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.
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.
52:46 minutes (24.18 MB)
Graham McPheat, Glasgow School of Social Work. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 7th February 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.
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.
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.
25:25 minutes (11.66 MB)
Dr Clive Sellick, Unversity of East Anglia. Glasgow School of Social Work Research Seminar Series: 8th April 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
45:53 minutes (21.03 MB)
Professor Kirsten Stalker, Strathclyde University, 18th November 2008.