Sheila is a research analyst at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). Her main focus has been on developing the systems approach for case reviews, including serious case reviews (SCRs), of multi-agency safeguarding and child protection work. This has involved theoretical as well as practical collaborative development work, and increasingly, providing training and support to those who want to put the model into practice for themselves. Her academic background is in social anthropology with a particular focus on children and childhood. She spent several years in Indonesia working in the field of child welfare as well as conducting ethnographic fieldwork. She retains a keen research interest in the use of ethnographic methods in the field of child welfare, particularly to explore interfaces between formal knowledge and professional practice.