Awarding Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Abye Tasse at VID Specialized University 1), Oslo, Norway. The event took place on October 12, 2018, during the celebration of the 50 years’ anniversary of social work education. Dr. Abye Tasse was the president of IASSW 2004 – 2008. In 2016, he received the IASSW Katherine Kendall Award to...
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Puerto Rican Association of Social Workers- Dr. Nilsa M. Burgos Ortiz Dr. Nilsa M. Burgos Ortiz received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Puerto Rican Association of Social Workers in October, 2018. She was on Board of International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) as President of Latin American region...
WOMEN GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: WOMEN IN THE IASSW REFLECTING ON THEIR LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES Full reference: Symposium to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Cocos of the IASSW at the SWSD World Congress Dublin, 6th July 2018 Camera: Ana M. Sobocan Technical Assistance: Gašper Krstulović Director: Darja Zaviršek, Women Interest Group of the IASSW...
The Asia and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE) -Webinar Series The Asia and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE) is pleased to invite educators and practitioners globally to the second presentation of the webinar series in October. The title is Islamic Based Social Work Intervention: The Case Study of Yogyakarta. It will...
IASSW congratulates Prof. Vimla Nadkarni, Immediate Past President for NAPSWI Life Time Achievement Awards in 2018 NAPSWI is one of the largest organisations of professional social workers in India, have instituted NAPSWI Life Time Achievement Awards in 2013. NAPSWI feel honored that it has conferred this award in past years to the esteemed distinguished social work educators such as Prof...
Publication of IASSW Internationalizing social work education -Insights from leading figures across the globe By Gurid Aga Askeland and Malcolm Payne Special Offer for IASSW Members on E-publication of this book It’ll give 50% off the epub of Internationalizing Social Work Education until the end of March, 2019. IASSW Members will need to use code _______ at...
Prof. Annamaria Campanini IASSW President is visiting different parts of Latin America to involve schools in these area to participate in IASSW activities and increase the school membership from Latin America region. In Chile, Universidad de Valparaiso opened the IV conference on Clinical social work In Santiago. Prof. Annamaria Campanini met the Rector of INACAP...
Dear Colleagues, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, IASSW school member is organizing the EASSW 2019 Conference in Madrid. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CALL FOR ABSTRACTS– Opens: July 6th, 2018. – Closes: October 15th, 2018. For more details please contact: cc Carlos (eassw2019@ucm.es), the Conference Secretariat, as he is the person in charge of...
Cybercounselling Online, Level 1 September 14th – December 20th, 2018 This course is for experienced counselling practitioners who want to offer professional, ethical online counselling to their clients. We cover video, live text-chat and email-style communications methods. You will engage in hands-on text-based work with both asynchronous (secure email) and synchronous (chat) approaches. Registration Regular...
IASSW statement on the Supreme Court of India’s decision IASSW acknowledges the monumental judgment taken by the Honorary Supreme Court of India’s decision to scrap certain provisions under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalised homosexuality. In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court in India scrapped the controversial Section 377- a 158-year-old colonial...
