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Chipo Mukoki
Bio :
I am Chipo, a black African Zimbabwean/British independent social worker & child rights advocate.
I have an interest in the rights & wellbeing of children in the context of ‘family’ as a social unit. I particularly champion the rights & needs of care experienced children/young people & children born via assisted/3rd party reproduction (donor conception & surrogacy).
CURRENT RESEARCH:
I am completing a Professional Doctorate Advanced Research & Practice: social work & social care with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex, UK.
My doctorate research explores how Black prospective parents of Southern African descent experience infertility and assisted reproduction as an alternative route to building a family?
I also serve on the:
1) Council of Governors for the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
2) PROGAR: Project Group on Assisted Reproduction (a British Association of Social Workers BASW special interest group), London, UK
My work is informed by a rich multi-cultural background & over 20yrs social work practice & leadership in humanitarian contexts, specialist children’s social services & child rights advocacy in Zimbabwe, the UK & Europe. Qualified social work practice teacher with over 10yrs experience supervising & managing student placements.
I have an interest in the rights & wellbeing of children in the context of ‘family’ as a social unit. I particularly champion the rights & needs of care experienced children/young people & children born via assisted/3rd party reproduction (donor conception & surrogacy).
CURRENT RESEARCH:
I am completing a Professional Doctorate Advanced Research & Practice: social work & social care with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex, UK.
My doctorate research explores how Black prospective parents of Southern African descent experience infertility and assisted reproduction as an alternative route to building a family?
I also serve on the:
1) Council of Governors for the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
2) PROGAR: Project Group on Assisted Reproduction (a British Association of Social Workers BASW special interest group), London, UK
My work is informed by a rich multi-cultural background & over 20yrs social work practice & leadership in humanitarian contexts, specialist children’s social services & child rights advocacy in Zimbabwe, the UK & Europe. Qualified social work practice teacher with over 10yrs experience supervising & managing student placements.