Ariane has over 25 years’ experience in the field of social care and social work. She qualified as a social worker in 2003 and worked in the areas of child welfare and protection, later specialising in adoption work. In 2019 Ariane completed an ESRC funded PhD in social work at the University of Edinburgh: her doctoral thesis focused on the understudied topic of pre-birth child protection and used ethnographic methods to make a practice-near study of pre-birth work. 

 Ariane is a Lecturer in Social Work (Child Protection) at the University of Stirling. She leads the Applied Professional Studies Pathway for professionals seeking a post-qualifying award in child welfare.