IASSW President has been invited by the University of Brasilia for one week to develop a partnership with the Milano Bicocca University. During her stay she met the dean of the social Work department Prof.Valdenizia Bento Peixoto; Esther Luíza de Souza Lemos profesora de la Universidade Estadual do Oestedo Paranà President of ABEPSS-Associação Brasileira de...
IASSW congratulate Prof. Barbara Shank, IASSW Secretary for recognition as ’50 Notable Social Workers in US History”: https://www.bestmswprograms.com/great-american-social-workers/ Arranged chronologically by date of birth, we hope that these stories of lived service give new social workers a sense of pride as they begin their journey on the path to becoming an important part of the profession themselves. Read...
Dear fellow member of IASSW: If you or someone you know is from Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Mexico, Tunisia, United Kingdom, and Ukraine The Mitacs Globalink Research Internship in Canada offers a competitive initiative for international undergraduate students. From May to October of each year, top-ranked applicants participate in a 12-week...
The tag line of “Leaving no one behind” has attracted many in the social sector towards debates and actions on Sustainable Development Goals. Social work being a practice based transdisciplinary profession, working towards SDGs is a natural response keeping the inclusive dimensions of the global goals. It is in this context, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social...
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East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S., recently joined IASSW. As a faculty member, I am honored to be assisting our department in adding both Indigenous and international components to our curriculum. Currently, I am in the process of revising MSW course titled Social Work Foundations II which focuses on working with communities and organizations; and Practice...
IASSW Grants for Projects in Social Work Education IASSW invites proposals for projects, that are designed to advance social work education internationally. Grants of up to US $4.000 are available for proposals that can be expected to contribute to the implementation of the IASSW Mission Statement, and to the enhancement of collaboration among schools of social...
Global questionnaire about the state of the art of research at different social work schools, countries and regions 2019/2020 is available at: https://www.iassw-aiets.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Global-Questionnaire-IASSW.ON-RESEARCH-GLOBAL.pdf Please complete and return the questionnaire to: Darja.zavirsek@fsd.uni-lj.si
High Level Political Forum 2019 Side Event: Lived Experiences of Inequality (SDG 10): Grassroots Respond: 16 July 2019; 1:00- 3:00PM At CCUN, 777 UN Plaza, E 44th Street, NY 10017 CONCEPT NOTE Inequality has increased in most if not all countries of the world over the last few decades. This trend was accelerated by the...
Professor James Midgley has led the editorial team for a groundbreaking book that provides a coherent case to enhance collaboration between social policy and development. The Handbook of Social Policy and Development, edited by James Midgley, Rebecca Surender and Laura Alfers, discusses a myriad of ways in which this can be done, exploring both academic...
