Mark Holloway

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) Economics, MA and Diploma in Social Work, Professional Doctorate (DSW) Social Work.

Organisation:

Mark works for Head First LLP as a Brain Injury Case Manager and Expert Witness

Brief Biography:

Mark began his career in the field of acquired brain injury in 1991 when he began work as a support worker with four adults with ABI. He qualified as a Social Worker in 1995. After working as an advocate for people with ABI, Mark became the Acquired Brain Injury Co-ordinator for East Sussex and Brighton and Hove. In 2001 Mark started working for Head First LLP.

Mark completed his Social Work Doctorate with the University of Sussex in 2017. His research interests include family experience of ABI, the role of the social worker with families affected by ABI, Case Management, executive impairment, community re-integration and rehabilitation and issues relating to insight.

Mark is the author of a number of peer reviewed academic articles relating to brain injury and service use as well as book chapters and a book on the family experience of brain injury. He is an Advanced Member of British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers (BABICM), the former Chair of the BABICM Training and Education Sub-Group and former elected member of the BABICM Council, a former member of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidelines writing committee for supported decision making and a member of the BABICM research group. Mark has held a National Institute of Health Research School for Social Care Research Fellowship, is a trustee of the Brain Injury Social Work Group and an Honorary Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology & Social Policy (University of Nottingham). Mark is a member of the National Mental Capacity Forum (NMCF) Leadership Group and a member of the Advisory Board of the Mental Health and Justice Project, Kings College London.

Involvement with INSWABI:

Mark was appointed as an Executive Committee Member of INSWABI in 2019.