Director: Professor Emily R. Munro

The Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care’s (TGC) mission is to provide a strong empirical foundation for policy and practice development and by so doing to improve service user experiences and outcomes. The team are also committed to the involvement of those with lived experience in their research to ensure that their views and experiences shape the design and delivery of social care services.

The team have expertise in:

• Safeguarding children
• Evaluating whole system change and strengths-based practice (e.g. motivational interviewing and systemic practice) in children’s social care
• Observing and analysing social work practice
• Evaluating whole system change and strengths-based practice (e.g. motivational interviewing and systemic practice)
• Research with children in need and care experience people, including those negotiating the transition from care to adulthood
• Engaging Participant Expert by Experience Researchers in the design and conduct of studies
• Substance misuse and associated issues (including, ‘begging’, street drinking, street sex work and rough sleeping).

Tilda Goldberg, 1912 - 2004

Tilda Goldberg

TGC was founded in 2010 with core funding from Tilda Goldberg’s (1912-2004) bequest. Tilda Goldberg (1912-2004) was a pioneering social work researcher.

She was the Director of Research at the National Institute for Social Work and carried out the first Randomised Controlled Trials in British social work in the 1960s and 1970s.