Lorna Stabler

@lornastabler.bsky.social

Social work academic. Passionate about keeping children with the people who ❤️ them. Geordie in Wales. Proud feminist.

We have four free CPD accredited webinar recordings and resources in which researchers and practitioners discuss the role of artificial intelligence in social care and explore whether AI could improve social work and outcomes for children, young people and their families: buff.ly/f6pVNJb

A graphic promoting four free webinars on the CELCIS website about artificial Intelligence in children's social care. They are: 
1) What could AI mean for children’s social care? 
2) Can AI improve decision-making and outcomes when it comes to children's care and protection? 
3) What are the impacts of using AI transcription tools in social care? 
4) Is AI your new critical friend in social work practice?

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

The recording of our webinar Growing Up in Kinship Care, where our speakers shared research and reflections on the experiences and challenges faced by kinship families and the implications of these for policy and practice, is available here: buff.ly/I9b1qXq

A graphic for the recorded webinar Growing Up in Kinship Care, which appears on the CELCIS website.

Dame Stephanie Shirley has died aged 91. She adopted the name "Steve" in correspondence as letters signed Stephanie went unanswered. Despite such thoroughly ingrained sexism in computing, she built an astonishing tech career and did all huge amount to support other women in tech #histsci #histtech

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91

She founded the software company Freelance Programmers in 1962, which almost exclusively hired women, and in later life donated almost £70m of her fortune.

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The UK Treasury has screwed Wales again! They've now classed a railway line running for Oxford to Cambridge as an "England and WALES" project. This robs Wales over £300m+ whereas Scotland and NI get their cash. It's a disgrace that this is still happening after the HS2 robbery.

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 Lorna Stabler (lornastabler.bsky.social) from CASCADE, Cardiff University, has been appointed Specialty Lead for Social Care in Health and Care Research Wales! 🌟 Read more about her research and new role: buff.ly/6qxAral #CASCADE #SocialCare researchwales.bsky.social

Lorna Stabler (@lornastabler.bsky.social)

Social work academic. Passionate about keeping children with the people who ❤️ them. Geordie in Wales. Proud feminist.

lornastabler.bsky.social

The second paper from our study on household risk factors and children entering care has been published. This one looks at the inter-relationship between children’s ethnic background and parental risk factors: inter-relationship between parental problems and ethnic background: bit.ly/4fKLLsP

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