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Not only Eating Together: Space and Green Social Work Intervention in Hazard-Affected Area in Ya’an, Sichuan, China (2017)
Journal Article
Ku, H. B., & Dominelli, L. (2018). Not only Eating Together: Space and Green Social Work Intervention in Hazard-Affected Area in Ya’an, Sichuan, China. The British Journal of Social Work, 48(5), 1409-1431. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx071

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Lushan county of Ya’an city, Sichuan Province, China, on 20 April 2013. The Lushan earthquake damage is less than the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake’s, where 70,000 houses collapsed and 2 million people across nineteen prefec... Read More about Not only Eating Together: Space and Green Social Work Intervention in Hazard-Affected Area in Ya’an, Sichuan, China.

Green social work and its implications for social development in China (2017)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L., & Ku, H. (2017). Green social work and its implications for social development in China. China Journal of Social Work, 10(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2017.1300338

Green social work has been significant in introducing new issues into environmental debates and increasing its centrality to social work practice. These have included: the mainstreaming of environmental considerations; a widening of the theoretical a... Read More about Green social work and its implications for social development in China.

Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England (2017)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Oven, K., Wistow, J., Dunn, C., & Dominelli, L. (2018). Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(1), 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417695101

Our findings contribute to a growing international literature on how conceptual models from complexity theory may be relevant to inform planning in health and social care systems, helping to adapt and improve preparedness and resilience to extreme we... Read More about Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England.

Social Work Challenges in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Against the Bias (2017)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L. (2017). Social Work Challenges in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Against the Bias. Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, 32(1), 105-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109916681390

This article considers the challenges 21st-century social workers face and focuses specifically on that of racism including Islamophobia and structural inequalities in the society generally. It argues that social workers have the knowledge, skills, a... Read More about Social Work Challenges in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Against the Bias.

Social Media and Social Work: The Challenges of a New Ethical Space (2016)
Journal Article
Boddy, J., & Dominelli, L. (2016). Social Media and Social Work: The Challenges of a New Ethical Space. Australian Social Work, 70(2), 172-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2016.1224907

Social media and other online technologies have transformed communication between social workers and service users, with many practitioners engaging and working with clients through social networking sites. While there are numerous ethical issues ass... Read More about Social Media and Social Work: The Challenges of a New Ethical Space.

When the mountains move: A Chinese post-disaster psychosocial social work model (2016)
Journal Article
Sim, T., & Dominelli, L. (2017). When the mountains move: A Chinese post-disaster psychosocial social work model. Qualitative Social Work, 16(5), 594-611. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325016637912

The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake provided an opportunity to develop a Chinese psychosocial social work model in post-disaster contexts using constant feedback from service users including school children, their parents and teachers for more than seven ye... Read More about When the mountains move: A Chinese post-disaster psychosocial social work model.

Women rebuilding lives post-disaster: innovative community practices for building resilience and promoting sustainable development (2015)
Journal Article
Drolet, J., Dominelli, L., Alston, M., Ersing, R., Mathbor, G., & Wu, H. (2015). Women rebuilding lives post-disaster: innovative community practices for building resilience and promoting sustainable development. Gender and Development, 23(3), 433-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2015.1096040

Disasters result in devastating human, economic, and environmental effects. The paper highlights women's active participation in community-based disaster recovery efforts drawing from the results of the ‘Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster: Innovative Com... Read More about Women rebuilding lives post-disaster: innovative community practices for building resilience and promoting sustainable development.

The role of formal and informal networks in supporting older people's care during extreme weather events (2015)
Journal Article
Wistow, J., Dominelli, L., Oven, K., Dunn, C., & Curtis, S. (2015). The role of formal and informal networks in supporting older people's care during extreme weather events. Policy and Politics, 43(1), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557312x655855

We use theories of formal and informal networks of care, within a local governance system, to interpret networks supporting older people during extreme weather events. Drawing on international literatures about network governance and emergency manage... Read More about The role of formal and informal networks in supporting older people's care during extreme weather events.

Students' Involvement in International Humanitarian Aid: Learning from Student Responses to the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka (2014)
Journal Article
Vickers, T., & Dominelli, L. (2015). Students' Involvement in International Humanitarian Aid: Learning from Student Responses to the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka. The British Journal of Social Work, 45(6), 1905-1922. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcu052

Aid delivery has been critiqued for its failure to be locality-specific and culturally relevant for recipients. Humanitarian responses to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami involved volunteers, professionals, and social work and other students. In this ar... Read More about Students' Involvement in International Humanitarian Aid: Learning from Student Responses to the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka.

Mind the Gap: Built Infrastructures, Sustainable Caring Relations, and Resilient Communities in Extreme Weather Events (2013)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L. (2013). Mind the Gap: Built Infrastructures, Sustainable Caring Relations, and Resilient Communities in Extreme Weather Events. Australian Social Work, 66(2), 204-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2012.708764

Climate change debates seldom link the insights derived from the physical sciences to the concerns of social scientists. Understanding how failures in built infrastructures increase the caring burden on women is one of these instances. This article d... Read More about Mind the Gap: Built Infrastructures, Sustainable Caring Relations, and Resilient Communities in Extreme Weather Events.

Climate change: social workers' roles and contributions to policy debates and interventions (2011)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L. (2011). Climate change: social workers' roles and contributions to policy debates and interventions. International Journal of Social Welfare, 20(4), 430-438. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2011.00795.x

Climate change is seldom discussed in mainstream social work. Its first presentations on the world stage occurred in Copenhagen during the Conference of the Parties (COP15). This article argues that the profession has an important role to play in: he... Read More about Climate change: social workers' roles and contributions to policy debates and interventions.

‘Here's my Story’: Fathers of ‘Looked After’ Children Recount their Experiences in the Canadian Child Welfare System (2010)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L., Strega, S., Walmsley, C., Callahan, M., & Brown, L. (2010). ‘Here's my Story’: Fathers of ‘Looked After’ Children Recount their Experiences in the Canadian Child Welfare System. The British Journal of Social Work, 41(2), 351-367. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcq099

Fathers tend to be excluded and ‘invisible’ participants in the child welfare system. We interviewed fathers with ‘looked after’ children in a child protection system in Western Canada. They wanted active roles in children's lives and to become engag... Read More about ‘Here's my Story’: Fathers of ‘Looked After’ Children Recount their Experiences in the Canadian Child Welfare System.

Ethics and Governance in Social Work Research in the UK (2008)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L., & Holloway, M. (2008). Ethics and Governance in Social Work Research in the UK. The British Journal of Social Work, 38(5), 1009-1024. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcm123

The application of formal research ethics and governance structures in social work research have lagged behind those applicable in health, although in the UK, social care has been deemed to be covered by those that were used in the NHS. Whilst this l... Read More about Ethics and Governance in Social Work Research in the UK.

Endangered Children: Experiencing and Surviving the State as Failed Parent and Grandparent (2005)
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Dominelli, L., Callahan, M., Rutman, D., & Strega, S. (2005). Endangered Children: Experiencing and Surviving the State as Failed Parent and Grandparent. The British Journal of Social Work, 35(7), 1123-1144. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bch224

The state removes children from ‘failed’ parents to give them a better experience of parenting. This article examines the role that the state plays as parent to young mothers in care and grandparent to their children, drawing on a small-scale study u... Read More about Endangered Children: Experiencing and Surviving the State as Failed Parent and Grandparent.

Social Inclusion in Research: Reflecting on a Research Project Involving Young Mothers in Care (2005)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L. (2005). Social Inclusion in Research: Reflecting on a Research Project Involving Young Mothers in Care. International Journal of Social Welfare, 14(1), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2005.00335.x

This article considers social inclusion in research by reflecting upon a project involving young mothers in care, which used grounded theory methodology (GTM) to theorise their situations and emphasise their voice, a key issue in inclusion, and yield... Read More about Social Inclusion in Research: Reflecting on a Research Project Involving Young Mothers in Care.