Vicki Coppock
Professor
Department of social science
Edge Hill University
United Kingdom
Biography
Vicki completed a BA (Hons) Sociology at Liverpool University in 1981 and a Diploma in Psychiatric Social Work (CQSW) at the University of Manchester in 1984. She then worked as a child guidance social worker for several years. Vicki completed an MA in Crime, Deviance and Social Policy (Lancaster University) in 1990. Her dissertation topic was “Media Images of Working Class Liverpool Women: A Critical Feminist Analysis” for which she received a distinction. In 1991 Vicki was appointed Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at Edge Hill University and in 2006 she was appointed Reader in Social Sciences. Vicki’s research interests and publications focus on the critical analysis of theory, policy, legislation and professional practice in the field of mental health, with a particular emphasis on asserting a positive rights agenda for children and young people in mental distress.
Research Interest
Sociology of childhood, mental health, social work, children’s rights, social justice
Publications
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Coppock, V. (2002). Medicalising children’s behaviour. The new handbook of children’s rights–Comparative policy and practice, 139-154.
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Coppock, V., & McGovern, M. (2014). ‘Dangerous Minds’? Deconstructing Counterâ€Terrorism Discourse, Radicalisation and the ‘Psychological Vulnerability’of Muslim Children and Young People in Britain. Children & Society, 28(3), 242-256.
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Coppock, V., Haydon, D., & Richter, I. (2014). The illusions of post-feminism: New women, old myths. Routledge.
