The increasing prominence of evidence-based practice, the influence of the U.S. on social work scholarship, increasing specialisation, the importance of developing academic credentials, and the growing impact that service users have on social work - these are some current trends seen in the social work field today. In this video, Professor Ian Shaw speaks on the topic of re-imagining social work and how social work could look like in the future, based on the aforementioned trends and developments, bearing in mind that how we re-imagine social work will be significantly shaped by how we view history in general.

About the Speaker:

Professor Ian Shaw was the visiting S R Nathan Professor with the Department of Social Work for different periods between 2016 and 2019, and with Rosaleen Ow co-edited the book Asian Social Work (2019). He is also Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York. He was a founder-editor of the journal, Qualitative Social Work. He led the foundation of the European Social Work Research Association and was first Chair until 2015. Professor Shaw has been involved in various studies of practitioner research in social work and social care in Wales, Scotland and most recently in England.