What does international social work mean to us? Bringing together the global and the local

1. What does international social work mean to us? Bringing together the global and the local Professor Suzy Braye, Professor Imogen Taylor and Jill Scholl

2. Research projects with international partners • Melissa Nolas European Research Council CONNECTORS, an international study on children’s participation in public life, with colleagues in Greece and India, 2013-2018 • Janet BoddyFamily Lives and the Environment: Cross-national Perspectives, Young Lives Study in Andhra Pradesh and England, 2011-2014 • Rachel Thomson, through the Centre for Innovation in Childhood & Youth, is hosting Helene Join-Lambert (France) on an EU Marie Curie Fellowship to develop ways of tracking young people through European care systems, 2014

3. Building international research bidding platforms • Elaine Sharland is developing a collaborative project (led byProf John Gal, Jerusalem) with 9 country partners, on Social Work Academics’ input into national and international policy • Charles Watters is bidding to the EU COST network programme in a research partnership including McGill University, Canada; Utrecht University, Netherlands; and Ghent University, Belgium • Rea Maglajlicis bidding to the ERC with partners in Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European and World Network of Users and Survivors on supported decision making in Europe

4. Building and participating in international research networks • Jill Scholl member of PowerUs an international network (Denmark, Gemany, Sweden, UK) of teachers, researchers and service users working to promote the empowerment of marginalised and discriminated groups; sponsored by the EU Leonardo Programme “Transfer of Innovation” ( 2011-) • Elaine Sharlandco-founder, European Conference for Social Work Research; co-founder/Secretary, European Association for Social Work Research; co-founder, Prato Beyond the Risk Paradigm Network • Denise Turner is a member of the International Network of Narrative Medicine

5. Editing international journals

6. Internationalising the curriculum for our social work students • Henglien (Lisa) Chen helps our MA Social Work students undertake comparative analysis of policy and practice; students on the BA and the MA consider what ‘think global, act local’ means and use international examples to re-think local social work practice • David Orr draws on World Health Organisation outputs to inform BA Social Work teaching on mental health • Rachel Burr teaches MA Social Work students about international social work drawing on the social work training program she set up in Vietnam

7. Teacher and student mobility • Russell Whiting: Co-facilitating (with Janet Boddy), undergraduate visits with colleagues at Hogeshool Rotterdam -Institute voorSocialeOpleidingen. Dutch students visited Sussex 2013 and Sussex students to visit Rotterdam in 2014.  • Tish Marrable Erasmus visit to the Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, in 2013 to share research methods expertise. Dr FridaPetersson from Gothenburg made a return visit to Sussex later in 2013 • Sharon Lambley, 2014, hosts managers from Limerick Institute of Technology and local agencies to exchange models of supervision

8. International doctoral student visits to Sussex • Suzy Brayearranged a visit by 6 doctoral students from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, to share learning with Sussex PhD and Doctor of Social Work students • Michelle Lefevre supervises two international doctoral students in Israel, and students from Canada and Sweden attend the Doctorate in Social Work programme • Imogen Taylor and Rea Maglajlic co-supervise a visiting Commonwealth Institute Scholarship student from the TATA Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, researching disability in higher education, 2014.

9. International doctoral work • David Orr researched mental health among indigenous communities in the Peruvian highlands. His panel on 'Ethnographic Perspectives on Global Mental Health' at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences World Congress 2013, will create a themed section in Transcultural Psychiatry.  • Lisa Chen undertook a cross national study of older people’s quality of life in England, the Netherlands and Taiwan, resulting in publications in international journals

10. Honorary visiting appointments in other countries • Suzy Braye, Visiting Professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden • Lisa Chen, Visiting Lecturer, various Taiwan universities • Rea Maglajlic Visiting Lecturer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia  • Elaine Sharland Visiting Professor, Newcastle University, Australia • Imogen Taylor, Assessment Panel, Hong Kong Social Workers Registration Board • RachelThomson Advisory Board, Danish Centre for Social Research Charles Watters 2012 Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Brasilia, Visiting Professor Linkoping University, Sweden