Dr. Catherine Phillips

Selected Publications:

• Phillips C., Powell E., Camargo Plazas P., Costa IG. (2026). Living with hard-to-heal wounds: A global health challenge explored through analytic sketches. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 10.1177/13634593251407058
• Phillips, C. (2025). ‘Lifestyle’ as the new wayward: child welfare, sexual exploitation and young people. European Social Work Research. https://doi.org/10.1332/27551768Y2025D000000045
• Phillips, C., &  Eastman, L.-A. (2025). Social media and digital boundaries: a shift in therapeutic practice.  Mental Health and Digital Technologies, https://doi.org/10.1108/MHDT-10-2024-0029
• Phillips C., Powell E. (2025). Seeing the data again, for the first time: the use of drawings in archival research. Qualitative Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-02-2025-0071
• Phillips, C., & Aenishaenslin, A. (2023). Epistemological ruptures: Digital presence and group work. Groupwork, 30(2), 38–53. https://doi.org/10.1921/gpwk.v30i2.1741
• Costa, I., Phillips, C., Spadoni, M., Botros, M., Camargo-Plazas, P. (2021). A knowledge mobilization project. Wounds Care Canada, 19(2).
• Phillips, C. (2020).  Where has vulnerability gone?  Qualitative Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020973316

• Phillips, C. (2019). A significant solidus:  punctuating sexual exploitation with discretionary practices.  Child & Family Social Work,  https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12640
• Phillips, C., MacNab, C. & Loewen, L. (2018). Advance care planning and chronic kidney disease: What do patients know and what do they want?  Nephrology Nursing Journal, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30585708
• Phillips, C. (2018).  Quality of life in the contemporary politics of healthcare: ... but what is a life? Journal of Aging Studies, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2017.11.001
• Phillips, C.  (2017). The Computer Social Worker: regulatory practices, regulated bodies and science.  Qualitative Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325017723700
• Phillips, C. (2014). ‘Seeing the child’ beyond the literal: Considering dance choreography and the body in child welfare and protection. British Journal of Social Work, 44(8). https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct070
• Phillips, C. (2012). The constitutive nature of vital signs: an examination of the sociality of technology in medicine. Qualitative Inquiry,18(10). https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800412456963
• Phillips, C. (2012). Mutual humanization: A visual exploration of relationships in medical care. Journal of Medical Humanities, 33(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-012-9175-7
• Phillips, C. & Bellinger, A. (2011). Feeling the cut: Exploring the use of photography in social work education. Qualitative Social Work,10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325010361999
• Phillips, C. & Shaw, I. (2011). Innovation and the practice of social work research. British Journal of Social Work, 41(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr072