Lecture by Margrit Shildrick, Guest Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Date and time: 3-5pm on Monday, 23 May 2022

Venue: HUB 172 SHTEPPS

The Postgraduate Diploma in Youth Work (PDYW) students from the School of Applied Social Studies, under the mentorship of PDYW Course Director Pat Leahy, delivered a three-day 'Laskavo' (welcome in Ukrainian) induction program for 40 Ukrainian students taking part in the Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) 'Welcome to Ireland: An introduction to student life' programme'.

Síreacht series presents 

 Dr Eilís Ward 

"SELF in the time of neoliberalism: A radical appraisal" 

Tuesday April 26^th @2pm, CACSSS Seminar Room, G27 O’Rahilly Building, UCC 

Dr Eilís Ward is the author of Self, the fifth book published in the Síreacht series at Cork University Press. Eilís is a social scientist, zen practitioner and a psychotherapist who was lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, over many years and taught in several institutions of higher education in Ireland and internationally. 

Interested in a career in social work?

The selection process for the Master of Social Work / PGDSWS at UCC will close on the 7^thFebruary 2022. 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-workFollow 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. 

Charlotte is a second-year PhD student in the School of Applied Social Studies.  She received a 2021 Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship for her research.

Charlotte obtained her MSc in Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University in The Netherlands in 2018. Her MA thesis 'Moral Regimes and Public Discourses: Abortion Activism in Cork, Ireland' focused on the pro-choice and pro-life activism in preparation for the referendum on the Eighth Amendment in May 2018.

Charlotte's master’s thesis defence took place four days after the referendum had taken place in Ireland. By then, she already knew that she wanted to return to conduct PhD research in order to capture experiences with abortion in Ireland after the legalisation, and thus document a process that is crucial for the evolving context of women’s reproductive rights.

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). 

At 3.00pm on Thursday 11 March 2021, the School of Applied Social Studies (together with Women’s Studies and CASiLaC) will co-host a webinar on Posthuman Ethics with the renowned feminist theorist, Professor Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University.

A leading theorist of the posthuman condition, Rosi’s scholarship is in continental and feminist philosophy, at the intersection with social and political theory, cultural politics, gender, and postcolonial studies.

Sustainability and the Environment: Developing New Disciplinary Norms in the Social Professions

Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 12-2pm

Climate change and its social, cultural and economic impacts poses one of the most critical challenges of the 21st Century.  Climate change impacts are significant for populations all over the globe and lead to major challenges for front-line professionals, including those working in human services. 

Goal 13 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals refers to the need to educate populations in the causes and effects of climate change and in how human and natural ecologies are fundamentally entwined. This knowledge and awareness is essential for front-line professionals in the human services, including Social Workers, Youth Workers, Community Development Workers and healthcare workers such as Nurses and midwives. All of these professions work with individuals, families and communities in a diverse range of settings. Qualifying degree programmes in these professional areas must prepare graduates to work, lead and educate on climate change and the multiple challenges that stem from it.

Over 100 people participated in a webinar on Environmental Education in the Social Professions on Friday 6^th November, 2020.  The organisers are staff members from the School of Applied Social Studies Catherine Forde, Fiachra O Suilleabhain and Mary Hurley and Angela Flynn from the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

The Higher Diploma in Social Policy and the Postgraduate Diploma in Youth Work are being offered as part of UCC’s free or heavily-subsidised postgraduate and higher diploma places to those seeking to upskill or reskill under the Government's new Postgraduate Skills Provision initiative. 

Fees are subsidised by 90-100%.