Tithebarn St Building, Room 1.22, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:45 - 17:00 BST.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaped-by-the-past-sustaining-the-future-tickets-1098072808329
For any queries regarding registration or the programme please contact: ethicsandsocialwelfare@outlook.com
These are difficult times for anyone seeking to understand the relation between ethics and social welfare, in theory or practice. How best should we address the challenges of our current conjuncture, in relation to lessons from and about the past, and understandings of the shape of the future? This international and interdisciplinary symposium, hosted by the Ethics and Social Welfare journal, invites academics, practitioners, commentators, activists, people who use welfare services and others with an interest in the relationship between ethics, social justice and the shifting contexts of social welfare to reflect on this question across the range of relevant perspectives.
Registration: The symposium is an in-person event and booking is essential through this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaped-by-the-past-sustaining-the-future-tickets-1098072808329
- Regular fee - £40;
- Student fee - £10;
- Unwaged members of community organisations, service user groups - free.
Lunch, coffee, and tea provided.
Tentative Program
09:45 Coffee and registration
10:15 Introduction and welcome. Gideon Calder, Swansea University
10:30 Keynote 1: Ethics and Social Welfare: Past, present and future. Derek Clifford, Founding Co-Editor, Ethics and Social Welfare.
11:00 Keynote 2: Practising ethically in a crisis-stricken world: interrogating the ‘care crisis’. Sarah Banks, Durham University.
11:45 Coffee
12:00 Discussion: Ethics and Social Welfare's Journey: Readers and writers in transition, with Anna Parkinson, Taylor and Francis.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Panel 1. Chaired by Dorothee Hölscher, University of Queensland, Australia.
Handle with care: the struggles to foreground humanity in social work responses to extra-familial harm. Carlene Firmin, Durham University, UK.
Social workers’ experiences of moral emotion as embedded within personal, interpersonal, and institutional disconnection. Rachel Imboden, University of Maryland, USA.
Ambedkar’s idea of social justice and ethics: community development–pedagogies, practice, and intervention. Ajeet Kumar Pankaj, Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER), India.
Climate and environmental justice. Nicole Mattocks, Colorado Mesa University, USA.
15:00 - Coffee
15:15 - Panel 2. Chaired by Ana M. Sobočan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Assigning responsibility for the ‘right to die’: moral and legal ambiguity in the regulation of assisted dying. Janna Bryson, University of Cambridge, UK
The changing role of primary teachers and the need for social support in schools. Oliver Gomez Raya and Esther Raya Diez, Primary Education Teacher and University of la Rioja
Finnish social care students’ approaches to social justice and the complex case of teaching social justice in social work classrooms. Niina Manninen, Lecturer in Social Care, Royal Holloway, University of London
16:30 Roundtable. Chaired by Holly Mogford, Swansea University, UK
17:00 Close