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Early brain development - Phil Wilson

Friday, November 30, 2007

13:00 minutes (5.99 MB)

Phil Wilson is a general practitioner and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He has trained in paediatrics and neuroscience and holds a Chief Scientist Office award in infant mental health. What do we all need to know about children? Defining a multi-professional learning agenda. Friday 16 November 2007.

More about Phil Wilson: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/generalpractice/wilson.htm

download audio file | 1341 downloads | 87 plays

Attachment - Helen Minnis

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

10:59 minutes (5.07 MB)

Helen Minnis is Senior Lecturer in Child Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow. Her research among looked after children led to her interest in Reactive Attachment Disorder for which she has achieved an international reputation. Her work in this field has included development and validation of new standardised assessment tools. What do we all need to know about children? Defining a multi-professional learning agenda. Friday 16 November 2007.

read more | download audio file | 1743 downloads | 131 plays

Parenting - Christine Puckering

Monday, December 17, 2007

12:14 minutes (5.64 MB)

Christine Puckering is Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. She is qualified in clinical, forensic and neuropsychology and developed the Mellow Parenting Programme. She chaired the recent HeadsUpScotland Infant Mental Health Review and has provided infant mental health consultancy across the world. What do we all need to know about children? Defining a multi-professional learning agenda. Friday 16 November 2007.

read more | download audio file | 1374 downloads | 69 plays

Risk Assessment in Criminal Justice: Politics and Practice in Scotland - Dr. Monica Barry

Friday, December 21, 2007

44:03 minutes (20.19 MB)

Dr. Monica Barry (Glasgow School of Social Work). Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 6th December 2007.

read more | download audio file | 1711 downloads | 56 plays | 1 attachment

Child psychiatric diagnoses - Christopher Gillberg

Monday, January 14, 2008

19:29 minutes (8.96 MB)

Christopher Gillberg is Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Visiting Professor in the Division of Community Based Sciences, University of Glasgow. One of the world's leading academic child psychiatrists, he has published hundreds of papers on autism, ADHD and related conditions. What do we all need to know about children? Defining a multi-professional learning agenda. Friday 16 November 2007.

read more | download audio file | 1321 downloads | 79 plays

Early language development - Carmela Miniscalco

Monday, January 21, 2008

12:33 minutes (5.78 MB)

Carmela Miniscalco is a speech and language pathologist at the University of Gothenburg, and a practitioner in the regional unit for child health care for 20 years. Her recent publications include a detailed follow-up of young children with delayed language development. What do we all need to know about children? Defining a multi-professional learning agenda. Friday 16 November 2007.

read more | download audio file | 1468 downloads | 35 plays

Early education - Peter Lee

Monday, January 28, 2008

14:32 minutes (6.69 MB)

Peter Lee is Director of the Childhood and Families Research and Development Centre at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests include professional practice development and equity and social justice. He is Co-chair of the Scottish Educational Research Association on Early Years. What do we all need to know about children? Defining a multi-professional learning agenda. Friday 16 November 2007.

read more | download audio file | 1793 downloads | 21 plays

Child's perspective on services and professionals - Malcolm Hill

Thursday, February 7, 2008

13:55 minutes (6.41 MB)

Malcolm Hill is Research Professor at the University of Strathclyde, and former Director of the Glasgow Centre for the Child & Society. His two most recent co-edited books have been on young people's participation and on child protection and youth justice. What do we all need to know about children? Defining a multi-professional learning agenda. Friday 16 November 2007.

More about Malcolm Hill : http://www.strath.ac.uk/gssw/staff/hillmalcolmprof

read more | download audio file | 2209 downloads | 32 plays

Sociology of the family - Sarah Cunningham-Burley

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

15:02 minutes (6.92 MB)

Sarah Cunningham-Burley is Professor of Medical and Family Sociology Public Health Sciences and Co-director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh. She is involved in a range of research, including the Growing Up Scotland cohort study and new qualitative longitudinal study of work and family life.

read more | download audio file | 1679 downloads | 66 plays

BT as a learning organisation - Alex Wilson

Friday, February 15, 2008

25:04 minutes (11.53 MB)

Alex Wilson, will cover how BT puts learning at the heart of its business and uses this to develop its talent and leadership capability. Alex will explain the philosophy of learning in BT, how it is systematically integrated to the business objectives and tracked and measured against business drivers. He will talk about BT using technology to accelerate learning and as an enabler for business transformation.

read more | download audio file | 340 downloads | 28 plays

Parent's perspective - Alison Leask

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

15:38 minutes (7.2 MB)

Alison Leask is Chair of Autism Argyll and a teaching associate at the National Centre for Autism Studies at the University of Strathclyde. She recently worked at NES developing information resources for parents and participated in curriculum development for NHS staff. She is a parent of a young man with Asperger Syndrome. What do we all need to know about children? Defining a multi-professional learning agenda. Friday 16 November 2007.

read more | download audio file | 1667 downloads | 30 plays

Severe Child Poverty in Scotland - Douglas Hamilton and Bob Holman

Friday, February 29, 2008

58:12 minutes (26.66 MB)

Save the Children's recent research estimates that 90,000 children in Scotland live in severe poverty. Douglas Hamilton, Head of Policy and Research, will provide an overview of Save the Children's recent work in this area focussing on the Poverty Premium and access to services. He will also draw attention to some of the policy and practice changes that Save the Children are calling for. Professor Bob Holman, anti-poverty campaigner and community worker, will respond to Douglas' paper focusing on the impact that inequality has on the lives of Scotland's children.

read more | download audio file | 705 downloads | 58 plays

Good Staff, Safe Staff: An Evaluation of a Residential Child Care Recruitment and Development Centre - Graham McPheat

Monday, March 10, 2008

52:46 minutes (24.18 MB)

Graham McPheat, Glasgow School of Social Work. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 7th February 2008.

download audio file | 539 downloads | 39 plays

Delivering Health and Social Care: Do Partnerships Deliver for Users and Carers? - Alison Petch

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

49:21 minutes (22.62 MB)

Professor Alison Petch, Director of Research In Practice for Adults, Dortington Hall Trust. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 6th March 2008.

download audio file | 585 downloads | 93 plays

Beyond anecdote: the quest to codify practice wisdom - Mark Doel

Monday, April 14, 2008

39:56 minutes (18.33 MB)

The everyday experience of practice is rich in potential for learning, as practice educators (student supervisors) are well aware. However, there are considerable barriers to the systematic and sensitive collection of these experiences, with the result that much potential learning is lost.

read more | download audio file | 614 downloads | 53 plays

Traditional? You tell me - John Geates

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

26:16 minutes (12.08 MB)

The title Traditional - You Tell Me challenges thinking in relation to Police training. There is a perception that still exists about traditional, old fashioned methods in the way that officers are trained and groomed for service. Nothing, in this modern day could be further from the truth.

read more | download audio file | 746 downloads | 26 plays

Independent Foster Care: Predators, pioneers or partners? - Clive Sellick

Friday, May 2, 2008

25:25 minutes (11.66 MB)

Dr Clive Sellick, Unversity of East Anglia. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 8th April 2008.

download audio file | 660 downloads | 51 plays

Prison and Probation in Modern Ireland - New Developments - Ian O'Donnell

Monday, May 12, 2008

57:37 minutes (26.4 MB)

Professor Ian O'Donnell, Director of the Institute of Criminology, University College Dublin. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 8th May 2008.

download audio file | 579 downloads | 31 plays

A practice role for nurse lecturers: an anachronistic concept? - Sally Glen

Friday, May 23, 2008

39:06 minutes (17.95 MB)

The wholesale movement of nursing education into higher education is now a decade old. The catalyst was Project 2000, which was a vision, not only a professional qualification, but an academic one, the diploma in higher education. A review of the literature, however, identifies how the nursing curriculum has always been subject to continuous external pressure and is a balancing act between health service needs, the educational vision of the day and the available financial resources.

read more | download audio file | 618 downloads | 44 plays

Extended Link Supervisor Model - Anne Spiers

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

35:23 minutes (16.22 MB)

This podcast might be of interest to anyone involved in student practice learning within the workplace. Although its focus is on social work practice, the model described could be adapted for use within a wide range of other professional contexts.

read more | download audio file | 580 downloads | 125 plays

Why (not) Research Practice? - Joan Orme

Monday, June 16, 2008

48:33 minutes (22.25 MB)

Professor Joan Orme, Glasgow School of Social Work. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 5th June 2008.

download audio file | 433 downloads | 49 plays

Circles of Support and Accountability for Released Sex Offenders in Canada: an Evaluation - Robin Wilson

Thursday, June 19, 2008

49:56 minutes (22.88 MB)

Dr Robin Wilson, Clinical Director, Florida Civil Commitment Centre. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 19th June 2008.

download audio file | 125 downloads | 10 plays

Key Capabilities within Interdisciplinary settings - Valentine Scarlett

Friday, June 20, 2008

20:25 minutes (9.37 MB)

Valentine Scarlett, teaching fellow at University of Dundee explores innovative ways to support social work students meet Key Capabilities in Child Care and Protection. She describes her work with a range of pre qualifying students across disciplines to enhance their learning in child care and protection. By encouraging students to work collaboratively in this arena, she explains how joint approaches can be explored, assumptions questioned and potential future working relationships identified.

read more | download audio file | 501 downloads | 83 plays

So You Think You Know Me? - Allan Weaver

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

45:45 minutes (20.97 MB)

Book launch of "So You Think You Know Me?" by Allan Weaver. An autobiography of an ex-offender and twice-times inmate of Barlinnie Prison, now a social work team-leader in his native Scotland.

Mike Nellis, Roger Houchin, Det. Chief Super John Carnochan, Allan Weaver, Fergus MacNeill. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 4th July 2008.

More details of the book can be found at:
http://www.waterside-press.com/acatalog/info_9781904380450.html

 

download audio file | 835 downloads | 166 plays

Forgotten Citizens:Welcome - Lisa Curtice,David Kinloch

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

9:50 minutes (4.54 MB)

Lisa Curtice:  Welcomed everyone to the event.

David Kinloch: David speaks about his experiences of being in long-stay hospital and how this affected his life.  He also tells us about how he had moved on with his life since leaving hospital in the 1980s.

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/conference/forgottencitizens

download audio file | 146 downloads | 26 plays | 1 attachment

Forgotten Citizens:Researching the Past - Dorothy Atkinson,Mabel Cooper

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

28:13 minutes (12.96 MB)

Dorothy Atkinson and Mabel Cooper:  Dorothy and Mabel share their experiences of working alongside one another to find out about Mabel’s past in long stay institutions in England.  They tell us about the stories about Mabel’s family they had uncovered and also how Mabel feels about the institutions she had been in.

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/conference/forgottencitizens 

download audio file | 203 downloads | 12 plays | 1 attachment

Forgotten Citizens:Today's Forgotten Citizens - Furrah Arshad,Tahira Ramzan

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

29:36 minutes (13.59 MB)

Furrah Arshad: Furrah will introduce us to the work of her organisation Ethnic Enable and how it started up.  She will also talk us through some of the major issues affecting people with learning disabilities from black and minority ethnic communities in Scotland.  She will also share her thoughts on how best to support and make connections with families from black and minority ethnic communities.

Tahira Ramzan: Tahira is a young Asian woman with learning disabilities and she shares her experiences and hopes for her future with us.

read more | download audio file | 191 downloads | 6 plays | 2 attachments

Forgotten Citizens:Research for the Future - Kate Skinner

Monday, October 20, 2008

16:21 minutes (7.53 MB)

Kate Skinner: Kate tells us how important research into services for people with learning disabilities is and how it impacts on everyone to do with providing services to people with learning disabilities and their families.  She outlines the plans her organisation, IRISS, has for supporting people to do good research into services for people with learning disabilities and their families and how this will help us build a better future for everyone, especially people with learning disabilities and their families.

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/conference/forgottencitizens

download audio file | 155 downloads | 3 plays | 1 attachment

Forgotten Citizens:Tomorrow's Citizens - Jo Cochrane,James Withers,Alan May

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

18:07 minutes (8.33 MB)

Jo Cochrane:  Jo welcomes everyone back to the main conference and talks about why she feels its so important we don’t lose the histories of people with learning disabilities.

James Withers:  James talks about his work with the Scottish Youth Parliament and how his role has changed over time.

Alan May:  Alan is James’ buddy at the Scottish Youth Parliament and shares his experiences of supporting James and becoming his friend over time.

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/conference/forgottencitizens 

download audio file | 196 downloads | 8 plays | 1 attachment

Forgotten Citizens:Goodbye and Thanks! - Lisa Curtice,Jan Murdoch

Monday, October 27, 2008

11:43 minutes (5.4 MB)

Lisa Curtice: Lisa talks about the importance of including everyone’s story and how people will communicate this is lots of different ways. She reminds us that it’s important to find lots of ways of capturing people stories, especially those with profound and multiple disabilities and that documents and other things can tell stories as well as people’s voices.  Lisa also talks about how SCLD, IRISS and the Open University can follow on from the conference in working on a digital storytelling project.

read more | download audio file | 115 downloads | 8 plays

Engage, Change and Deliver - Alan Baird

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

55:23 minutes (25.38 MB)

Alan Baird, President of the Association of Directors of Social Work and Director of Social Work, Dundee City Council talks about Changing Lives in the context of what the ADSW is doing to reinvigorate the agenda and progress on personalisation of services. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 9th October 2008.

download audio file | 155 downloads | 36 plays | 1 attachment

Transition Trajectories - Insights and Outcomes - Aline-Wendy Dunlop

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

75:07 minutes (34.41 MB)

Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop, a specialist in autism and early years education, describes her research into educational transitions from early years to S4. Strathclyde University, 23rd September 2008.

http://www.strath.ac.uk/cps/staff/dunlopaline-wendyprof/

download audio file | 124 downloads | 49 plays

Whose Voice is it Anyway? Child advocacy and protection in the United States - Andrea Mooney

Thursday, November 13, 2008

24:54 minutes (11.43 MB)

Professor Andrea Mooney, Clinical Professor, Cornell Law School, University of Cornell.

Session 1 - Children's Voices, citizenship and inclusion.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 37 downloads | 6 plays | 1 attachment

Taking Children's Citizenship Seriously - Andrew Lockyer

Thursday, November 13, 2008

24:53 minutes (11.42 MB)

Professor Andrew Lockyer, St Kentigern Chair, University of Glasgow.

Session 1 - Children's Voices, citizenship and inclusion.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 6 downloads | 5 plays

Accentuating the Positive: Resilience and desistance approaches - Malcolm Hill

Thursday, November 13, 2008

21:43 minutes (9.97 MB)

Professor Malcolm Hill. Glasgow School of Social Work.

Session 2 - Building Better Childhoods, Understanding Contemporary Childhood. Chair Dr Bronwen Cohen, Chief Executive, Children in Scotland

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 49 downloads | 9 plays | 1 attachment

Improving Child Health: Discussion of evidence on promoting protective factors and reducing modifiable risk factors - Linda de Caestecker

Thursday, November 13, 2008

18:19 minutes (8.42 MB)

Professor Linda de Caestecker, Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, http://www.nhsggc.org.uk.

Session 2 - Building Better Childhoods, Understanding Contemporary Childhood.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 40 downloads | 4 plays | 1 attachment

Grief Matters, Responding to Loss and Bereavement - Mike O'Connor

Thursday, November 13, 2008

21:31 minutes (9.88 MB)

Mike O'Connor, The Notre Dame Centre, http://www.notredamecentre.org.uk

Session 2 - Building Better Childhoods, Understanding Contemporary Childhood.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 140 downloads | 8 plays | 1 attachment

Getting it Right for Looked After Children and Young People: Building a strong corporate family - Anna Fowlie

Thursday, November 13, 2008

19:30 minutes (8.96 MB)

Anna Fowlie, Head of Corporate Parenting, Care and Justice Division, Children, Young People and Social Care Directorate. Scottish Government, http://www.scotland.gov.uk.

Session 3 - Building Better Childhoods, Responding to Need. Chair: Professor Andrew Kendrick, Glasgow School of Social Work.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 45 downloads | 7 plays | 1 attachment

Changes in Support for Children and Families in Iceland: Social capitals, challenges and opportunities - Dora Bjarnason

Thursday, November 13, 2008

28:59 minutes (13.3 MB)

Professor Dóra Bjarnason. University of Iceland.

N.B. For the handout Dóra refers to in her talk see the 'Attachment' section of this page.

Session 4 - Changing Children's Services. Chair: Ms Martha Holden, Project Director, University of Cornell.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 41 downloads | 2 plays | 2 attachments

Accountability and practical change in child welfare: Beyond professionalism - Mark Creekmore

Thursday, November 13, 2008

22:47 minutes (10.46 MB)

Dr Mark Creekmore, University of Michigan.

Session 4 - Changing Children's Services.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 26 downloads | 7 plays | 1 attachment

Getting It Right for Every Child: Promoting effective change - Bill Alexander

Thursday, November 13, 2008

18:42 minutes (8.59 MB)

Bill Alexander. Head of Children's Services for NHS Highland and Highland Council.

N.B. The text of Bill's talk is attached below.

Session 4 - Changing Children's Services.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 55 downloads | 4 plays | 2 attachments

Getting It Right for Every Child: Managing the change - Jane Aldgate

Thursday, November 13, 2008

24:55 minutes (11.44 MB)

Professor Jane Aldgate, The Open University, http://www.open.ac.uk.

Session 5 - Changing Children's Services. Chair: Dr David Stone, Director of Glasgow University's Paediatric Epidemiology and Community Health Unit at Yorkhill Hospital.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 48 downloads | 6 plays | 1 attachment

Fit for the Future - Netta Maciver

Thursday, November 13, 2008

19:51 minutes (9.12 MB)

Netta Maciver, Principal Reporter, Scottish Children's Reporter Administration, http://www.scra.gov.uk.

Session 5 - Changing Children's Services.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

 

download audio file | 26 downloads | 7 plays | 1 attachment

Changing Children's Services - promoting and supporting informal care - Robbie Gilligan

Thursday, November 13, 2008

42:08 minutes (19.32 MB)

Professor Robbie Gilligan, Trinity College Dublin.

Session 6 - Changing Children's Services - promoting and supporting informal care.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 38 downloads | 8 plays | 1 attachment

Better Learning, Better Behaviour - George Head

Thursday, November 13, 2008

16:44 minutes (7.69 MB)

Dr George Head, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow.

Session 3 - Building Better Childhoods, Responding to Need.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 5 downloads | 14 plays

Criminal Justice Social Work after McLeish - Possibilities and Pitfalls - Fergus McNeill

Monday, November 17, 2008

57:48 minutes (26.48 MB)

Professor Fergus McNeill, Glasgow School of Social Work. Explores the implications for criminal justice social work of the recent report of the Independent Prisons Commission, 'Scotland's Choice'. Examines whether the idea of offenders paying back in the community represents a necessary and sufficient underpinning rationale for the use of community penalties and, more generally, for the future development of criminal justice social work. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 6th November 2008.

download audio file | 111 downloads | 25 plays | 1 attachment

Welcome and Minister's Address - Adam Ingram

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

19:45 minutes (9.07 MB)

Welcome and Opening Remarks - Mr Brian Green, Vice Dean, (Academic), University of Strathclyde.

Minister's Address - Mr Adam Ingram, Minister for Children and Early Years.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 138 downloads | 15 plays

Listening to Children: Taking children and young people's participation forward - Kay Tisdall

Monday, December 1, 2008

21:55 minutes (10.06 MB)

Dr Kay Tisdall, Programme Director of the MSc in Childhood Studies, University of Edinburgh.  http://www.childhoodstudies.ed.ac.uk.

Session 1 - Children's Voices, citizenship and inclusion. Chair: Sally Kuenssberg.

Getting It Right for Every Child: Childhood, Citizenship and Children's Services, Glasgow, 24-26 September 2008.

download audio file | 256 downloads | 24 plays | 1 attachment

Disability:Sameness and Difference - Kirsten Stalker

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

45:53 minutes (21.03 MB)

Professor Kirsten Stalker, Strathclyde University, 18th November 2008.

download audio file | 55 downloads | 7 plays