Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices: Community Partnership Models of Change in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: School of Applied Social Sciences
Abstract
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Publications
Bogdan Lesnik (Speaker)
A tale of collaboration
in Not applicable
Subhangi Herath (Speaker)
Capacity building in social work as an outcome of a disaster : Sri Lankan experience
in Not applicable
Dominelli, L. (Plenary Speaker)
Citizenship, Ethical Issues and Disasters
Dominelli L
(2011)
Climate change: social workers' roles and contributions to policy debates and interventions 1
in International Journal of Social Welfare
Dominelli, L
(2017)
Climate hazard crises in Asian societies and environments
Dominelli L
(2017)
Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments
Dominelli L
(2016)
Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice
Lena Dominelli (Plenary Speaker)
Crisis, What Crisis? Globalisation and Restructuring Professional Social Work
in Not applicable
Dominelli, L.
(2012)
Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics
| Description | This research generated new findings which: a) identified what victim-survivors considered empowering practice in disaster situations; b) called for and led to interdisciplinary approaches to disaster interventions, especially those that linked the knowledge of the physical sciences with that of the social sciences; c) gave rise to an emerging new area in the discipline of social work, namely green social work which aims to improve theory and practice in the profession; d) encouraged academic institutions previously not involved in disaster or environmental social work to do so; e) suggested new topics to be included in the curriculum for disaster social work; and f) produced a toolkit or manual for practitioners working in disasters and ethical guidelines for doing research in disaster situations which have already been used. The Department of Health has shown interest in the toolkit and manual findings for training social workers in England. |
| Exploitation Route | These have already been used in: a) developing green social work curricula in Denmark, South Africa, Japan. China and Curacao, to promote a paradigm shift in how humanitarian aid and sustainable development are conceptualised and enacted. And, in 2013, the lessons and guidelines emanating from this research have been applied in China during the Lushan earthquake; Uttarakhand floods in India and Nepal and in identifying flood risks in Curaçao. It also led to the inclusion of social work in further research projects including the NERC-ESRC funded Earthquakes without Frontiers. These initiatives can be initiated elsewhere. I am now working to see if the DH in England will adopt them in their training program for social workers. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport,Other |
| Description | The findings have been use to develop a new area of social work - green social work, which is calling for a paradigm shift in how humanitarian aid and sustainable development are conceptualised and enacted. In 2013, the lessons and guidelines emanating from this research have been applied in China during the Lushan earthquake; Uttarakhand floods in India and Nepal and in identifying flood risks in Curaçao. Curriculum development initiatives in this area were also started in VIA in Aarhus, Denmark; the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and Doshisha, Bukkyo and Osaka Universities in Japan. The findings linked to improving practice also led to the inclusion of social work in further research projects including the NERC-ESRC funded Earthquakes without Frontiers. And, the findings were used to inform discussions at UNFCCC COP meetings from 2010 to the present day. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Adoption of Climate Change and Disaster Interventions Policy in IASSW |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | It has provided IASSW with policy documents in areeas where it previously had none. |
| URL | http://www.iassw-aiets.org/disaster-response-committee |
| Description | BIOPICCC : the built infrastructure and the impact of climate change on health and social care provisions for older people |
| Amount | £713,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/G060843/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2009 |
| End | 11/2012 |
| Description | Building Rural Resilience in Seismically Active Areas |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Department | IRHN NERC |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2012 |
| End | 06/2012 |
| Description | Earthquake without Frontiers |
| Amount | £3,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2012 |
| End | 06/2017 |
| Description | Rebuilding People's Lives After Disasters Network |
| Amount | $200,000 (CAD) |
| Organisation | Government of Canada |
| Department | SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Canada |
| Start | 09/2012 |
| End | 08/2015 |
| Description | Survival stories : learning from narratives of survivng disasters |
| Amount | £1,450 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2012 |
| End | 11/2012 |
| Title | Earthquake Virtual Helpline |
| Description | The Earthquake Virtual Helpline is an internet-based model of supporting victim-survivors, students, researchers and practitioners in intervening in disaster-affected areas. It is currently being used to support victim-survivors of the Gorkha Earthquake of 2015 and has assisted them from the relief and recovery stage to the reconstruction and income generation stage of disasters. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Students, academics and practitioners at the Nepal School of Social Work are using the Earthquake Virtual Helpline to get support in their training and interventions. |
| Title | Toolkit for Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Interventions |
| Description | The toolkit helps practitioners use the findings from research in their day-to-day practice. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | I have shared the toolkit with many practitioners, including some involved in OCHA since 2013. People say they find it useful, but I have not collected data on how it is used or its impact in changing practice. |
| Description | Green/Environemental Social Work Collaborative Network |
| Organisation | University of South Carolina |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This is a newly organised and loose network of people interested in green social work and environmental social work (there are distinctions between the two) and its main purpose is to share information, publications and curricula with each other. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Participants have shared information, publications and curricula with me and I with them. |
| Impact | None at this point, but the discussions have been interesting. It is operating mainly through a list serve. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | IASSW Committee on Sustainability, Disaster Interventions and Climate Change |
| Organisation | International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I Chair the Committee and have been asked to represent IASSW at the UNFCCC-COP discussions, organise side events and exhibitions at COP Events (yearly since 2010) and give interviews for the UN Television network, some of which have been published on the UN Website. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The IASSW has provided the possibiliy of contacting the UN and holding consultative status with it. This allows me to feed research findings into this body. |
| Impact | the ideas contained in my book, Green Social Work, have been facilitated through this collaboration and so have a number of the speaking engagements I have had, e.g., training on disaster interventions in Chile and Curacao. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | IASSW task force on UN representation |
| Organisation | International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | In July 2012 Lena Dominelli was appointed Chair of the newly formed International Association of Schools of Social Work Task Force on UN Representation. This built on her work as IASSW's Liaison Officer for the UN from 2004-2010, and IASSW Representative at the UN for Climate Change and Disasters from 2009 to the present. Since 2008 Dominelli's work on disasters and climate change, which has been supported by the ESRC IIPP project, has been a major focus of her work at the UN. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | UN-accredited IASSW representative for social work |
| Organisation | United Nations (UN) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Lena Dominelli's role as United Nations Representative for the International Association of Schools of Social Work at the Conference of the Parties official events in 2009 (COP15, Copenhagen), 2010 (COP16, Cancun), and 2011 (COP17, Durhan). Dominelli also wrote the 100 page application which secured IASSW official UN recognition at the talks. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | UNFCCC |
| Organisation | International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Representing the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) at (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) UNFCCC meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) 2010 to present day. I wrote the formal application to get IASSW recognised as a research NGO at the UNFCCC. Since then, I have attended the meetings and presented side events, exhibitions and spoke at the gatherings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representing the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) at UNFCCC meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) 2010 to present day. This occurs through presentations at COP meetings through exhibitions and side events, and giving presentations based on my climate change research. |
| Impact | This occurs through presentations at COP meetings through exhibitions and side events, and giving presentations based on my climate change research. Side event and exhibition highlighting social work interventions in climate change disasters globally, 2-7 December 2011. Side event and conference featuring green social work at the CNAM for COP21 in Paris, 1 December 2015. Green social work presentation at COP21 for RINGO at COP22 in Marrakesh, 7 November 2016. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Capacity Building in Times of Disaster: The Sri Lankan Tsunami |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presentation as part of a series of Monday lunchtime seminars delivered by the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at the University of Durham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Challenges for Social Work: The Global Agenda and Disaster Interventions for 21st Century Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Challenges for Social Work: The Global Agenda and Disaster Interventions for 21st Century Practice, Stoke-on-Trent, British Association of Social Workers England Conference, 23 March 2012. This was aimed primarily at a practitioner audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Climate Change: A Social Work Perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Speech at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (COP15) NGO Intervention organised by IASSW, ICSW and IFSW, 10 December 2009. Climate change policy document ratified by IASSW, IFSW, ICSW Enhanced social work's role in UNFCCC proceedings as this side-event at COP 15 began the social work dialogue on climate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Disaster Relief Work: A Glance at its History |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Lena Dominelli in St Thomas University, Santiago, Chile, July 2010. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Empowering Work with Communities in Disasters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Concepcion, Chile, 17 July 2010. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Ethical and Methodological Issues in Disaster Interventions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote Presentation at the Social Work and Disaster Relief Conference in Peking University, Beijing, China 9-10 May 2009, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Fitting the Local and the Global: Indigenising the International Social Work Curriculum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Lena Dominelli at the Katherine Kendall Institute Seminar at the UNISA Durban Campus, 25 July 2008. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Gendering Climate Change: Implications for Policy and Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop presentation at the Gender and Climate Change Conference in Prato, Italy on 15 September 2011. Paper presentation Gendering Climate Change (a keynote presentation) was later published as a chapter in Alston, M and Whittenbury, K (eds) 'Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change'. London: Springer, pp. 77-94. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Gendering Sustainable Development in Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction Situations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 9-12 July 2014. Over 2000 social work educators and practitioners will be attending |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Governmental, Civil Society Organisations and Community Actors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Disaster Intervention Workshop in Concepcion, Chile, 16 July 2010. Building capacity in disaster interventions amongst practitioners, staff and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Green Social Work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Green Social Work, Finnish National Conference of Social Work Research, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, 9-16 February 2013. This involved further discussions about environmental issues with regards to Sami peoples and there is work being done to develop a research proposal based on this work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Green Social Work and Environmental Justice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lena Dominelli gave a series of lectures on Green Social Work and Environmental Justice at Thompson Rivers University 20-27 October 2012, Canada. She also presented to the students on Bachelors of Social Work, Masters of Social Work, and PhD programme. One lecture was a public lecture open to all from the community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Green Social Work and Environmental Justice, KwaZulu Natal University, South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture delivered by Lena Dominelli to Masters of Social Work students at KwaZulu Natal University, South Africa on 6 December 2011 as part of a side-event to COP18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Green Social Work: Rethinking practice paradigms of social development and environmental justice, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Green Social Work: Rethinking practice paradigms of social development and environmental justice, Social Work Annual Conference Keynote, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 17-19 March 2014. This was followed by workshop discussion aimed at introducing green social work to the Japanese social work curriculum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Green Social Work: Theory and Practice for the Profession |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Green Social Work: Theory and Practice for the Profession, Global Social Work Day Celebrations, University of Pretoria, 19 March 2013. This included researchers, students and policy makers. It also led to a seminar discussion on including environmental issues in the social work curriculum which is still being followed up, and a subsequent visit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Green Social Work: Theory and Practice for the Profession |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Green Social Work: Theory and Practice for the Profession, Global Social Work Day Conference, University of Pretoria, 19 March 2013. This has led to subsequent discussions about inclusion of green social work in the curriculum and a further visit by me to progress this work in subsequent visits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Greening Social Work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Greening Social Work, Keynote address at Promoting Innovative Social Development Praxis in the Caribbean and Latin America, 11th Biennal Association of Caribbean Social Work Educators, World Trade Centre, Willemstad, Curaçao, 8-12 July 2013. This has led to subsequent meetings and to the administration of a questionnaire to 1000 local residents to determine their priorities for disaster preparation and the inclusion of green social work in the curriculum at the University of Curaçao. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vickers, T., Dominelli, L., and Palmer-Cooper, J, Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices workshop at the Breaking the Mould: Humanitarian Aid and Empowering Local Communities, Durham University, Durham 1-3 August 2012. This conference had practitioners, researchers, policymakers and students attending. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices: Preliminary Findings of ESRC Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 15 January 2011, Lena Dominelli organised a seminar/workshop to present preliminary findings from the ESRC IIPP in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Among the participants were the local residents and young people who had been involved in the Project who were bussed in to participate fully in the discussions, in both plenary sessions and in specific working groups to consider their own contributions to the projects. Additionally, the seminar had speakers from Sarvodaya, policymakers - the Secretary to the Minister of Education, academics from Sabaragamuwa, Rahuna and Colombo Universities, the two local researchers from Sri Lanka and members from the Durham Research Team (Dominelli, Joy Palmer-Cooper). The discussions were stimulating and the local residents and young people endorsed the preliminary findings presented by Profs Dominelli (PI) and Palmer-Cooper (CoI). Url https://www.dur.ac.uk/sass/research/srilanka/conference2/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Interview with Lena Dominelli International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | International Impact of Durham Research Lena Dominelli (Applied Social Sciences; IHRR) represented the social work profession at the United Nations Climate Change talks in Durban, South Africa just before Christmas and also organised an exhibition 'Unsung Heroes: Empowering Disaster Survivors and Communities through Social Work Practice' show-casing initiatives and research into climate change and related disasters undertaken by academics at Durham University amongst others and including her 'Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices Project'. Professor Dominelli also played a leading role in drafting the NGO statement on the impact of climate change on women across the world, presented at a press conference by the Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development and the Women's Research Network on Climate Change. http://www.rtcc.org/climate-change-tv/unfccc-videos/professor-lena-dominelli-durham-university/ http://unfccc.int/meetings/durban_nov_2011/items/6529.php http://www.rtcc.org/climate-change-tv/unfccc-videos/professor-lena-dominelli-durham-university/ http://unfccc.int/meetings/durban_nov_2011/items/6529.php |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.rtcc.org/climate-change-tv/unfccc-videos/professor-lena-dominelli-durham-university/ |
| Description | Keynote address at Icelandic conference in Reykjavik |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presenting the keynote address on green social work following the fiscal crisis and its contributions to people's well-being. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Keynote address at the annual ANZSWWER Conference held in Townsville, Australia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave the keynote address on the role of social workers in facilitating environmental justice in their daily practice to a mixed audience, arguing that built infrastructures including housing, hospitals, and social care services alongside utilities such as power, water, sanitation, communication and transportation. Many in the audience had not made such connections before and were discussing this avidly during the question and answer period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Keynote presentation on green social work at the greening urban areas conference in Basle, Switzerland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented the keynote address on the contributions social workers can make to greening urban areas ranging from rooftop gardens to allotments, and using renewable energy sources to round 200 participants. They were intrigued to find that social workers would be interested in such activities. This made me think that it was important to collect information on what social workers were doing globally in greening cities. I have now embarked on this and will be producing the Routledge Handbook on Green Social Work to pursue this. Its publication will be fast-tracked. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation on green social work at the IASSW, IFSW and ICSW Global Conference in Seoul, South Korea |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented on green social work as a challenge for 21st century practitioners to more than 500 practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation on women's roles in disaster interventions at the IASSW, IFSW and ICSW Global Conference in Seoul, South Korea |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented a workshop paper on women's role as informal carers during disaster interventions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presenting on green social work through Skype at the RINGO side-event at the COP22 meeting in Marrakesh. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sadly, due to unforeseen circumstances, I was unable to present this talk in person, so had to use Skype and slides. Thus, it was not possible to assess the discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Lecture on Environmental and Social Justice for James Cook University in Townsville, Australia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I spoke about the importance of including environmental justice in discourses about social justice for poor, marginalised communities to a mixed audience which included Aboriginal peoples, and they strongly endorsed what I said in the discussion that followed, arguing strongly that white Australians had yet to take this issue seriously, and they were living in the most environmentally stressed lands. Several white Australians that responded to this challenge said they would incorporate such concerns into their thinking, classes and research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Researching in Communities Affected by Disasters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Capacity building workshop in Tulca, Chile, July 2010. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Skype discussion with Nordic Ph D students at Lund University and Copenhagen University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I facilitated a dialogue on the importance of environmental issues to social work practice and research to a group of doctoral students and their supervisors who had contacted me to support their exploration of this new field for them. This is dialogue expected to continue in their research and studies, and I expect to have further discussions on this with an especially convened panel of experts in Iceland in May 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Skyped Conference Presentation at the Centre for Disaster Risk, Recovery and Research (CDRRR) In Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented the inaugural address for the CDRRR. It was entitled, Green Social Work Interventions After the 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Social Development Facing Up to Global Environmental Challenges: Greening Professional Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Social Development Facing Up to Global Environmental Challenges: Greening Professional Practice, Keynote address, Global Social Science Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 11-12 April 2014. This was followed by meetings to discuss introducing environmental issues to the social work curriculum in Hong Kong, and the production of a special issue on social work and social development in Chinese speaking communities globally for 'International Social Work' (Journal) . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Social Work Disaster Interventions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 24 April 2009, Lena Dominelli organised a 'Social Work and Disaster Interventions Conference' at St Aidan's Collge, Durham University. It had presenters from Sri Lanka, Slovenia, Canada, India, China and the UK. Of major concern to those presenting was how to develop a curriculum on social work interventions during disaster situations for both immediate relief and long-term reconstruction in affected communities and how these could benefit from multi-disciplinary approaches. The School of Applied Social Sciences and the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Research was also present amongst the participants, adding a multi-disciplinary flavour to the proceedings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Social Work in Times of Disasters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On 19 March 2010, Lena Dominelli hosted the 'Social Work in Times of Disasters' Seminar/Workshop at St Aidan's Collge. It had presenters from Sri Lanka, Slovenia, Canada, India, China and the UK. Of major concern to those presenting was how to develop a curriculum on social work interventions during disaster situations for both immediate relief and long-term reconstruction in affected communities and how these could benefit from multi-disciplinary approaches. Members from Durham's School of Applied Social Sciences and the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Research were also present amongst the participants, thus giving the event a multidisciplinary flavour. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Training in Green Social Work and Environmental Justice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training delivered by Lena Dominelli at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, from 15-18 March 2012. This training drew on the findings of the ESRC IIPP project. This has led to subsequent discussions, including 3 researchers from Aarhus visiting Durham to discuss curriculum issues and projects in May 2013. Aarhus has this work in hand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Workshop presentation at the IASSW, IFSW and ICSW Global Congress in Seoul, South Korea |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Around 300 people attended to hear a discussion on the ethical dimensions social workers have to consider when using social media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |