Insights #14 In this Episode Stephen talks to Barbara Starn about mindfulness and her book The Mindful Social Worker: Living Your Best Social Work Life published by Critical Publishing Available here https://www.criticalpublishing.com/the-mindful-social-worker and here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindful-Social-Worker-Living-social/dp/1915080355 ..read more

Jamie, George and Stephen - three friends - delve into some philosophical ideas and think about the impact on them as social workers and on social work practice. This time they are joined by Freya Scorer as they talk about Social Work as a job, an art and a science, and try to decide which it is ..read more

They're at it again - the Beers and Ideas amigos - Jamie, George and Stephen - three friends delve into some philosophical ideas and think about the impact on them as social workers and on social work practice. This time it's Adorno and the Yale lock - capitalism, revolution, and social work ..read more

In this episode Stephen looks at the dirty word that is Resilience. Having spotted on Twitter that someone was outraged that their wife had been told to 'bake a cake' as this would help build resilience Stephen wanted to explore resilience and try to promote the positive aspects of resilience building and resilience in general... noting however that baking a cake results in no more than having a cake that you've baked. Resilience is dependent on two things - yes - what we do ourselves but also the environment we then have to do what we do in ..read more

In this episode of the podcast Stephen talks to George Bull, Social Work Shorts writer, looking at his latest article Social Work Change, Priti Patel and Gauss  Linear and non-linear Problems. You can find the article here http://www.socialworkshorts.co.uk/2022/06/16/social-work-change-priti-patel-and-gauss-linear-and-non-linear-problems/ And here are some links to things that get mentioned in the podcast and the article! Gauss the prince of maths (In our TIme) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gbnfj Lorenz - In Our Time Chaos theory https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548f6 Strang ..read more

In this episode of the podcast Stephen talks to Angela Kirwin author of 'Criminal: How Our Prisons Are Failing Us All' about the reality of being 'behind the wall'. You can find out more about Angela here - https://www.angelakirwin.com/  You can buy her book here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Criminal-How-Our-Prisons-Failing/dp/1398705837 and from other places ..read more

In this episode of the podcast Stephen talks to fellow Social Work Shorts writer George Bull about his latest article "Churning the soil - Caring Professions - and Madonna". You can find the article here - George explores how, like soil, when a work force is depleted it can't function to do its job ..read more

In the latest episode of the Social Work Podcast Insights series Stephen talks to Matt Graham Senior Lecturer in Social Work at UCLAN and co-author of A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 about some aspects of the Mental Capacity Act You can buy Matt's book here If you want to join us it would be good to have a discussion over on our Discord Server which you can link to at this link Social Works Shorts brings you Social Work UK on Discord You will need to download the app and/or create an account ..read more

In the latest episode of the Social Work Podcast Insights series Stephen and George talk about risk in light of the murder of Arthur and the media response to the Social Work Profession. There are show notes here We acknowledge this is a difficult topic and that there may be a range of views. It would be good to have a discussion over on our Discord Server which you can link to at this link Social Works Shorts brings you Social Work UK on Discord You will need to download the app and/or create an account ..read more

Social Work Shorts brings you Insights into social issues In this Episode I talk to @SingleDadSW about his Food is Care campaign #FoodisCare ..read more