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Fran Fuller – Foundation Chair
I am the chair of Trustees and also chair of Prof Dev committee. I have been a member of BASW most of my career having worked in child protection, residential, learning disabilities and laterally in academia.
I have many loves in life, family , Spurs and BASW. I am really excited at the prospect of the charity finally getting underway and working with a great bunch of people to grow and develop the charity under the guidance of the members and staff.
Russell Hogarth
Russell Hogarth is an Honorary Fellow, Community Engagement Ambassador and Entrepreneur in residence at the University of Central Lancashire. Philanthropist and social entrepreneur dedicated to equality, diversity, and inclusion. Russell also ran his own successful business for 25 years before entering the world of academia.
Russell chairs the Honorary Fellow advisory group and EU award winning International Creative Communities Group. www.ccguk.org
Russell is a University guest lecturer, High School and Academy enterprise advisor and a EU virtual VET ambassador at Cedefop VET toolkit for tackling early leaving
His MacMillan Palgrave publication Creative Education, Teaching and Learning is quoted as a pathway to inclusion and accessible education.
Russell is a social entrepreneur mentor for UnLtd and a trustee for Creativity Works Preston. Russell is also an advisor to the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Association of Social Workers.
Russell is the CEO for the national forum for health and wellbeing.
His expertise in entrepreneurship and lifelong learning is recognised both nationally and internationally.
Annie Ho
I have been qualified as a social worker and worked in local authority adult social care for over 30 years. I now work as an independent social worker, directly with vulnerable people and their families in Safeguarding Adults Reviews, Court proceedings and independent investigations. Taking a rights-based approach and anti-racist lens is always important in all my work. I also have a deep interest in combining creative arts with social work research and practice. I am enjoying the wide range of opportunities where I can offer my contributions to the work of the BASW Council, the Charity Foundation, the Professional Support Service and the Social Work Practitioner Research Network.
Dimas Lopez
Dimas Lopez is a qualified Social Worker and a Practice Educator. He started his career in the asylum and refugee sector in Spain, where he worked with asylum seekers and refugees coming into Europe by boat from Africa. In 2014, he started a new role with Depaul UK, a national youth homeless charity. Dimas Lopez is currently Depaul UK’s National Prevention Services Manager providing an innovative homeless prevention service for schools and a family mediation service to prevent homelessness and strength relationships. He also supports Social Work students on placement with Depaul UK.
Professor Alison Brammer
Alison Brammer is a Professor of Social Work Law at Keele University. She initially qualified as a solicitor and worked at a local authority with a social services caseload. Alison’s publications include her textbook, ‘Social Work Law’ (6th edition, forthcoming) and she is Series editor of the ‘Focus on Social Work Law’ series of specialist texts for social workers including her own authored volume Safeguarding Adults (2019). She has been involved in developing and delivering social work education and training for 30 years. Alison is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Adult Protection. Research interests focus on the interface between law and social work practice, legal literacy and child and adult safeguarding.
Aly Fryer
Aly has significant experience working with organisations, charities and multiple universities as an Expert by Experience within social work and mental health social work education and is a member of various advisory and steering groups. These have included BASW, MIND, Time to Change, Rethink, SWE, Money Mental Health and working on various DOE bids, the Care Act, HCPC and SWE reviews.
