Biography
I am an Early Career Wellcome Fellow and Research Associate in the Applied Social Science Group at the University of Cambridge. My current mixed-method project explores mental health service provision for young people who have experienced sexual violence. I am also the qualitative led on the NIHR-funded COACHES study which explores young people with social work involvement's experiences of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. I specialise in co-produced research with lived experience researchers on sensitive topics. I have previously focused on gender and age-related equity issues in end-of-life care and diverse older people's experiences of loneliness and social isolation. I work across the areas of public health, sociology and medical anthropology.
Research
Specialise in co-produced health research and am currently developing guidelines around best practice for emotional support for lived experience researchers working on sensitive topics. Theoretically, I am interested in the lived experience of bureaucratised care and particularly ways in which young people and their families attempt to navigate these systems.
Publications
Morgan, T., Crozier-Roche, F., Graham, D., Smith, J., Drayak, T., Mary, S., Cossar, J., Parker, P., Coughlan, B., Hood, R., Mannes, J. Hutchinson, D., Duschinsky, R. (2025) The social must be stabilised: How are the social needs of young people with social work involvement characterized in their mental health case notes https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118052
Morgan, T., Crozier-Roche, F., Drayak, T., Smith, J., Graham, D., Marshall, N., Mannes, J., & Duschinsky, R. (2024). Addressing the mental health needs of children with a social worker Paediatrics and Child Health 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paed.2024.08.003
Morgan, T., Pilimatalawwe, D., Morgan, K., Duschinsky, R., Gott, M., Wiles, J. (2024) ‘Assessing my risk and that of my whanau is my right’: A longitudinal media analysis of risk and COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa, New Zealand news media Health, Risk & Society, 26(5-6), 282–300. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2024.2372097
Mannes, J., Coughlan, B., Yoon, Y., Morgan, T., Drayak, T., Crozier-Roche, F., Smith, J., Graham, D., Fraser, B., Hutchinson, D., Geoghegan, L., Hood, R., Woolgar, M., Broadbent, M., Chakravarti, P., & Duschinsky, R. (2024). A call for change: Tackling inequalities in access to mental health support for children with social work involvement and those living in poverty University of Cambridge and National Children’s Bureau. https://www.ncb.org.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/files/240813%20A%20call%20for%20change%20-%20COACHES%20report.pdf
Gibbs, J., Coughlan, B., Morgan, T., Mikushnica, A., Phippard, S., Crozier-Roche, F., Drayak, T., Graham, D., Smith, J., & Duschinsky, R. (2024). Social Workers’ Perceptions of the Nature of Child Neglect: A Systematic Literature Review. The British Journal of Social Work, bcae102. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae102
Morgan, T., Duschinsky R., Barclay S. (2022) Dispensing care?: The dosette box as a low-fi technology within older people’s end-of-life caregiving practices Sociology of Health and Illness 44:745–763.
Morgan, T., Duschinsky, R., Gott, M., Barclay, S. (2021) Problematising carer identification: A narrative study with older partner’s providing end-of-life care SSM Qualitative Research in Health 1(100015): 1-9.
Teaching and Supervisions
Applied Social Science Metholodgies, Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology, Psychology of the Family
Other Professional Activities
Tessa teaches across the areas of sociology, medical anthropology, intersectionality, gerontology and health services. She specialises in participatory and cross-cultural research approaches that use qualitative methods including interviews, focus groups and media analyses.
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