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Read the interview with the title image author HERE.

Publication

Austerity, social work and welfare policies: a global perspective

2019-07-08

Published in June this year this book examines the impact of the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis on social work and welfare systems.

It outlines a new environment of austerity where reduced government commitment to tackling inequality and poverty is accompanied by increasingly punitiv...

Event

VIII International Conference of Sociology and Social Work:

2019-06-25

The challenges of Democracy: Making Society in Times of Individualization

20-22 November 2019 Porto and Coimbra, Portugal

The Challenges of Democracy in the Present Time
Making Society as an alternative to Social Complex Problems

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Conference

ECSWR 2020 Bucharest abstract submission OPEN!

2019-06-14

ECSWR 2020 will be hosted by The Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest.

Social work research encompasses a rich mix of methodologies and underpinning epistemologies. How does this diversity lead to innovation in social work practice, policy and social developmen...

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Conference

Call for bids to host European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR) 2022 and 2023

2019-06-10

The European Conference of Social Work Research (ECSWR) is the major annual event of the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA). The conference has taken place since 2011 and is highly regarded amongst social work researchers across Europe, as an important annual event for sharing rese...

Event

5th International Conference on Practice Research 25th - 27th of May 2020.

2019-06-04

The conference titled -practice Meets Research- will be hosted by the Department of Social Work at the University of Melbourne on our Parkville Campus.

This conference the aims to bring together practice researchers to collaborate, innovate, and celebrate p...

SIG

Mental Health SIG is Launched!

2019-05-16

The Mental SIG met for its inaugural business meeting at the ECSWR Conference in Leuven, Belgium. We believe that SIG has a lot of potential and we discussed some of the ways to realise that potential in the meeting. The plan we discussed is to:

1. Organise pre-c...

Event

SOCIAL WORK CONFERENCE UNIBZ - call for contributions

2019-05-16

Dear colleagues,

the twentieth anniversary of the degree programme in Social Work at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (South Tyrol – Italy) is an occasion for a reflexive assessment of the status quo, to discuss recent research findings, to develop new perspectives for social work...

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ESWRA Members Expertise Register

2019-05-14

As members, you may be the connection that others are looking for. The Resources Development Group has developed an online register where members can find colleagues who might share the same research interests and who has published in their field. We would like to invite you to add your details t...

Publication

Human rights, social justice and social work research - Call for papers

2019-04-24

Deadline June 1st 2019

The European Journal of Social Work invites you to contribute to a Special Issue of the European Journal of Social Work, on ‘Human rights, social justice and social work research’. This Special Issue will bring together a set of pape...

Event

Humanism and ethics in social work

2019-03-25

Humanism and ethics in social work:7th National Congress of Social Work

with international participation

Faculty of social work, University of Ljubljana in cooperation with

the Slovenian Ass...

Conference

THE NORDIC BALTIC DOCTORAL NETWORK IN SOCIAL WORK (NBSW)

2019-02-25

11th Summer School August 26th -30th, 2019 Riga, LATVIA

Measuring Outcomes of Social Work

Hosted by the University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Science

The Nordic-Baltic Doctoral Network in Social Work (NBSW) is a joint network ...

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EU funding information

2018-10-03

As part of our information sharing commitment ESWRA has collated the main funding opportunities currently available for social work researchers. These programmes are implemented through the Multiannual Financial Framework for the period 2014 -2020.

An overview of the main funding opportunit...

Conference

Human Rights on Trial

2019-05-14

Emilio Jose Gomez Ciriano, an ESWRA Board member, published this article in 2016 that may be of interest: ‘Human Rights on trial: a diachronic and comparative perspective on the situation of social rights in five European countries’ available to download free here: Continue reading »