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Glasgow School of Social Work

Inspiring desistance? Arts projects in Scottish prisons

Professor Fergus McNeill, Glasgow School of Social Work. Explores the implications for criminal justice social work of the recent report of the Independent Prisons Commission, 'Scotland's Choice'. Examines whether the idea of offenders paying back in the community represents a necessary and sufficient underpinning rationale for the use of community penalties and, more generally, for the future development of criminal justice social work. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 22nd March 2011.

Glasgow School of Social Work research seminar series

Dr Arash Toosheh PhD Researcher in Psychotraumatology at Glasgow School of Social Work. Arash obtained his qualification in 2010. He was supervised by Dr Pam Green Lister and professor Andy Kendrick. Arash is originally from Iran and brings a unique multi-cultural perspective to social work.

Robin Sen and Dr Pam Green Lister

Robin Sen currently works as a Lecturer in Child and Family Social Work at Sheffield. Prior to that he was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Strathclyde for three and a half years. His practice background is as a children and families practitioner in Glasgow, where he had a particular focus on working with looked after and accommodated children. He is also a qualified Practice Teacher in social work.

Social work, attitudes to organisation rules and professional freedom

Dr Tony Evans is a national member of the SPRING steering group. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick. He previously taught at Southampton, York and Oxford Brookes. Before this he worked as a social worker in mental health, and subsequently in forensic social work in the health service. Before training as a social worker he worked in policy development, and community representation in social services and the health service.

Professor Lena Domenelli, Durham University. Culturally competent social work : why bother? Glasgow 5 November 2010.

Joy Barlow MBE, Head of STRADA.

Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar, Substance Misuse and Social Work – the essential contribution. "It’s everyone’s job". Glasgow 29 April 2010.

Professor David Lyon, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar, 17 September 2009.