Today's view

Opening of the #ECSWR2024 Great to meet colleagues and discuss the importance of social work at this period of international strife ESWRA

The Chief Social Worker post is an exciting new leadership role in the HSE Ireland. A brilliant opportunity to inform and reform practice.

📢This is fantastic opportunity for new and existing #DHRChairs to achieve a Level 3 qualification funded by Home Office.

I have no doubt that spaces will fill quickly, apply now
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There is so much that is wrong in this case

Important that we think about extending to children the same protections as adults have from being assaulted by others - including family members. No evidence to support the worry about parent's being criminalised or children going feral! theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

The closing date for this post is Friday 19 April - still time to apply!

AAFDA has never turned a family away but for the first time in our history we have had to bring in a waiting list. Every donation, however small, will help us to support more families bereaved by domestic abuse. justgiving.com/campaign/aafda…

Independent Chair Bernie McNally welcomes the launch of the new #SBNIOnlineSafetyHub , developed in partnership with INEQE Safeguarding Group .The Hub features info for families & professionals to help keep young people stay safer and supported . OnlineSafetyHub.SafeguardingNi.org

📢This online course from Professor Alan Marshall School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh will introduce key social debates that flow from demographic change and techniques to analyse demographic data.

Sign up here 👇
ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.…

Proud of this, though don't claim credit as work was all down to Nell Warner.
Gendered practice was the topic of my PhD- fieldwork done 27 years ago, but the same problems still there.
Powerful new quantitative evidence here.

🚨JOB🚨 we are advertising for one permanent lectureship in British politics at P&IR Edinburgh. Join a large, friendly, impactful & pluralist research cluster and department in one of the loveliest cities in the world, even when it rains.

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHD936/lec…

Loads on at The University of Edinburgh this week if you are into cultural heritage! All events are free, and open to everyone. Great programme! #Edinburgh

Great to get my copy of Free Loaves on Fridays. Few tickets left for Rebekah Pierre online talk on the book in May: eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-loaves-…

#OverTheMoon : our #OpenAccess article 'Starting a conversation about racism with teenagers' is listed as 'Editors' Choice' for European Social Work Research Journal. Timely as we -Niamh Flanagan & Wesley College Dublin- finalise our #Impact study for #ECSWR . UCDSocialPolWorkJust #ContinuingTheConversation

Our report exploring the experience of social workers supporting 16 - 17 years is now available.

As this age group are eligible for support via both CP and ASP; a table is included as a practical tool to view the processes side by side.

Info at: iriss.org.uk/16to17

Come and work with us - or tell your friends!

Sociology at Edinburgh School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh is hiring a permanent Lecturer in Computational Sociology

*Deadline 9th May*

Job post: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Job Klaxon The University of Edinburgh! Lecturer in Computational Sociology. Particularly, expertise in computational text analysis methods applied to social scientific research questions and in digital data sources and the analysis of ‘big data’. Please share! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

With Sveinung Sandberg, we have delved into the narrated emotions of femicide perpetrators in 7 Latin American countries to show that embodied emotions are key to understanding the scale of femicide in the region: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… & CRIMLA project crimeinlatinamerica.com

Relational and communication skills of social workers are important aspects that contributed to perception of effectiveness of child welfare services.