Social work research seminar – ‘Learning from research for contemporary social work practice’

Social work research seminar – ‘Learning from research for contemporary social work practice’

Would you like to enhance your social work knowledge base and evidence-based practice experience?

Do you want to learn more about research taking place in the region and how it can inform your social work practice?

We know that evidence-based practice is crucial to good social work. It helps keep us professionally curious.

However, in the busy world of front line social work , we know that it can be challenging to keep up to date with the latest research, to make sense of it and understand how it applies to the day to day issues that social workers deal with.

The West Midlands Social Work Teaching Partnership is committed to developing links between research and practice in social work. We want to support practitioners to engage with research that can help them with the real-world issues that they work with daily.

We are therefore hosting a series of quarterly Learning from Research Seminars which include a presentation from a researcher who will discuss a piece of research with key findings and messages for contemporary social work practice. Time is also allowed for questions and reflections for learning and moving forwards. These sessions will provide learning for both adults and children’s practitioners, with opportunity to feedback some messages from practice to help inform future research.

Our second seminar will be held on 17th February from 2pm – 3.30pm. This will be led by Simon Haworth will be presenting his research on child neglect and assessment, particularly, how we measure and assess child neglect.

‘Our systematic review ... adds to the formal knowledge base for neglect and provides a clear neglect typology to use. It sets out clearly what measurement issues are important and how to assess them, which is a useful contribution for future work in this area. The findings can support practitioners to undertake more focused, evidence-based and informed assessments’.

Session is available to members of the West Midlands Social Work Teaching Partnership only.

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