Date: 31 Aug 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 8.30am to 1.00pm
Venue: AS7-0117 Seminar Room
Speaker: Prof Lars Uggerhøj, S R Nathan Professor of Department of Social Work, NUS

Materials:
For the publicity poster, please click here.
For the materials for the Public Lecture by Prof Lars Uggerhøj, please click here.
For the additional references from Prof Lars Uggerhøj, please click here.
For the materials for the Sharing by Dr Gerard Chung, please click here.
For the materials for the Sharing by Ms Karen Lee and Mr Tony Leong, please click here.
For the video on the public lecture and sharing sessions, please click here.

Date: 18 October 2019 (Friday)
Venue: LT12
Speaker: Prof Lars Uggerhøj, S R Nathan Professor of Department of Social Work, NUS

Lecture Synopsis:
Practice research is a growing and developing approach which is making it possible for researchers, social workers and service users to collaborate and through the collaboration to develop and qualify social work and expand research methodologies altogether. However, establishing new partnerships and methods is not only a bed of roses, it is challenging and provoking as it will entail both new and different roles and tasks for all partners. To shed light on such situation, Prof Lars Uggerhøj will present the aims of and the scientific positions and theoretical perspectives inspiring practice research. Practice research is constantly transforming itself based on the different contexts, needs and negotiations in joint projects. To avoid every project to start from scratch definitions and very tangible approaches will be presented and unfolded. Challenges in establishing collaborative practice research designs involving researchers, practitioners and service users as stakeholders are also explored and discussed on the basis of experience from practice research projects.

Discussion: Moderated by Dr Rosaleen Ow (Grant Manager, Mrs Lee Choon Guan Endowed Research Fund)

Materials:
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For the video on the public lecture and Q&A session, please click here.

Date: 5 January 2018 (Friday)
Venue: LT12
Speaker: Assoc Prof Timothy Sim, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Lecture Synopsis:
This talk highlights the lessons learned from systematic service evaluation and practice model development based on two case studies. One is a multiple group family therapy model for drug abuse in one of the leading social service providers in Hong Kong. The other is a leading multi-model pathological videogames service for adolescents in Singapore. One key lesson learned: Listen to your clients

Question and Answer Session: Moderated by Dr Rosaleen Ow (Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, NUS), and joined by Mrs Anita Low-Lim (Senior Director, Touch Community Services)

Materials:
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Date: 29 September 2017 (Friday)
Venue: LT12
Speaker: Prof Ian Shaw, S R Nathan Professor of Social Work, National University of Singapore and Professor Emeritus, University of York, England

Lecture Synopsis:
In the last ten years there has been a growing interest in developing research that has a special relevance to social work practice. In some ways this is not a new question. But it represents attempts to show how social work research has a special or distinctive character. ‘Practice research’ has interested practitioners and academic faculty in parts of S E Asia, western Europe (especially the Nordic countries and the UK), and in a few areas of the USA. Interest is likely to grow also in Australia and New Zealand. In this year’s lecture I will try to answer three questions. What is meant by ‘practice research’? Can we identify the characteristics of good practice research? In what ways might practitioners respond to these developments?

Question and Answer Session: Moderated by Assoc Prof Esther Goh (Head, Department of Social Work, NUS)

Materials:
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Date: 10 April 2017 (Monday)
Venue: Shaw Foundation Alumni House Auditorium
Speaker: Prof Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work and Director of the Social Care Workforce at King’s College London

Lecture Synopsis:
There is huge scope among social workers for embedding research in their practice. To do this, some familiarity with research is essential. This presentation will explain why social work is a 'natural' home to research and the need for the profession to be research receptive and research literate. It will offer some examples of practitioner research to illustrate the potential for translating aspirations into the workplace and potentially to improve services to citizens. Three examples of practice research are offered; each with its own challenges and comments on how these were addressed. But the social work profession needs the support of the research community in universities and beyond - this presentation will outline some of the ways in which university social work researchers and educators will need to respond to such changes.

Dialogue Session: Chaired by Dr Rosaleen Ow (Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, NUS, and joined by Prof Jill Manthorpe, Assoc Prof Corinne Ghoh (Department of Social Work, NUS) and Dr Crystal Lim (Master Medical Social Worker, Singapore General Hospital).

Materials:
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For the video segment on the public lecture, please click here.
For the video segment on the dialogue session, please click here.