Amanda Jefferson has a varied role within the Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences Faculty. Ensuring students are confident in their studies and obtaining relevant and interesting experiences from their placements. Having led the Foundation Year programme for a number of years she has now moved on to lead a new degree programme. The new BA (Hons) Education, Mental Health and SEND programme has been introduced to help the growing need for specialists within the education and family support sector.  

Clarrie is Deputy Head of School for Children, Young People and Families, where she supports all elements of the teaching and learning, students’ engagement and partnerships with employers. Clarrie leads the Foundation Degree in Early Years Leadership and Professional Practice (Level 6 top up), which are work-based pathways to gaining a degree. These programmes are also franchised to Barnsley College, where Clarrie is a lead academic link for the partnership. Having undertaken a degree in Early Childhood Studies, Clarrie has also completed a MA in Early Childhood Education, EYP, PGCE and an Educational Doctorate from the University of Sheffield. Clarrie is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Currently, Clarrie is engaged in research regarding awareness of children, young people and tinnitus amongst Educational Professionals, which is in collaboration with Dr James Jackson, a Reader in Psychology at Leeds Trinity University. 

Before joining Leeds Trinity University in 2015 Clarrie held a number of positions within early educational settings. She worked as a Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Early Years Practice. Clarrie has also worked in Australia supporting the implementation of a new Australian early years curriculum. Clarrie worked as an Early Years Consultant in which she had the responsibility to support the implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum with Bolton Local Authorities Early Years and Childcare team. This involved working with private, voluntary and independent settings, especially those with provisions for children from birth to three years old. 

Lyndsey joined LTU in 2024 as a Senior Lecturer, having previously worked as a visiting lecturer at the University, and taught in the university provision of a Further Education College. Previous professional practice supporting children, young people and families informs Lyndsey’s teaching and she believes that care and compassion are important qualities for anyone working with children, young people and families. 

Lyndsey has held several roles that involved working with children and families in various settings.  This has included working in a therapeutic residential setting for six years supporting young people in long-term care. Lyndsey then worked as a senior practitioner in the early intervention and parenting team, a role which involved provided support to children aged 5-13 and their families, in a multi-agency context, including education. Lyndsey also worked as a senior practitioner for a local authority parenting team running groups, including the strengthening families programme which involved a group with young people. Lyndsey moved into teaching further education. During this time she gained a PGCE and MA in Education.  

Rosie Galbraith is a Senior lecturer and qualified Social Worker with a background in working with children, young people and families. Since qualifying as a Social Worker in 2014, Rosie has worked in the statutory and voluntary sector across a variety of areas including child protection, looked after children, leaving care, and fostering.

Throughout her career Rosie has specialised in supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and has worked across the Yorkshire and Humber region to recruit and support foster carers for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Rosie has supported local authority children’s services departments to develop their service provision for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children through the design and delivery of specialised training in addition to quality assurance and policy development. Rosie has also delivered guest lectures on supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to universities across the West Yorkshire region.

Rosie’s research interests surround the needs and experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (including those who have been trafficked to the UK) and their carers, and her recent research project explored the experiences of foster carers. Rosie has shared this research in workshops with local authority children’s services departments, the Home Office and the DfE to influence policy and practice in this area.

Rosie is a member of the British Association of Social Workers and is an observer member of the Refugee and Migrant Childrens Consortium. Rosie is also a trustee of the Manuel Bravo Project, a charity which provides free legal representation to asylum seekers and refugees who cannot get legal aid. 

Rosie is a qualified stage 2 Social Work Practice Educator and prior to joining LTU Rosie worked as a Social Work Lecturer and Practice Learning Co-ordinator at Bradford College, where she led on modules relating to practice learning and international social work.