Sue Shippen

I am the Subject Director for Education and Professional Studies, Foundation Degrees in Development and Education of Children and Young people and a suite of MA Education programmes.

I joined York St John University in September 2014 as a visiting lecturer and continued my work in the field of Early Childhood Education, Care, and Safeguarding. 

Prior to joining York St John University on a more permanent basis in August 2016, I worked full-time in Integrated Services in North Yorkshire. I have developed community based services and project managed Children’s Centres including developing sustainable buildings and recruiting staff from a range of professional backgrounds. The role involved working at a strategic and operational level developing universal and targeted services with partner agencies to support vulnerable children and their families. I facilitated multi-agency team work with health, education, social care and private and the voluntary sector agencies and had responsibility for leading ‘Common Assessments’ for children and young people. During my time as a Children's centre services manager I completed the NPQICL leadership qualification. And more recently I have taken on the responsibility of managing a small team of family workers working in the early intervention, prevention, and children in need domains.