NORDIC SOCIAL WORK CONFERENCE FORSA/NOUSA 2018 21-23 NOVEMBER 2018 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, FINLAND
PROGRAM & GENERAL INFORMATION
FORSA
FÖRBUNDET FÖR FORSKNING I SOCIALT ARBETE JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY
Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki The Finnish Society of Social Work Research (Sosiaalityön tutkimuksen seura) The Nordic National Associations for Social Work Research Nordic Social Work Research (FORSA – Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete) The Nordic Association of Schools of Social Work – NASSW (NOUSA – Nordisk Organisation för utbildningar i socialt arbete)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Helena Blomberg-Kroll, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki Camilla Nordberg, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki Stina Sjöblom, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki Christian Kroll, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki Marjaana Seppänen, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki Jenny Högström, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki
2 CONFERENCE THEME
POWER AND SOCIAL WORK Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere - Michel Foucault[1]
Questions of power, powerlessness and power relationships are inherent in social work education, research and practice. While traditional power-related questions remain important, current societal developments are often altering their context and content. Changing political goals and emerging technological prerequisites may also create new issues of power in relation to social work. Examples of potentially important developments in a Nordic context, affecting power relations and placing new demands on research, education as well as practice are: Higher demands on and stricter control of clients, a focus on quantifiable results of practices, blurred institutional boundaries with multi-professional teams, de-professionalization of social work through transference of tasks to other actors and institutions, within or outside the public sector, or to algorithms. More generally, virtual high-tech tools and social media provide both new threats and new possibilities for social work. Such developments are taking place within the broader societal context of a polarized ideological climate, generating growing inequality and new hierarchical orders among both longtime residents and newcomers including an increasing number of people who are in acute need of social work measures. Responses to these developments, including new ways seeking to influence power structures and access to power among different individuals and groups, have been emerging and are gaining growing attention among social work practitioners and academics alike. While putting a focus on power and social work in a broad sense, the 2018 FORSA/NOUSA conference provides an opportunity for Nordic & international scholars and practitioners to meet, disseminate new knowledge and share new insights and experiences on all aspects of social work education, research and practice.
Welcome – Tervetuloa – Välkommen to the “Daughter of the Baltic”!
[1] (Foucault, 1998, p. 93) The History of Sexuality, Harmondsworth, Allen Lane. 3 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018
13.30–16.30 PhD Workshop Porthania Building, Lecture Hall P444 (4th floor) 12.00-13.00 NASSW/NOUSA meeting University Main Building, Auditorium III (Old side, 2nd floor) 13.00–14.00 NASSW/NOUSA Country meetings University Main Building & Porthania Building Sweden: University Main Building, Lecture Hall 8 (New side, 3rd floor) Norway: University Main Building, Lecture Hall 15 (New side, 4th floor) Denmark: University Main Building, Auditorium III (Old side, 2nd floor) Iceland: University Main Building, Lecture Hall 11 (New side, 3rd floor) Finland: Porthania Building, Lecture Hall P617 (6th floor) 12.00–15.00 Annual FORSA Nordic meeting University Main Building, Auditorium IV (Old side, 2nd floor) 14.00-16.00 Special Interest Groups University Main Building & Porthania Building Critical social work: Porthania Building, Lecture Hall P219 (2nd floor) Power and user involvement: University Main Building, Auditorium I (Old side, 2nd floor) Practice research: Porthania Building, Lecture hall P723 (7th floor) Women, vulnerability and welfare services: University Main Building, Lecture Hall 11 (New side, 3rd floor) 15.00-16.00 Annual NASSW/NOUSA meeting University Main Building, Consistory Hall (New side, 2nd floor)
4 16.00-17.00 Book symposium Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work University Main Building, Lecture hall 4 (New side, 3rd floor) 15.00–18.00 Pre-registration, Conference Secretariat University Main Building, Entrance Lobby (1st floor) 18.00–20.00 Reception by the University of Helsinki Hosted by Johan Bärlund, Rector of the Swedish School of Social Science University Main Building, Teacher’s Lounge (Old side, 2nd floor) (Unioninkatu 34, Unionsgatan 34)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2018
08.00–16.00 Registration, Conference Secretariat, Exhibition University Main Building, Entrance Lobby (1st floor) 09.00–09.15 Opening remark Marcus Knutagård (Chair of the Nordic Association of Schools of Social Work - NASSW/NOUSA, Lund University, Sweden) Helena Blomberg-Kroll (Vice Rector at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland) Porthania Building, Lecture Hall PI (1st floor) 09.15–10.15 Keynote lecture: Power, Authority and Accountability in Social Work – Facing Up to the Challenges of a Consumer Culture Walter Lorenz (Charles University, Czech Republic & Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Chair: Marjaana Seppänen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Porthania Building, Lecture Hall PI (1st floor) 10.15–10.45 Coffee Porthania Building (1st floor)
5 10.45–11.45 Keynote lecture: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)
Chair: Marjaana Seppänen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Porthania Building, Lecture Hall PI (1st floor) 11.45–13.00 Lunch University Main Building, Lobby (New side, 2nd floor)
13.00–14.30 Workshop session I University Main Building, Porthania Building & The House of Science and Letters
14.30-15.00 Coffee University Main Building, Porthania Building & The House of Science and Letters
University Main Building, Lobby (New side, 2nd floor), Porthania Building (6th floor) The House of Science and Letters (3rd and 4th floor)
15.00-16.30 Workshop session II University Main Building, Porthania Building & The House of Science and Letters
18.00–19.00 Welcome reception by the City of Helsinki Old Court House (Aleksanterinkatu 20, Alexandersgatan 20)
20.00– Conference dinner Restaurant Sipuli (Kanavaranta 7, Kanalkajen 7)
6 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2018
09.00–15.00 Conference Secretariat, Exhibition University Main Building, Entrance Lobby (1st floor) 09.00–10.00 Keynote lecture: The Devil in the Detail – Doing Social Work Under the Canopy of Active Labour Market Policy Dorte Caswell (Aalborg University, Denmark) Chair: Vibeke Bak Nielsen (Chair of FORSA Nordic, Aalborg University, Denmark) University Main Building, Lecture Hall 1 (New side, 2nd floor) 10.00–10.30 Coffee University Main Building, Lobby (New side, 2nd floor) 10.30–11.15 Keynote lecture: For Better or for Worse? Changing Power Relations and Benefit Reform Helena Blomberg-Kroll (Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland) Chair: Vibeke Bak Nielsen (Chair of FORSA Nordic, Aalborg University, Denmark) University Main Building, Lecture Hall 1 (New side, 2nd floor) 11.15–12.30 Lunch University Main Building, Lobby and Nobel Lobby (Old side, 2nd floor) 12.30–15.00 Workshop session III University Main Building 15.00–15.15 Closing remark Katja Kuusisto (Chair of the Finnish Society of Social Work Research, University of Tampere, Finland) University Main Building, Festival Hall (Old side, 2nd floor) 15.15–15.45 Ending of FORSA/NOUSA - Nordic Social Work Conference 2018 University Main Building, Lobby (Old side, 2nd floor)
7 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
WALTER LORENZ Walter Lorenz is a Visiting Professor for Social Work at Charles University, Prague. He was from 2001 until 2017 Professor at the Free University of Bozen / Bolzano in Italy, where he coordinated a professional social work programme and was also Rector from 2008 to 2016. A native of Germany, he qualified as a social worker at the London School of Economics and practised this profession in East London before taking up a position as lecturer of social work at University College, Cork in Ireland in 1978, where he became Jean Monnet Professor in 1995. His research interests include intercultural pedagogy, social pedagogy, comparative aspects of social work and social policy in Europe and quality standards in social services. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Ghent and Aalborg.
VIRGINIA EUBANKS Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor; Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age; and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. Today, she is a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project and a Fellow at New America.
8 DORTE CASWELL Dorte Caswell, Ph.D. and Associate Professor, has been working at Department of sociology and social work, Aalborg University, Denmark since 2012, but has done research in social work for much longer and has been participat- ing in most of the Nordic FORSA conferences since 2003. She currently heads the research group SAB – Social Work at the Frontline of Social and Employment Policy. Her current re- search focuses on bridging political science and sociological approaches in understanding social work practice and the way the Danish welfare state has developed, understanding its current state including its organizational and professional aspects, and understand- ing the implications current welfare policy have for the most vulnerable clients.
HELENA BLOMBERG-KROLL Helena Blomberg-Kroll is a Professor of Social Work and Social Policy and Vice Rector at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. She has been one of the team leaders within the Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State –Historical Foundations and Future Challenges and is currently one of the scientific coordinators for the consortium project “Tackling Inequalities in Time of Austerity”. Her research interests regard social workers’ well-being and attitudes toward welfare policies in a comparative perspective and policy changes and agenda setting power in the welfare state. In her latest project, she focuses on how various, concurrent tendencies of decentralization and individualization, as well as centralization and standardization regarding social services and last-resort benefit systems affect welfare provision and service outcomes among different vulnerable groups in society.
9 WORKSHOP TIMETABLES AND CONFERENCE FACILITIES
1 Access, interaction and challenges. Migrants with disabilities or special needs in contemporary welfare states.
Coordinators: Annika Lillrank, University of Helsinki Eveliina Heino, University of Helsinki
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-14.30 Workshop session I Location: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo, Vetenskapernas hus), Lecture hall 313 (3rd floor)
13.00-13.20 Maria Tapola-Haapala: Social work, migrants and mental health – professionals´viewpoints 13.20-13.40 Ylva Krokfors: Examples on a scoping review on human agency of older persons living at home 13.40-14.00 Annika Lillrank: The Dilemmas of Immigrant Families in Interaction with Health- and Social Care Professionals in Finland 14.00-14.20 Eveliina Heino: Recognition as an Inclusionary and Exclusionary Mechanism in Basic and Disability Services. Experiences of Migrant Families with Disabled Child Living in Finland 14.20-14.30 Conclusions
10 2 Developing child protection – knowledge, power and participation
Coordinators: Ann Backman, LAPE Österbotten, City of Vaasa Anu-Riina Svenlin, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, University of Jyväskylä Saija Westerlund-Cook, Folkhälsan
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-16.30 Workshop session I & II Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Lecture hall 6 (new side, 3rd floor)
13.00-13.20 Introduction 13.20-13.40 Aina A. Kane & Sissel Neverdal: Child protection – Protection with or without collective preventive work? 13.40-14.00 Maija Jäppinen, Meri Kulmala & Zhanna Chernova: Reforming Russia’s Child Protection System 14.00-14.20 Suzana Bornarova & Natasha Bogoevska: From Overprotective to Empowering Social Protection in post-Yugoslav Countries: the Voice of Children in out-of-home Placements 14.20-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.20 Ingunn Barmen Tysnes & Inger Kristin Heggdalsvik: Documentation of children´s voice and participation in child welfare services – from idea to product 15.20-15.40 Mirja Satka & Pirkko Salokekkilä: The coping of the young adults after out-of-home care and the aftercare services - a Bayesian analysis 15.40-16.00 Maria Eriksson: Development and validation of risk assessment interviews for children exposed to intimate partner violence and child abuse 16.00-16.30 Discussion
11 FRIDAY, 23.11.2018, 12.30-15.00 Workshop session III Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Lecture hall 6 (new side, 3rd floor)
12.30-12.50 Johanna Korpinen: Capacity, decision making and child welfare 12.50-13.10 Anita Storhaug, Hilde Marie Thrana, Hanne Elisabeth Sørlie & Bente Heggem Kojan: Low-income families in Child Welfare Services 13.10 -13.30 Antti Kääriälä & Elina Pekkarinen: Treated Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorders and School Performance among Children in Out-of-home Care 13.30-13.50 Coffee break 13.50-14.10 Tuuli Lamponen: Assessing the need of emergency removal of the child in ‘immediate danger’ 14.10-14.30 Anna Pekkarinen: Ethics of knowledge production in social work with children and families 14.30-15.00 Discussion
12 3 Disability, power, empowerment and advocacy on the arena of social work
Coordinators: Liisa Hokkanen, University of Lapland Mari Kivistö, University of Lapland Pirjo Oinas, University of Lapland
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-15.40 Workshop session I & II Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Auditorium XIII (old side, 3rd floor)
13.00-13.10 Liisa Hokkanen, Mari Kivistö & Pirjo Oinas: Introducing the workshop and schedule 13.10-13.30 Elina Kalaoja & Liisa Hokkanen: Service user involvement in the social work with disabilities 13.30-13.50 Zsolt Bugarszki: Helpific platform – sharing economy-based peer to peer support for disabled people with the help of info communication technology (ICT) 13.50-14.10 Merja Tarvainen: Power of Everyday. Narrated Disability and Embodied Agency in Everyday Spaces 14.10-14.30 Henna Nikumaa & Anna Maki-Petaja-Leinonen: Counselling of People with Dementia in Legal Planning – Social and Health Care Professional’s Role 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.20 Ylva Krokfors: What kind of advocacy would persons with physical disabilities need from social work in order to promote their independent living? 15.20-15.40 Faten Nouf-Latif: Encouraging real or make-believe citizen-workers? Narratives of self-realization versus disabling support- to-work contexts by individuals with High Functioning Autism
13 FRIDAY, 23.11.2018, 12.30-15.00 Workshop session III Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Auditorium XI (old side, 3rd floor)
12.30-12.40 Liisa Hokkanen, Mari Kivistö & Pirjo Oinas: Opening words 12.40-13.00 Mari Kivisto: User involvement and client-orientation in the processes of social work in disability services 13.00-13.20 Thomas Strandberg: Case-management – rehabilitation support after Acquired Brain Injury – with the aim to strengthen empowerment 13.20-13.40 Hisayo Katsui: Disability inclusion in the social work teaching curriculum in Kyrgyz universities: experiences from the EU Social Protection System (EU-SPS) Programme 13.40-14.00 Mizuho Tatsuta: Empowering lives of people with intellectual disabilities in Denmark: personal development at a day center and a sheltered workplace 14.00-14.15 All participants: Conclusive discussion
14 4 Global movement and dimensions of power
Coordinators: Marja Katisko, Diak – University of Applied Sciences Maija Kalm-Akubardia, University of Helsinki
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-16.30 Workshop session I & II Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Auditorium XII (old side, 3rd floor)
13.00-13.30 Timo Harrikari & Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala: Glocal social work and compressed modernity 13.30-14.00 Maija Kalm-Akubardia: Unofficial immigration and Luke’s three dimensions of power 14.00-14.30 Harald Gegner: Who has power over knowledge development within Swedish social services? 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.30 Tordis Kristine Søvde: Violate indigenous people’s rights and controversies around cultural appropriation 15.30-16.00 Wrap up FRIDAY, 23.11.2018, 12.30-15.00 Workshop session III Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Auditorium II (old side, 2nd floor)
12.30-13.00 Aija Kettunen & Marianne Nylund: Encounters, Networks and Communities in Everyday Life of Immigrants 13.00-13.30 Terhi Tuominen & Joonas Kiviranta: TEKO - Enhanced Refugee 13.30-14.00 Tiina Määttä: The power of essentialist representations 14.00-14.30 Marja Katisko & Maija Kalm-Akubardia: Social work among individuals with no rights – dimensions of power 14.30-15.00 Wrap up of the workshop: Global movement and dimensions of power
15 5 Labour market inclusion for people with mental health problems – knowledge exchange between practice, research and education
Coordinators: Inge Storgaard Bonfils, University College Copenhagen Søren Salling Weber, Roskilde University
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 15.00-16.30 Workshop session II Location: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo, Vetenskapernas hus), Lecture hall 313 (3rd floor)
15.00-15.05 Inge Storgaard Bonfils & Søren Salling Weber: Welcome and presentation of the workshop 15.05-15.30 Julie Rahbæk Møller, Jesper Andersen & Sidse Rubens le Fevre: User experience with IPS 15.30-15.55 David Rosenberg: Supporting young adults with mental health problems in a “career” – A life cycle focus on labor marker inclusion 15.55-16.20 Urban Markström: Facilitators and barriers for sustainable implementation of support to work-models in a sectored community mental health service system 16.20-16.30 Final questions, discussion and comments
16 6 Migrant encounters with the local welfare state
Coordinators: Maija Jäppinen, University of Helsinki Hanna Kara, University of Helsinki Camilla Nordberg, University of Helsinki Anna-Leena Riitaoja, University of Helsinki
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-16.00 Workshop session I & II Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Lecture hall 5 (new side, 3rd floor)
Workshop session I, 13.00-14.30, Chair: Camilla Nordberg 13.00-13.20 Anna Simola: Dynamics of dependency in the lives of young intra- EU migrants in conditions of precarious employment and multilevel conditionality of social protection 13.20-13.40 Juri Kilian: Empowerment in the context of emerging adulthood, migration and education 13.40-14.00 Ilse Julkunen, Maria Tapola-Haapala, Anna Nurmi, Päivi Heino & Karolina Asén: Urban Social Work and Encounters with Welfare Services in Urban Settings 14.00-14.20 Ayu Pratiwi & Outi Linnossuo: Comparative Social Work Practices with Refugee Families and Young People: Experiences from Finland, United Kingdom, Malta, Italy and Serbia 14.30-15.00 Coffee break
Workshop session II, 15.00-16.00, Chair: Hanna Kara 15.00-15.20 Ulrika Wernersjö: Social work with unaccompanied minors in times of restrictive migration policy 15.20-15.40 Janet Anand: The power of co-creation in the design and delivery of services for refugees 15.40-16.00 Maija Jäppinen & Hanna Kara: Negotiating access in ethnographic fieldwork on social work with migrants
17 FRIDAY, 23.11.2018, 12.30-13.30 Workshop session III Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Lecture hall 7 (new side, 3rd floor)
Workshop session III, 12.30-13.30, Chair: Maija Jäppinen 12.30-12.50 Anna-Leena Riitaoja: Conceptualisations of migrant encounters with the local welfare state in social work degree courses, course literature and in professional literature 12.50-13.10 Kristina Gustafsson: Language Brokering: The use of children as interpreters in social services 13.10-13.30 Camilla Nordberg: Newcomer stay-at-home mothers’ acts of citizenship in the local Finnish welfare state
18 7 Narrative and discursive approaches in exploring power relations
Coordinators: Laura Tarkiainen, University of Helsinki Eveliina Heino, University of Helsinki
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-16.30 Workshop session I & II Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Consistory hall (new side, 2nd floor)
13.00-13.30 Kirsi Günther & Johanna Ranta: Transitions within mental health services: how the workers of supported housing unit explain and justify clients’ service transitions in team meeting conversations 13.30-14.00 Anna Olaison, Annika Tagizadeh Larsson & Johannes H. Osterholm: Case conferences as informal backstage meetings - studying priorities used by social workers in assessment conversations 14.00-14.30 Veera Korhonen: Constructions of agency: an analysis of social work documents concerning the need for 24/7 care 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.30 Kerstin Svensson & Marcus Knutagard:̊ Power within the relation, power over the situation 15.30-16.00 Guðrún Kristinsdóttir & Jón Kjaran: Eventually I understood that I had not realized any of my dreams. Intimate partner violence, masculinity 16.00-16.30 Vera Virolainen: Female prisoners’ narratives on violence: Talking about and talking back to normality
19 FRIDAY, 23.11.2018, 12.30-14.00 Workshop session III Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Consistory hall (new side, 2nd floor)
12.30-13.00 Miina Kartinen: In the crossroads of social work and cultural studies: Survival as a cultural formation 13.00-13.30 Laura Tarkiainen: Discourses on unemployed individuals’ deservingness in parliamentary discussion in Finland 13.30-14.00 Anne-Marith Rasmussen: How to cope with being recognized as a “Northerner” – a study on subjectification among young people in the North of Norway
20 8 Power and social work education
Coordinators: Nordic Association of Schools of Social Work (NASSW) Marcus Knutagård Camilla Nordberg Torkel Richert Karin Waleur Monica Kjørstad Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-16.30 Workshop session I & II Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Lecture hall 13 (new side, 3rd floor)
13.00-13.20 Rikke Egaa Jørgensen & Charlotte Rosenberg: Challenging traditional power relations through social work education? Experiences from a cross-sectorial partnership exploring new subject positions in social work 13.20-13.40 Mette Fløystad Kvammen & Tabitha Wright Nielsen: Service users as supervisors in social work education – mending the gap of power relations 13.40-14.00 Mari Nordstrand & Nina Skjefstad: Power balance in parallel supervision with students working closely with families 14.00-14.20 Sisko Piippo & Leo Nyqvist: Responding to Intimate Partner Violence in Social Work Education 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.20 Cecilia Heule, Marcus Knutagård & Arne Kristiansen: Gap-mending niches in institutionalized social work practice and education 15.20-15.40 Helene Jacobson Pettersson & Linda Lill: Power Relations in Social Work Education - Teachers’ Strategies and Experiences of Ethnicity in Sweden 15.40-16.00 Akiko Kosaka & Janet Anand: Diversity in Finnish Social Work Education: The Power of the Outsider’s Gaze 16.00-16.20 Jessica H. Jönsson & Aina Lian Flem: Field training in the Global South and unequal power relations: On the challenges of encounters
21 FRIDAY, 23.11.2018, 12.30-14.00 Workshop session III Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Lecture hall 13 (new side, 3rd floor)
12.30-12.50 Sanna-Liisa Liikanen & Susanna Tanskanen: Students facing deprivation in adult and youth social work studies 12.50-13.10 Guðný Björk Eydal & Steinunn Hrafnsdóttir: Social Work Education, co-production and empowerment. The case of Iceland. 13.10-13.30 Ann Kristin Alseth & Aina Lian Flem: Social work education addressing anti-oppressive perspective in a changing welfare state in Norway 13.30-13.50 Øystein Henriksen: Coherence between education and social work practice in a transitional context
22 9 Power and user involvement in social work – perspectives and challenges
Coordinators: Vibeke Bak Nielsen, FORSA Denmark, Anne Mette Carlslund, FORSA Denmark Jacob Christensen, FORSA Denmark Tina Harlev, FORSA Denmark Katrine Sjørslev Nielsen, FORSA Denmark Durita Johansen, FORSA Denmark
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-16.30 Workshop session I & II Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Small festival hall (old side, 4th floor)
13.00-13.20 Binbin Wang: Using PBL as a tool to enhance children’s participation in rural China: Practice and Challenges 13.20-13.40 Laura Kalliomaa-Puha: One’s own involvement – or the family’s? Right to care and presumption of family and friends in the Finnish legislation 13.40-14.00 Maria Appel Nissen: Power and powerlessness in social work - on conflicts, (dis)trust and forms of corporation 14.00-14.20 Laura Rapo: Constructing agency of homeless youth in social work 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.20 Eeva Ekqvist & Katja Kuusisto: Changes in experienced well-being during inpatient substance abuse treatment 15.20-15.40 David Rosenberg: Peer Support in Mental health– experiential knowledge and expert power 15.40-16.00 Minna Kivipelto & Merita Jokela: Participatory approach to adult social work: Lessons from the Finnish Inclusive Social Security experiment 16.00-16.20 Lars Uggerhøj: Talking about them or with them? – Involving processes in social work with young people
23 FRIDAY, 23.11.2018, 12.30-15.00 Workshop session III Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Lecture hall 12 (new side, 3rd floor)
12.30-12.50 Pernille Wisti: In the closet or coming out? When social workers manage their personal user experiences in social work practice 12.50-13.10 Anniina Tirronen, Jari Stenvall & Tony Kinder: Its alright in practice but will it work in theory - learning and wellbeing in Finnish social work practice and research 13.10-13.30 Maarit Aalto: Good Enough or higher support –quality 13.30-13.50 Suvi-Maria Saarelainen & Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen: Technology as a Means of Existential Care for the Oldest Old 13.50-14.10 Mia Tammelin & Maija Mänttäri-van der Kuip: Policy Alienation Among Front Line Social Workers 14.10-14.30 Sidsel Natland: Dialogue seminars – capturing the voices from within
24 10 Power, sexuality and social work
Coordinators: Heli Inkinen, Åbo Akademi University Minna Strömberg-Jakka, University of Turku
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.30-16.30 Workshop session I & II Location: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo, Vetenskapernas hus), Lecture hall 312 (3rd floor)
13.30-13.55 Jens Lindberg & Stefan Sjöström: Victims without an acknowledged role – experiencing male rape 14.00-14.25 Merethe Giertsen: Social work and the production of sexual knowledge – an argumentation for addressing privileges and power asymmetries 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.25 Torkel Richert: Taking care of business in a male dominated drug economy – Women drug users´ narratives on sexism, struggle and resistance 15.30-15.55 Johanna Aapakallio: Power used by parents and authorities on dealing honor related violence and sexuality 16.00-16.25 Maritha Jacobsson & Stefan Sjöström: Victim-shame and perpetrator- guilt: discourse on alcohol and clothes in rape trials
25 11 Research as resistance: Exploring critical, anti-oppres- sive, anti-racist, decolonial and participatory approaches in research with disempowered clients
Coordinators: Anna-Leena Riitaoja, Centre for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism (CEREN), Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki Tobias Pötzsch, CEREN, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-16.30 Workshop session I & II Location: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo, Vetenskapernas hus), Lecture hall 401 (4th floor)
13.00-13.25 Sabine Gruber & Anna Lundberg: Research in social work grounded in emancipatory values 13.30-13.55 Sidsel Natland: User involvement in research – whose voice, whose knowledge? 14.00-14.25 Gorana Panić: In Search of Alternatives in Social Work: Opportunities and Constrains for Collective Action Addressing Post-Graduation Challenges 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.25 Håvard Aaslund: Can «service users» speak? – a postcolonial approach to service user participation in research and practice 15.30-16.30 Anna-Leena Riitaoja & Tobias Pötzsch: Roundtable discussion: Critical research methodologies: reconceptualizing researcher aims, role and outcomes
26 12 Rural areas in change
Coordinators: Kati Turtiainen, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, University of Jyväskylä Niina Rantamäki, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, University of Jyväskylä
Programme FRIDAY, 23.11.2018, 12.30-15.00 Workshop session III Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Lecture hall 8 (new side, 3rd floor)
Welcoming words by Kati Turtiainen and Niina Rantamäki 12.30-12.55 Kerstin Johansson: The Practice and future of Social Services in small and rural municipalities 12.55-13.20 Randi Haugland: Rural social work is changing. What happened to the ecological approach in Inter-Municipal Child Protection Services in Norway? 13.20-13.45 Heli Valokivi: Power in Active Ageing of Northern Finnish Older Women 13.45-14.00 Break 14.00-14.25 Niina Rantamäki: Social sustainability from the perspective of rural communities at the turning point of the Finnish welfare state 14.25-15.50 Kati Turtiainen: Intersectional approach in(to) to the refugee resettlement in the rural community 14.50-15.00 Final discussion
27 13 Social work and the natural environment
Coordinators: Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö, University of Jyväskylä Aila-Leena Matthies, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, University of Jyväskylä
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 15.00-16.30 Workshop session II Location: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo, Vetenskapernas hus), Lecture hall 405 (4th floor)
15.00-15.10 Opening words 15.10-15.30 Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö: Challenges of social work in extractive peripheries 15.30-15.50 Kati Närhi, Tuuli Hirvilammi, Aila-Leena Matthies & Ingo Stamm: Social workers’ views on ecosocial transition in society 15.50-16.10 Ingo Stamm: Ecosocial innovations – forerunners for eco-social security systems? 16.10-16.30 Aila-Leena Matthies: Inclusion into what? Ecosocial innovations as a radical sustainability perspective on social inclusion
28 15 Women, vulnerability and welfare services
Coordinators: Marjo Kuronen, University of Jyväskylä Elina Virokannas, University of Helsinki Ulla Salovaara, University of Jyväskylä
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-16.30 Workshop session I & II Location: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo, Vetenskapernas hus), Lecture hall 309 (3rd floor)
13.00-13.20 Anna-Maria Isola, Heikki Hiilamo & Irene Roivainen: Poor lone mothers’ agency in poverty 13.20-13.40 Suvi Krok: The everyday world of lone mother 13.40-14.00 Stina Fernqvist: Social work or bureaucracy? Experiences of the handling of maintenance support after the 2016 amendments in the Swedish Social Insurance Code 14.00-14.20 Aiga Romāne-Meiere: Aspects of vulnerability for kinship caregivers in Latvia 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.20 Hanife Serin: Non-abusing Mothers’ Voices and Agency after the Disclosure of Their Child’s Extrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse 15.20-15.40 Mette Rømer: The Role of Social Work in the Field of Undocumented Sex Worker Migrants – The case of Denmark 15.40-16.00 Riitta Granfelt: At the Margins of Society: Listening to Homeless Women 16.00-16.20 Minna Kivipelto & Helena Palojärvi: NOVAT groups as a method for supporting women with addictions – examination of evaluation results
29 16 Open stream
Coordinators: Stina Sjöblom, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki Christian Kroll, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.15-16.20 Workshop session I & II Location: Porthania Building, Lecture hall P674 (6th floor)
13.15-13.20 Opening words 13.20-13.40 Ann-Sofie Bergman: Foster children’s perspectives on visiting and contact during out-of-home placements 13.40-14.00 Siv-Britt Björktomta & Heidi Aarum Hansen: How digital society challenges child welfare practices – From social workers’ perspective 14.00-14.20 Anne Juberg: Neither risk discourse nor reflexivity: So what? 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.20 Camilla Granholm: “Mind the gap” – a journey with elderly in the virtual dimension 15.20-15.40 Eva Dragomirecka: Empowering family caregivers of people with dementia 15.40-16.00 Johanna Björkenheim: Towards biographical agency in social work 16.00-16.20 Daniel Nilsson Ranta: Local Solutions to a National Dilemma
30 FRIDAY, 23.11.2018, 12.30-14.30 Workshop session III Location: University Main Building (Yliopiston Päärakennus, Universitetets Huvudbyggnad), Lecture hall 15 (new side, 4th floor)
12.30-12.35 Opening words 12.35-12.55 Katarina Hollertz & Sara Hultqvist: Killing two birds with one stone. A user perspective in activation of unemployed 12.55-13.15 Paula Saikkonen & Minna Ylikännö: What is the role of social work after the Finnish social assistance reform? 13.15-13.30 Break 13.30-13.50 Tuomo Kokkonen: Transforming citizenship as a foundation of social work 13.50-14.10 Jolita Buzaitytė-Kašalynienė: Social workers’ reactions towards manifestations of power in management 14.10-14.30 Louise Christensen: Power in social work
31 17 PhD Workshop on Power and Social Work (Sponsored and organized by NASSW/NOUSA)
Coordinators: NASSW board members: Karin Waleur Monica Kjørstad Marcus Knutagård Camilla Nordberg Torkel Richert
Programme THURSDAY 22.11.2018, 13.00-16.30 Workshop session I & II Location: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo, Vetenskapernas hus), Lecture hall 404 (4th floor)
13.00-13.30 Petra Malin: Inclusion and Democracy in Arts-Based Service User Participation Processes 13.30-14.00 Henrik Örnlind: Social Work and the Right to the City 14.00-14.30 Hilde Fiva Buzungu: Power and Disempowerment in Social Work across Language Gaps 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.30 Nina Helen Aas Røkkum: Power and the ontological choreography of emotions in social work 15.30-16.00 Katarina Grim: The legitimacy of user knowledge in decision-making processes in psychiatric care – a conceptual analysis 16.00-16.30 Hanife Serin: Non-abusing Mothers’ Voices and Agency after the Disclosure of Their Child’s Extrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse
32 18 PhD Workshop on Power and Social Work (Organized by the Nordic Social Work Conference 2018)
Coordinators: Urban Markström, Umeå University Christian Kroll, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki
Programme WEDNESDAY 21.11.2018, 13.30-16.30 PhD Workshop session I Location: Porthania Building, Lecture hall P444 (4th floor)
13.30-13.55 Caroline Hansén: Implications and response patterns of perpetrator and victim: A study of violence, gender and power in intimate partner relations 13.55-14.20 Arttu Salo: Fatherhood, alcohol and the hierarchy of masculinities 14.20-14.45 Marina Bergman-Pyykkönen: Constructing power relations in boundary crossing collaboration Break with light lunch salad, coffee & snacks 15.15-15.40 Håvard Aaslund: Can «service users» speak? – a postcolonial approach to service user participation in research and practice 15.40-16.05 Sanna-Liisa Liikanen: Do the parents of poor families with children have trust and power to participation and wellbeing? 16.05-16.30 Suvi Linnanvirta: The implications of the Finnish social assistance reform for food aid recipients’ social citizenship
33 PRACTICAL INFORMATION
CONFERENCE VENUE University of Helsinki Main Building, City Centre Campus Fabianinkatu 33, 00140 Helsinki, Fabiansgatan 33, 00140 Helsingfors
FORSA/NOUSA – Nordic Social Work Conference 2018 takes place in the heart of the Helsinki city centre, and partly in the historical Kruununhaka city district. The main conference venue, University of Helsinki Main Building, is located by the Senate Square, walking distance (600 meters) from the Central Railway Station. Trams 2, 4, 5 and 7 stop next to the Main Building.
Registration, lunch and coffee breaks, most of the workshop sessions, as well as keynote lectures on Friday be held in the University Main Building. Keynote lectures on Thursday will be held in the Porthania Building (Street address: Yliopistonkatu 3, Gatuadress: Universitetsgatan 3). In addition, some of the workshop sessions on Thursday will be held in the Porthania Building and at the House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo, Vetenskapernas hus, Street address: Kirkkokatu 6, Gatuadress: Kyrkogatan 6), which is by walking distance from the University Main Building (see map on p. 38).
Workshop sessions held in the lecture halls of the Main Building are partly on the “new side” and partly on the “old side” of the Main Building. The main access through the Main Building from side to side is on the second floor. Lecture rooms marked with numbers (Lecture room 1) are on the “new side” (Fabianinkatu side, Street address: Fabianinkatu 33, Gatuadress: Fabiansgatan 33), and Auditoriums marked with Roman numbers (Aud X) are on the “old side” (on the Senate Square side, Street address: Unioninkatu 34, Gatuadress: Unionsgatan 34).
Opening hours of the registration desk: Wednesday, November 21st: 15.00–18.00 Thursday, November 22nd: 08.00–16.00 Friday, November 23rd: 09.00–15.00
The registration desk is located in University of Helsinki Main Building’s entrance lobby (1st floor, Street address: Fabianinkatu 33, Gatuadress: Fabiansgatan 33). You will receive your nametag, program and information on-site there.
34 CONFERENCE DINNER The conference dinner on Thursday, November 22nd, begins at 20:00 and includes a three course dinner with drinks, entertainment and live music at Restaurant Sipuli (Street address: Kanavaranta 7, Gatuadress: Kanalkajen 7). Restaurant Sipuli is an exceptionally versatile restaurant in a red-brick harbour storehouse. It is located in Katajanokka (Skatudden) city district, by walking distance from the University Main Building and Helsinki City Hall (see map on p. 38). ATTENDANTS University of Helsinki Main Building: +358 2941 23151
Porthania Building: +358 2941 22561
The House of Science and Letters: +358 9228 69264 or +358 9228 69265 EMERGENCY NUMBER 112 LUNCH AND COFFEE Lunch and coffee will be served as marked in the conference programme:
Thursday, November 22nd 10.15-10.45 Coffee, Porthania Building (1st floor) 11.45-13.00 Lunch, University Main Building, Lobby (New side, 2nd floor) 14.30-15.00 Coffee University Main Building, Lobby (New side, 2nd floor) Porthania Building (6th floor) The House of Science and Letters (3rd and 4th floor)
Friday, November 23rd 10.00-10.30 Coffee, University Main Building, Lobby (New side, 2nd floor) 11.15-12.30 Lunch, University Main Building, Lobby and Nobel Lobby (Old side, 2nd floor)
35 WIRELESS INTERNET There are different wireless networks at the University of Helsinki. You can access Eduroam if your home university or affiliation is connected to Eduroam; it is set to work right away on university administered devices. If Eduroam is not working for you, you can log in to the wireless network “Univ Helsinki HUPnet” by entering:
Username: hupnet101075 Password: martta54katukuva TRANSPORTATION If you fly to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport you can travel by train (I and P -trains) or take the bus number 615 from the airport to Helsinki Central Railway Station. The Central Railway Station (see map on p. 38) is located in the heart of the city centre, by walking distance from the main conference venue, University Main Building. Tickets can be purchased from ticket machines at the airport. When using a ticket machine, please select the option "regional ticket" for journeys between the airport and Helsinki. A one-way ticket costs 5 euros. The railway station is the final stop of bus number 615 and both trains. More information on the train and bus connections can be found here: Transport links to Helsinki Airport. PUBLIC TRANSPORT TICKETS IN HELSINKI The conference’s all important locations (conference facilities, Restaurant Sipuli, Helsinki City Hall) are within walking distance from the main conference venue, University Main Building (map on p. 38). With public transport day tickets you will have limitless access to all trams, buses and trains for 1-7 days. Day tickets can be purchased from ticket machines, tourist information agencies and the HSL customer service office at Central Railway Station. More information on the tickets and fares can be found here: HSL – Tickets and fares. USEFUL TIMETABLE SITES Journey Planner – A journey planner for the Helsinki metropolitan area Train timetables – Provided by the Finnish railway company VR Long distance bus timetables – Provided by Matkahuolto
36 TAXI NUMBERS Taksi-Helsinki: +358 (0)100 0700
Airport Taxi Yellow Line: +358 (0)600 555 555
Lähitaksi: +358 (0)100 7300
Kovanen: +358 200 6060
When entering a taxi, please check the price with the driver in advance.
CAFÉS AND RESTAURANTS NEARBY Café Engel (Aleksanterinkatu 26, Alexandersgatan 26), an idyllic café located next to the Senate Square with a beautiful view towards the Helsinki Cathedral.
Café Strindberg (Pohjoisesplanadi 33, Norra Esplanaden 33), an international café with an open kitchen, where the delicacies served in the café are prepared.
Café Esplanad (Pohjoisesplanadi 37, Norra Esplanaden 37), well known for its central European atmosphere and style and especially for its huge cinnamon rolls (a Finnish sweet pastry called Korvapuusti) that are baked in the cafés own bakery.
Restaurant Kappeli (Eteläesplanadi 11, Södra Esplanaden 11), a traditional meeting place offering sweets and salty snacks, as well as a good selection of beers and wines.
Zucchini (Fabianinkatu 4, Fabiansgatan 4), a popular vegetarian lunch restaurant which also offers gluten-free and vegan dishes.
37 MAP OF THE CITY CENTRE
1. Central Railway Station 2. University of Helsinki Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33, Fabiansgatan 33) 3. Porthania Building (Yliopistonkatu 3, Universitetsgatan 3) 4. The House of Science and Letters (Kirkkokatu 6, Kyrkogatan 6) 5. Old Court House (Aleksanterinkatu 20, Alexandersgatan 20) 6. Restaurant Sipuli (Kanavaranta 7, Kanalkajen 7)
38 NOTES FORSA/NOUSA – Nordic Social Work Conference 2018 is hosted by the Swedish School of Social Science at University of Helsinki, Finland.
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