Sally Nieman

@alcs.co.uk thank you - as I’ve not published much I did not think it was worth registering but glad I did and so excited to get my first payment!

Really pleased to have contributed to this special issue.

Building a network across social care research and practice: Meet our first fellows

Really excited to have joined the North Thames ARC social care learning network and to have started a part-time research placement with My Home Life at City University www.arc-nt.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’: the role of the team as secure base in social workers’ sensemaking There is recognition that teams act as a locus for the sensemaking activity that underpins social workers’ judgement. Research has highlighted that teams also provide emotional support for practiti...

Really like the teams as a secure base model and interesting to see this research exploring it in social work teams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was really interesting

Attending webinar presenting findings from this study. Study argues that the ‘dim view’ of social workers is a discourse used to justify policy decisions and regulation - research suggests that the public have a more positive and nuanced understanding of the profession.

The @cqr-bath.bsky.social qualitative research symposium is a great annual event, and what an excellent focus this coming year: Who isn't into transparency, openness and rigour in #QualitativeResearch?

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Interesting research looking at the limited evidence to support the negative perception of social work. Great short film to share this in a digestible way.

Season 3 of 'The Portal Podcast: Linking Research and Practice for Social Work' focuses on social work with older people portalpodcastcouk.wordpress.com/podcast-epis...

Thanks for doing this. And please add me. Hoping that this new community will share learning and foster connection like things used to be before the other platform went bad..

Special edition of British Journal of Social Work focusing on social work with older people recently announced - submission by end of Feb
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Thank you!

Inspired by Xodus, I am keen to connect with a community on here as I have learnt so much in the past through what people have shared. #socialwork