Friday 3rd October 2025, 1-2 pm (Irish time, same time as London, Lisbon). Click on the read more button to find out more about this free webinar. Click here to watch the webinar.

Presenters: Dr Jessica Toft, University of Minnesota School of Social Work, USA

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Tuesday 23rd September 2025, 1-2 pm (Irish time, same time as London, Lisbon). Click on the read more button to find out more about this free webinar. Click here to watch the webinar back.

Presenters: Professor David Wilkins, Cardiff University, Wales

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Tuesday 26th August 2025, 1-2 pm (Irish time, same time as London, Lisbon). Click on the read more button to find out more about this free webinar. Click here to watch the webinar.

Presenters: Dr Calvin Swords, @UCCsocialwork.

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Thursday 22nd May 2025, 1-2 pm (Irish time, same time as London, Lisbon). Click on the read more button to find out more about this free webinar. Click here to watch the webinar.

Presenters: Dr FIachra Ó Súilleabáin and Mary Hurley, @UCCsocialwork.

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Monday 25th November 2024, 1-2 pm. Click on the read more button to find out more about this free webinar.  No recording available.

Presenter: Professor Eleanor Bantry White, @UCCsocialwork. Click here to find out more about Eleanor's work.

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The Centre for Children’s Rights and Family Law at the School of Law, in conjunction with @UCCsocialwork, School of Applied Social Studies hosted this seminar with Dr. Hege Helland of the Centre for Discretion and Paternalism at the University of Bergen, Norway. The seminar took place at University College Cork on Thursday 3rd of October.

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Presenter: Dr. Hege Helland, Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA), University of Bergen, Norway

Decision making, assessment and risk in social work

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Presenter: Professor Brian Taylor, Ulster University, Northern Ireland

Find out more about his new co-edited book: The Sage Handbook of Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work (2023)

Using TikTok to Engage Young People in Child Protection in Finland: The Sossut Project

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Presenters: Camilla Jokela, Social and Emergency Services, Soite, Finland and Maija Haapala, Pesäpuu, Finland. Camilla and Maija are social workers in Finland who use Tik Tok to address child protection and children’s rights in a way that takes children and young people’s own media as a starting point. The TiKTok Sossut project seeks to ‘translate’ the practical language of child protection practice and policy for young people. The project also addresses misinformation in child protection as practitioners can’t talk about cases due to confidentiality. This project won a major Finnish government award in September 2023. Click here to view these TikToks. 

Methods of Transformative Participation in International Child Protection Contexts

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Monday 27th November 1-2. Click on the read more button to find out more about this free webinar. Click on the button a the top of the page or here to register.

Presenters: Professor Kati Križ, Emmanuel College Boston and Mimi Petersen, Ph.D, University College Copenhagen

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Reforming the Norwegian Child Protection System

Tuesday 27th June. Click on the read more button to find out more about this free webinar. 

Presenter: Professor Marit Skivenes, Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, University of Bergen, Norway

Joint webinar: @UCCsocialwork, School of Law, UCC and University of Bergen, Norway

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Family homelessness in Ireland: causes, impacts & issues for practice

Monday 12th June, 1-2pm (online). Click on read more button to find out more about this free webinar and to register. 

Presenter: Professor Cathal O'Connell, UCC

Click to watch this webinar (a new window will open). Date: 27th April 2023.

Presenters: Dr Kenneth Burns, Olwen Halvey and Dr Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin, University College Cork