Welcome to Safeguarding Adults!  This is a 20 credit module at Masters Level taught over 4 full days.

Teaching staff:

Karl Mason is a Registered Social Worker who qualified as a social worker in 2002 and worked in Local Authorities and the NHS and in both the UK and Ireland for 15 years until joining Royal Holloway in 2017.  At Royal Holloway, he is a Lecturer and a Programme Lead for the BSc Social Science.  His teaching mainly focuses on adult social care law, policy and practice and his research focuses on inter-disciplinary issues in social care (homelessness and social work, cooperative working in self-neglect), marginalised communities in social care (LGBTQ+ communities, people experiencing homelessness) and practice issues in adult social care (working with complex disclosures re: safeguarding, working with self-neglect, working with people experiencing homelessness). 

Contact Karl: karl.mason@rhul.ac.uk (Target response time Mon-Fri 9am-5pm - within 48 hours)