Professor Kish Bhatti-Sinclair
Professor of Health and Social Care
About
Kish has a lifelong commitment to combating racism, shaping the debates on black perspectives and decolonising social work practice. This includes the development of methodologies and theories, such as modern racism, to test attitudes and behaviours. Kish has undertaken studies on child sexual exploitation and hard to reach children using quantitative data and sensitive methods.
Kish has published many journal articles and books. Anti-Racist Practice in Social Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) examines attitudes and behaviours in relation to law, policy and practice. Diversity, Difference and Dilemmas (OUP/McGraw Hill, 2017) promotes the idea that disproportionate attention is paid to immigrants and terrorists in populist policy and media reporting.
Kish has been a principal research investigator for many local authority and NHS commissioned projects and is the research inclusion lead for the National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration, South-East England.
Research Interests
Decolonisation, anti-racist social work practice, child exploitation, research methodologies, research inclusion, ethics and values
Employment
2021: Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, Head of Social Work and Social Care, Institute of Education, Social and Life Sciences, University of Chichester
2012-2019: Deputy Head of Department of Childhood, Social Work and Social Care, University of Chichester
2016-2018: Acting Head of Department of Childhood, Social Work and Social Care, University of Chichester
2012-2016: Principal Lecturer and Head of Social Work, University of Chichester
1993-2012: Lecturer, Department of Social Work Studies, University of Southampton
1982-1993: Senior Detached Youth Worker, The Rainbow Project, Hampshire County Council
1979-1982: Co-ordinator, Student Community Action, University of Portsmouth
Publications - Books
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Smethurst, C. (Eds.) (2017), Diversity, Difference and Professional Dilemmas: Developing Skills in Challenging Times, Open University Press/McGraw Hill, ISBN: 9780335261826.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (2011), Anti-Racist Practice in Social Work, Palgrave/Macmillan, ISBN: 978-0-230-01307-0.
Publications - Papers and Reports
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., Beattie, D., Bell, C., McGregor, S., and Khan, N., (October 2025) Changing Attitudes to Work in the Workplace: How do we keep our workers? Blog BMJ Leader https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjleader/
- Bhatti-Sinclair (April 2024), Pan-Sussex Diversity in Research Engagement Network Evaluation Report, University of Chichester/NIHR Research Engagement Network.
- Bhatti-Sinclair (March 2023), Education and Training Strategic Plan 2023-2024, Sussex Integrated Care Board/Sussex Integrated Care Partnerships/University of Chichester.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and McCray, J. (October 2022), Evaluation Report on the Development of the General Medical Council Foundation Curricula, University of Chichester/Sussex NHS Hospitals Trust.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (July 2022), Decolonising Social Work Practice, Seen and Heard, Vol. 32, Issue 3, ISSN 1744-1072.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Littlechild, B., Eds., (June 2022), Black Lives Matter: decolonising social work. https://www.iassw-aiets.org/featured/10030-iassw-announces-the-release-of-social-dialogue-magazine-26/
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (June 2022), De-colonising social work practice: changing perspectives (SWEARN). https://www.iassw-aiets.org/featured/10030-iassw-announces-the-release-of-social-dialogue-magazine-26/
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Sutcliffe, C. (2020) Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation Offender, Who and Why, Seen and Heard, the Journal of the National Association for Children’s Guardians, Family Court Advisers and Independent Social Workers, Vol. 30, Issue 4, pp 51-68..
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Sutcliffe, C. (2019), Normative and Positive Social Work in the Context of the Placement Decision: A Defence of Social Workers, Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 20(2), pp 77-94, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v20i2.1260
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Smethurst, C. (2018) Understanding Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation, Seen and Heard, the Journal of the National Association for Children’s Guardians, Family Court Advisers and Independent Social Workers, Vol. 28, Issue 4, October 2018, ISSN 1744-1072.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (2016), The Independent Evaluation Report on the Five to Thrive Initiative, University of Chichester.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Sutcliffe, C. (October 2014), Report on the Analysis of Data on Black and Ethnic Minority Looked After Children in the Borough of Wandsworth, University of Chichester.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Sutcliffe, C. (2013) Challenges in identifying factors which determine the placement of children in care: an international review, Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, vol.30, no. 4, August, pp. 345-363, Springer, ISSN 0738-0151, doi: 1007/s10560-012-0293-x.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Sutcliffe, C. (2012) What determines the out of home placement of children in the USA?, Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 34, no. 9, September, pp. 1749-1755. Elsevier, doi: 1016/j.childyouth.2012.05.004.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (1999) Evaluating Social Work and Medical Practice with Black and Ethnic Minority Groups Using the Medical Audit Model, British Journal of Social Work, 29, 303-320.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Wheal, A., (1998) Using External Audit to Review Ethnically Sensitive Practice, Journal of Clinical Effectiveness, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp 2-5.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Wheal, A., (1998) Analysis of the External Audit on Ethnically Sensitive Practice, Journal of Clinical Effectiveness, Vol. 3, No. 1. pp 6-9.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (1996), Race Equality and Information Technology in Europe in Computers in Human Services, Vol. 12(½), Haworth Press, New York, pp. 37-52.
Publications - Edited Works
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (2025), Rights, Knowledge and Skills for Intersectional Social Work in Bernard, C., Firmin, C., and Keating, K., International Handbook on Intersectionality and Social Work, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (2021) Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young refugees – children and young people alone in the UK in a pandemic in Turner, D. (Editor), Social Work and Covid-19: lessons for education and practice, Critical Publishing, ISBN: 9781913453619, pp. 23-33.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., and Price, D., (2016) Evaluation of Serious Case Reviews and Anti-racist practice in Williams, C. and Graham, M. (Eds), Social Work in a diverse society: transformative practice with ethnic minority communities, The Policy Press, pp. 217-228.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (2015) Culturally appropriate interventions in Social Work, International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, pp. 516-522. Elsevier, 2nd Ed., Vol. 5, pp. 516-522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8/2803-9.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Bailey, C., (2010), Teaching and learning about ‘race’ and racism, in Burgess, H. and Carpenter, J. (eds.) The outcomes of social work education: developing evaluation methods, SWAP Monograph. pp.53-62.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (2009) Consolidating values in post-qualifying practice. In Higham, P. (ed.), Post-qualifying social work practice, Sage. pp. 22-33.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (2009) Practice education and enabling others. In Ruch, G. (ed), (2009), Post-qualifying child care social work – developing reflective practice, Sage.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (2003) Tutoring Overseas and Home Students. In Dominelli, L. and Thomas Bernard, W. (eds.) Broadening Horizons: international exchanges in social work, Ashgate, pp 147-161.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., Borrill, W., Dominelli, L., Richards, S. and Waldman, J., (2000) Developing partnerships in social work education in Britain. In Callahan, M., Hessle, S. with Susan Strega (Eds.), Valuing the field: child welfare in an international context, Ashgate/CEDR, Aldershot, pp 191-210
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (1996), Developing an anti-racist social work curriculum, in Educating for Social Work: Arguments for Optimism, Ford, P. and Hayes, P., (Eds.) Avebury, Aldershot, pp 114-127.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (1996) Race Equality and Information Technology in Europe. In Human Services in the Information Age, Rafferty, J. Steyaert, J., Colombi, D. (Eds.), (1996), The Haworth Press, Inc., New York, pp 37-52.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (1994) Asian Women and Violence from Male Partners. In Working with Violence, Lupton, C. and Gillispie, T. (Eds), Basingstoke, BASW/Macmillan, pp 75-95.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (1994) Partnership with black and minority ethnic communities – services for children under eight. In Partnership in Practice, Buchanan, A. (Ed). Aldershot, Avebury, pp 49-59.
International Conference Papers
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and N’gandu, B. (2016), CSE: learning from the UK for European Social Workers, European Conference for Social Work Research, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, March 2016.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. (2013), Child Care in Pakistan, Poster Presentation to the European Conference on Social Work Research, Finland, March 2013.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K. and Sutcliffe, C. (2012) What Factors Determine the Placement of Children in Care? An International Review, Paper to the International Conference on Social Work and Social Development, Stockholm, Sweden, 9 July 2012.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K and Sutcliffe, C. (2012) What determines the Out-of-Home Placement of Children in the USA, Paper to the International Conference on Social Work and Social Development, Stockholm, Sweden, 9 July 2012.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (2008), Information technology: the past and future effects of social work, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (May 1998), Valuing the Field – the challenge of partnerships, Canada/Europe Community Program for Cooperation in Higher Education and Training, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (July 1999), An examination of globalisation in relation to welfare, social work values and teaching and learning, Joint World Congress of the International Federation of Social Workers and the International Association of Schools of Social Work, Canada.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (July 1996), An analysis of the external audit process, Joint World Congress of the International Federation of Social Workers and the International Association of Schools of Social Work, Hong Kong.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (July 1994), Developing an anti-racist social work curriculum, International Conference of IASSW (International Association of Schools of Social Work), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Bhatti-Sinclair, K., (June 1993) Race equality and information technology in Europe, International Conference of HUSITA (Human Services Information Technology Applications), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Positions on International, National Bodies and Journals
- Chair, International Association of Schools of Social Work Committee on Human Rights, Social Justice, and Global Solidarity.
- Member of the NIHR Kent, Surrey and Sussex ARC Executive Group
- Research Inclusion Lead, NIHR ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Board Member of the International Association of Schools of Social Work
Chair/Trustee of the Joint Universities Social Work Association Committee and International Committee - Steering Group, NIHR Research Engagement Network, Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- NIHR Kent, Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network Social Care Advisory Group
- Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde
- Co-Editor-in-Chief, Child Abuse Review, Wiley Publishers.
- Board of Governors, Association of Child Protection Professionals (AoCPP)
- Kent Research Partnership Study Social Care Steering Group
- Social Work Education Anti-Racist Education Group, England (SWEARN). Co-ordinator and chair of a network of 60 plus senior social work academics working across the UK and overseas, principal social workers and BASW staff.
