Welcome to the Social Work Research podcast. In this podcast I talk to social work researchers about studies they have conducted. Each episode is a detailed conversation about one piece of research. We explore its background, methods, findings and implications for social work practice.
The aim of the podcast is to help make research more accessible to social work students and practitioners. It both contributes to students’ learning about social work research and provides a source of continuing professional development for new and more experienced practitioners.
In each podcast episode, conversations:
- explore the practice context for each study
- explain research terminology and methodology
- expand on ideas often presented very succinctly in research papers
- explore the relevance of the findings for social work practice
The podcast provides listeners with the opportunity to hear about research from researchers themselves and to find out a little more about them. It provides researchers with an opportunity to share their research findings with a wider audience and to highlight important features about it. A link to the full text of the research paper under discussion in each episode is provided for those wishing to extend their learning.
The podcast is available on Amazon, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Episodes
The links below take you to each episode which you can stream or download. Links are also provided to the papers under discussion.
- Skills improve outcomes – Donald Forrester
- Practice research – Lynette Joubert & Alys-Marie Manguy
- What’s the risk? – Hannah Jobling
- Domestic abuse inequalities – John Devaney
- On the up – Bryn Lloyd-Evans
- Talking about race – Jenny Threlfall
- Supporting decision-making – Gavin Davidson
- Triggering social work involvement – Jonathan Scourfield
- Making fathers relevant – Jon Symonds
- Religion and wellbeing – Kayonda Ngamaba
- The invisible child – Harry Ferguson
- Care Act implementation – Gareth O’Rourke
- Implementing systemic practice – Nanne Isokuortti
- Inequality and child welfare – Paul Bywaters
- Improving working conditions – Pia Tham
- What service users want – Mark Wilberforce
- Social work during Covid – Jill Manthorpe
- It’s time to ditch the ‘toxic trio’ – Rick Hood
- Intimate partner violence against men – Elizabeth Bates
- LGBT+ older people in lockdown – Trish Hafford-Letchfield
- Social work in times of conflict – Vasilios Ioakimidis
- Climate change and Covid in Zimbabwe – Louis Nyahunda
- Social media snooping – Arnold Thornton-Rice
- Social work parenting interventions – Jitka Vseteckova, Sally Boyle and Martyn Higgins
- Arts, nature and health – Helen Chatterjee
- Adoption and ethics – Brid Featherstone
- Reducing child protection interventions – Ella Kuskoff
- Communicating with children and families – Gillian Ruch
- Mindfulness for social workers – Alan Maddock
- Digital learning – Amanda Taylor-Beswick
- Breaking bad news – Marte Tonning Otterlei
- Overcoming barriers to engagement – Louise Newbould
- Kinship care – Paul Shuttleworth
- Parents’ views of social workers – Mary Baginsky
- Supporting older carers – Stacey Rand
- Small talk in social work – Clara Iversen
- Migration of social workers – Yohai Hakak
- Preventing child sexual abuse – Mengyao Lu
- Timebanking in adult social care – Ruth Naughton-Doe
- Social workers’ experiences of bureaucracy – Katheryn Margaret Pascoe
- Physical activity for disabled people – Brett Smith
- Teaching and learning communication skills – Emma Reith-Hall and Paul Montgomery
- Relationship-based practice – Liz Beddoe and Lisa Warwick
- Mental health of young carers – Ludmila Fleitas-Alfonzo and Tania King
- Violence during adolescence and mental health – Helen Fisher
- Discretion in child protection social work – Ciarán Murphy
- Contextual safeguarding – Carlene Firmin
- Social work professional identity – Bernadette Moorhead
- Strengths-based approaches – James Caiels
- Results to practice – Christa Fouche
Podnotes
Some templates for your podnotes to assist your learning and reflections from episodes of the Social Work Research Podcast can be found here.
Using the podcast for your learning and professional development
I’ve created the following video to provide an introduction to the podcast and how it can be used for your learning and professional development. I also provide some suggestions how they can be used with students to assist their learning about research methods or particular aspects of social work practice.
Working group
The podcast is supported by a working group of social work practitioners, students, researchers and service users. This group helps to advise on the content and direction of the podcast.
Members of the working group are currently working on shorter Research Roundup episodes to provide quick, accessible summaries of new research of relevance for social workers. If you are interested in joining the working group and contributing to this, please drop us a line at swresearchpodcast@gmail.com.
Further information about this can be found here.
Thank you!