Tag Archives: gender

Solidarity and support: Feminist memory work focus groups with working-class women studying social science degrees in Australia.

Posted on October 21, 2016 by socialworknz

Dee Michell, Liz Beddoe, Heather Fraser and Michele Jarldorn  We have just published a  new article reporting on our use of a two-phase, feminist memory work  study in a project conducted with 11 women, social science students at an Australian university. … Continue reading →

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Working-class women study social science degrees: remembering enablers and detractors

Posted on February 1, 2016 by socialworknz

Liz Beddoe Over the last three years I  have had the pleasure of working with a small group of Australian feminist researchers undertaking a feminist memory work study. In this  second article about this collaborative project, we report on a feminist memory … Continue reading →

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Planting a seed: Encouraging service users towards educational goals

Posted on November 24, 2015 by socialworknz

It can take time to see results; it may even be years later that a service user can fully understand the nature of the help which he or she received. This makes accounting for social work help difficult—when do you … Continue reading →

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Race, gender, class: The ‘bad mother’ and child abuse in media reporting

Posted on June 27, 2013 by socialworknz

‘News’ is instantaneous in the information age. Interactive webpages for all forms of mass media and social networking mean that we can all co-produce ‘news’. The lines blur between journalism and ‘opinion’. Child deaths understandably become the focus of enormous … Continue reading →

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