Shelagh Larkin

Shelagh Larkin is a licensed independent social worker who obtained her MSW at the University of Kentucky in 1988 and then her Ph.D. in social work at the University of Kentucky in 2020. She has thirty-three years of experience in practice and social work education. Her practice experience is in the areas of mental health, child welfare, and eating disorders. For the last twenty-three years, she has been the director for field education at Xavier University. She has also been awarded several...See more

Shelagh Larkin is a licensed independent social worker who obtained her MSW at the University of Kentucky in 1988 and then her Ph.D. in social work at the University of Kentucky in 2020. She has thirty-three years of experience in practice and social work education. Her practice experience is in the areas of mental health, child welfare, and eating disorders. For the last twenty-three years, she has been the director for field education at Xavier University. She has also been awarded several grants, most notable being the Council on Social Work Education's Gero-Ed Center Curriculum Development Institute grant. See less