Eco-Social Work in Australia

By: Householders‘ Option to Protect the Environment HOPE Australia
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  • Tthe successful run of this series as a standard podcast offering is almost over.It will expire as an RSS feed podcast by the end of May 2024 and is now being archived on YouTube .All episodes should be available there by the end of May.On YouTube the series episodes can be found either by searching for Eco Social Work in Australia or for HOPEINCFILMS - the channel of the not for profit, HOPE INC. AUSTRALIA.
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  • A European perspective on ecosocial work education and training

    A European perspective on ecosocial work education and training
    Feb 9 2023
    Guests: Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö: senior lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Dr. Ingo Stamm: postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Introduction to this episode: The social work training institutions around the world play a crucial role in helping shape the specific competencies and wider professional culture of new generations of social workers. Those emerging professionals are now taking up their diverse social work duties and roles against a backdrop of escalating physical environment and ecological justice challenges. Those challenges will inevitably influence the nature of social work practice in the future. It has been a key objective of this podcast series to hear what my interview guests think about such challenges, and their implications for future SW practice. Over the course of the series I have interviewed a significant number of university based social work educators and trainers - in Australia, the USA and the UK. Many of them have talked about their experiences in training new generations of social workers in eco-social work practice. I am delighted to be able to extend this particular focus of the series to welcome two interview guests based in Finland. They represent a mainland European perspective on eco-social work education and training issues. Dr. Ingo Stamm had a decade long career as a social work practitioner in the field of child and youth services before becoming a social work educator, incorporating a range of professional interests including ecosocial work and sustainability. Dr.Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö has almost twenty years’ experience in teaching and research across a wide field of inquiry. Some of her most recent research work focusses on the connection between social and environmental disadvantage in the mining industry, and the possible future of social work practice in the context of global ethics and the climate crisis. In this interview, I ask Satu and Ingo about the opportunities and challenges for training students in eco-social work (ESW) practice. They share their views on what ESW practice can do to help tackle climate change and other, physical environment and ecological challenges. And they consider what the short to mid-term future might hold for ESW intervention, either within the Finnish, European or international social work mainstream. SUMMARY OF MAIN INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS – with approximate time elapsed in minutes General Introduction - 0.50QUESTION 1: What are some key opportunities and challenges for training students in eco-social work practice in 2023 and beyond? - 2.50 QUESTION 2: As a trainer/teacher what is particularly rewarding for you in providing ESW training? - 07.50 QUESTION 3: How can ESW practice help tackle climate disruption, other sustainability challenges and linked social justice concerns? -13.00 Relevance of ESW to mainstream SW practice -19.47 QUESTION 4: How could or should ESW practice develop over the next 2 - 10 years? - 24.08 Guest take home messages – 31.22 Thanks to guests and closing comments -34.56 End – 36.26 RESOURCES RELVANT TO EPISODE DISCUSSION – please note that active URL links only appear on some podcast sites, notably the PODBEAN parent hosting site. Guest publication record Selected publications list of Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö on Researchgate and on ORCID Selected publications of Dr Ingo Stamm on Researchgate and Educational approaches Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – a fairly recent (2019) paper which discusses some pros and cons of MOOC use for social work education. MOOC ‘Introduction to planetary well-being’ – this course, produced by the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, is one of four they provide on the concept of planetary well-being, and may interest social work students and practitioners. This MOOC aligns with the growing interest in the concept of planetary health as a way of bringing together environmental, ecological and social justice concerns. The concept emphasises the close connection between the healthy functioning of planetary systems including nature and climate, and human health and wellbeing.MOOC ‘Planetary Boundaries’ covers earth system science understanding of the rapidly evolving trends in global environmental change and the responses aimed at slowing or eliminating these changes. Produced in conjunction with the prestigious Stockholm Resilience Center, this course is aimed, inter alia, at ‘anyone new to the concept of sustainable development who wants to understand the interplay between human actions and what the planet can support. Action Research education model – paper on the use of feminist participatory action research (FPAR) used within climate change advocacy in the Asia Pacific region - cited in Australian social work training course (Edith Cowan University) International collaboration IFSW: People’s Global Summit event: ‘Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving ...
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    36 mins
  • A student in training perspective on eco-social work practice

    A student in training perspective on eco-social work practice
    Dec 12 2022
    Guest: Bayley Johnson - Australian social work student in training Introduction to this episode The social work (SW) student perspective on eco-social practice (ESW) offers interesting insights into the principles of that practice for a number of reasons. Almost by definition, many students will come to an eco-social framing of practice with little or no prior experience, theoretical preferences or practice assumptions. In addition to presenting an intellectual tabula rasa, and the freshness of view which often goes with it, students in training are encouraged, systematically, to reflect and think critically about their learning and practice placement experience. My guest on this episode of the podcast series, Bayley Johnson, brings such a fresh and critical pair of eyes to the eco-social work field. At time of interview, Bayley was heading into his final training year within a four-year, Batchelor of social work training course conducted by the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia - and was soon to become secretary of the University of Queensland Social Work Society He undertook his first, supervised, 500 hour practice placement with an eco-social work orientation in the first half of 2022. During that time, Bayley worked with the Darling Downs Environment Council, a peak regional environment group in S.E. Queensland, Australia, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the environment (natural, built, and managed) and the enhancement of values which promote sustainability. In our discussion, Bayley draws upon that first placement experience, and his subsequent critical reflections on eco-social practice, to answer some of the standard questions posed to all guests throughout this series. SUMMARY OF MAIN INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS - with approximate time elapsed in minutes. General Introduction – 0.50QUESTION 1: For you, what is ESW practice in 2022? – 2.50. Includes guest self-introduction, choice of SW as a career, developing awareness of ESW - and stories from first, ESW oriented practice placement. QUESTION 2: How can ESW help tackle climate change and other ecological sustainability concerns in practical terms? - 10.15 QUESTION 3: Why should the social work profession be involved with physical environment concerns? – 20.05 QUESTION 4: What could the future (2-10 years) hold for ESW interventions, as a body of practice within the Australian social work mainstream? 28.48Guest summarising comments – 39.48 Closing acknowledgements – 41.27 RESOURCES AND REFERENCES RELATED TO THE DISCUSSION – URL links below are available on the Podbean podcast platform - but not all others. Darling Downs Environment Council (DDEC) based in Toowoomba S.E. Queensland.An example of a wildlife care organisation and its role in helping protect vulnerable Australian species such as the koala.A recent S.E. Queensland community campaign to save endangered remnant natural vegetation.The problems produced by broadscale native vegetation clearing in Queensland (e.g. ‘chain’ clearing).The 2022 IFSW international conference on co-building a new eco-social world with people’s charter, values and action statement.The Australian Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics (2020) with reference to the importance of considering the physical environment in achieving a socially just, sustainable society (e.g., pages 12/13).Public mental health and therapeutic value of Blue and Green spaces WHO report (2021).The need for a socially just transition for fossil fuel workers in a new low carbon economy.Research on the potential, long term community destabilising effects of major flood events.Other research examples on possible links between climate disruption exacerbated natural disasters and anti-social and violent behaviour (2021).Report on community and social vulnerability assessment in the context of Australian bushfire risk (2022). CONTACT DETAILS: Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE): T +61 7 4639 2135 Email WEB Facebook Produced for HOPE by Andrew Nicholson. Contacts: T + 61 411082028 E counsel1983@gmail.com This episode recorded in Toowoomba, S.E. Queensland, Australia on 1st December 2022 Artwork: Daniela Dal’Castel Incidental Music: James Nicholson
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    44 mins
  • Green Social Work: A 21st Century Challenge . . .

    Green Social Work: A 21st Century Challenge . . .
    Oct 27 2022
    Full title: Green Social Work: A 21st Century Challenge for Practitioners, Academics and Students Guest: Professor Lena Dominelli, PhD, AcSS, is a qualified social worker and holds a Chair in Social Work at the University of Stirling. Amongst her many contributions to the social work profession she helped create the concept of green social work as a new paradigm for theory and practice; and her 2012 book of the same name attracted much professional interest. She has developed a range of research interests of great relevance to green and eco-social work practice, including climate change and sustainability, extreme weather events in the context of disaster intervention, community vulnerability, sustainability and resilience. On the international stage she has represented the social work profession at United Nations discussions on climate change since 2010. Introduction to this episode: My guest in this podcast episode, Professor Lena Dominelli, is well qualified to talk about aspects of historical, social work practice trends toward greater physical environment incorporation. She invented the term green social work (GSW) and for over a decade now she has developed a range of research interests of great relevance to green social work applications. These include, climate change and sustainability, extreme weather events, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions - in the context of disaster interventions, community vulnerability, sustainability and resilience. On the international stage she has represented the social work profession at United Nations discussions on climate change since 2010, and for a long time, she led Pillar 3 of the Global Agenda for Social Work, focussed on Promoting Community and Environmental Sustainability. In 2012 she saw publication of her influential book, Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice - which has become a standard introductory text for the subject. In this episode, I talk to Professor Dominelli about the current state of play of green social work practice for various constituencies of social work service users internationally, and in the context of accelerating physical environmental challenges. MAIN INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS - with approximate time elapsed location in minutes. General introduction – 0.50Guest self-introduction - 3.47Interviewer recap of themes - 19.04What constitutes green social work (GSW) in 2022? – 20.26Importance of energy self-sufficiency – 35.10Why should mainstream social work more fully incorporate GSW practice? - 37.38Recap of some interview themes – 49.56Some thoughts on the future of GSW progression – 55.32Guest summarising comments – 62.00End of interview and thanks to guest – 64.30 RESOURCES MENTIONED OR RELATED TO THE THE DISCUSSION Professor Lena Dominelli – selective list and other examples of her social work scholarship Book Green Social Work: from environmental crises to environmental justice (2012) Book: Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work (2018) (Dominelli, L. ed.) University of Stirling (UK) Disaster Intervention, Humanitarian Aid and Green Social Work education offered at both CPD and MSc course level. Example of an earlier, 1970s transformative tradition in UK social work – as described in the book Radical Social Work by Bailey and Brake (1975)Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring (1962) and a fairly recent (2017) example of the continued intellectual interest in and legacy of the book relevant to a green worldview.Popular critiques of neoliberalism including Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine (first edition published 2007) and as reviewed by The Guardian newspaper (2007) a neo-liberal critique by journalist George Monbiot (2016) and a book by Susan George (2010) Whose crisis, whose future?: towards a greener, fairer, richer world.UN Declaration on the Right to Development (1986)Prof Dominelli writing on climate change and the fuel poverty solutions project in Gilesgate, Durham UK (2011).Promising new energy efficiency technology research – on thermoradiative diode capabilities which may one day be able to utilise infrared radiation leaving the Earth during night time.Scottish island of Eigg’s energy self-sufficiency solutions (2020)BASW (British Association of Social Workers) CPD Guidance on Social Work Roles Undertaken During Disasters.New Zealand – article on granting legal rights to rivers and forests (2022) GUEST AND CONTACT DETAILS: Prof Lena Dominelli E: lena.dominelli@stir.ac.uk Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE) T +61 7 4639 2135 Email WEB Facebook Production: Produced for HOPE by Andrew Nicholson. Tel + 61 411082028 E: counsel1983@gmail.com This episode recorded in Toowoomba, S.E. Queensland, Australia on 30th August 2022 Artwork: Daniela Dal’Castel Incidental Music: James Nicholson
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    1 hr and 5 mins

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