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Research paper by ‘Think Ahead’ student is accepted by The British Journal of Social Work

Posted on Friday 7 February 2020

Mike Bonnet has had his first paper published by a peer reviewed journal.

Ruth Patrick embarks upon a study into the impacts of recent benefit reforms on larger families

Posted on Thursday 6 February 2020

Focusing on the two-child limit and benefits cap, the research is funded by Nuffield Foundation and is a collaboration with Oxford University (Dr Aaron Reeves), LSE (Dr Kitty Stewart) and the Child Poverty Action Group.

Nicholas Pleace publishes book on homelessness in Denmark, Finland and Ireland

Posted on Tuesday 4 February 2020

Nicholas has written the book alongside Mike Allen (Focus Ireland), Lars Benjaminsen (Danish Centre for Social Science Research) and Eoin O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin).

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SPSW experts in national debate:

Professor Nicholas Pleace - Innovative ‘Housing First’ model can reduce homelessness

Professor Charlie Lloyd - Ex-Prisoners Recovering from Addiction (EPRA) Report

Events

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Mar

Understanding and Supporting Children with Harmful Sexual Behaviour

This event is a repeat of one held in June 2019 but with extended time allocated for practitioners to explore ways in which learning can be implemented in practice.

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Apr

Personality Disorder; Implications for the person, parenthood and children

This event will be of interest to those working with children with personality disorder as well as adults/parents who have a disorder.

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Jun

Universal Credit: welfare that works? Findings from research

This event brings together a range of speakers presenting the latest research on Universal Credit

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