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Street-Level Bureaucrats: Discretion and Compliance in Policy Implementation

11 Dec 2020

Prof Tony Evans’ article “Street-Level Bureaucrats: Discretion and Compliance in Policy Implementation” has just been published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.

Mental health research is racist, so what are we all going to do about it?

23 Oct 2020

Forthcoming - Mental Health Question Time webinar featuring Prof Frank Keating, Department of Social Work, School of Law & Social Sciences.

Engaging with the complexities of sexuality, religion and social work

29 Sep 2020

Department of Social Work Lecturer Karl Mason, alongside colleagues from UEA and University of Strathclyde, has published an important article in the Journal of Social Work Education.

Ethnographic research on the constructions and uses of emotions in social work practice

29 Sep 2020

Dr Louise O’Connor recently completed ethnographic research on the constructions and uses of emotions in social work practice, a significantly under-researched area.

Social Work under Covid-19

29 Sep 2020

How does social work happen in a pandemic? What has been the impact of Covid 19 and ‘lockdown’ on people use services, practitioners and the wider community?

Celebrating the Black Lives Matter movement

29 Sep 2020

Celebrating and marking the Black Lives Matter movement and world-shaping black influencers - Gaverne Bennett, MSc social work student, creates a new 2020 edition of groundbreaking black history timel

The Department of Social Work welcomes Dr. Yuval Saar-Heiman

25 Sep 2020

Poverty, Child Protection and Parental Participation - Connecting Critical and Practice Theories in Everyday Social Work. The Department of Social Work welcomes Dr. Yuval Saar-Heiman who joins us from

Karl Mason co-author of winning article

13 Aug 2019

Social work lecturer Karl Mason is co-author of a winning article for the "outstanding paper" in the Emerald Literati Awards 2019.

New research on recovery

05 Aug 2019

Professor Frank Keating publishes research on socially orientated approaches to recovery for African and Caribbean men.

Professor Frank Keating's latest publication on race and ethnicity and mental health

02 May 2019

Royal Holloway University Professor Frank Keating’s has contributed to the 2nd edition of the book Understanding race and ethnicity.
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