Naomi McGookin
Doctoral Researcher and Tutor
Department of Social Work
Naomi has ten years of experience working with survivors of sexual violence in various capacities. She has spent the last eight years developing knowledge and skills to be able to better serve survivors, as well as to develop and strengthen her own resilience. Naomi graduated from GCU with a Masters in Social Work in 2018, returning the following year to begin her doctoral research. She works alongside social work service users to learn more about their experiences as non-offending carers after the discovery of child sexual abuse. Naomi is particularly interested in using participatory methodologies and research methods that centre co-production to learn more about child protection in Scotland, the effects of child sexual abuse of the family, professional identity, the role of reflexivity and social work education. Naomi has been teaching regularly on both the undergraduate and postgraduate Social Work programmes at Glasgow Caledonian University since 2019. She enjoys delivering material focused on self-compassion, reflexivity, practitioner boundaries and recovery from trauma.