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408|ESWRA SEMINAR Children's Rights in Practice|

Presentation by Professor Laura Lundy

Professor Lundy is a distinguished expert in international children's rights, serving as Professor of Children's Rights at Queen's University Belfast. Her research focuses on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education rights, and children's participation in decision-making.

In her seminal 2007 paper, '‘Voice’ is not enough,' Professor Lundy introduced a model of child participation based on four key concepts: Space, Voice, Audience, and Influence. This 'Lundy model' has been widely adopted in both scholarship and practice, influencing policies and frameworks globally.

During this interactive presentation Professor Lundy will discuss and apply her model of participation to child welfare.

SIG convenor: Dr. Paul McCafferty Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Queens University Belfast and Lead Convenor Special Interest Group: Children’s Rights in Practice along with Dr. Esther Mercado Garcia Complutense University Madrid, Wendy Eerdekens Artevelde University of Applied Sciences and Dr. Inger Sofie Dahlø Husby Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Register via google forms here: https://forms.gle/8dRJNdYZy91M2yuX9

Date: Thursday 8th May 2025

Start Time: 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST

Venue: online via the European Social Work Research Association. A link will be sent nearer the time.

If you have any issues registering please email Claire Prater, info@eswra.org

Dr. Paul McCafferty p.mccafferty@qub.ac.uk corresponding author

(On behalf of the Children’s Rights in Practice SIG: Participation, Protection, Inclusion)

Dr. Esther Mercado, Dr. Inger Sofie Dahlø Husby, Wendy Eerdekens

|2025-04-01|2|1|§412|Third EIPSIG Seminar|

Dear Colleagues

Third EIPSIG Seminar

After our successful event in Munich I am pleased to advise that we have an on- line seminar planned for:

13 MAY 2025 at 9am ETM (15.00pm CEST, 14.00pm BST)

By Professor Bruce Thyer

The Differences between Real Evidenced-Based Practice and Selecting Empirically-Supported Treatments

Abstract:

The original process model of evidence-based practice (EBP) will be described and contrasted with the research supported treatments (RSTs) initiative which designated selected interventions as meeting some evidentiary benchmark (e.g., supported by two-well-designed randomized controlled trials). Real EBP does not utilize lists of ESTs, and designating a given psychotherapy as empirically supported is actually antithetical to the EBP decision-making process. Much of the resistance to EBP within social work may be attributable to confusion between EBP as it was originally conceived as a mutual decision-making process occurring between the clinician and the client, and the promulgation of lists of ESTs and the subsequent urging that social workers select their practices, policies and programmes from such lists. The latter is not scientifically justifiable, nor does it take into account other variables crucial to EBP, such as professional values, clinical expertise, client preferences and values, and available resources. EBP as it was originally conceived has much to add to the practice of clinical social work.

More details here: EiPSIG 3rd Seminar - Invite.pdf

To register please email EiPSIG EiPSIG@hscni.net

and we will send you the link to the seminar

Best wishes Anne

Convener

Anne McGlade

Social Care Research Lead

|2025-04-08|2|0|§411|ECSWR Poster Competition|

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

|2025-04-07|3|0|§410|ESWRA Annual Awards for Outstanding Publication in European Social Work Research|

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.

|2025-04-07|6|0|§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|3|0|§404|Potential New Special Interest Group on Linguistic Diversity|

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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