Social work research: Identity, interdisciplinarity and impact

Social work research: Identity, interdisciplinarity and impact

Social work is a long established profession, but a relatively new research discipline and field. This brings distinctive challenges and opportunities for academic social work research, and also raises intriguing questions for cognate disciplines and fields.

Speaker Elaine Sharland is Professor of Social Work Research School of Education and Social Work. Drawing on her experience as an outsider (non-social worker) looking in, and an insider (social work researcher) looking out, Professor Sharland’s lecture takes a personal and intellectual journey to explore the nature of research identity, the conditions of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, and what it takes for our research to impact on the worlds we hope to change.

Wednesday 3 June 6.30pm Chowen lecture theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS)

Organised by the University of Sussex.
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