SWHIN (Social Work and Health Inequalities Network) UPDATE
September 2011
SWHIN Newsletter
Greetings on World Social Work Day
The September newsletter brings together details of a range of projects that SWHIN members are currently engaged in. They include an online symposium funded through IASSW on Pacific rim perspectives, symposium planned for the Stockholm conference, a collaborative proposal for a workshop to the European conference for social work research and an update on the Global Agenda for Social Work. We think you will agree that the network is a vibrant way of collaborating to promote social justice and equality.
International Teleconference Symposium November 9th 2011
Translating global perspectives on health inequalities research into social work education – Pacific rim perspective
Presenters:
Dr Rosalie Pockett (University of Sydney) (Co-ordinator)
Dr Liz Beddoe (University of Auckland)
Prof Paul Bywaters & Dr Eileen McLeod (University of Warwick, UK)
Dr Joan Yoo (Seoul National University)
Videocast available post symposium on the SWHIN website: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/swhin
There are two symposia proposals from SWHIN:
Symposium on Health Inequalities and the Social Work Curriculum
This symposium offers an international perspective on the place of health inequalities in the social work curriculum, bringing together a range of approaches and experiences from within the Social Work and Health Inequalities Network.
Symposium participants:
Kate Karban
Dr Julie Fish
Dr Rosalie Pockett
Prof. Shula Ramon
Dr Liz Beddoe
Symposium on Migration: challenges and possibilities.
This symposium will explore some implications of globalised migration for health inequalities and the action which social work and social development can take to mitigate these effects.
Symposium participants:
Prof. Paul
Dr. Varda Soskolne
Dr. Blanca Ramos
Dr Christa Fouché
Dr. Eva Moya
Deadline for individual member’s abstracts is November 30, 2011
http://www.swsd-stockholm-2012.org/Callabstracts.aspx
Coming soon......Social Work, Health and Mental Health conference in Los Angeles, June 2013.
Look out for information.
2nd European Conference for Social Work Research
Keynote speakers:
Sue White from the University of Birmingham “Efficiency, Effectiveness and the Misrepresentation of the Social: Designing humane European Social Work Services”;
Jeanne Marsh from the University of Chicago together with Daniel Gredig from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland “Research, Development and Innovation in Social Work Practice: European and American Perspectives”.
SWHIN members activity
Workshop proposal:
submitted by three network members (Varda Soskolne, Peter Beresford and Lynette Joubert).
For further details see the website:
http://web.fhnw.ch/plattformen/ecswr/
Global Agenda for Social Work
In response to the first consultation on the global agenda, SWHIN emphasised the importance of social work’s contribution to reducing health inequalities across the four key themes:
The global agenda is will be submitted IFSW, IASSW and ICSW to the UN Secretary General in March 2012.
For further details see the website:
http://www.globalsocialagenda.org/
Kate Karban
September 2011
