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Experiential knowledge; knowledge with zest!
Experiential knowledge. How do we recognize it? Can you see it, feel it, taste it? What does it mean? How can you harness it and how do you develop it with students? With a diverse group of social work lecturers, we orientated ourselves to questions like these under...
Greetings from Northumbria
PowerUs colleague Colin Cameron lets us know that he is getting everything organised for the commencement of the new Mend the Gap: Collaborative Learning with Service Users module at Northumbria this Thursday. Eight students and 10 people from outside the university...
Involving Service Users in Social Work Education, Research and Policy
During recent decades a strong interest has grown in actively involving service users in social work education, research and policy development. Drawing on a major European Social Fund project, this book presents an overview of inspiring collaborative models that have...
Two new articles by Peter Beresford on service user participation
Two articles by Peter Beresford on service user participation were published recently. The first one is from the Guardian: The second...
Partners in Knowledge
Guide participation UNAFORIS
Social work education: The Relational way
Learning from service users involvement: A research about changing stigmatizing attitudes in social work students
“Where to live and with whom”. Barriers to and supports for independent living from the viewpoint of advisors with disabilities.
PowerUs at the SWSD 2018 in Dublin
PowerUs Lund i ‘Lien Social’
Vår medverkan på konferensen i Toulouse uppmärksammas i den franska tidskriften 'Lien Social'! Min egen franska är sisådär, men jag vet ändå vad det handlar om. Jag var ju där! Missade du konferensen och kan franska? Då kan du läsa artikeln här! [pdf-embedder...
Dossier Lien Social – mai 2018
Plusieurs articles concernant PowerUs dans le numéro de mai de Dossier Lien Social.
Les entretiens de la Chaire de Travail social et d’intervention sociale
Les entretiens de la Chaire de Travail social et d’intervention sociale Participation et citoyenneté : réunion de chantiers Mardi 19 juin 2018 9 h - 18 h Cnam, 292 rue Saint Martin, 75003 Paris, amphi Prouvé, accès 11 entrée libre, mais inscription obligatoire :...
SOCIAL WORK CURRICULUM REVIEW CASE STUDY – Service Users Tell Us What Makes Effective Social Workers
By: Elizabeth C. Watters, Cheryl-Ann Cait, Funke Oba This paper presents the findings from Community focus groups, comprised of social service users, and explores the characteristics of effective social workers. Focus groups were conducted as part of a case study to...
Mend the Gap – PowerUs UK
This programme was developed with young unaccompanied minors at Investing in People and Culture in partnership with a PHD researcher from Durham University and the North East Social Work Alliance. Partner organisations within NESWA included; Teesside University, New...
Open Spaces for Dialogue: Promoting Mental Health as a Social Work Education Methodology
Hubert Kaszyński, Katarzyna Ornacka, Olga Maciejewska Jagiellonian University in Kraków Abstract: Presented herein are the results of the first Polish research study promoting mental health in student groups and applying it in social work education. This project was...
Shaping our lifes – Peter Beresford on How Not to do service user involvement
Service user participation survey gets 3.5 million SEK in EU-funding
The European Social Fund provides 3,5 million SEK in funding for researchers at the School of Social Work to participate in a joint EU-project with Belgian and Dutch colleagues as well as service user representatives. The project will examine and disseminate best...
Radioprogram UNAFORIS PARIS 2017 with Cecilia Heule Catrin Albrektsson, PowerUs Sweden
http://trottoirdacote.fr/podcasts/ensemble-retrouver-le-pouvoir-292Listen to the program
Bindkracht
Twisted
A song about going to the psychologist, from a service user perspective. Written by Annie Ross and performed by Jonas, Sabina and Catrin from the Swedish PowerUs-team. (Rehearsals for the EASSW-UNAFORIS 2017 European Conference.)
L’apport du savoir expérientiel des personnes usagères au sein de la formation en travail social
ri_145_2017.1_morin_et_lambert(1)Paul Morin, Ph.D., Professeur, École de travail social, Université de Sherbrooke, CIUSSS de l'Estrie - CHUS paul.morin@usherbrooke.ca Annie Lambert, Ph.D., Professeure, École de travail social, Université de Sherbrooke...
Mend the gap – strategies for user involvement in social work education
Ole Petter Askheim - Department of Health and Social Work, Lillehammer University College, Lillehammer, Norway Peter Beresford - Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK; Department of Clinical Sciences, Brunel Cecilia Heule -...
We are Shaping Our Lives
Watch the movie “We are Shaping Our Lives” from Shaping our lives
Mending the gaps in social work education and research: two examples from a Swedish context
The gap-mending concept is an analytical tool that helps teachers and researchers in social work to reflect upon what, in their practice, increases, maintains or mends gaps between professionals and service user groups. The article suggests a theoretical background on...
Norske barnevernpedagog og sosionomstudenter i praksis i Plymouth i England /Norwegian child welfare students and students in social work now with a possibility of practical training placement in Plymouth
Høgskolen i Lillehammer har som følge av Leonardosamarbeidet nå etablert en mulighet for studenter til en spennende praksis i Plymouth. studentsandrefugeestogether
Kan vi la oss inspirere av Universitetet i Plymouths erfaringer med brukerinvolvering i høgere utdanning?
Førstelektorstipendiat Liv Altmann tar i uke 5 og 6 turen til Plymouth University for å opplee universitetets brukerinvolvering i høgere utdanning i praksis. Ved å følge undervisningen og veiledningen gitt av serviceuseres and careers håper Liv å la seg inspirere til...
Utbytte av deltakelse på emnet “Ansikt til ansikt gir innsikt”.
Evalueringene som er foretatt i forbindelse med kursets slutt viser at både interne og eksternestudentere er fornøyde. Oppleves kurset utbytterikt en tid etter deltakelse? Førsteelektorstipendiatene Tove Hasvold og Liv Altmann har gjennom året hatt samtale med 9...
Revitalization of the Norwegian Network
In December 2015 the PowerUs representatives at LUC invited to a meeting in an attempt to revitalize the Norwegian network. The invitation was sent to all schools of social work in Norway. Representatives from five different colleges/universities took part in the...
Initiativ for å styrke brukerinnflytelsen i sosialfagutdanningene
Artikel av Liv Altmann, Teve Hasvold og Ole Petter Askheim
Mend the gap
Watch the movie “Mend the gap. A challenge in social work education”
Partners in the EASSW conference in Paris 2017
PowerUs is a partner planning for the EASSW conference in Paris, summer of 2017. You can read more about the conference here: http://www.eassw.org
New book: All Our Welfare
PowerUs member Peter Beresford has published a highly relevant, non profit book called “All Our Welfare”. Please order it as it gives important directions for social work and social policy. Read more and order here >>>
Involved Institution
Located near Stuttgart in the south of Germany, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences offers a bachelor’s degree course (7 semesters, 210 ECTS) as well as a masters’ degree course (3 semesters, 90 ECTS) in social work with an intake of 93 students per semester in...
Critical reflection
Besides all the positive aspects discussed above, we are aware that the work done on service user involvement in our department is only a starting point: coming back to the qualification framework of social work introduced above, there are a large number of areas for...
Evaluations of the SUI Seminars and projects
All the activities reported so far were carefully evaluated using different methodological approaches. After two one-year user involvement seminars with a total of 26 students and more than 30 service users in the course of the Esslingen BA Social Work curriculum, our...
SUI Seminar I – a short description
The conceptualisation of SUI seminar I was done collaboratively between the two lecturers (the authors of this text Marion Laging and Thomas Heidenreich) and the student group of 8 students using input from professionals (a platform called “regional practice”) and...
Approaching service users for SUI projects and EX-IN
Across Europe, different service user groups have already been included in SUI seminars (e.g. users of mental health services, people who grew up in care). Initially, we had no constraints as to which service users to include in our seminar. Rather, we chose a...
Critical reflection of the conducted SUI Seminars and Projects
Besides all the positive aspects discussed above, we are aware that the work done on service user involvement in our department is only a starting point: coming back to the qualification framework of social work introduced above, there are a large number of areas for...
Service User Involvement seminars and projects
Two project seminars (one of which started in March 2014, the other in March 2015) had been conducted. Both of these project seminars organized SUI seminars. The first group of eight students decided to start working on the SUI idea (project seminar I) in March 2014....
Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
Located near Stuttgart in the south of Germany, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences offers a bachelor’s degree course (7 semesters, 210 ECTS) as well as a masters’ degree course (3 semesters, 90 ECTS) in social work with an intake of 93 students per semester in...
Evaluation of the conducted SUI Seminars and Projects
All the activities reported so far were carefully evaluated using different methodological approaches. After two one-year user involvement seminars with a total of 26 students and more than 30 service users in the course of the Esslingen BA Social Work curriculum, our...
SUI Project Seminar I
The conceptualisation of SUI seminar I was done collaboratively between the two lecturers (the authors of this text Marion Laging and Thomas Heidenreich) and the student group of 8 students using input from professionals (a platform called “regional practice”) and...
Service user perspective
Service user perspective in social work education in Germany Generally the degree program of Social Work at a university of applied sciences in Germany enables the students to work in practice. Therefore, encounters with service users are systematically implemented in...
SUI Project Seminars
Two project seminars (one of which started in March 2014, the other in March 2015) had been conducted. Both of these project seminars organized SUI seminars. The first group of eight students decided to start working on the SUI idea (project seminar I) in March 2014....
Description of the Projects
Two project seminars (one of which started in March 2014, the other in March 2015) had been conducted. Both of these project seminars organized SUI seminars. The first group of eight students decided to start working on the SUI idea (project seminar I) in March 2014....
Imlpementing SUI into Social Work education
Social work as an academic discipline has – at least compared to other disciplines – a relatively short history in Germany (Kuhlmann 2013). After their early history as colleges without university status, schools of social work underwent a process of professional...
The “HUSK-project”
An important project in Norway is the so-called HUSK-project. In the years 2006-2011 the Norwegian Directorate of Health and Social Affairs provided funds to establish a university research program for selected municipal social service offices (The Norwegian...
Practice development
The Housing First Project: Researchers at the School of Social Work are trying to encourage a change in the Swedish homlessness practice and policy. They want to get away from the system of subsistute housing in favour of real housing. Both people who are presently...
Service user and carer input into the review of the standards of proficiency for social workers in England
by Shaping Our Lives on behalf of the Health and Care Professions Council Report authors: Becki Meakin Joanna Matthews Read the article here >>>
Collapsed Parenthood
Collapsed Parenthood – Disqualified Mothers, Lost Fathers, and Children’s Rights to Their Parents Read the new report done by and about Swedish parents who have had their children placed in foster care. Read it in english >> Från insidan av ett havererat...
“Ansikt til ansikt gir innsikt” kurs 2014
I uke 9,10, og 11 2014 arrangerer vi på HiL påny emnet “Ansikt til ansikt gir innsikt ” Kurset avholdes for 6.gang. Personer med brukererfaring rekruttert gjennom brukerorganisasjonene inviteres til å delta på linje med 3-årsstudenter fra bachelorstudiene. Det deltar...
Service user involvement in social work education
There are weak traditions for involving users in the social work and social education courses. Traditionally people with user experiences are used in single lectures; otherwise the students mainly meet them as clients in their practice placements. Since 2009 the...
Members of the Leonardo-project from HiL meet with members of the Plymouth University Service User and Carer Consultative Group
Medlemmer i Leonardoprosjektgruppa fra HiL møtte medlemmer av Plymouth University Service User and Carer Consultative Group i Plymouth i oktober 2012. Vi fikk en inspirerende presentasjon av gruppas arbeid. Dessuten fikk vi informasjon om at det ved universitetet også...
PowerUs’ bidrag på ENSACT-konferansen i Istanbul i april 2013
PowerUs Norge var godt representert i Istanbul og fikk synliggjort nødvendigheten av brukerinnflytelse i høyere utdanning. Se lenke: http://hil.no/hil/forskning/aktuelt/altmann_hasvold_og_askheim_paa_konferanse_i_istanbul PowerUs Sverige hadde også spennende innlegg,...
PowerUs’ bidrag på ENSACT-konferansen i Istanbul april 2013
PowerUs Norge var godt representert I Istanbul, og fikk synliggjort nødvendigheten av brukerinnflytelse i høyere utdanning. Les mer på lenken nedenfor PowerUs-Istanbul PowerUs Sverige bidro også, bl.a. med et innlegg om gap-mening pedagogy, se PowerUs.se
Lærer mer med brukere som medstudenter
Since 2009 Lillehammer University College has offered a course for the students in bachelor of social work, which includes participation of students with user experience. Follow the link to read the press presentation from the course given in 2012. The...
Meeting Face to Face Creates New Insights’: Recruiting Persons with User Experiences as Students in an Educational Programme in Social Work
Abstract: Even though empowerment and involvement of users have, for a long time, been important goals for educational programmes in social work, these programmes have only to a very little extent availed themselves of the resources that people with user experiences...
Nordisk Forsa-konferanse 4-6.10.2012
Den 9. nordiske Forsa-konferansen gikk av stabelen 4.6.10.2012 i Trondheim. Temaet for konferansen var “Partnership in social work – active collaboration with different actors”. Det var mange interessante presentasjoner på konferansen – powerpointene fra disse vil...
Rainbow Quality System (RQS)
Rainbow Quality System (RQS) is a quality assurance system for user-driven organizations engaged in rehabilitation for people with drug problems. RQS is build on a partnership between academic and service user organisations. It has been developed in Rainbow Sweden in...
Vi och dom – om att ifrågasätta en gränsdragning.
Since autumn 2005 the School of Social Work at Lund University has offered the experimental course “Social Mobilisation and Structural Change”. Two student groups participate: social work students in their final semester and students recruited from different service...
Bok underveis: G.Bjørke, H.Jarning og O.Eikeland(red): Ny praksis – ny kunnskap. Om utviklingsarbeid som sjanger. ABM-Media AS
Ole Petter Askheim, Liv Altmann og Tove Hasvold bidrar med et kapitel i boken om utviklingsarbeid som sjanger. Askheim,Altmann og Hasvols kapitel er kalt: Ansikt til ansikt gir innsikt – brukere som medstudenter i sosialfaglig utdanning. Kapitellet bygger på...
Taking the next step – service users and the training of social work students
Summary Many new ideas about the proper way to educate social workers have been introduced over the recent decades, not only by the profession itself and the social work research but also by employers and educational institutions. In this article we argue that it is...
Guidelines for Higher Education Institutions
Foreword The participation of service users, patients, families and carers has been one of the most significant developments in professional education for health and social work over the past decade. The active contribution of people who are ‘experts by experience’ in...
Carers as Partners (CaPs) in social work education
Forewords by the partners to this project Carers UK Social workers have the potential to transform carers’ lives, to support and listen to them, and to give them the tools to have a life of their own alongside their caring role. Ensuring that from the start of their...