The effects of professionals' human and cultural capital for interprofessional social capital
Exploring professional identities, knowledges and learning for inter-practitioner relationships and interprofessional practice in schools and children’s services
A series of four seminars in 2008/09 sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council.
This seminar series has been initiated by researchers at Aberdeen, Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. Its aim is to bring together social scientists from various disciplines that inform children’s public services policy and practice together with policy makers and users, representatives of voluntary agencies, practitioners in health, education, social work and other agencies, as well as service users, in order to explore a number of important questions arising from new professional relations in transformed children’s services.
Seminar themes include:
- the formation of professional identities in relation to subject disciplinary knowledge bases and initial professional learning;
- the role of early professional training and acculturalisation into professional roles;
- the nature of collaboration and interprofessional working for children in schools and related services;
- the effects of the complex relationships between professionals’ identifications, knowledge and practice for the operation of collaborative working and the building-up of social capital.
The objectives are to:
- examine tensions and complementarities in the theory and practice of interprofessional working among the disciplinary and knowledge based identifications of different professional groups;.
- investigate the implications and challenges of the multiplicity of theorizations and self-positionings of practitioners and professional groups for the operation of co-practice work relations, networks and teams in schools;
- explore how children’s services integration policy and related school workforce remodelling is operating in schools;
- explore whether and how professionals’ human capital creates interprofessional social capital;
- provide a practitioners’ forum which will focus on current and future developments and practices in interagency integrated services in schools and communities, giving an opportunity for participant practitioners involved in service reform to share ideas and good practices in ‘joined-up working’;
- identify opportunities for building collaborative research networks and openings for theoretical scholarship, policy study and empirical research.
Currently, there is no UK forum to address the above aims and objectives. The seminar series programme of four two-day events is planned as a response to the current lack of seminar outlets in which to review recent theoretical and empirical research into work identities, knowledges and practice relations and to share and debate research, policy and practice perspectives on these matters. Speakers include social scientists and members of the policy community working in the fields of education and other children’s public services, social policy and social capital. Participants include a mix of lead, established and emergent researchers, postgraduate students, members of the policy community, practitioners from all relevant agencies and their managers and leaders, and local authority representatives. A number of outputs are planned in a variety of forms suited to different participant groups and audiences including seminar series WebPages and an edited series of research papers linked to each seminar in the series.
Seminar Programme
Seminar 1: Thursday May 29th and Friday May 30th 2008, University of Aberdeen (download details).
Speakers:
- Professor Julie Allan, University of Stirling
- Professor Gary Crow, Florida State University
- Mark Smith, University of Edinburgh
- Dr Joan Forbes, University of Aberdeen
Seminar 2: Thursday 30th and Friday 31st October 2008, University of Glasgow (download details).
Speakers:
- Dr Phil Cotton, University of Glasgow
- Dr Fergus McNeil, Glasgow School of Social Work
- Roisin McGoldrick, Glasgow School of Social Work
- Jacquie Fee, University of Strathclyde
Seminar 3: Thursday 29th and Friday 30th January 2009, University of Strathclyde (download details)
Speakers:
- Raymond Taylor, University of Strathclyde
- Practitioner perspectives (tbc)
Seminar 4: Thursday 7th May and Friday 8th May 2009, University of Aberdeen (download details)
Photo of attendees at above seminar. (ESRC Seminar May 09)
Speakers:
- Dr Michael Cowie, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Ian Stronach, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Professor Stephen Baron, University of Strathclyde
- Dr Cate Watson, University of Aberdeen
- Professor Walter Humes, University of The West of Scotland
In order to facilitate travelling arrangements, the seminars will start at 2.00pm on day one and finish with lunch at 12.30pm on the second day.
The numbers are limited to 18 participants at each seminar. A contribution toward travelling and accommodation expenses is available for practitioner participants at Seminar 3.
Further Information
Please contact one of the seminar series lead organisers:
Dr Joan Forbes: j.c.forbes@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Jim McGonigal: J.Mcgonigal@edu.gla.ac.uk
Raymond Taylor: Raymond.taylor@strath.ac.uk
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