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ECSWR 2026 Aberdeen Call for abstracts
The main theme of the 15th European Conference for Social Work Research is “Social Work and Interdisciplinary Research: researching and facilitating evidence informed practice and policy”
Researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students are invited to submit abstracts for the following types of proposal, Oral Paper Presentation, Poster Presentation, Symposium, Workshop. Abstract submission deadline is 19th September 2025
Proposal Types
- Oral paper presentations
- Poster presentations
- Symposium
- Workshop
For the full call information about the submission process and the conference and visit the ECSWR 2026 Aberdeen website, please share with your friends and colleagues. ECSWR 2026 Call PDF
|2025-05-14|1|1|§409|European Social Work Research journal|Dear ESWRA members
A very quick reminder, post conference, that the society has its very own journal, European Social Work Research, and book series, Research in Social Work, both published by Policy Press on our behalf.
European Social Work Research journal
All members have free access to the journal via the My ESWRA Login.
If you are enjoying the journal, please help us to build up its readership by recommending to your librarian. Policy Press can offer them a free three month trial.
Do remember to submit your abstracts by 30th April 2025 for the conference special issue, ‘Embracing Democracy in Social Work Practice and Research'. The issue will be guest edited by Carolin Auner, Florian Spensberger and Lars Uggerhoj.
If you are interested in reviewing for the journal please contact eswr-journal@bristol.ac.uk.
Books
We hope you enjoyed browsing Policy Press's most recent publications at the book stand. As a reminder, all of their social work books are available at 50% discount until 30th April 2025 when purchasing direct from the Policy Press website. Please enter CNF25 at checkout to claim your discount.
If you are interested in writing a book for the Research in Social Work series please get in touch with
John Gal - johngal30@gmail.com Anna Gupta - anna.gupta@rhul.ac.uk Isobel Bainton (Commissioning Editor) - isobel.bainton@bristol.ac.uk
With best wishes,
Karen Winter
ESWRA Chair
|2025-04-01|6|1|§411|ECSWR 2025 Munich Poster Competition winners|It was wonderful to see so many poster at ECSWR 2025 in Munich, As usual ECSWR attracted many high quality posters translating innovative, compelling research and complex ideas into visually engaging and intellectually stimulating posters.
We are pleased to announce the winning poster at ECSWR 2025 Poster Competition for the poster entitled: Introducing Professional Supervision into Social Services of Local Authorities in Italy: A Qualitive Study. The authors are
- Valentina Calcaterra, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano - Italy
- Maddalena Floriana Grassi, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro - Italy
- Mara Sanfelici, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
CONGRATULATIONS!
Download the PDF version here
We are delighted to announce that the winners of this year's Award for Outstanding Publication in European Social work Research based on a Doctoral Thesis are Dr. Jonathan Berg and Dr. Diletta Mauri
Jonathan Berg, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, The Netherlands
Berg J, Oldenhof L, Putters K, van Wijngaarden J. Which client is worthy of using discretion? Analysing storytelling practices of Dutch street-level bureaucrats in inter-departmental settings. Journal of Social Policy. Published online 2024:1-20. doi:10.1017/S0047279424000199
Jonathan says: I’m truly honoured to receive this prestigious award for our paper on how social workers use collective storytelling to determine who ‘deserves’ responsiveness when resources are scarce. The award means a lot to me, as it acknowledges our contribution to the field of Social Work (research), which I care about deeply. We owe the quality of our paper to the amazing efforts and contributions of social workers in Rotterdam, along with the inspiration we've drawn from both the Social Work Research community and the Narratology community. I firmly believe in the merit of interpretive research to support social workers in their roles as both policy practitioners and agents of change, and will continue to contribute to the field in the best of my ability.
Dr. Diletta Mauri, Trento University, Italy
Constructing the ‘zero family’: Breaking the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment from the perspective of care-experienced parents, Child Abuse & Neglect, Volume 153, 2024, 106855, ISSN 0145-2134, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106855, www.sciencedirect.com
Diletta says: When I received the award, I expressed my deep gratitude for this recognition from such an important organization as ESWRA. I thanked the committee for their trust in my work and everyone who has supported me throughout my research and PhD journey. In particular, I acknowledged my supervisor, Silvia Fargion, for her invaluable guidance, passion, and wisdom.
I also thanked my community of social work researchers, both in Italy and abroad, who make me feel part of a professional network that is a constant source of inspiration and encouragement.
Finally, I expressed my gratitude to the parents who participated in the research. Their stories of struggle, but above all, of courage and care for themselves and their children, have been the most meaningful and engaging part of my work. I also shared my hope that this comes through in the article that has received this important recognition.
Linguistic Diversity
I am Dr Sarah Pollock, a social work academic based at Manchester Metropolitan University, England, UK. I would like to hear from anyone who would like to join a SIG focusing on linguistic diversity, initially to meet as a group online and develop the SIG proposal for ESWRA.
My research interest is how linguistic diversity impacts all aspects of social work. I am using linguistic diversity to refer to interactions and situations where social workers, or social care providers, and recipients or potential recipients of services do not share a spoken language, usually the language of the host country. I would like to start an ESWRA Special Interest Group to share and develop research and best practice in this area.
The SIG could include research interests including but not limited to:
- work with interpreters
- language brokerage
- language policy
- linguistic diversity as a form of discrimination
- comparative approaches to linguistic diversity
- Linguistic theory in application to social work
- Linguistic diversity and coloniality, history and the global movement of people
Do please contact me via email and share this information with any social work colleagues that may be interested. I look forward to hearing from you, I’d be happy to answer any queries from interested parties– my email is S.Pollock@mmu.ac.uk
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