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Denham Macdougall was born near Helensburgh on the Firth of Clyde in 1950. He was educated at a public school in the Perthshire countryside and studied English and philosophy at the University of Strathclyde. The first 15 years of his career were spent in the engineering industry in London, mainly with London Transport’s workshop, where they make components for the Underground system’s rolling stock. He was drawn towards industrial relations and held a number of elected posts with the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. In 1988 he relocated to Scotland with his Anglo-Argentine wife Susan, where they settled in rural Lanarkshire. A vacancy with a community development project in Blantyre near Glasgow saw the start of his career with the Social Work Department.
In 1996, after a two-year diploma course in social work at the University of Glasgow, he moved to his present job as field worker in the child care team at Shotts, Lanarkshire. Adoption, the care of children accommodated by the local authority, and addiction difficulties form much of his caseload.
Macdougall explains that: 'The reality of a social worker is far from the stereotype of a misguided do-gooder. Social work is a community-based vocation. You are right there at the coalface, helping and supporting people who often live in considerable poverty. My job answers a need in myself to do that, without occupying any high moral ground.'
Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge
Cambridge
Title
Denham Macdougall, Social Worker
Date
2000
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 100 x W 90 cm
Accession number
460
Acquisition method
on loan from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
signature
Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge
Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0JG England
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