To view 5 videos from social workers who have completed the Social Work and Community Development Approaches programme see
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Application forms clare.vanderveen@southerntrust.hscni.net

The closing date for the Social Work and Community Development Approaches post- graduate course is June 13 2025
For overview see youtu.be/gK7wmH7kN7g Application forms from clare.vanderveen@southerntrust.hscni.net

Delighted to play a part with my colleagues Dr Katheryn Margaret Pascoe, Dr Isy Hawthorne-Steele and Dr Moreland in UU in publishing a journal article measuring the impact of our post graduate Social Work and Community Development Approaches course on practice. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Delighted to represent Northern Ireland with Dr Isy Hawthorne Ulster University at today's international conference on the re-emergence of community social work practice organised by Kingston and Sussex Universities. Speakers from Barbados, Mauritius, Hong Kong, Spain and Luxembourg.

Video from the Irish Association of Social Workers marking the international Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

#TogetherAgainstRacism

Cultural Factors, Social Structures, and Social... : Harvard Review of Psychiatry journals.lww.com/hrpjournal/a...

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Please find link to research comparing community development (CD) undergraduate social work teaching in QUB and Otago containing tools to strengthen CD across the curriculum doi.org/10.1080/0261... Would you like a newsletter article? fergal.obrien@southerntrust.hscni.net

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Please share this international research to strengthen community development teaching in undergraduate social work. Using a structured framework comparing teaching in universities in NI and NZ the study contains practical tools to strengthen CD doi.org/10.1080/0261...

Please feel free to add any relevant #OpenAccess resources to the padlet below and share across your networks! 👇👇👇 #RadicalSocialWork #CriticalSocialWork
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Interest growing in O’Brien, F., Hawthorne-Steele, I., Pascoe, K. M., Moreland, R., Cownie, E., & Killick, C. (2023). Bridging the gap between social work and community development: implementing a post-graduate training partnership. Social Work Education, 43(8), 2218–2235. doi.org/10.1080/0261...

Congratulations to my UCD colleague Hilda Loughran and co-authors on the publication of this new article on women’s lived experiences of substance use and social work - published in Social Work Education

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to have this article published: it is based on an international policy analysis of relational & cultural continuity in foster care, focused on children from migrant background. Lead author is Milfrid Tonheim, co-authors Ketil Eide and Ala Sirriyeh:

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Join Strathclyde Uni for this free 1hr online event for World Social Work Day on Tues. "The Rise & Fall & Rise Again, of Community Social Work in the UK". Tickets still available. Looking forward to talking posts about SW!

Date: 18 mar • 12:00

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A long time in the making but delighted to have this article finally published! So much learning from writing it but also from discussions about race and racism with Black and ethnic minority social work students over many years. 🙏

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The article that Dr. Danielle Mackle, Dr. Katheryn Pascoe, and myself, comparing community development teaching in QUB and Otago has just been published. It contains practical tools to strengthen community development teaching to social workers across the curriculum doi.org/10.1080/0261...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Fergal O'Brian has been a great champion of community development in sw education. This should be well worth a read