Professor Sandra Drower 

Programme Leader: BSc Social Work 

Education, Health and Social Care 

Email:

sandra.drower@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

01962 827149 

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Expertise

Sandra's main areas of expertise are social work education, social work research and health care social work.

Publications

Drower, SJand Kleijn AA. (2008) Building the capacity of first year social work students: Experiences from a South African education institution. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 28 [3-4]: 355-380

Smith, L.and Drower, SJ. (2008) Promoting resilience and coping in social workers: Learning from perceptions about resilience and coping among South African social work students, in L Liebenberg and M Ungar (eds) Resilience in Action: Working with youth across cultures and contexts. Toronto: University of Toronto, 137 – 164

Drower, SJ. (2005) Group work to facilitate empowerment in the context of HIV/AIDS, in L Becker (ed.) Working with Groups. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 101 – 164

Drower, SJ. (2003) Actualising social work values in South Africa: Past and present perspectives, in R Lutz (ed.) Soziale arbeit inSüdafrika: Positionen undEindrüke. Oldenburg: verlag Dialogischhe Erziehung, 11 – 34

Drower, SJ. (2002) Contextualising social work in a changed South Africa. International Journal of Social Work, 45 [1]: 7-20

Research Interests

Sandra's research interests include theory-practice integration in social work education, resilience, coping and human strengths in contexts characterised by rapid social change and diversity and social work research and research ethics.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

• Registered as a social worker with the General Social Care Council
• British Association of Social Workers
• Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment (TESTA) project team