Angelique Day, PhD, MSW is a Senior Academic Leader at the Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education in the Department. She is also has a part-time position as a Professor, Social Work, at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Her research focuses on children’s social care, particularly care leavers pursuing higher education, children and young people’s participation and engagement in case planning and permanency, kinship care, foster and adoptive parent preparation and support, and Indian Child Welfare. She has done extensive work in translating research to inform public policy decision-making. All of this work to date has been conducted in the United States.
Angelique has published 13 book chapters and 112 peer reviewed journal articles and has been the Principal Investigator on more than 20 funded research studies worth $9,975,700 USD since initially entering academia as a researcher/professor.
She is also the founder of the National Research Consortium on Foster Care and Higher Education (NRC FAHE). She brings together academic research, personal lived experience as a care leaver, and practice experience working on national policy in two of the three main branches of the U.S. government (Congress and the Executive Branches including the Administration for Children, Youth and Families and the National Institutes of Health) as well as direct practice experience as a child protective services worker in both state and tribal settings.