Making & Breaking Social Policy Dr Ben Lohmeyer

Luke - now an official friend of the Pod ;) - chats about his new paper about Yarning as a culturally protected practice and how it can be used appropriately in social work research.




Luke's Paper: Cantley, L. (2024). Indigenous Data Sovereignty: What Can Yarning Teach Us?. Australian Social Work, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2024.2328169


Luke on Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-cantley-99792a2a8
Luke @ Flinders: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/luke.cantley



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Dr Rachael Owens explains Contextual Safeguarding and how it complements Family Group conferencing in the UK. She also shares about her career in creative arts and how it informs her Social Work practice and scholarship.



More about Rachael here -

https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/rachael-owens/



Find some of her work
here:

Lloyd, J., Hickle, K., Owens, R., & Peace, D. (2023). Relationship‐based practice and contextual safeguarding: Approaches to working with young people experiencing extra‐familial risk and harm. Children & Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12787



Contextual Safeguarding & Community Group Conferencing
Resources here: https://www.contextualsafeguarding.org.uk/resources/toolkit-overview/community-group-conferences/



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A/Prof Keming Yang chats about his research on loneliness among 14 year olds utilising the Millennium Cohort Study. He describes the need to rethink the way we conceptualise loneliness to account for the presence of undesirable connections and relationships (like bullying).

More about Keming here - https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/keming-yang/

Find some of his  work
here:

Yang, K., Petersen, K. J., & Qualter, P. (2022).
Undesirable social relations as risk factors for loneliness among 14-year-olds
in the UK: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study. International Journal
of Behavioral Development, 46(1), 3-9.


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Tiff Downing and Jessie Bennie chat about the youth mentoring program at the Sammy D Foundation and why it makes for good policy (and good practice) with young people. Sammy D recently partnered with the Social Work Innovation Research Living Space at Flinders Uni to conduct an evaluation of this program. The evaluation used an innovative method called ‘friendship as method’ which leveraged the mentoring relationship between the mentor and mentee to gain rich insights into the mentoring experience.

More about the Sammy D Foundation ⁠here⁠.  

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A/Prof Andrew Orton chats about his experience of working with policymakers and practitioners in policy creation through participatory practices. We discuss the opportunities and challenges of participatory practices in this context including the ethical dilemmas, power structures, and building collaborative responses to social issues.

More about Andrew here.


Find some of his work here:

The Ethical Dimensions of Dialogue Between
Policymakers: Learning Through Interaction Over Migrant Integration Dilemmas

Why networks matter in faith-related
community development work: Learning from diverse Christian responses to debt
in England

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A/Prof Jonathon Wistow chats about how despite the hold of
competitive and possessive individualism in neoliberal societies, he thinks the Social Contract is not yet broken.



We discuss his new book Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract and how he uses Complexity theory and Social Contract theory to investigate issues like health inequalities, climate change adaptation, and post-industrialism and
class.

More about Jonathon here


Find his book here.



Contact him here: jonathan.wistow@durham.ac.uk


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