Recording of a presentation given by Lucy Rai on the 21st January 2022 for the Professional, Academic and Workplace SIG of the British
Writing in Social Work Practice (WiSP) was the first nationally funded research into writing and recording in social work. The project also
As part of WiSP we are committed to meeting with our advisory panel at least three times during the life of the project. These meetings provide
It seems important, in the wake of World Social Work Day (21st March), to acknowledge and celebrate the huge range of skills that social workers
(cartoon courtesy of @harrymvenning drawn during our presentation at @JSWEC 2016) So we’ve just passed the half way mark in terms of
An important aspect of doing research observations is building relationships. We’re coming into the 12th month on the WiSP project now – almost
I had the joy of observing a social worker for four days in her busy social work life, which gave me a real insight into many features of her
‘Collecting data’ in this project was never going to be straightforward. We want to speak to social workers about their day-to-day practices, and
I have to admit that doing the anonymisation and coding work can be tedious and dare I say it probably pretty boring, but it’s so crucial to a)
As part of the WiSP project we’re aiming to interview 50 social workers, to explore their perspectives on the writing tasks, demands,