Professor Liz Walker

Professor Liz Walker

Professor of Health and Social Work Research

+44 (0)1482 463336 | E.Walker@hull.ac.uk

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Department of Psychological Health, Wellbeing and Social Work

Related groups

  • Social Work

Summary

Professor Walker has an international research profile within the field of the sociology of health and gender and its applicability to social work.

Her expertise in the area of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa has been influential in the areas of social inequality and stigma. Her recent work focuses on the sociology of with chronic illness, specifically auto-immune conditions.

Professor Walker is Academic Lead of the Institute for Clinical and Applied Health Research (ICAHR) and lead researcher for the Social and Psychological Aspects of Research into Long-term health Conditions (SPARC) group. She is Associate Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre and Chair of the Faculty of Health Sciences Ethics Committee.

Recent outputs

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Book

Chronic illness, vulnerability and social work: Autoimmunity in the contemporary disease experience

Price, L., & Walker, L. (2015). Chronic illness, vulnerability and social work: Autoimmunity in the contemporary disease experience. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Liz Price

Journal Article

Fluctuation, invisibility, fatigue – the barriers to maintaining employment with systemic lupus erythematosus: results of an online survey

Walker, E., Price, E., & Booth, S. (2018). Fluctuation, invisibility, fatigue – the barriers to maintaining employment with systemic lupus erythematosus: results of an online survey. Lupus, 27(14), 2284-2291. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961203318808593

Liz Price

Feeling the benefit : fluctuating illness and the world of welfare

Price, E., Walker, L., & Booth, S. (2019). Feeling the benefit : fluctuating illness and the world of welfare. Disability and society, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1680346

Liz Price

'There’s no pill to help you deal with the guilt and shame’: Contemporary experiences of HIV in the United Kingdom

Walker, L. (2019). 'There’s no pill to help you deal with the guilt and shame’: Contemporary experiences of HIV in the United Kingdom. Health, 23(1), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459317739436

'My son gave birth to me': offending fathers - generative, reflexive and risky"

Walker, L. (2010). 'My son gave birth to me': offending fathers - generative, reflexive and risky?. The British journal of social work, 40(5), 1402-1418. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcp063

Research interests

Lived experience of Long Term Conditions

Palliative Care

HIV/AIDS

Marginal masculinities

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