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Integrating Experiential Knowledge in Social Work Education and Research: A Necessary and Challenging Innovation Date – 12 May Speaker – Jean Pierre Wilken, Utrecht University of Applied Science, The Netherlands.
The Future of Social Care – From Problem to a Rights Based Sustainable Solution The session will focus on what a rights based future for social work in social care might look like and how it is to be achieved, particularly in the context of disabled and older people.The issue of intersectionality and the increasingly recognised role and significance of lived or living experience in taking this forward.
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.
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.
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.
Participation and empowerment are considered to be the key drivers for social innovation and social change. It helps elicit the experiences, views, aspirations and struggles of communities at the grassroots. This presentation critically unpacks the same, especially in the context of poor and marginalized communities in India.
The aim of this webinar is to discuss challenges and possibilities of co‐producing change in social work, more specifically work with homelessness.
This webinar will address this issue with presentations by practitioners and service users on their taking a lead in research Speakers Prof.Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin Co-Director for the Social Work Center for Research and Evaluation Joanne Boyne Lauren White Social workers/Researchers Prof. Brian Littlechild Prof. Social Work
Very excited to be one of the recipients of the IASSW International Project which allowed me to have a great network and do impactful research. Being a member of this large professional network allowed me to update and contribute to the profession in many ways.
IASSW helps social work faculty worldwide to keep abreast of international social work education developments
and provides faculty with multiple ways to get involved in cross national education and research initiatives and funding opportunities.
