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About Ann Wheal
Ann taught in inner-city multi-racial schools and colleges between 1976 and 1991.
After leaving teaching, Ann was then involved in a research project for Hampshire Social Services and produced a guidebook for children in care. As a result of this work she was invited to carry out another research project for the University of Southampton which became known as the Dolphin Project. This work is still mentioned in research circles today. She was then offered funding by CCETSW (Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work) to write a book for carers which had been one of the recommendations from the research.
This was the start of her publishing career which now includes some 18 books and numerous chapters in books.
Between 1994 – 2007 she worked within the Faculty of Social Sciences at Southampton on various projects including an audit into the ethnically sensitive practice of 2 hospital departments and 5 GP surgeries which included feeding back to medical establishments across the country including the Royal College of Physicians and training both medical and administrative staff.
In 2002 she became a Senior Research Fellow representing the University on a variety of Government groups and projects as well as continuing to publish widely.
She also organised several conferences on Foster Care and Leaving Care and presented papers at conferences in Hong Kong, Paris, Montpellier, Jerusalem and Lodz in Poland as well as at UK universities including York, Bradford, Leicester, London, Sussex and Exeter.
Since retiring from the Univesity Ann has been carrying out research meeting people who were children during WW2 as well as those who did not fight such as nurses, members of the land army, female welders and planners.
Her interests include current affairs, reading, travel and many sports including golf. She has been a volunteer in a secure unit and a governor at a special needs nursery for 9 years.
