Social Work
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
Liz Loyde, author of Unpaid Care Policies in the UK, shows the role and purpose of policies on unpaid care and their place within the wider context of health and social care policies over the past three decades.…Read more