Beverley Burke

Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University

Philomena Harrison

Senior Lecturer, Liverpool Hope University

Katrina Igbinovia

MA Student @ LJMU and EDI Lead (CaFCASS)

Andrea Newman

Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University

Aim:

To explore the experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students and practitioners of social work education and practice, using a co-production, participatory framework, and make policy and practice recommendations to the CWMTP.

Objectives:

• To engage and recruit Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students and social work practitioners and establish a research participation group, to meet regularly (within a 6 month period) to co-produce research data on ‘The experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic social work students and practitioners of social work education and practice.’
• To adopt a Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology underpinned by an Anti-Racist framework, to allow for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students and social work practitioner engagement and participation.
• To analyse data, write up and disseminate findings.
• To make policy and practice recommendations identified by the research participation group to the CMSWTP

Partner: LJMU and LHU

Identified Lead: Andrea Newman, Beverley Burke and Philomena Harrison

Contact info: a.newman@ljmu.ac.uk

Dr Ciarán Murphy

Senior Lecturer Social Work

Edge Hill University

Dr Noreen Maguinness

Senior Lecturer Social Work

Liverpool John Moore’s University

Eoanna Stathopoulos

Senior Lecturer Social Work

Edge Hill University

Listen to Project Lead Dr Ciarán Murphy explain more:

Aim:

What are the frontline practitioners’ experiences of increasing Care Orders at home?

Objectives:

1. To draw from statistical data of partnership authorities to emphasise the extent of the problem faced;

2. To explore with frontline social workers and team managers their experiences of Care Orders at home, including: challenges; fears/anxieties;

3. To give frontline practitioners ‘a voice’ in regards to this research area, by embedding their testimonies within the research findings;

4. To produce and publish findings that can serve as a platform to challenge this ‘troubling tendency’.

Partners: Edge Hill University and Liverpool John Moores University

Identified Lead: Ciaran Murphy with Noreen Maguinness & Eoanna Stathopoulos

Contact info: Ciaran.Murphy@edgehill.ac.uk

Aim:

To identify and critically evaluate the benefits and challenges of establishing and working with Parent/Connected Carer Participation Groups as contributors to on-going local authority children’s services’ strategic development and delivery of social work child protection and other short / medium term statutory social work intervention (i.e. child protection assessment, child in need and looked after child intervention)

Objectives:

1) To identify messages from research via literature review re the models, impact, benefits and challenges for the local authority of establishing and working with Parent/Connected Carer participation groups;

2) To identify existing initiatives in local authorities across England where Parent/Connected Carer participation groups contribute to local authority children’s service strategic development and/or practice in relation to child protection and/or short and medium term social work interventions;

3) To survey via mixed method on line survey and semi structured telephone or virtual conference interviews identified relevant existing participation projects across England to identify learning re:
i)activity range, value and impact of participation group; ii)enablers and barriers to developing and working with an effective Parent/Connected Carer Participation Group

Partner: Edge Hill University/Liverpool City Council

Identified Lead: Nigel Kelleher

Contact info: Nigel.Kelleher@edgehill.ac.uk

 

Professor Malcolm Carey

Elizabeth Paton-Smith

Colin

Listen to Malcolm explain more:

Aim: To elicit how can adult social workers can support older people who experience loneliness or social isolation?

Objectives:

1. To draw from interview data to examine and describe what practices are currently utilised by adult social workers to alleviate loneliness or isolation among older service users?
2. To appraise the current evidence-base and analyse interpretive data to determine what reforms, if any, might improve social work interventions which seek to alleviate loneliness or isolation among older service users?
3. To present and publish findings with a view to influencing future social work practice and policy around loneliness and ageing

Partner: University of Chester and Cheshire West and Chester

Identified Lead: Malcolm Carey

Contact info: m.carey@chester.ac.uk

A visual narrative of a peer led crime.

Dr Gill Buck

Kemi Ryan

Natasha Ryan

Aim:

To explore the community-led approach taken by Reformed and disseminate learning

Objectives:

• To explore the experiences of people working for and with Reformed using photo voice.
• To construct a visual narrative of the community-based approach taken.
• To create a public exhibition to raise awareness of the issues facing local people.
• To make co-produced recommendations for social work practice in this field.

Partner: University of Chester

Identified Lead: Dr Gill Buck

Contact info: g.buck@chester.ac.uk

How can we more fully include lived experiences of (former) service users in the evaluation of services and co-production of knowledge?

Listen to Gill explain more about the study:

Aim:

To collaboratively reflect upon, analyse and theorise peer led approaches to suicide prevention in prison.

Objectives:

• To explore the experiences of people who have volunteered as prison listeners.
• To co-produce an academic journal article critiquing existing theory in light of these experiences.
• To make recommendations for Social Work practice in this field and more broadly for centering lived experience in the co-production of knowledge.

Partner: Prison Reform Trust

(National voluntary sector partner whose network incorporates Cheshire and Merseyside)

Identified Lead: Dr Gill Buck

Contact info: g.buck@chester.ac.uk

What are the challenges and what strategies can be used to provide effective support in University and on placement?

Listen to Val explain more about the research project:

Aims:

• To explore the challenges and strategies utilised by social work students with dyslexia to enable them to develop critical self-reflection skills and graduate as social work practitioners using autoethnography as a method of inquiry.
• To seek the perspectives of practice educators regarding their experiences of working with and supporting students with dyslexia.

Objectives:

• To explore the experiences of social work students who self report as having dyslexia through reflective focus groups and autoethnography.
• To obtain the perceptions and experiences of a group of social work practice educators employed by local authorities across the CMSWTP regarding working with students with dyslexia.
• To obtain and analyse data and to write up and disseminate findings.
• To make recommendations for social work educators in universities and in practice.
• To produce a CMSWTP good practice guide regarding supporting students with dyslexia on placement.

Partner: University of Chester

Identified Lead: Dr Valerie Gant

Contact info: v.gant@chester.ac.uk

Click here to open the Dyslexia Good Practice Guide

Supporting someone bereaved or experiencing family with a 
terminal illness 
www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/support/being-there
www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/support/bereaved-family-friends

Guide for managers on wellness action plans
www.mind.org.uk/media/4229239/mind-guide-for-line-managers-wellness-action-plans_final.pdf

About vicarious trauma
www.centerforebp.case.edu/client-files/events-supportmaterials/conf2016cebp-E2-valkenburgh.pdf

Guidelines for the prevention of vicarious trauma
www.svri.org/sites/default/files/attachments/2016-06-02/SVRIVTguidelines.pdf