Anna Gupta

Professor Anna Gupta is a leading academic in Social Work at Royal Holloway University of London, with over 30 years of experience in child welfare, social justice, and inequality research. She teaches at Masters and PhD levels and co-edits the ESWRA/Policy Press Research in Social Work series.

• PhD in Social Work (Royal Holloway, University of London)
• MSc in Child Protection Studies (University of Leicester)
• Bachelor of Social Work (LaTrobe University)

Her research spans child protection, poverty, migration, and participatory approaches with marginalized communities. She focuses on the Capability Approach in social work, unaccompanied migrant youth, and family court dynamics.

Recent projects include the 2024-2026 NIHR-funded study on socio-economic context in child safeguarding and the ESRC Partnership for Change RCT addressing family inequalities. She collaborates internationally with researchers in Germany and Sweden.

• Reid Research Fund Award 2024 (£1,500)
• Co-Chair of Child Welfare Inequalities Network (since 2022)
• Co-chair of Association of Professors of Social Work (2018-2021)

Her work aligns with UN SDGs, particularly in poverty reduction (Goal 1) and quality education (Goal 4). She has supervised 6 research works and published 67 outputs across 20 projects.