Below is a list of the special interest groups (SIGs) that will take place on the Wednesday of the week of the conference.
All SIGs will take place at RGU's Garthdee Campus.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided for all those registered to attend a SIG.
You can register when registering for the conference, or register for a SIG separately or as a stand alone element.
You can also find more detailed information in the downloadable pdf below.
Full Day SIGs
Children's Rights in Practice
Beyond Borders, Within Limits: Transnational Social Work Practice Challenging Political Contexts
Concepts and Practices of Solidarity and Social Work
Critical Realism and Social Work Research
European Network for Gerontological Social Work
Mental Health Social Work Special Interest Group
Research on Social Work and Policy Engagement
Social work and conversation analysis: Unpacking core concepts and analyzing them in action
Social Work History and Research
Social work workforce and interdisciplinary research: Research on social work practitioner wellbeing, education and training, social work policy and the protection and safeguarding the workforce and quality of services provided
Substance Use and Social Work
The Development of Recovery Capital in the Addiction Recovery Process
User Involvement
Morning SIGs
Adult Protection and Safeguarding SIG Launch Event
Challenges and possibilities in transdisciplinarity as concept and practice related to social work research
Decoloniality in Social Work
Evidence into Practice Special Interest Group EIPSIG
More-than-human theory between AI and social work: a More-than-human and Digitization SIGs collaborative event
Social Work Practice Education and Supervision
Afternoon SIGs
AI and more-than-human social work
Arts-Based Research in Action- Theories, Methods, Ethics, and Collaboration
Building a framework for addressing epistemic injustice in Social Work Practice Research
Death and bereavement in Social Work : Contemporary Challenges for Education and Practice
Decisions, Assessment and Risk Special Interest Group (DARSIG) - Group judgement and decision-making
PhD and early career researchers SIG
Social Work Ethics Research Group (SWERG)
Social Work in Film and Television
Social Work Research on Digitalization and Technology
Social work, Crime and Criminal justice
What are the really important questions we need to ask about emotions in social work, and how do we begin to answer them?