Capitalism's economic cycles of crisis have increased inequality, welfare state retrenchment,
and precarity (Standing, 2011), and are also associated with wider social challenges …

In dealing with individual problems and difficulties, critical social work (CSW) is an
emancipatory practice which seeks to address social injustice. In this book the author draws …

Notions of self-help, individual responsibility,'choice'and freedom, and an extension of the
commodification of social relations all came to the fore, while social work became …

Decolonisation is redressing colonial legacies and reaffirming self-determination.
Understandings of decolonisation in social work field education literature were examined …

This article presents a detailed history of the development of social work education in
Northern Ireland from 1962 to 2020 as a chronology spanning 58 years. Policy map** was …

This article is based on research about language, terminology and representation in relation
to institutions in Ireland formerly known as 'Mother and Baby Homes'. Learning from this …

This article reports findings from a qualitative study of the impacts of, and practitioner
responses to, neoliberal social work reforms in Switzerland and England. The article …

Reflecting on an article authored by Hodge and Turner (2023) that ranks the “top” 100 social
work scholars, this article presents a multi-layered critique of the tradition of using …

Whereas, in the past, social work publications dealing with armed conflict were of interest to
a relatively small community; beginning with the Ukraine conflict, this issue has moved into …

Social work war studies that incorporate critical theory, including feminist, disability and crip
studies, and postcolonial approaches, can be used to respond to the needs of people living …