There will be a conference in The Dora Allman Room, UCC on March 10th, 2023 to celebrate 25 years of Early Years in UCC. 

Click on the link below to view the conference poster which gives details of the conference speakers etc.  

Interested in a career in social work?

The selection process for the Master of Social Work / PGDSWS at UCC will close on the 6^th February 2023. Further information: https://www.ucc.ie/mswk . FAQs: See attached brochure and https://www.ucc.ie/en/msw/ . The MSW is a CORU accredited course. More information about a career in social work: https://iasw.ie/iasw-career-in-social-work Follow us on Twitter for updates: @UCCsocialwork

The book written by Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak, and published in 2022 by Bristol University Press, is concerned with how diverse fields of social policy intersect with crime control in ways that they did in the past but also in new ways, which deploy very troubling strategies. The book is set in an international context and in the first chapter, the criminalisation of social policy scholarship is comprehensively reviewed.  The seven subsequent chapters delve into specific criminalisation of social policy examples from diverse country contexts in areas such as work and welfare; borders and migration; family policy; homelessness policy and reintegration of justice-involved persons.  In the final chapter, readers are asked to consider how we might reclaim the best of ‘social’ in social policy for the times in which we are living.

NPTSWI Newsletter is the first edition of the National Practice Teaching in Social Work Initiative’s newsletter. In the edition, you can read more about this exciting project, find out who is part of the NPTSWI team, and hear directly from practice teachers. 

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the development of social work and social science in UCC by providing dynamic, outward-looking and collegiate leadership to support the evoluation and accrediation of social work education.  

The closing date for applications is 12 noon (Irish local time) on Tuesday, 31st January, 2023.

School of Applied Social Studies, in association with Women’s Studies, Research Seminar

Date: Friday, 15th October 2021

Time: 11am-1pm, Friday

Venue: ORB 244

Autoethnography as a feminist methodology: Bearing witness and being witness

Dr Christine S. Davis, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Dr Christine S. Davis, PhD, is an autoethnographic, poetic, and aesthetic ethnographer. She is a Professor of Health Communication at UNC-Charlotte, a poet, and an artist. She is a Fulbright Scholar, and writes and teaches at the intersection of contemplative and arts-based methods of understanding, and health, specifically in the areas of women and children’s health, end-of-life communication, and family disability.

She studies people with illnesses and conditions that are incurable as they face revisions in their personal identity and narrative and negotiate the liminal spaces between ‘well’ and ‘unwell,’ alive and dead, and power and marginalization. She teaches courses in Health Humanities, End-of-Life Communication, Healthcare Narratives, and Research Methods. Her most recent book, The Personal is Political: Body Politics in a Trump World (2020, Brill-Sense), was co-edited with Dr Jon Crane and is a narrative exploration of bodies affected by contemporary politics.

“CREATING SAFE SPACES IN MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES” 

10 NOVEMBER 2021 (ONLINE) 

SCHOOL OF APPLIED SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CRITICAL VOICES NETWORK IRELAND AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ONLINEVENTS 

This year the Conference will once again revert to a 1-day online event, on 10 November 2021. We hope that, like last year, you’ll join us in making the online Conference a success! Onlinevents are our partners again this year. 

Arts, Culture and Community Development was published in July 2021 and launched online on September 16th 2021. Edited by Rosie Meade of the School of Applied Social Studies, UCC, and Mae Shaw of the University of Edinburgh, it is the seventh book in the Rethinking Community Development Series that is published by Policy Press (Series editors: Mae Shaw, Rosie Meade and Sarah Banks). 

The School of Applied Social Studies as part of its Seminar Series 2022-23 presents a Seminar by Adjunct Professor Mary McDermott (CEO of Safe Ireland)

Date: Tuesday, 22nd November, 2022.

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: BHSC G.04

The latest addition of the National Practice Teaching in Social Work Initiative (NPTSWI) E-Newsletter can be found here: NPTSWI Winter 2022 e-Newsletter