Philip Archard

Associate Lecturer

Dr Philip Archard is an Associate Lecturer on the Professional Doctorate in Advanced Practice and Research: Social Work and Social Care. He is a clinical-academic actively engaged in research in the fields of child welfare and mental health, with specific interests in practitioner enquiry in health and social care, psychoanalytic epistemology in qualitative research, and child/youth adversity and mental health. A social worker by background, alongside his work at the Tavistock, Dr Archard has a practice role in child and adolescent mental health in Leicester and is the Specialty Lead for Health Services Research for the National Institute for Health and Care Research East Midlands Clinical Research Network.