Ffi Evans SFHEA
@ffievans.bsky.social
Reader in Social Work Education, Lead Innovation Scholar for Belonging in Higher Education, relational practice/ pedagogy, digital inclusion, youth work, children’s and young people’s participation. Social worker. Manchester UK
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We are a cross-university institute at @manmetuni.bsky.social.
Through interdisciplinary research and engagement, we advance conceptualisation and implementation of children and young people’s rights, opportunities and wellbeing.
Learn more: www.mmu.ac.uk/institute-fo...
#ChildrensFutures
Through interdisciplinary research and engagement, we advance conceptualisation and implementation of children and young people’s rights, opportunities and wellbeing.
Learn more: www.mmu.ac.uk/institute-fo...
#ChildrensFutures
Institute for Children's Futures
Discover how we are leading the way in children’s research and shaping policy and practice for better outcomes for children.
www.mmu.ac.uk
March 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We are a cross-university institute at @manmetuni.bsky.social.
Through interdisciplinary research and engagement, we advance conceptualisation and implementation of children and young people’s rights, opportunities and wellbeing.
Learn more: www.mmu.ac.uk/institute-fo...
#ChildrensFutures
Through interdisciplinary research and engagement, we advance conceptualisation and implementation of children and young people’s rights, opportunities and wellbeing.
Learn more: www.mmu.ac.uk/institute-fo...
#ChildrensFutures
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Myself and @drleona.bsky.social have edited a new Special Collection for Critical and Radical Social Work:
'Race, Class and the Weaponisation of Child Safety'
- now available online!
Editorial here: shorturl.at/nj4O9
Links to the other papers in the thread below (almost all Open Access!) 👇
'Race, Class and the Weaponisation of Child Safety'
- now available online!
Editorial here: shorturl.at/nj4O9
Links to the other papers in the thread below (almost all Open Access!) 👇
Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety
"Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety" published on 24 Feb 2025 by Policy Press.
shorturl.at
February 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Myself and @drleona.bsky.social have edited a new Special Collection for Critical and Radical Social Work:
'Race, Class and the Weaponisation of Child Safety'
- now available online!
Editorial here: shorturl.at/nj4O9
Links to the other papers in the thread below (almost all Open Access!) 👇
'Race, Class and the Weaponisation of Child Safety'
- now available online!
Editorial here: shorturl.at/nj4O9
Links to the other papers in the thread below (almost all Open Access!) 👇
How to move beyond the trust issues? The last paragraph surely has a compelling answer…:make HE less impersonal.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 2:08 PM
How to move beyond the trust issues? The last paragraph surely has a compelling answer…:make HE less impersonal.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Lovely to see this being used Jo!
Creative participation day with level 5 SW apprentices drawing from my, @ffievans.bsky.social and Rod Kippen’s Research in Practice tool, developing child friendly child protection plans, and unpicking the barriers to confident and meaningful participation in child and family social work.
November 20, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Lovely to see this being used Jo!
Very excited to be here in the beautiful Brooks building for the launch of the Institute for Children’s Futures @manmetuni.bsky.social. This afternoon we will be sharing the work of colleagues from @scswmcrmet.bsky.social @jenfish.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Very excited to be here in the beautiful Brooks building for the launch of the Institute for Children’s Futures @manmetuni.bsky.social. This afternoon we will be sharing the work of colleagues from @scswmcrmet.bsky.social @jenfish.bsky.social
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Great new website from #digitalfutures4children and Sonia Livingstone at London School of Economics.
www.digital-futures-for-children.net/for-children...
www.digital-futures-for-children.net/for-children...
Your rights online
Curious how children's rights apply online? Here's some useful information.
www.digital-futures-for-children.net
November 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Great new website from #digitalfutures4children and Sonia Livingstone at London School of Economics.
www.digital-futures-for-children.net/for-children...
www.digital-futures-for-children.net/for-children...
November 19, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Workplace friendships amongst social workers can mitigate for sources of job stress and burnout and have a positive impact on job satisfaction, worker wellbeing and practitioners’ propensity to remain in the role. Read about it here: doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...
What is the nature and impact of workplace friendships within child protection social work? Implications for emotional support, professional learning, job satisfaction and worker wellbeing
This article explores the influence of workplace friendships on feelings of job stress, satisfaction, and wellbeing amongst a cohort of twenty-five child p
doi.org
November 17, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Workplace friendships amongst social workers can mitigate for sources of job stress and burnout and have a positive impact on job satisfaction, worker wellbeing and practitioners’ propensity to remain in the role. Read about it here: doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...
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This webinar also features David Tobis on his new research into parent advocacy, Tammy Mayes PFAN cochair and advocate, and other great speakers
Come to PFAN's webinar
Parent Advocacy: From research to doing
on Friday 29th November 4pm-6pm Online. Speakers inc. Alasdair Smith, Director of Children’s Services at Southwark Council who initiated & oversaw implementation of Parent-to-parent peer advocacy
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parent-adv...
Parent Advocacy: From research to doing
on Friday 29th November 4pm-6pm Online. Speakers inc. Alasdair Smith, Director of Children’s Services at Southwark Council who initiated & oversaw implementation of Parent-to-parent peer advocacy
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parent-adv...
Parent Advocacy: From research to doing
We will be talking about all different aspects of parent advocacy, from research to support and setting it up.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 8:29 AM
This webinar also features David Tobis on his new research into parent advocacy, Tammy Mayes PFAN cochair and advocate, and other great speakers
Come and give us a follow!!!
Our @manmetuni.bsky.social dept has an account on here @scswmcrmet.bsky.social please follow
November 19, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Come and give us a follow!!!
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Worrying findings in our latest Social Metrics Commission report. 2 million more people plunged into hardship since 2019, 260 000 children. As I say in the article, we see the consequences of this as @trusselluk.bsky.social foodbanks strive to meet soaring need. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high
Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Worrying findings in our latest Social Metrics Commission report. 2 million more people plunged into hardship since 2019, 260 000 children. As I say in the article, we see the consequences of this as @trusselluk.bsky.social foodbanks strive to meet soaring need. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Here's a starter pack on people working on Class Analysis, broadly understood. Follow these people and let me know who I am missing (including yourself)!
go.bsky.app/VTirGYT
go.bsky.app/VTirGYT
November 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Here's a starter pack on people working on Class Analysis, broadly understood. Follow these people and let me know who I am missing (including yourself)!
go.bsky.app/VTirGYT
go.bsky.app/VTirGYT
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🎓 We've made a starter pack of university policy institutes like us, and people who work for/are connected to them – do give it a follow!
We'll add to it as more institutes join, and let us know if there's anyone we should add! ⬇️
We'll add to it as more institutes join, and let us know if there's anyone we should add! ⬇️
November 19, 2024 at 1:01 PM
🎓 We've made a starter pack of university policy institutes like us, and people who work for/are connected to them – do give it a follow!
We'll add to it as more institutes join, and let us know if there's anyone we should add! ⬇️
We'll add to it as more institutes join, and let us know if there's anyone we should add! ⬇️
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I’m so excited to reveal the cover for my brand new book, Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life.
Out 17th April 2025 with Fig Tree, Penguin.
Out 17th April 2025 with Fig Tree, Penguin.
November 19, 2024 at 10:57 AM
I’m so excited to reveal the cover for my brand new book, Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life.
Out 17th April 2025 with Fig Tree, Penguin.
Out 17th April 2025 with Fig Tree, Penguin.
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November 19, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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New users? New followers? Hi!
I’m a sociologist teaching in a department of social work at a public university. I study disability policy and organizing, and I post about it and related topics. And Chicago. And Star Wars. And other stuff.
I’m in this starter pack alongside some great folks.
I’m a sociologist teaching in a department of social work at a public university. I study disability policy and organizing, and I post about it and related topics. And Chicago. And Star Wars. And other stuff.
I’m in this starter pack alongside some great folks.
October 17, 2024 at 11:25 PM
New users? New followers? Hi!
I’m a sociologist teaching in a department of social work at a public university. I study disability policy and organizing, and I post about it and related topics. And Chicago. And Star Wars. And other stuff.
I’m in this starter pack alongside some great folks.
I’m a sociologist teaching in a department of social work at a public university. I study disability policy and organizing, and I post about it and related topics. And Chicago. And Star Wars. And other stuff.
I’m in this starter pack alongside some great folks.
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In case we do, I put together a social work academic Starter Pack. I’m sure I’ve unintentionally omitted folks who are already here, but I’ll keep updating.
October 18, 2024 at 4:44 PM
In case we do, I put together a social work academic Starter Pack. I’m sure I’ve unintentionally omitted folks who are already here, but I’ll keep updating.
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Did this social work starter pack less than a week ago and it's already tripled in size. Lots of lovely people doing interesting things in the social work world. Shout me if you'd like an add!
Looks like the social work crew are starting to arrive on here, so I've had a first go at making a starter pack. Let me know if you want adding on, plenty of room for everyone! go.bsky.app/56PBom2
November 17, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Did this social work starter pack less than a week ago and it's already tripled in size. Lots of lovely people doing interesting things in the social work world. Shout me if you'd like an add!
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Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling & efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (U.S. & global) - updated w/ requests (sorry if I missed your request - inundated with notifications today) go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
November 16, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling & efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (U.S. & global) - updated w/ requests (sorry if I missed your request - inundated with notifications today) go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
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There's so many autism research (#AutRes) accounts on Bluesky that I now have two Starter Packs!
go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA
go.bsky.app/Pfbbvot
And HUGE apologies if I'm missing people. I've gone from 300 to 2k followers in a week, and my notifications are out of control 😱
go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA
go.bsky.app/Pfbbvot
And HUGE apologies if I'm missing people. I've gone from 300 to 2k followers in a week, and my notifications are out of control 😱
November 18, 2024 at 8:30 PM
There's so many autism research (#AutRes) accounts on Bluesky that I now have two Starter Packs!
go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA
go.bsky.app/Pfbbvot
And HUGE apologies if I'm missing people. I've gone from 300 to 2k followers in a week, and my notifications are out of control 😱
go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA
go.bsky.app/Pfbbvot
And HUGE apologies if I'm missing people. I've gone from 300 to 2k followers in a week, and my notifications are out of control 😱
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I've started a north of England journalists starter pack. Please do flag others for inclusion! go.bsky.app/EyHBenr
November 18, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I've started a north of England journalists starter pack. Please do flag others for inclusion! go.bsky.app/EyHBenr