Network Activities
EXCHANGING IDEAS AND INFORMATION Members are encouraged to pass information to each other via the email list - socialwork-healthinequalities@jiscmail.ac.uk Global Agenda for Social WorkPaul Bywaters is leading the Network’s response to the consultation on the draft Agenda, see www.ifsw.org/p38002163.html The Network will be arguing that the right to heath should be given much greater prominence within the Agenda. EDUCATION AND TEACHING DEVELOPMENTSMembers support each other by exchanging ideas about teaching on health inequalities within social work curricula, exchanging information about relevant courses and taking part in staff exchanges and visits. A seminar to discuss teaching on health inequalities was held in Coventry, UK, in September 2008. As a result, a brief guide to ‘Integrating health inequalities in social work learning and teaching’ has been published in hard copy and on line by SWAP (The Social Policy and Social Work Subject Centre in the UK). To access the Guide go to www.swap.ac.uk/docs/swapguide_6.pdf . The Guide includes links to examples of teaching approaches used by members of the Network in the UK and USA. UK Curriculum ReformJulie Fish is leading a small group of members who are going to try to influence the current process of revising the social work qualifying curriculum in England as part of the wider social work reforms. Contact Julie if you want to be involved. jfish@DMU.AC.UK IFSW POLICY STATEMENT ON HEALTHThe Network was commissioned by the International Federation of Social Workers to lead work to revise and update its policy statement on health. The new policy was unanimously approved by the IFSW General Meeting in Brazil in August 2008. Click this link to see the Policy Videocast on the Health PolicyBOOKSOCIAL WORK AND GLOBAL HEALTH INEQUALITIES: POLICY AND PRACTICE DEVELOPMENTS (2009), P. Bywaters, E. McLeod and L. Napier (eds.), Bristol: Policy Press. This new edited book written primarily by Network members is a major new international text analysing the role that social work can contribute to understanding and tackling global health inequalities. World Health Day Statement 2009IFSW issued this press statement in conjunction with the Social Work and Health Inequalities Network on April 7th 2009. SEMINAR SERIESThe Network secured support from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), a major UK source of research funding for a seminar series on Social Work and Health Inequalities Research. This comprised four separate meetings held between January 2006 and summer of 2007. The aim of the seminars was to develop social work research on health inequalities, including through international collaborative research programmes. The papers in this seminar series are available for all members on the ESRC Seminar Series page on this web site. VIDEO-LINKED SEMINARSFive video linked seminars have now been held between members based in and around Coventry, UK and colleagues in other places. At the first video-linked seminar on Social Work in Emergency Care between the Universities of Warwick (UK) and Melbourne (Australia). Rebecca Power (Australia) and Eileen McLeod (UK) presented video-linked papers to an audience of academics, managers and practitioners. The second linked the University of Warwick with colleagues in Stockholm and the third again involved a link between Warwick and Melbourne. The fourth link was between Professor Agnes Koon-Chui Law and her students and colleagues from Sun Yat Sen University, Guanzhou, China and the University of Warwick. The fifth video-linked seminar was a ‘Masterclass’ on Social Work and End of Life Care between the Universities of Sydney and Warwick, 2007, at which a series of papers were given.
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