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The Social Work Routes Podcast
Welcome to Social Work Routes - a podcast dedicated to exploring the pathways to social justice work. We listen to the stories of people involved in social work and activism – what brought them to the field? Where does their passion for social justice work lie? What experiences have shaped their perspectives? And what hopes and dreams do they have for the future? We have conversations with people around the globe to hear their stories of activism and change-making. My name is Kris Clarke and I am an associate professor of social work at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Join us on Spotify to listen to Social Work Routes -- stories of personal, political, and social transformation.
Episodes
50 episodes
Heather McCalden on creativity and the internet
Heather McCalden is a multidisciplinary artist working with text, image and movement. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art (2015) and has exhibited at Roulette Intermedium, Pierogi Gallery, National Sawdust, Testbed 1, and Seattle Symp...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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Racism and Mental Health in U.S. History
Mab Segrest talks about her book, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry from Georgia’s Milledgeville Asylum. Mab Segrest is the former Fuller-Matthai Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticu...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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A conversation about Finnish social work research
Tarja Pösö, Professor in Social Work at Tampere University, Finland, has a long experience of more than 30 years in studying social work, especially child welfare, from different perspectives, with a keen interest in cross-country perspectives ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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31:37
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A conversation about young masculinities in Finland
Harry Lunabba is a University lecturer in social work and a youth researcher at the University of Helsinki. In his research he has mainly focused on studies on young masculinities. His latest article analyses how to recognise young masculinitie...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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44:18
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A conversation with Minna Zechner on pathways into Finnish social work research
Minna Zechner is an Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of Helsinki. Her speciality area is health and social services. Her educational background is in social policy, both Master and Doctoral degrees are from the Univer...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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38:17
A conversation on social work, migration and international education
Tobias Pötzsch, Ph.D, works as a lecturer in Social Work at the University of Helsinki’s Swedish School of Social Science. My doctoral dissertation; Critical Perspectives on Social inclusion in Integration Education Programs for Adult Migra...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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47:31
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Stanley Witkin - a life in social work
Stanley Witkin is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of Vermont, USA and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. USA. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wiscons...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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A conversation on whiteness in social work education and practice
Harjeet Badwall is an Associate Professor at York University’s School of Social Work in Toronto, Canada. Her areas of research focus on disrupting racism, whiteness, and colonialism in Social Work. Harjeet teaches core theory and practice...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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A Hmong-American pathway into nonprofit leadership
Susan was born and raised in Fresno, California, USA, to refugee parents of Hmong descent. She received her Bachelor of Social Work from California State University, Fresno, and her Master of Public Administration with a specialization in...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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55:28
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A conversation on international development and research ethics
Marjaana Jauhola (she/they) is an ethnographer at the intersection of international politics, development, peace and conflict, and feminism. With life's historical and visual methods Marjaana focuses on global politics of post-conflict/disaster...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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A conversation on feminist activism in universities
Jessica Schulz (she/they) is a passionate feminist scholar-activist from California’s Central Valley. With degrees from Fresno State and Iowa State Universities, Jessica aims to help institutions of higher education support student victims and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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Latinx young adult literature
Cristina Herrera earned her PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and is a Professor and Director of Chicano/Latino Studies at Portland State University. Born and raised in Oxnard, California, she is a second-generation Chica...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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41:09
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A conversation on personal sovereignty
Dayka Robinson is a Sovereignty Guide, nationally recognized Interior Designer, World Traveler & unapologetic Wild Woman helping women know themselves, trust themselves & honor themselves, so they can speak their truth, know their worth...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:01:35
A life in LGBTQ+ activism
Dr. Michael Barron is an Irish community activist who since the late 1990s has worked with minority and marginalized communities. He was centrally involved in the LGBTI+ rights movement in Ireland (including the marriage equality referendum cam...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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Social work with African American women
Dr. Quenette Walton is an assistant professor at the University of Houston in the Graduate College of Social Work. The aims of her research program are to build knowledge and develop a theory that informs policies, practices, and culturally rel...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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42:39
Health inequities and decolonization
Luke has family connections to the Gunditjmara nation of Victoria (Australia) and is a Research Associate located within the Social Work Innovation Research Living Space (SWIRLS) at Flinders University. Through his research, Luke seeks to under...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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Black feminist perspectives on British social work practice
Professor Claudia Bernard, Goldsmiths, University of London Dr Claudia Bernard is Professor of Social Work and Co-Head of the Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies, at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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Literacy as social justice
Yer Vang was born in Ban Vinai, Thailand, and raised in Fresno, California. She comes from a big family with a total of eight siblings: three sisters and five brothers. She is the first in her family to pursue higher education...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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43:58
Irish child welfare
Robbie Gilligan is Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin. His path to professional social work began through voluntary youth work in inner city Dublin. His formative practice experience came from his first social ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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48:47
Abolition and child protection
Alan J. Dettlaff is Dean of the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston and the inaugural Maconda Brown O’Connor Endowed Dean’s Chair. Prior to entering academia, Dean Dettlaff worked in the child welfare system as a casewo...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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52:36
Decolonizing social work
Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, Ph.D., is Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. He is an enrolled member of the MHA Nation (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) in North Dakota, USA. He has held faculty and administ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:05:39
Social work during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Jim Campbell is Professor of Social Work in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin. He was co-editor of the British Journal of Social Work from 2010-15. Jim has a number of teaching and r...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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49:30
From the civil rights movement to prison abolition in social work
Susan Chandler, MSW, PhD, is a community organizer and social work educator. She retired from 20 years of teaching in the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Social Work, but continues to teach her favorite course, Mass Incarceration, R...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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33:46
Masculinity and post humanism in social work
Bob Pease is Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Social Change at the University of Tasmania and Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. His most recent books are Do...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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