Programme
The summary conference programme provides details of the keynote speakers and session times over the two days.
The information below was up-to-date as of the 26th June, but more changes have been made since then, with last minute withdrawals etc. Registered conference delegates should use the programme in the conference MS Teams channel, rather than the information below, because it will be the most up to date
If you have any questions about the programme or any other aspects of the conference, please contact jswec@cardiff.ac.uk.
Day one: Thursday 8 July 2021
| Session | Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Conference Introduction | 9.00 - 9.15 | Introduction from JUC SWEC Chair and conference organisers |
| Plenary 1: Keynote Speaker | 9.15-10.15 | Reclaiming the role of the 'social' in the care and support of older people, with Alisoun Milne (University of Kent) |
| Parallel Session A | 11.00-12.00 | Presentations and symposiums |
| Parallel Session B | 13.00-14.00 | Presentations and symposiums |
| Plenary 2: Keynote Speakers | 14.30-15.30 | Alliances between universities and service users with Jadwiga Leigh (Lancaster University) and Mellisa Hempenstall (Peer Mentor Lead) from the New Beginnings project. |
| Parallel Session C | 16.00-17.00 | Presentations and symposiums |
| Fringe Meetings | 17.00 - 18.00 | Fringe sessions |
Day two: Friday 9 July 2021
| Session | Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fringe Sessions | 8.00 - 9.00 | Fringe sessions |
| Plenary 3: Panel Discussion | 9.00 - 10.00 | A panel discussion about social work and politics with Mark Drakeford (First Minister of Wales), Hilary Armstrong (former UK Government Minister) and Julie Morgan (Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services in the Welsh Government) |
| Parallel Session D | 10.30 - 11.50 | Presentations and symposiums |
| Poster Discussion | 12.30 - 1.00 | Poster authors available to discuss their posters (which are on display throughout the conference) |
| Plenary 4: Keynote Speaker | 13.00-14.00 | Intersectionality and social work education: Claudia Bernard (Goldsmiths, University of London) |
| Parallel Session E | 14.30-15.50 | Presentations and symposiums |
| Plenary 4: Closing Remarks | 16.00 - 16.30 | Closing remarks and 2022 conference announcement |
Running order for JSWEC 2021 parallel sessions
| Session ID | Time slot | All presenters and Title of Presentations |
|---|---|---|
| A:1 | 11:00-12:00 8 July Chair: David Westlake | Alyson Rees - An evaluation of the Fostering Wellbeing programme Peter Nelson, Richard Martin - What makes a looked after child happy or unhappy? Shannon Billett, Lorna Stabler - How can support care work to reduce the need for children to be in care: using stakeholder knowledge to produce programme theory |
| A:2 | 11:00-12:00 8 July Chair: Janet Melville-Wiseman | Amanda Taylor-Beswick - Digitising social work education: when incidental learning isn't enough Emily Rosenorn-Lanng, Sally Lee, Stevie Corbin-Clarke - The development of game based-learning (GBL) to enhance social work education Sarah Brown, Anne Kelly, Eleni Skoura-Kirk - Using video analysis to develop communication skills in social work students |
| A:3 | 11:00-12:00 8 July Chair: Aimee Cummings | Anthony Charles - The rise of Welsh 'neo-welfare'?: What children say Rachel Parker - A community development approach for adolescent self-harm: exploring community-based perspectives for preventative intervention support in Wales. |
| A:4 | 11:00-12:00 8 July Chair: Catrin Wallace | Dan Jones - Small steps, big aspirations: How research has influenced practice in a Welsh local authority Maria Clark, Gillian Ruch - Promoting emotional literacy and cultures of care in children’s safeguarding contexts: Introducing Kitbag resources to multi-agency community workers. |
| A:5 | 11:00-12:00 8 July Chair: Hugh Mclaughlin | Anna Harvey - Climate Social Work - the trauma of a foreclosed future and what we can do to help Mary Hurley, Fiachra Ó Suilleabhain, Catherine Forde - Ongoing research and pedagogical endeavours in developing a new trans-disciplinary module on Sustainability, Environmental and Social Justice Issues in Professional Practice in University College Cork, Ireland Jaime Ortiz, Jo Redcliffe - The inclusion of economics training within social work education: An international comparison |
| A:6 | 11:00-12:00 8 July Chair: Cindy Corliss | Vivi Antonopoulou, David Westlake, David Wilkins - Working with complex cases: A comparative analysis of quality of practice for Child in Need and Child Protection cases within Children’s Services in a UK local authority Suzanne Triggs - From transmission to transformation: How using coaching enabled children’s social workers to enhance their practice & fulfil their vocational aspirations |
| A:7 | 11:00-12:00 8 July Chair: Tom Slater | Jo Finch, David McKendrick - Using WhatsApp as a discursive and reflective space: academic-eese, colloquialism and swimming hell Jason Schaub - Does social work want more men? Jo Warner - Mind the gap: Building social work research capacity through an equalities framework |
| A:8 | 11:00-12:00 8 July | Allison Hulmes (Chair) - Meeting of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Social Work Association @GRTSWAssoc |
| SA1 | 11:00-12:00 8 July Chair: Fiachra Ó Suilleabháin | Symposium - Risk versus rights: current challenges in Irish social work practice regarding assessment of adult disclosures of childhood sexual abuse Fiachra Ó Suilleabháin - Non-recent allegations of abuse: Socio-historic contexts, contemporary responses, professional dilemmas Geraldine O'Sullivan - Irish social workers' experiences of assessing adult disclosures of childhood sexual abuse: The challenge of balancing risk and rights Joseph Mooney - Helping adults tell: Incorporating the EU victims directive into the assessment of retrospective disclosures of childhood sexual abuse |
| Session ID | Time slot | All presenters and Title of Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| B:1 | 1:00-2:00 8 July Chair: Alyson Rees | Dharman Jeyasingham, Julie Morton - How do black and minority ethnic students experience social work programmes and how do lecturers make sense of these students’ experiences? Findings from research in England and Norway Bob Cecil - Informed consent or control? Disquieting reflections on ethics and young service users' participation in social work education Humaira Hussain, Jan Parker - Neonate simulators: Enhancing social work practitioners' knowledge of problem substance use during pregnancy |
| B:2 | 1:00-2:00 8 July Chair: Donald Forrester | Liz Beddoe, Harry Ferguson - Supervision in child protection: Space and time, containment or confinement? Rosemary Vito - Social work leadership revisited: Participatory versus directive approaches during service system transformation |
| B:3 | 1:00-2:00 8 July Chair: Hannah Bayfield | Kevin Brazant - Promoting positive father involvement Simon Haworth - Social work with single fathers |
| B:4 | 1:00-2:00 8 July Chair: Louise O’Connor | Neil Gibson - Therapeutic photography in social work
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| B:5 | 1:00-2:00 8 July Chair: Dan Burrows | Alison Tarrant - Independent living and adult social care Jo Redcliffe, Jaime Ortiz - The impact of social work education on students’ knowledge of and attitudes towards disability issues: An international comparison |
| B:6 | 1:00-2:00 8 July Chair: Jo Finch | Clive Diaz, Sarah Thompson - Rationing social services: What are the key considerations for social workers when distributing devolved budgets? Phil Smith, Martin Elliott - Child welfare inequalities in Wales: Practice and prevention |
| B:7 | 1:00-2:00 8 July Chair: Sarah Thompson | Helen Hodges - Do we care more in Wales? Helen Whincup, Margaret Grant - Permanently progressing? Building secure futures for children in Scotland: Phase One findings June Thoburn - Using administrative data to improve planning for child and family placements |
| B:8 | 1:00-2:00 8 July | Editors of social work journals (Chair John Devaney) Meet the editors - Advice for potential authors of journal papers from: Jane Fenton (Social Work Education); Steven Shardlow (Journal of Social Work) |
| SB1 | 1:00-2:00 8 July Chair: Gillian Ruch | Symposium - Giving voice and being heard: The role of recordkeeping in children’s social care Gillian Ruch and Perpetua Kirby - What do we mean by ‘giving children voice’ and how do children know when their voice has been heard? Elizabeth Shepherd - 'My lack of voice’: human-centred recordkeeping Rebecca Watts - Me and my world: Child-centred relationships and records in practice |
| Session ID | Time Slot | All Presenters and Title of Presentations |
|---|---|---|
| C:1 | 4:00-5:00 8 July Chair: Louise Roberts | Autumn Roesch-Marsh - The importance of transition experiences for wellbeing; reflections on a study of BME, refugee, and migrant children’s transitions from early years to primary education in Scotland Bridget Ng'andu, Sweta Rajan-Rankin - Bordering and navigating hostile environments: Advocating for asylum seekers and refugees through Social Work Without Borders (SWWB) Yohai Hakak, Sehrish Ali, Chipo Maendesa -Parenting in mixed families in contemporary London: a comparative perspective |
| C:2 | 4:00-5:00 8 July Chair: Martin Elliott | Steven M Shardlow, Honglin Chen, Echo YW Yeung - Using “self-efficacy” as an outcome measure in programme evaluation Rosemary Vito - How do social work leaders understand and ideally practice leadership? A synthesis of core leadership practices |
| C:3 | 4:00-5:00 8 July Chair: Helen Hodges | Anita Franklin, Geraldine Brady - Effectiveness of child sexual abuse services from the perspectives of young people with learning disabilities/learning difficulties Jane Hernon - Disabled young people’s social workers and experiences of child protection enquiries and their aftermath Wahida Kent - Who supports the families of Black and Minority Ethnic children with life-limiting conditions? |
| C:4 | 4:00-5:00 8 July Chair: Sam Baron | Ed Janes - Ethics, recruitment and confidentiality: Young carers research in the school environment Pam Alldred, Fin Cullen - How to show care in social work education? |
| C:5 | 4:00-5:00 8 July Chair: Anthony Charles | Christine Cocker - Transitional safeguarding: Transforming how adolescents and young adults are safeguarded Lauren Wroe - The role of surveillance in safeguarding responses to extra familial harm: watching over or working with? |
| C:6 | 4:00-5:00 8 July Chair: Colette Mcauley | Sue Taplin - Social work with older people: An interprofessional approach to practice learning Maxine Taylor - The impact of social work education on police work |
| C:7 | 4:00-5:00 8 July Chair: Jane Mclenachan | Fiona Templeton - "My Experience of School - The Perspective of Adoptees aged 16-21 years" Michael Arribas-Ayllon - Genetic testing and adoption: on the intolerance of uncertainty |
| SC1 | 4:00-5:00 8 July Chair: Gillian Ruch | Symposium - From practitioner to practice supervisor: Exploring pedagogic practices for professional development Jo Williams and Gillian Ruch - Learning to learn: Reflections on the development and delivery of the PSDP model of teaching and learning Adi Staempfli and Jo Williams - The deep dive: practice development through individual and small group reflective spaces Alison Domakin and Jo Williams - Closing the circle: Engaging the sector in embedding the learning from the PSDP |
| SC2 | 4:00-5:00 8 July Chair: Rick Hood | Symposium - Inspecting Inspection: The nature and impact of government inspection on social work with children and families Rick Hood - Reflexive regulation: Exploring the impact of Ofsted inspections on children’s social care services Vivi Antonopoulou, David Wilkins - OFSTED and children’s services: What performance indicators and other factors are associated with better inspection results? A critical analysis of the evidence based on two studies Harry Ferguson and Matthew Gibson - What do Ofsted inspectors actually do? Inspection methodology and data as a form of knowledge about social work with children and families |
| Session ID | Time Slot | All Presenters and Title of Presentations |
|---|---|---|
| D:1 | 10:30-11:50 9 July Chair: Clive Diaz | Jane McLenachan - Social work education in Scotland: what differentiates us makes us stronger? Joe Hanley - Comprehensive social work education: A pipe dream whose time has come Pat Cartney - Manchester Poverty Truth Commission revisited Hugh Mclaughlin, Helen Scholar - ‘Shall I go or shall I stay?’ Children and family social workers' intentions to leave or remain in social work |
| D:2 | 10:30-11:50 9 July Chair: Verity Bennett | Anna Gupta, Mr Tim Fisher, Ms Annie Bertram, Clarissa Stevens - Changing the stories and the story-tellers: Reflections on a family- led child protection enquiry David Westlake, Cindy Corliss - What can the ‘Social Workers in Schools’ pilots teach us about multi-agency working? Eleanor Lutman-White - The nature and extent of parental participation in child protection conferences Godfred Boahen, Sarah Brown -Family group conferences: Identifying outcomes desired by families and professionals |
| D:3 | 10:30-11:50 9 July Chair: Paula Beesley | Julie Lawrence - Community Development: the promotion of staff well-being supporting local citizens who experience personal hardship due to poverty Pearse McCusker - Critical mindfulness in social work: Self-care as anti-oppressive practice in the journey from student to social worker Jim Greer - Experiences of emotional support within social work supervision Louise O'Connor - Reclaiming the role of emotions in social work: Learning from an ethnographic study |
| D:4 | 10:30-11:50 Session in Welsh with simultaneous translation to English Chair: Ceryl Davies | Ceryl Teleri Davies - Camdriniaeth teulu ‘cudd’: Archwiliad o gamdriniaeth plentyn tuag at riant / gofalwr. (Invisible family abuse: An exploration of child to parent/carer abuse) Mike Thomas - Ymchwilio i effaith priodas a phartneriaethau sifil ar gyplau LHD: goblygiadau ar gyfer gwaith cymdeithasol (Investigating the impact of marriage and civil partnerships on LGB couples: implications for social work) Tirion Havard - Partneriaid mewn troseddau: Ydy ffônau symudol yn cymryd rhan cyfrinachol mewn rheolaeth orfodol? (Partners in crime: Do mobiles phone secretly participate in coercive control?) Miriam Leigh, Angela Rees - Defnyddio cynllunio ieithyddol a dull mesh i adeiladu cymuned ddysgu ddwyieithog – adeiladu breuddwyd bensaernïol (Using language planning and a mesh approach to construct a bilingual learning community – building an architectural dream) |
| D:5 | 10:30-11:50 9 July Chair: Jo Redcliffe | Autumn Roesch-Marsh - Care leavers, mental health and social media Eavan Brady - Exploring diversity in the educational pathways of care-experienced adults: Findings from a life course study of education and care Joe Janes - The role and influence of Welsh youth offending teams in the context of pre-devolution youth justice in wales Sally Pritchard - Should I stay or should I go? Exploring the decisions made by young people in foster care as they turn 18. |
| D:6 | 10:30-11:50 9 July Chair: Jo Williams | Cassian Rawcliffe - Narrative interviews in social work research and practice: Learning from the stories of male survivors of intimate partner abuse John Devaney, Eva Alisic, Claire Houghton - Issues of identity for young people bereaved by domestic homicide Kimberly Detjen - Developing an understanding of the interactions between child protection social workers and women who have been subjected to domestic abuse |
| D:7 | 10:30-11:50 9 July Chair: Zoe Bezeczky | Alyson Rees, Tom Slater - A multi-disciplinary review of Child Practice Reviews in Wales Angela Endicott - An exploration of the interplay between child protection practice, parental substance misuse and inequality. Kim Holt, Nancy Kelly -‘Children not trophies’: an ethnographic study of private family law practice in England. |
| D:8 | 10:30-11:50 9 July Chair: Frank Keating | Christine Cocker, Anna Wright, Heidi Dix - Evaluation of two statutory placement experiences on the qualifying Social Work programmes at University of East Anglia and University of Suffolk Emma Perry, David Hambling - Practicing for practice – evaluating simulated learning experiences on a social work qualifying programme and its impacts on preparing social work students for practice Liz Beddoe, Allen Bartley, Neil Ballantyne, Lisa King, Kendra Cox - Practising what we preach: The impact of placements on social work student hardship and stress in Aotearoa New Zealand |
| D:9 | 10:30-11:50 9 July | Kish Bhatti-Sinclair (Chair) - Meeting of Social Work Education Anti-Racist Network (SWEARN). Black Lives Matter in Social Work |
| SD1 | 10:30-11:50 9 July Chair: Annie Williams | Symposium - Secure Accommodation in the UK: Gaps in services and knowledge Hannah Bayfield and Annie Williams - Too many snakes and not enough ladders: journeys in and out of secure accommodation Ross Gibson - Findings from The Scottish Secure Care Research Group Sophie Wood - Secure accommodation: Best outcomes for vulnerable young people Emma Miller - Bridging the gap to promote hope in secure care |
| Session ID | Time Slot | All Presenters and Title of Presentations |
|---|---|---|
| E:1 | 2:30-3:50 9 July Chair: David Wilkins | Daniel Burrows - Negotiating relationships in multi-disciplinary work: Lessons from a hospital social work team Janet Melville-Wiseman - Illusions of consent – Police and Crown Prosecution Service responses to victims of professional sexual abuse in mental health services Jill Hemmington - Approved mental health professionals’ decision-making in mental health act assessments Frank Keating - A life course approach to mental health recovery for African and Caribbean men |
| E:2 | 2:30-3:50 9 July Chair: Amanda Filchett | Barbara Neale - Contemporary social work practice: The struggles of transforming yesterday’s professional skill set Kim Robinson - Social work education steps up to family violence. Responding to the Royal Commission into Family Violence recommendations, Victoria Australia Miriam Leigh - Teaching law to social work students – Super-imposing two models and developing a narrative approach |
| E:3 | 2:30-3:50 9 July Chair: Patricia Cartney | Tirion Havard - “From postcodes to profit”: Girls in gangs in Waltham Forest Ceryl Teleri Davies - This is abuse? Voices of young women on the meaning(s) of intimate partner abuse Kristine Hickle, Michelle Lefevre, Rachel Larkin - Understanding and addressing the emergent challenge of child criminal exploitation Lauren Wroe - Social Harm Theory and ‘county lines’: supporting the sector to keep children safe |
| E:4 | 2:30-3:50 9 July Chair: Sue Taplin | Sally Lee - Partnerships to promote sexual well-being Paschal Gumadwong Bagonza - ‘...I don’t get too deep because when you become too close you can’t hide yourself no more’: ‘Queer’ asylum seekers and refugees in the UK (still) flaunting ‘it’ under wraps Karl Mason, Christine Cocker, Trish Hafford-Letchfield - Sexuality and religion in the social work classroom: Exploring the implications of a court of appeals judgment for social work educators |
| E:5 | 2:30-3:50 9 July Chair: Vivi Antonopoulou | Holly Nelson-Becker and Jason Codrington - What is the place of spirituality and religion in health and social care with older people? Jeremy Dixon - How social workers engage with carers during adult safeguarding work: The use of ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ risk management strategies Jon Hyslop - The contribution of peer networks to community development: Lessons from personalisation |
| E:6 | 2:30-3:50 9 July Chair: Mel Meindl | Dawn Mannay - Enabling talk and reframing messages: Working creatively with care experienced children and young people to recount and revisualize their educational experiences Jen Lyttleton-Smith, Pippa Anderson - The development of ‘well-being’ discourse in the UK and its implications for social care policy and practice Lee Evans - The value of independent advocacy andthe voice of unaccompanied asylum seeking children Tracey Race - Hearing the voice of the child in child protection processes |
| E:7 | 2:30-3:50 9 July Chair: Rachel Parry Hughes | Andrea Cooper - Time to care in social work Denise Tanner, Mo Ray, co-researcher - Minding our business: the significance of older self-funders to social work Paul Willis, Liz Lloyd, Denise Tanner - Identifying innovative and distinctive social work practice with older adults: a study of social work in multi-professional teams in England |
| E:8 | 2:30-3:50 | Andrew Borwick-Fox - Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE): Exploring and understanding social workers decision-making and practices with children identified as being at risk of CSE. Clive Diaz, Nathaniel Wilson, Laura Vincent - Professional perspectives on contextual safeguarding: Astudy in one local authority Kish Bhatti-Sinclair - Impactful impact: Acase study on child sexual exploitation and race discrimination Lauren Hill, Clive Diaz - An exploration of how gender stereotypes influence how practitioners identify and respond to young people at risk of child sexual exploitation |
| E:9 | 2:30-3:50 9 July | Colette McAuley and Hugh McLaughlin (Chairs) - Meeting of the Four nations social work PhD network |
List of Posters
| Name | Posters |
|---|---|
| 1. Aisha Howells and Caroline Bald | The 4 Cs Model of Wellbeing Education: Exploring support for social work students’ wellbeing and development of professional resilience |
| 2. Annabel Goddard | Assessments in children's social work: Running the risk of losing relationships |
| 3. Emma Speer | Enduring relationships & commitment: experiences of adolescent entrants to foster care and foster carers |
| 4. HeeSoon Lee | A pilot study of assessing readiness of social work students’ field work using Q methodology |
| 5. HeeSoon Lee | Past, present, and future role of the senior center to promote aging in place: Historical analysis of the evolution of the wood county committee on aging (WCCOA) in Ohio, USA |
| 6. Jackie Lelkes | What factors impact on and inform social workers decision-making, when applying the Mental Capacity Act (2005) to practice? |
| 7. Jahnine Davis | Where are the black girls? Acontinuum of devaluation, silenced within the home, research, policy and practice |
| 8. Jane Hernon | Making connections: Involving practitioner and experts by experience in social work education: insights from one teaching partnership |
| 9. Joe Strong | Gerontological social work education: Where's the neuroscience? a literature review |
| 10. Joe Strong | Implications of neuroplasticity in gerontological social work |
| 11. Kate Parkinson and Deanna Edwards | Family group conferences: An opportunity to re-frame responses to the abuse of older people? |
| 12. Maryam Bham | The AstonProject as a vehicle for community development |
| 13. Paula Beesley | Supporting social work students to maximise their engagement on placement by understanding their strengths, learning needs and learning styles |
| 14. Rachel Parry Hughes | The New Town Culture Programme |
| 15. Sally Nieman | Exploring the social work role in relation to older people in care homes within the context of strengths-based practice |
| 16. Siliba Sibanda | Traversing the urban casework approach and the rural developmental social work model |
| 17. Stephanie Green | Intergenerational care in Wales: Where next? |
| 18. Vivian J. Miller | A value-critical policy analysis of Medicare Part B: A focus on Latin/x and African American older adults |
| 19. Vivian J. Miller | Transportation is critical to community connectedness: Family members visitation to residents in nursing homes and the social determinants of mental health |
Fringe Events
| Timetable slot | Fringe event organiser and Event Title |
|---|---|
| 17:00-18:00 Thursday 8 July | Caroline Bald, Aaron Wyllie and Ines Martinez - Collateral consequences of criminal records and social work education: An agenda for change Kieron Hatton,Jan Parker, Humaira Hussain, Jo Redcliffe, Tracey Maegusku-Hewett - Creativity and Simulation Janet Melville-Wiseman - Legal protection of title –how far should this extend? Paul Willis - Sexuality and Social Work Special Interest Group: Annual UK meeting Sue Taplin and Paula Beesley - Social Work Student Placements in a time of remote learning: how COVID-19 has impacted practice learning opportunities Paula McFadden - Social Work Workforce Wellbeing Event June Thoburn - The place of political activism within social work: Lessons from the first seven years of Labour Social Work Group |
| 8:00-9:00 Friday 9 July | Kirsten Morley and Lisa Warwick - How do we stop our social work students from turning into robots? Instilling long-lasting principles of values-based practice Jo Warner - Social Work Legitimacy |