Professor Neil Quinn
Head Of Department
Social Work and Social Policy
Personal statement
Neil Quinn is Professor in Social Work and Health Equity and Founding Director of the University's Centre for Health Policy. He聽is an international leader in social work and public health has been invited to be a Visiting Professor at New York and Yale Universities.
He has a particular expertise in health inequalities, human rights and citizenship and has a specific commitment to working with vulnerable groups, including people with mental health problems, asylum seekers and refugees and people experiencing homelessness.
Neil has led a number of important research and knowledge exchange programmes. He is Principal Investigator of the Horizon 2020 Citizenship, Recovery and Inclusive Society Partership, an ambitious 4-year international programme on mental health and social exclusion. He is also Principal Investigator on a national research and knowledge exchange programme on the right to health and participation. He is lead academic on a long-term programme with Barnardo's on young people's mental health. He has also recently secured two awards from the Chief Scientists Office on Covid-19: a programme on Covid-19 and mental health disparities and another on the psychosocial impact of Coronavirus social distancing on relatives of care home residents.聽
He is engaged in a number of key national policy roles, including the Scottish Government's Covid-19 Mental Health Advisory Group, lead academic on Public Health Scotland's Covid-19 Inclusion Health Group and the Scottish National Action Plan (SNAP) human rights group on health and social care. He has also been engaged in a range of high-profile international work as an advisor to the World Health Organisation on mental health rights, co-author of Public Mental Health: Global Perspectives and the UNCRC Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children Handbook. He leads collaborations with Yale on health citizenship and New York University on social work and public health.聽聽
He is committed to working in partnership with service users and communities and has 25 years鈥� experience in social work, community development and public health at a local, national and international level. He has led a major community development and health programme in one of Europe鈥檚 areas of highest deprivation, chaired the national Sanctuary programme working with asylum seekers and refugees and is on the steering group of People鈥檚 Health Movement Scotland. He is also a co-founder of the Declaration health and human rights arts festival.
Publications
- Kapilashrami Anuj, , Das Abhijit
- (2025)
- , , ,
- European Conference for Social Work Research (2025)
- Van Bortel Tine, Wickramasinghe Nuwan Darshana, Treacy Samantha, Khan Nashi, Ouali Uta, Sumathipala Athula, Svab Vesna, Nader Doaa, Kadri Nadia, Monteiro Maria Fatima, , , Van Audenhove Chantal, Lasalvia Antonio, Bonetto Chiara, Thornicroft Graham, van Weeghel Jaap, Brouwers Evelien
- BMJ Open Vol 14 (2024)
- Doherty Robyn, , , Tucker Amy, Cameron Julie
- Evaluation Vol 28, pp. 466-483 (2022)
- , Ashton Julian
- Journal of Public Mental Health Vol 21, pp. 93-94 (2022)
- , , , Harrison-Millan Hilary, Black Karen, , Rowe Michael, O'Connell Maria
- Health and Social Care in the Community Vol 30 (2022)
Teaching
Neil's primary teaching interests are in:
- Global social work and migration
- Community work and social movements
- Health policy, especially health inequalities and mental health
Research Interests
Neil's primary research interests are in social work, health and human rights, primarily in te area of聽migration and mental health. He has a strong commitment to community-based participatory research with citizens and communities. He is leading a major research programme on the 'right to health' with marginalised groups funded by NHS Health Scotland and linked to Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights. He is also collaborating with Yale聽on聽the development of a health citizenship tool for Scotland.
Professional Activities
- Participant
- 12/3/2025
- Invited speaker
- 30/5/2024
- Participant
- 15/6/2023
- Speaker
- 15/6/2023
- Participant
- 17/11/2020
- Speaker
- 27/9/2019
Projects
- Cogan, Nicola (Principal Investigator) Parra Rodriguez, Mario (Principal Investigator) Fleming, Leanne (Principal Investigator) Quinn, Neil (Principal Investigator) Tse, Dwight (Principal Investigator) Knifton, Lee (Principal Investigator) McCann, Lisa (Principal Investigator) Maguire, Roma (Principal Investigator) Smith, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Graham, Christopher Darryl (Principal Investigator) Grealy, Madeleine (Principal Investigator) Stephen, Susan (Principal Investigator) Weir, Natalie Mcfadyen (Principal Investigator) Donnachie, Craig (Principal Investigator) Cameron, Julie (Principal Investigator) Kane, Tony (Co-investigator) Lakey, Trevor (Academic) Donovan, Kevin (Fellow)
- This Engage with Strathclyde event is aimed at all those with an interest in mental health including people with lived experience, NHS and social care personnel and staff, occupational health and human resource management staff, student support services, university student and staff, academics, private and public sector and other personnel interested in mental health research and knowledge exchange.
- 12-Jan-2023 - 12-Jan-2023
- Quinn, Neil (Principal Investigator) Knifton, Lee (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- Morse, Tracy (Principal Investigator) Beattie, Tara (Co-investigator) Davidson, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Henderson, Marion (Co-investigator) Morton, Alec (Co-investigator) Quinn, Neil (Co-investigator) Sosu, Edward (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2027
- Bedford, Tim (Principal Investigator) Corrigan, Damion (Co-investigator) Dunlop, Mark (Co-investigator) Egan, Kieren (Co-investigator) Fleming, Leanne (Co-investigator) Flowers, Paul (Co-investigator) Grealy, Madeleine (Co-investigator) Hoskisson, Paul (Co-investigator) Hunter, Iain (Co-investigator) Janssen, Xanne (Co-investigator) Kirk, Alison (Co-investigator) Knifton, Lee (Co-investigator) Lenhart, Otto (Co-investigator) Maguire, Roma (Co-investigator) Morton, Alec (Co-investigator) Quinn, Neil (Co-investigator) Scott, Fraser (Co-investigator) Suckling, Colin (Co-investigator) Ward, Andrew (Co-investigator) Williams, Lynn (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 16-Jan-2021
- Quinn, Neil (Principal Investigator) Hafford-Letchfield, Trish (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2020
- Quinn, Neil (Principal Investigator) Knifton, Lee (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2022
Contact
Professor
Neil
Quinn
Head Of Department
Social Work and Social Policy
Email: neil.quinn@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8652