Everyone has the right to seek safety – World Refugee Day
Observing the world refugee day
Date – 28th June 2022
Panelists – Dr George Palyttil, Dr Dina Sidhva, Dr Timo. Moderator – Janet Walker
Inter-generational Solidarity – Webinar
A discussion with experts on creating a world for all ages, building back better from the pandemic leveraging all generations.
Mending Gaps with Asylum Seeker communities to Achieve Change
Mend the Gap is an established approach for working in partnership with people in communities who often feel most excluded from services and support. In this session we will share our experiences of working in partnership with adults who have no recourse to public funds in the UK and no rights to employment. We will also be sharing experiences of working in partnership with young unaccompanied young people and together, critically explore the effectiveness of this approach by placing focus on changed outcomes and the impact of people power.
Gap-mending as a Critical and reflective Practice
Involving service users in social work education raises questions related to relations of power and inequality. It raises questions about which agents who possess the right to take part in the creation of knowledge within social work education and on which terms.
From our perspective service user involvement in social work education requires, that the competences and knowledge that service users hold is recognized as important as the academic knowledge presented by teachers by the institution. We are working to create spaces where the knowledge held by service users is applied in the education and is recognized and valued. Thereby we are also working to empower service users.
The basis for this is the so-called Mobilization Course where Students and service users are learning from each other and develope joint projects. This course is at the same time the platform for employing service users in the supervising of students on different levels in the education.
We will present the theoretical perspectives that have formed the basis for this development. We will explain how the Mobilization course is a prerequisite for and constitutes a frame for the recruitment and employment of service user representatives as lecturers and supervisors in other parts of the social work education. This means that service user participation and experience-based knowledge has been institutionalized within the social work education in Lund.
Cecilia Heule and Tabitha Wright Nielsen are teachers and researchers at the School of Social Work, Lund University, Sweden. They have a long experience of developing methods of inclusive practice in social work education and research.
World Day of Social Justice 2023 – Some sources for Social Work Educators (February 2023)
This World day of Social Justice IASSW/HRSJ committee brings to you a list of resources for all social work students and educators . We have identified a sample of sources in relation to social work and social justice. We acknowledge these may not be accessible to some educators and schools of social work, for example, because of language, because of cost. However, we have tried to present a broad range of sources and identify some sources which are available online for free.
Service Users and Academics Collaborators, not Competitors in Welfare Research
The importance of actively involving users of welfare services in research has increasingly gained ground in both public policy documents and the academic literature. User involvement is increasingly considered a precondition to obtain external funding for research projects. The discussion about service user involvement in research should primarily be transformed into a debate about forms of collaboration and how user involvement and co -research could be implemented in ways where both researchers and users could benefit and further improve the development of welfare services.
Make Mental Health for all a Global Priority
The theme for 2022’s World Mental Health day was “Make Mental Health for all a Global Priority”. IASSW hosted a fireside chat with mental health specialists. The chat was moderated by Ms. Janet Saldanha, Counselling Psychologist (India). The guests for the chat were David Rose, Associate Prof., The University of Melbourne and Christos Panagiotopoulos, Prof-Child & Adolescent Mental Health Research & Practice, University of Nicosia (Cyprus). The discussions were spun around Drug or substance abuse, adverse effects of family violence, different types of trauma, and social work in mental health. The enriching discussions motivated the participants to contribute their experiences and insights related to the above-mentioned topics.
Opening Video from SWESD2022
The SWESD 2022 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REDEFINING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN A POST-PANDEMIC SOCIETY: SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS.