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 sectors 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.