Recently, when teaching the first year BA students where I work I’d gone off topic….. this never comes as a surprise. And I asked the students, “What is the unique contribution that social work makes to the professional world?” Now, it’s not the first time I’ve asked this question, and the answer I get is... Read More

Commentary, Practice, Self Care

February 19, 2019

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How to start your day!

Start right! If we are going to be productive throughout the day how we start our day is crucial in setting ourselves up with the right frame of mind. Too simple? Well, neuroscience tells us that the impact can be quite dramatic! Visualise Thinking about our day, visualising what we want it to look like... Read More

Practice, Productivity, Self Care

productivity, visualisation

February 19, 2019

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“Work smarter, not harder” a response to SWT

Work Smarter Not Harder In a response to a tweet from Social Work Tutor yesterday I said that I felt we should show social workers how to work smarter not harder and he didn’t seem to agree….. Let me say first that SWT and I do speak from time to time and while we do... Read More

In the News, Practice, Productivity, Self Care

productivty, selfcare

February 5, 2019

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Liam Neeson, ethnicity, and oppression

Liam Neeson is in the press today (Tuesday 5th February 2019). You may have seen that he has told a reporter that during a difficult time in his life he had walked the streets for a week with a knife hoping, he says, to take his anger out on any black man who approached him.... Read More

Commentary, In the News, Practice

discrimination, liam neeson, oppression, practice, racism, social work

November 25, 2018

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How do you sleep?

It is estimated that 1 in 2 people are not getting sufficient sleep! Sleep is crucial to our wellbeing. Physically our body uses the time to recover and replenish and sleep has an essential role in the consolidation of memories. So, what advice is out there on getting to sleep! Keep to a regular bedtime... Read More

Productivity, Self Care

productivity, routine, sleep

November 4, 2018

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Part of the problem or part of the solution…..?

When I was a practitioner and then a social work manager I was fond, when times were difficult, of asking myself, “Do I want to be part of the problem or part of the solution?” I remember this acutely during the time the local authority I was working in were ‘rolling out’ new processes to... Read More

Commentary, Practice

3 conversations, conversation, model, practice, problem, social work, solution

August 13, 2018

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In consideration of sleep….

In a way what I’m about to write is more a book review because everything I’m going to point you to are things that struck me while reading Matthew Walker’s exceptional book ‘Why We Sleep’ In an article on self care I recently quoted Walker saying….“Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your... Read More

Dementia, Memory, Practice, Self Care

alzheimers, book review, Dementia, depression, mental health, sleep

August 2, 2018

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Get yourself organised, get yourself productive!

Yesterday I pointed you to some blogs of mine about self care ….and today I’d like to point you to some blogs about being productive. It’s part of the modern workplace and indeed modern life that we have more to do. It’s a curse and a blessing I feel. It’s great that we have so... Read More

Commentary, Productivity, Self Care

eustress, organised, planning, productivity, stress

August 1, 2018

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Review for BJSW of Organisations and Management in Social Work, 3rd edn, Mark Hughes and Michael Wearing

I have a particular interest in social work organisations and management in those organisations so was delighted to review Organisations and Management in Social Work, 3rd edition by Mark Hughes and Michael Wearing for The British Journal of Social Work…. You can read the review here…. You might also be interested in this article about Charles Handy’s... Read More

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book review, management, organisation, review

August 1, 2018

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No one else is going to do it for you so what are you are going to do… Self Care

As a social worker, albeit a one who now teaches social work rather than does it, I watch from the side lines and see people clearly stressed about the work they are doing, caught up in that Sunday night feeling of ‘what waits for me tomorrow’, and clearly feeling a sense of overwhelm. I recently... Read More

Commentary, Self Care

exercise, nutrition, self care, sleep

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