Jim Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Social Work
A cross European project to equip social work students and educators to meet the challenges of political conflict
Summary
In the last few decades there has been growing interest in the role that social workers play in situations of political conflict. This project is led by Jim Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Social Work and funded by the European Association of Schools of Social Work. It brings together specialists with insights and teaching and researching relationships between social work and political conflict in three sites: Northern Ireland (Professor Jim Campbell and Professor Joe Duffy, Queens University Belfast); Bosnia Herzogovina (Dr Reima Ana Maglajlic; University of Sussex and Dr Sanela Basic, University of Sarjeov), Cyprus (Dr Gregory Neocleous, University of Cyprus and Vasilios Ioakimidis, University of Essex).
The project involves three intensive seminars in Nicosia (May 2023), Belfast (November 2023) and Sarjevo (March, 2024) to explore the psychological, physical and other effects of political conflict on social work clients, the impact of social work conflict on the professional and personal lives of social workers, the types of intervention that may be used by practitioners and the development of innovative pedagogical approaches in social work education.
For more information please email (opens in a new window)Jim.Campbell@ucd.ie