The School of Social Work & Social Policy held a successful and highly stimulating Knowledge Exchange and Impact Away Day on 28 March. 

Our super successful MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) helps you explore and develop an understanding of the approaches involved in caring for vulnerable children.

Nominations for the Teaching Excellence Awards 2017 have recently been announced and we are delighted that the four permanent members of the teaching team for the BA Education and Social Services have all been nominated by students for their exemplary teaching.

16 May 2017

A ground-breaking study by the Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) has been praised for highlighting the current issues, challenges and opportunities for Chief Social Work Officers working with young people in and on the edges of secure care.

The School of Social Work & Social Policy’s Professor Laura Piacentini contributed to a vibrant discussion on BBC4’s flagship academic radio show Thinking Allowed on 17 May 2017.

Two new podcasts available

We have a small number of places available on this course for entry this September (2017). The places are supported by a bursary from the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). If you are interested in applying, please complete an application via UCAS as soon as possible.

Laura Piacentini has been invited to give the Key-Note Address at an international conference

Andrew Eccles and Professor Ian Cunningham, Strathclyde Business School, have been awarded further funding by the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland for research on the implementation of Self Directed Support in Scotland.

Andrew Eccles and Professor Stephen Osborne of Edinburgh University, have been awarded Scottish Universities Insight Institute (SUII) funding

An online resource based on research into young people’s understanding of court processes, undertaken by the Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) and Iriss, will help children and young people who have been charged by the police.

Young adults from a number of European countries joined Scotland’s Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, to mark the official launch of the new Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures at the University of Strathclyde on June 28.

Dr Christopher Deeming and Dr Emanuele Farragina from Sciences Po, Paris, are to present a paper on the history of comparative social policy research and analysis at the 2017 European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) Conference, September 14 to 16, University of Lisbon.

Dr Beth Weaver gave a key note speech at the first European Summer Course, held in Barcelona, on 4-7 July 2017

Dr Beth Weaver gave a key note address to the British Society of Criminology conference in Sheffield on 7th July 2017

Dr Beth Weaver and Dr Claire Lightowler have been awarded funding by the Robertson Trust

Professor Bernard Harris and Mr Andrew Eccles presented papers at the .....

Today in the School of Social Work and Social Policy, the women academics stepped away from their computers and books and headed off campus for a spot of lunch and a supportive discussion about how we can help, support and mentor each other as women academics.

The University of Strathclyde has launched a new online learning course aimed at tackling the global issue of violence against women.

Nina Vaswani (Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice) and Dr Sally Paul (Social Work and Social Policy) recently launched The Bereavement Research and Innovation Group....

The voices of young people who contributed to a seminal report on secure care in Scotland have been shared in a new publication from the Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ).

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Emma Miller has been awarded funding from the European Social Fund

The School of Social Work and Social Policy is delighted to announce an exciting new Masters in Criminology (Research Methods) that will be offered in 2018.

In September 2017, Neil Quinn and Lee Knifton from the School of Social Work and Social Policy and Centre for Health Policy led a policy exchange for a group of leaders in mental health policy from Scotland to visit New York to exchange ideas on mental health policy and practice.

An innovative education project, supported by CELCIS (the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland) is helping Renfrewshire pupils to reach their full potential by inviting their parents to get back into school. Parents of pupils in three secondary schools – Gryffe, Castlehead and Trinity High – were invited to take part in a pilot of the Parents in Partnership programme between August and October 2016 as part of a series of projects supporting Renfrewshire Council's ambition to close the poverty related attainment gap.

Researchers in the School of Social Work & Social Policy have called for more to be done to support young Eastern Europeans living in the UK in the Brexit transition

Beth Weaver and Claire Lightowler have published the first in a series of thematic summaries from the Women's Centre Programme, funded by The Robertson Trust.

On the 5th December, Beth Weaver will present her findings from her ESRC funded international study, 'Coproducing Desistance' at the Holyrood Briefing on Reducing Re-offending Through Learning, Training and Employability Skills.

Claire Lightowler becomes the first woman to deliver the annual SACRO Lecture

Robert Rogerson with colleagues at universities of Northumbria (UK), Newcastle (Australia), Federal University of Paraiba (Brazil) and Pretoria (South Africa) have been awarded a research grant from AHRC to generate an international network exploring future scenarios for city centres.