James Reid

James Reid is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Prior to beginning his academic career at Teesside University teaching social work, James was a social work manager and then a staff development officer at a local authority. He has published extensively on local authorities and the safeguarding of children and topics related to childhood and education. This includes an interest in professionalism and how work with children and young people is shaped by policy. He was awarded the Outstanding Paper award in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. He is the co-editor of Perspectives on and from Institutional Ethnography (Emerald Publishing, 2017).