-hub.wf/10.1177/0261018312457860 Moral panics and social work: Towards a sceptical view of UK child protection ] (2013), and edited the volume [https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xwr Revisiting Moral Panics] (2015) which Pilgrim took issue with. In the authors' words, Pilgrm decided "to use our book, ''Revisiting moral panics'' (Cree et al, 2015), to construct a straw man, which needs to be knocked down to preserve his own particular view of child sexual abuse." (See [https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/crsw/5/2/article-p223.xml Cree et al p223]). Pilgrim responded, making "a brief concession [...] to a couple of points".( See [https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/crsw/5/3/article-p351.xml Cree et al p351]).</ref>


==External links and further reading==
==External links and further reading==

Revision as of 21:07, 24 April 2024

Mark Smith, MA (Hons) CQSW, M.Ed, PhD, Cert Child Protection Studies, Cert Social Services Leadership, FHEA, (since 2017) is Professor of Social Work at the University of Dundee, in Perth, Scotland. Before his academic career, Smith was a practitioner and manager in residential child care settings for 20 years. He developed and taught the Masters in Residential Child Care at Strathclyde University/Glasgow School of Social Work and, in 2005, he moved to the University of Edinburgh as lecturer. Subsequently, he became a senior lecturer in social work and served as head of social work there from 2013 - 2017. He has a broad range of research and writing interests, with some publications likely to interest MAPs, AAMs and their allies due to their coverage on topics such as historical abuse in residential child care. These include critical articles and an edited volume on moral panics and UK child protection policy, as well as criticism of the myth of inevitable trauma[1] from sexual contact involving an age gap, and recognizing the risk of iatrogenic/secondary harm through the intervention of professional services.

With the Oxford Prof. Ros Burnett, Smith published "The origins of the Jimmy Savile scandal" (2018).[2] The article uses "interview material from former pupils and staff members from Duncroft School, from whence initial allegations against Savile emanate," and presents "a very different picture [...] to that presented in media accounts," a "questioning account of the origins of the scandal" which "may be claimed or used to cast doubt on accounts of abuse".

Earlier, in 2008, Smith published the article 'Historical abuse in residential child care: an alternative view'.[3] More recently, he has co-authored a critique of the trauma narrative in 'Trauma: an ideology in search of evidence' (2021)[4], and the evidence-based review article 'Trauma-informed approaches: a critical overview of what they offer to social work and social care" (2023).[5]

Smith has received and responded to criticism in popular media.

With Jane Fenton, Smith co-author a contribution ('You Can’t Say That!': Critical Thinking, Identity Politics, and the Social Work Academy')[6] to a special issue of the academic journal Societies.[7] The special issue was edited by Else-Marie Buch Leander and Heather Piper, the latter of whom has co-authored a book on false allegations of teacher-student sex-contact in schools[8] alongside Pat Sikes, a university lecturer who has spoken out about her mutually willing, positively experienced, and (at the time) socially accepted sexual relationship with an older male teacher when she was an adolescent.

Our page on Dr. Richard Yuill mentions Smith and his co-authors Vivien E. Cree and Gary Clapton, at the university of Edinburgh.[9]

External links and further reading

References

  1. ↑ Smith, M., Monteux, S., & Cameron, C. (2021). 'Trauma: An Ideology in Search of Evidence and its Implicationsfor the Social in Social Welfare'. Scottish Affairs, 30(4), 472-492.
  2. ↑ Smith, M. and Burnett, R. (2018), "The origins of the Jimmy Savile scandal", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 38 No. 1/2, pp. 26-40. <https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-03-2017-0029>.
  3. ↑ Historical abuse in residential child care: an alternative view, in Practice – Social Work in Action, Vol. 20 No. 1 (March 2008).
  4. ↑ See above citation.
  5. ↑ Smith, M., & Monteux, S. (2023). Trauma-informed approaches: a critical overview of what they offer to social work and social care. Insights, 1-24.
  6. ↑ Jane Fenton and Mark Smith, 'You Can’t Say That!': Critical Thinking, Identity Politics, and the Social Work Academy', in Societies, 9: 71 (2019).
  7. ↑ Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues, ed. by Heather Piper and Else-Marie Buch Leander (2021). Special issue of Societies.
  8. ↑ See Piper and Sikes, "Researching Sex and Lies in the Classroom: Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools" (2009, Routledge); (For a review, see Steven Angelides (2011). Review of Sex and Lies by Angelides (2011). Sci-hub link).
  9. ↑ Yuill and these authors have been attacked in print by the same professional Anti, Dr. David Pilgrim. Cree, Clapton and Smith had applied moral panic theory to analyze UK child protection discourses in articles such as Moral panics and social work: Towards a sceptical view of UK child protection (2013), and edited the volume Revisiting Moral Panics (2015) which Pilgrim took issue with. In the authors' words, Pilgrm decided "to use our book, Revisiting moral panics (Cree et al, 2015), to construct a straw man, which needs to be knocked down to preserve his own particular view of child sexual abuse." (See Cree et al p223). Pilgrim responded, making "a brief concession [...] to a couple of points".( See Cree et al p351).
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