蘑菇直播

Durham University is ranked in the world top 100 universities, and it is situated in an ancient and beautiful small city in the North East of England. The university hosts around 20,000 students at all levels of study, and is the base for a considerable number of world-leading scholars across a wide range of disciplines.

The Sociology Department is host to a wide range of academic interests, including social work scholars who are linked with departmental wide programmes concerned with Communities and Social Justice, Sociology of Health, Violence and Abuse and Criminal Justice.

Professor Roger Smith

Roger Smith is a former Probation Officer and youth justice practitioner.

Since becoming an academic, he has worked in the areas of social work and criminology at the University of Leicester, De Montfort University and Durham University.

He has extensive experience as a social work educator, and has worked on a number of collaborative projects with service users in both teaching and research. His research interests have included social work, power and social justice; youth justice and youth diversion; research methods in social work; participatory methods; childhood and social work education.

His published work includes: Social Work with Young People (2008)

• Social Work and Power (2008)
• Doing Social Work Research (2009)
• Social Work and Power (2009)
• Doing Justice to Young People (2011)
• Innovations in Social Work Research (co-editor) (2016)

听

Associate Professor, Sui-Ting Kong

Sui-Ting joined Durham University in 2017 after working at University of Hong Kong for two years as postdoctoral fellow. Her academic interests are in feminist participatory methodologies, social work practice research, violence against women and social work theorising.听Her methodological innovations include

• Cooperative Grounded Inquiry (2015)
• Collaborative focused group analysis (2020), plus the use of theatre (2018)
• Collaborative Practice Research for Social Work (2022)

She is the Co-Director of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and co-founded the BASW UK Network for Social Work Practitioner Research for supporting knowledge exchange and coproduced research among social work practitioners and academic researchers. She has been awarded the prestigious British Academy/Wolfson Fellowship in 2021 to work on transnational social work and Hongkonger diaspora in the UK.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1037-9774