Day One: Comparative Histories of the Development of Social work across the Commonwealth
Recorded on the 31 March 2022
Welcome
- Philip Murphy (ICwS & History & Policy)
- David N Jones (Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work)
Session 1: The Commonwealth and social work: shared histories
- Sylvia Daisy Romanus (Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work)
- Wendy Thomson (University of London)
- Patricia Scotland (Commonwealth Secretariat)
- Anne Gallagher (Commonwealth Foundation)
Session 2- Keynote
Philip Murphy (ICwS and History & Policy) Commonwealth histories and social work: themes for enquiry
Session 3- Presentations
Chair: Philip Murphy (ICwS and History & Policy)
- Philip Mendes (Monash University) A critical examination of the Australian Association of Social Workers and its historical engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
- Liz Beddoe (Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland) Social work education in Aotearoa New Zealand: Building a profession in contested territories
- Teoh Ai Hua (Universiti Utara Malaysia) and Fuziah Shaffie (Universiti Utara Malaysia) Social Work development in Malaysia: history and connection with the Commonwealth
- Fasalurahman. M (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) and Baiju P. Vareed (MacEwan University) Globalizing Indian thought – what India contributes to professional social work in the world
- Meenu Anand (University of Delhi) Feminist Social Work in India: Deriving an Indigenous Model of Practice
- David N Jones (Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work) The development of regulation of social work in the UK and around the Commonwealth
Session 4- Panel discussion – themes to explore and questions to be asked
- Philip Murphy (ICwS and History & Policy)
- George Palattiyil (University of Edinburgh)
- Jill Manthorpe (King’s College London)
