Miss Fern Rebecca Louise Gillon
Research Associate
Social Work and Social Policy
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Publications
- Generative AI, Critical Thinking and Social Work Practice
- Gillon Fern, Weaver Beth, Heron Gavin, Reid Fergus, Dong Feng
- Iriss Insights Iriss Insights, Vol 77 (2026)
- Working with AI: A Guide for Social Workers
- Weaver Beth, Gillon Fern Rebecca Louise
- (2025)
- Childen's rights in children's hearings : the impact of Covid-19
- Porter Robert Benjamin, Gillon Fern Rebecca Louise, Mitchell Fiona, Vaswani Nina, Young Emma
- International Journal of Children's Rights Vol 29, pp. 426-446 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-29020012
- Children's rights in children's hearings : the impact of Covid-19
- Porter Robert, Gillon Fern
- Covid 19 and Children’s Rights Research (2020)
- Inclusion as Prevention
- Gillon Fern
- (2020)
- Experiences of Virtual Children's Hearings: : A Rapid Consultation
- Porter Robert, Mitchell Fiona, Gillon Fern, Young Emma, Vaswani Nina
- (2020)
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Professional Activities
- Our Future Probation Service
- Participant
- 28/4/2025
- What do I Not Know? AI, Risk and Probation
- Participant
- 12/3/2025
- Justice Leaders Workshop: AI and Risk Decision-Making
- Organiser
- 1/11/2024
- Working with Uncertainty - Applying the Learning
- Organiser
- 25/6/2024
- Working with Uncertainty: Training in ChatGPT
- Organiser
- 18/6/2024
- Working with Uncertainty
- Organiser
- 3/6/2024
Projects
- Who knows best? Working with uncertainty
- Weaver, Beth (Principal Investigator) Belton, Ian (Co-investigator) Dong, Feng (Co-investigator) Gillon, Fern Rebecca Louise (Researcher) Heron, Gavin (Co-investigator) Lagnado, David (Co-investigator) Sanna, Greta (Researcher)
- Through interactive workshops, interdisciplinary collaboration, and structured practitioner engagement, we can influence how JSW’s interpret, trust, and act upon information when conducting risk assessments; strengthen AI literacy among practitioners; augment their critical thinking using causal modalities; support responsible and ethical use of AI. This addresses an urgent unmet need for improved professional critical thinking, AI literacy, practical/policy guidance in responsible use of AI, and critical awareness and trust in adoption of AI technologies.
Project partners are South Lanarkshire HSCP (SLHSCP), a Strathclyde Strategic partner, and Social Work Scotland (SWS), a National Professional body. While SLHSCP will directly participate in the workshops they will be key to local impact. SWS are instrumental to achieving national impact across social work and social care. - 15-Jan-2025 - 15-Jan-2026
- Young People's Research Programme Pilot
- Gillon, Fern Rebecca Louise (Principal Investigator) Vaswani, Nina (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Children's reconceptualisation of 'Justice': Expectations, Experiences, and Aspirations
- Vaswani, Nina (Principal Investigator) Gillon, Fern Rebecca Louise (Co-investigator) Lightowler, Claire (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- Experiences of Virtual Children's Hearings: A Rapid Consultation
- Porter, Robert Benjamin (Principal Investigator) Mitchell, Fiona (Co-investigator) Gillon, Fern Rebecca Louise (Co-investigator) Young, Emma (Co-investigator) Vaswani, Nina (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 03-Jan-2020
- Scottish ESRC Doctoral Training Centre DTG 2011 | Gillon, Fern Rebecca Louise
- Gillon, Fern Rebecca Louise (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2014 - 06-Jan-2018
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Contact
Miss
Fern Rebecca Louise
Gillon
Research Associate
Social Work and Social Policy
Email: fern.gillon@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted