Dr Andrew Burns
Associate Tutor, University of Glasgow and Research Lead, Association for Fostering, Kinship, and Adoption Scotland, United Kingdom
Email: andrew.burns@glasgow.ac.uk
Profile
Andrew Burns received his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2021. Since then, he has worked as a Research Fellow on three projects at the University of Stirling including two on residential childcare and one on separated children. He is currently the research lead for AFKA Scotland and an Associate Tutor in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. He has research interests within the broad areas of social justice and qualitative methods.
Research
Publications
Burns and Schäfer (2025) Between Plans and Realities: Reflecting on participatory research in archiving residential children’s homes in Scotland and Germany https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250251314467
Emond, Eßer, Schäfer, Buncombe, Burns, Lucas & Magee (2025) Finding traces of everyday life in unusual places: looking beyond the case files in German and Scottish residential child care https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2024.2411283
Emond, Burns, Hagan & Magee (2024) Everyday records or living archives? An analysis of record-keeping in residential children’s homes in Scotland https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2024.2381234
Lucas, Burns, Emond & Reid (2024) Digital group archives in residential childcare: an investigation into memory responsibility https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000034
Sen, Burns and Roesch-Marsh (2024) Understanding the Housing Needs of Kinship Families: A Knowledge Exchange Project https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/assets/pdf/research-projects/Kinship_care_Report_digital_2024.pdf
Burns & Emond (2023) Everyday Care: What Helps Adults to Help Children in Residential Childcare? https://www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/3/4/82
Grant, Burns & Lucas (2022) Learning in and beyond the classroom: Communities of practice in education support for separated children http://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12644