As part of this year’s Festival of Social Science, coinciding with Youth Work Week, Let’s talk about LGBT+ youth work! This free online event will showcase what LGBT+ youth work is, and what it can do, from a range of different perspectives, including youth workers, young people, parents/carers, and researchers. Wednesday 9.11.22, 5-7pm If you’ve ever wanted…
Please see below the Call for Paper in Midwifery – Caring for LGBTIQ+ families in the preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum periods. Visit the link below for more information https://www.journals.elsevier.com/midwifery/forthcoming-special-issues/caring-for-lgbtiq-families-in-the-preconception-pregnancy-and-postpartum-periods
A new book “Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice” edited by Dr Christine Cocker and Dr Trish Hafford-Letchfield is out now! About this book Feminist social work has clear goals to expose and critically analyse gendered power as a dynamic, historic, and structural concept embedded in our world, and to mobilise and take social action…
Join Dr Jason Schaub, Professor Paul Montgomery and Dr Willem Stander as they share their findings from interviews with LGBTQ+ young people about their experiences of living in residential care, and discuss the start of their trial evaluating an LGBTQ+ training package for social workers. While we have some understanding of the difficulties of LGBTQ+…
After two very successful online global conferences, the Sexuality and Social Work Special Interest Group is pleased to announce the return of its in-person conference! We are delighted that the 5th International Sexuality and Social Work Conference will take place at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 18th and 19th July 2023….
Colleagues undertook an NIHR funded research project to identify the health and care needs of young trans and gender diverse people and their families. This project aimed to improve the care and support of trans, gender diverse young people and their families, by identifying possible improvements to care and by providing resources, information and support for…
Participants needed for the project “LGBTQ+ Young People’s Experiences of Social Care“, which is funded by The What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care. The project explores LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences of residential care. We want to talk to LGBTQ+ young people (aged 16 to 25) who have lived in residential care for at least three…
CALL FOR PAPERS We are very pleased to announce that our Global Online Conference #SWSexuality21 will take place on 10-11 September 2021. We invite papers on the themes of (but not limited to): LGBT+ issues Framing the gender-sexual non-normative with reference to regional/ geographic/ cultural contexts Childhood sexuality Reproductive justice Sexual politics and political activism Debates…
Importance of inclusive and gender-affirming environments Author: Paul Willis (School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol), Christine Dobbs and Elizabeth Evans (Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University). Recently The Sunday Times broke news that the UK Government would scrap proposals for legal reform to allow trans citizens to self-identify their gender. A consultation on proposed…
The BRING-In project is looking for health and social worker interview participants. The project is a European Commission funded international initiative implemented in the UK, Bulgaria, Hungary and Greece, which aims to enhance intersex equality by educating health and social care professionals on how to recognise, prevent and combat discrimination against intersex people, while raising public…
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