Webinar: Reflections from the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Social Work Practice and Research
Join the webinar hosted by the UArctic Thematic Network on Social Work. This webinar will present reflections from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic from 3 authors whose work was published in the two-volume special edition on Social Work in the Time of COVID-19 in the Journal of Comparative Social Work.
The authors will discuss what we can learn about social work practice from research during COVID-19, what the pandemic might tell us about future practice and research during times of crisis, and what is the lasting impact of COVID-19 on social work practice and research.
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023
Time: 7 - 8:30 pm Central European Time; 11 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Time, 10 - 11:30 am Alaska Time
Location: Zoom – registration is required. You will receive a Zoom link upon registration.
Presenters
Matthew Baker and Shanna Williams, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Canada – The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Work Practice in Canada
Ann Wullum Aasback, Department of Social Work, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway – Domesticating Technology in Pandemic Social Work
Merita Mesiäislehto, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland – Social Workers’ Perceptions on Clients’ Service Needs and Social Work Practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic
For more information, please contact the webinar organizers:
Debbie Gonzalez, Humboldt State University, USA (debbie.gonzalez@humboldt.edu)
Lennart Sauer, Umeå University, Sweden (lennart.sauer@umu.se)
Mary Dallas Allen, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA (mdallen7@alaska.edu)