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1St European Conference Social Work and Social Care Research: Innovation, Interdisciplinarity and Impact St Catherine’S College, Oxford 23Rd – 25Th March 2011 European Conference for Social Work Research 1st European Conference Social Work and Social Care Research: Innovation, Interdisciplinarity and Impact St Catherine’s College, Oxford 23rd – 25th March 2011 1 Outline Programme Wednesday 23rd March 1600-2000 Registration 1800 Welcome 1815 Opening Keynote: Joan Orme 1900 Reception Thursday 24th March 0900 Welcome and Introduction 0915 Keynote 2: Peter Sommerfeld 1000 Parallel Sessions – 1 1115 Refreshments 1145 Parallel Sessions – 2 1300 Lunch, Poster Viewing and Interest group meetings 1415 Workshops and Symposia – A 1530 Refreshments 1600 Parallel Sessions – 3 1715 Keynote 3: Eileen Munro 1815 Break 1930 for 2000 Conference Banquet Friday 25th March 0900 Keynote 4: Marketta Rajavaara 1000 Parallel Sessions – 4 1115 Refreshments 1145 Parallel Sessions – 5 1300 Lunch, Poster Viewing and Interest group meeting 1415 Workshops and Symposia – B 1530 Panel Session 1630 Closing event and plans for Basel (Switzerland) 2012 1645 Refreshments and farewells 2 Inaugural Conference Social Work and Social Care Research: Innovation, Interdisciplinarity and Impact The inaugural conference is held in association with the NIHR School for Social Care Research. "We are pleased to be involved in the first of the European Social Work Research conferences, particularly because the wider social care perspective will be represented in the programme and hopefully in the interests of participants. In the School we are working hard to encourage and develop interdisciplinary learning and multidisciplinary collaboration in our research on adult social care practice" Professor Martin Knapp, Director, NIHR School for Social Care Research Conference Planning Committee Ian Shaw (Chair) Kathy Boxall Colette McAuley Jonathan Scourfield Steven Shardlow Elaine Sharland Brian Taylor Conference Administration The planning committee would like to extend special thanks to Samantha McDermott for her extensive work behind the scenes, planning and organising the website and conference and liaising with staff at St Catherine’s College. Donors We would like to acknowledge generous support towards the funding of the conference from the following donors: Department of Health (England) Joint University Committee for Social Work Education Joseph Rowntree Foundation Social Care Institute for Excellence Social Work Research Association 3 Abstract Reviews We would also like to thank the following reviewers, who donated their time and expertise to review the many abstracts we received for the conference. Kathy Boxall Shula Ramon Karen Broadhurst Roy Ruckdeschel Ian Buchanan Deborah Rutter Annamaria Campanini Justine Schneider John Carpenter Jonathan Scourfield Nigel Charles Steven Shardlow Paul Clarkson Elaine Sharland Michelle Cornes Ian Shaw John Devaney Peter Sommerfeld Julie Fish Justine Schneider Mike Fisher Roger Smith Claire Goodman Martin Stevens Rachel Fyson Brian Taylor Mark Hardy Nicki Ward Steve Hicks Jo Warner Staffan Hojer Eleanor Bantry White Sally Holland Mark Wilberforce Campbell Killick Karen Windle Martin Knapp John Woolham Reima Ana Maglajilc Alys Young Juliette Malley Jill Manthorpe Colette McAuley Hugh McLaughlin Jo Moriarty Liz Price Jackie Rafferty 4 Speakers Professor Biography Eileen Munro is Professor of Social Policy at the Eileen Munro London School of Economics. She was a social worker for many years before taking up an academic career. She has studied philosophy, in particular the philosophy of science, and this has fuelled her interest in the reasoning skills needed in social work. She is currently working with Professor Nancy Cartwright on a project funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, examining the philosophical assumptions implicit in the debates about evidence in child welfare. Her current research interests include how best to combine intuitive and analytic reasoning in risk assessment and decision making in child protection. She is also studying the role of the wider organisational system in promoting or hindering good critical thinking. Presentation: 'Evidence and Outcomes in Social Work and Social Care Research' RCTs show that an intervention works somewhere but can we infer from this that it will work for us? This lecture discusses what else is needed to help us make this inference. It is argued that we need a great deal of additional theory, local knowledge, and empirical results. RCTs alone provide only weak evidence. 5 Professor Biography Prof Joan Orme is Emeritus Professor of Social Work in Joan Orme the Glasgow School of Social Work. She has been involved in the development of social work research at a number of levels in the UK including being the Vice Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Training and Development Board and a member of the group that developed the UK Research Strategy. As a member of the Board of the International Association of Schools of Social Work she worked closely with the European Association of Schools of Social Work and has worked with the Academy of Finland, Research Council for Culture and Society. She is joint editor of The Sage Handbook of Social Work Research and co- author (with David Shemmings) of Developing Research Based Social Work Practice. Presentation I will use the opportunity of the opening plenary to provide a brief (and probably very partial) analysis of developments in social work and social care research in Europe. This will include a discussion of the focus of current research, methodological developments and existing infrastructures. Using the Tripodis’ descriptors of international research I will explore the implications for developing ‘European social work and social care research’. I will argue that we have to identify what is distinctive about European research and develop innovative ways of collaboration while recognising difference and diversity. 6 Professor Biography Marketta Rajavaara is currently professor of social Marketta Rajavaara work at the University of Helsinki, Department of Social Research and senior researcher in the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), Research Department. She has her field practice from school social work and child protection, and over the years she has held various positions in social policy and social work education, research and development. She has been the director of the Centre of Expertise on Social Welfare in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and the president of the Finnish Society for Social Work. Her work includes professionalism, practice research and knowledge production in welfare services, quality management, the history of evaluation in Finnish social services, long-term unemployment among older workers, and work-related rehabilitation. Presentation: 'The Impacts of Social Research' My provisional intention is to analyse the role and impacts of social research in the post-expansive welfare state, and set social work and social care research in this wider context. I will discuss evidence- based policy as part of this theme. In addition I will consider and analyse the structural changes in the welfare state, and the effects they have on knowledge production and knowledge regimes. I may link the conference theme of research innovation to some comments on policy innovations, asking where they come from, different types of innovations, and possible preconditions for helpful innovations. Biography Professor Bruce A. Thyer is Professor of Social Work at Florida State University. His research interests are in the Bruce A. Thyer areas of evidence-based practice, behavior analysis, and clinical social work. He is the founding and current Editor of the bimonthly journal Research on Social Work Practice, now in its 21st year of publication. He has served on the governing bodies of the U.S. Council on Social Work Education, the Society for Social Work and Research, the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work, and of the American Psychological Association. 7 Professor Biography Peter Sommerfeld is professor of Social Work at the Peter Sommerfeld University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, School of Social Work, and head of the institute for "Social Work Research and Cooperative Knowledge Creation". His research interests are grouped around the development of Social Work as a profession and the theory-practice link. Knowledge production and knowledge transfer in Social Work therefore are of special interest to him. Recent research has been completed in the fields of probation services, psychiatry and occupational social work. Following the idea of "cooperative knowledge creation" these recent research projects also are conceived as huge development projects on the level of concept and methods in these practice fields. He mostly published in German on a broad variety of themes such as social work research, professionalism, adventure pedagogy, social work and psychiatry, social work and urban development. In English he published on Evidence-based Social Work. He teaches theories of Social Work and General Systems Theory. He is co- president of the Swiss Society for Social Work. Presentation: ‘Innovation in Research and Practice’ My starting assumption is that today the research questions as well as the practical problems needing innovation are complex ones at least in most cases. One of my leading arguments therefore will be that innovation in research methods and innovation in practice are likely to be coupled in a process of co- evolution. This means that I will talk about innovation on both sides - research and practice.
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