Social Work

Leona Vaughn analyses how the UK’s 2024 racist riots, masked as efforts to 'protect children,' expose the racialised nature of terrorism in British policy and public perception.…Read more

Kate Butterby and Nancy Lombard examine how technology can be a useful tool to support women who are subjected to domestic abuse, by being experienced as private, unintimidating and non-judgemental.…Read more

Deborah Hadwin and Gurnam Singh suggest that diverse strategies to counter systemic injustices can create a supportive environment for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, challenging marginalising narratives.…Read more

Henrik Karlsson examines how Foucauldian theory views power in social work as influencing client behaviour and productively reshaping conduct, exemplified by interventions targeting sex workers since the mid-1800s.…Read more

Malcolm Payne, author of 'Why Social Work is Important', shows how social work stitches up the social fabric of people’s personal, family and community lives and gives them the solidarity to live as human beings.…Read more

Check out our curated list of must-read open access books and articles across the social sciences for your summer reading. …Read more

Zacharoula Kasseri calls for care-oriented advocacy to be promoted as an approach for healing substance addiction, rather than the neoliberal tendencies of medicalisation, criminalisation and the war on drugs ideology. …Read more

As the United Kingdom approaches the general election, this reading list examines some of the core areas shaping the election discourse.…Read more

Kris Clarke shatters the Nordic myth of egalitarian, inclusive and progressive societies. As trust in the Finnish welfare state plummets, some social workers are at the forefront of reimagining what a caring society could be.…Read more

Rosalind Edwards, Val Gilles and Sarah Gorin consider parents’ response to predictive analytics being used to decide whether police or social workers should intervene on an anticipatory basis.…Read more