The Network will be having a presence at the following conferences and members are encouraged to participate.
Joint Biennial World Conference of the International Association of Schools of Social Work, the International Council on Social Welfare and the International Federation of Social Workers July 9th – 12th 2012, Stockholm, Sweden. Social Welfare, Social Work and Social Development: Policy Options for a Sustainable Future. At this conference the implementation of the Global Agenda for Social Work will be discussed. Paul Bywaters has offered the Network’s support to the conference chair, Eva Holmberg-Herrstrom. For details and to book see: http://www.swsd-stockholm-2012.org/welcome.asp
7th Social Work in Health and Mental Health Conference, Los Angeles, 2013. Kate Karban is leading on this conference for the Network and is in discussions with the conference chair, Haluk Soydan, about the Network’s input.
Joint Biennial World Conference of the International Association of Schools of Social Work, the International Council on Social Welfare and the International Federation of Social Workers 2014, venue to be announced.
Past Conferences
European Conference for Social Work Research, March 23rd – 25th 2011, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. http://www.ecswr.org/
The conference offered an excellent opportunity for those SWHIN members who attended to meet together. An informal gathering over lunch on Thursday was followed by a well attended SWHIN symposium with presentations from Paul Bywaters, Varda Soskolne, Julie Fish and Sarah Donnelly. This also generated interest from others who went on to join the network. Overall a total of 12 new members signed up. A timetabled special interest group meeting brought 14 members together over lunch time on Friday. Although time was limited, most of the focus of the meeting was on sharing research interests with others and there was also a chance to put names to faces . Some of us can be seen in the photo, enjoying the Oxford sunshine. Other presentations by SWHIN members were also well supported.
Events of this kind are valuable in strengthening the network in many different ways. As well as raising the profile of the network, the informal sharing of ideas and experiences frequently acts as a catalyst for future contact and collaboration.
People attending on Friday : Martin Webber, Gavin Davidson, Agnes Law, Victoria Foster, Shula Ramon, Kenneth Chow, John Devaney, Nehami Baum, Varda Soskolne, Ted McNeil, Surinder Guru, Kate Karban, Julie Fish.
The second European Social Work and Social Care Research Conference is planned for Basel, Switzerland in March 2012.
Sixth International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health in Dublin 2010
Lindsey Napier, Convenor of the Social Work and Health Inequalities Network was a member of the Scientific Committee and a number of Network members gave papers. Paul Bywaters, Roeberta Ochoa, Estelle Rubinstein and Lindsey Napier gave a keynote presentation on the IFSW Policy Statement.(http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/healthatwarwick/research/devgroups/socialwork/swhin/activities/ifsw.mp4) For details see: http://www.changinghealthdublin2010.com/
Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development: The Agenda, Hong Kong, China, 10th-15th June 2010
Paul Bywaters was involved in the development work for this first joint conference of the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work and the International Council on Social Welfare. A number of Network members were present and gave papers. For more details see: www.swsd2010.org This conference started the process of developing a Global Agenda for Social Work.
IFSW Congress, Salvador, Brazil 2008
Lindsey Napier and Paul Bywaters presented the draft IFSW Policy
on Health to the IFSW General Meeting and gave papers at the conference.
International Association of Schools of Social Work Congress in Durban – 2008
Ros Giles led the Network’s presence at this conference, and a number of members attended and gave presentations.
Fifth International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health in Hong Kong 2006 - http://www.swh2006.com/en/index.html
Members led themes and gave papers.
IFSW Congress Munich, Germany 2006
The Network was asked to lead a major theme on Health at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the founding of the International Federation of Social Workers conference in Munich in July/August. There was a major plenary session on health inequalities led by members of the Network (Paul Bywaters, Lindsey Napier, Vimla Nadkarni, Stephen Rose, Vishanthie Sewpaul) followed by a workshop in which the issues raised were discussed in more depth. A number of other members also gave papers at the conference.
For details of the papers given in the plenary session click on the links below:
Paul Bywaters: Tackling Health Inequalities Through Social Work: Analysis, Advocacy and Action
Vimla Nadkarni: The Human Rights Perspective in Health Social Work
Stephen Rose: Using Life Course Epidemiology to Inform Social Work Research & Practice
Lindsey Napier and Lesley Laing: Tackling Health Inequalities through Social Work
Vishanthie Sewpaul: At the heart of HIV/AIDS lies the politics of race, gender, sex, power, death and money. HIV is … just a virus … a metaphor … a human disaster
International Association of Schools of Social Work Congress in Chile - 2006
A number of members attended and gave papers.
