Ffi Evans SFHEA
@ffievans.bsky.social
Reader in Social Work Education, Lead Innovation Scholar for Belonging in Higher Education, relational practice/ pedagogy, digital inclusion, youth work, children’s and young people’s participation. Social worker. Manchester UK
We are a cross-university institute at @manmetuni.bsky.social. Through interdisciplinary research and engagement, we advance conceptualisation and implementation of children and young people’s rights, opportunities and wellbeing. Learn more: www.mmu.ac.uk/institute-fo... #ChildrensFutures
Institute for Children's Futures
Discover how we are leading the way in children’s research and shaping policy and practice for better outcomes for children.
mmu.ac.uk
Myself and @drleona.bsky.social have edited a new Special Collection for Critical and Radical Social Work: 'Race, Class and the Weaponisation of Child Safety' - now available online! Editorial here: shorturl.at/nj4O9 Links to the other papers in the thread below (almost all Open Access!) 👇
Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety
"Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety" published on 24 Feb 2025 by Policy Press.
shorturl.at
How to move beyond the trust issues? The last paragraph surely has a compelling answer…:make HE less impersonal. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...
theguardian.com
Lovely to see this being used Jo!
Jo Dillon@drjodillon.bsky.social · 2y agoCreative participation day with level 5 SW apprentices drawing from my, @ffievans.bsky.social and Rod Kippen’s Research in Practice tool, developing child friendly child protection plans, and unpicking the barriers to confident and meaningful participation in child and family social work.
Very excited to be here in the beautiful Brooks building for the launch of the Institute for Children’s Futures @manmetuni.bsky.social. This afternoon we will be sharing the work of colleagues from @scswmcrmet.bsky.social @jenfish.bsky.social
Great new website from #digitalfutures4children and Sonia Livingstone at London School of Economics. www.digital-futures-for-children.net/for-children...
Your rights online
Curious how children's rights apply online? Here's some useful information.
digital-futures-for-children.net
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities... Unless caring and carers are supported and resourced…
Depletion: a new lens for understanding the human costs of caring
All societies, and all economic activity, ultimately relies upon “social reproduction” – the work of renewing and maintaining life itself. But what happens when the outflow of this labour exceeds t…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
This webinar also features David Tobis on his new research into parent advocacy, Tammy Mayes PFAN cochair and advocate, and other great speakers
Andy_Bilson@bilson.org.uk · 2y agoCome to PFAN's webinar Parent Advocacy: From research to doing on Friday 29th November 4pm-6pm Online. Speakers inc. Alasdair Smith, Director of Children’s Services at Southwark Council who initiated & oversaw implementation of Parent-to-parent peer advocacy www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parent-adv...
Worrying findings in our latest Social Metrics Commission report. 2 million more people plunged into hardship since 2019, 260 000 children. As I say in the article, we see the consequences of this as @trusselluk.bsky.social foodbanks strive to meet soaring need. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high
Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century
theguardian.com
Here's a starter pack on people working on Class Analysis, broadly understood. Follow these people and let me know who I am missing (including yourself)! go.bsky.app/VTirGYT
🎓 We've made a starter pack of university policy institutes like us, and people who work for/are connected to them – do give it a follow! We'll add to it as more institutes join, and let us know if there's anyone we should add! ⬇️
I’m so excited to reveal the cover for my brand new book, Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life. Out 17th April 2025 with Fig Tree, Penguin.
New users? New followers? Hi! I’m a sociologist teaching in a department of social work at a public university. I study disability policy and organizing, and I post about it and related topics. And Chicago. And Star Wars. And other stuff. I’m in this starter pack alongside some great folks.
In case we do, I put together a social work academic Starter Pack. I’m sure I’ve unintentionally omitted folks who are already here, but I’ll keep updating.
Did this social work starter pack less than a week ago and it's already tripled in size. Lots of lovely people doing interesting things in the social work world. Shout me if you'd like an add!
Becca Dove@beccadove2.bsky.social · 2y agoLooks like the social work crew are starting to arrive on here, so I've had a first go at making a starter pack. Let me know if you want adding on, plenty of room for everyone! go.bsky.app/56PBom2
Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling & efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (U.S. & global) - updated w/ requests (sorry if I missed your request - inundated with notifications today) go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
There's so many autism research (#AutRes) accounts on Bluesky that I now have two Starter Packs! go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA go.bsky.app/Pfbbvot And HUGE apologies if I'm missing people. I've gone from 300 to 2k followers in a week, and my notifications are out of control 😱
I've started a north of England journalists starter pack. Please do flag others for inclusion! go.bsky.app/EyHBenr
I created a pack focusing on critical social, political, & economic theory. go.bsky.app/RfyAjod
Marking the 100th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child with some reflections on the child’s right to participation.
"The inquest process is inherently unjust and can become a site in which #autistic ppl, ppl with #learningdisabilities and/or mental health are further dehumanised" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #openaccess paper on reality/brutality of inquests from @sarasiobhan.bsky.social and crew 1/9
Between epistemic injustice and therapeutic jurisprudence: Coronial processes involving families of autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental ill health
Understanding how and why someone dies unexpectedly is key to bereaved family members. The coronial process in England investigates instances where the cause of death is unknown, violent or unnatural...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Relational activism makes change happen through personal and informal relationships, love, empathy, understanding, and co-design, co-create, co-production. #ToLoveIsToAct #CloserToPeple #LoveInMotion #RelationalActivism #SocialWork www.relationalactivism.com/about-relati...
about — Relational Activism
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin
