Social Work in 42 Objects (and more)
- Location
- Room 715 Muirhead Tower
- Dates
- Tuesday 22 January 2019 (16:00-18:00)
Can the story of social work be told through Objects? Might a collection of objects be more illuminating than a formal text book or a dry definition?
Speaker: Professor Mark Doel, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, Sheffield Hallam University
Over six months, Mark hosted a blog that attracted 127 Objects contributed by people from 25 countries across five continents to evoke a sense of social work – local and global, personal and professional. In this presentation he will explore the use of Objects to demonstrate social work and the potential to display social work to a broader public.
The blog has been transformed into a book, written as if a Guide to an Exhibition of Social Work. Mark will bring copies of the book, Social Work in 42 Objects (and more). It costs £10 and all profits are donated to TARA Children’s Centre in Delhi, rescuing, sheltering and educating street children.
For more theoretical context for this project, you can download this article free of charge: Displaying Social Work Through Objects.
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About Professor Mark Doel
Mark Doel is a registered social worker with almost twenty years of direct social work practice experience with individuals, groups, families and communities. He held a joint appointment for ten years in Sheffield as a social worker and lecturer in social work and developed his practice teaching model of student supervision during this period. His principal areas of research are practice education, groupwork and task-centred practice. He is widely published, including 21 books, eight in foreign translations. His most recent books are Rights and Wrongs in Social Work: Ethical and Practice Dilemmas and Social Work in 42 Objects (and more), based on an experimental blog, socialworkin40objects.com.
Mark is an Honorary Professor at Tbilisi State University, Republic of Georgia, and Vice President of the International Association of Social Work with Groups (IASWG). He is an External Examiner and continues to supervise doctoral students and to lead post-qualifying training workshops.
About the seminar series
The Seminars are an opportunity for practitioners, students, members of the public, and academic staff to come together to listen to a speaker and engage in discussion around a particular area of practice. These quarterly Seminars will be held from 4-6pm and refreshments will be served.