2024
The general award winner 2023 is Daniel Gredig et al. from University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland with the article titled Digitalising qualitative social research? On the potential of digital features to enhance data collection in qualitative research: the example of a virtual reality serious game in a qualitative research project published in European Social Work Research 2023.
https://doi.org/10.1332/GIJN1218
The doctoral award winner 2023 is Ida Bring Løberg and Cathrine Egeland from Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo Norway, with the article titled ‘You get a completely different feeling’ – an empirical exploration of emotions and their functions in digital frontline work. The article is published in European Journal of Social Work 2023.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2021.2016650
2023
General Award: ‘Digital Relationality, Rights, Resilience: Conceptualising a Digital Social Ecology for Children’s Birth Family Relationships When in Care or Adopted’ Mandi MacDonald
https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac140
Doctoral Award: ‘Agile Emotion Practices: Findings from an Ethnographic Study of Children and Families Social Work’ Louise O'Connor
https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac051
2022
General Award: ‘Social work and child protection for a post-pandemic world: the re-making of practice during COVID-19 and its renewal beyond it’ Harry Ferguson, Laura Kelly, Sarah Pink
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02650533.2021.1922368
Doctoral Award: The research circle as a strategy for developing knowledge about children’s participation in child welfare service Merete Tunestveit
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2020.1838449
2020
General Award: ‘Growing Older in Social Work: Perspective on Systems of Support to Extend Working Lives—Findings from a UK Survey’. Dr Paula McFadden, Ulster University for the article
https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz165
Doctoral Award:Service users' perspectives of social treatment in social service departments in Israel: Differences between standard and poverty‐aware treatments’ Dr. Aila Brand Levi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, for the article ‘
https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13099
2019
General Award: ‘Findings from a longitudinal qualitative study of child protection social workers’ retention: job embeddedness, professional confidence and staying narratives’ The British Journal of Social Work, advance internet edition Kenneth Burns, Alastair Christie and Siobhan O’Sullivan (2019)
‘https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz083
Doctoral Award: ‘Child Welfare Inequalities in a Time of Rising Numbers of Children Entering Out-of-Home Care. British Journal of Social Work’. pp.1-17 Elliott. M. 2019 https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz154
2018
General Award: ‘The contested concept of vulnerability – a literature review’, European Journal of Social Work, DOI: Elina Virokannas, Suvi Liuski & Marjo Kuronen (2018)
No Doctoral winner in this year
2017
General Award: "You won't take away my children!" Families' participation in Child Protection. Lessons since best practice” Children and Youth Services Review, 82, 214-221. Serbati,(2017).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740917304826
Doctoral Award“Engaging parents with parenting programmes: relationship building in initial telephone calls” awarded to Jon Symonds, University of Bristol, UK https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx074
2016
Doctoral Award: 'How do social work novices and experts solve professional problems? A micro-analysis of epistemic activities and the use of evidence’ European Journal of Social Work, Prof. Dr. Christian Ghanem, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2016.1255931
2015
Doctoral Award ‘Nut clusters and crisps: Atrocity stories and co-narration in interviews with approved mental health professionals’, Sociology of Health & Illness 37(7), 2015, pp.1072-1085.Dr Lisa Morriss, Lancaster University, UK.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-9566
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