Hugh Mclaughlin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4238581 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hugh Mclaughlin |
| NOMBRES | Hugh |
| APELLIDO | Mclaughlin |
| FIRMA | MCLAUGHLIN H |
| AFILIACIONES | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3916-0506 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Social work practice placements for sustainable intervention outcomes in Nigeria
Social work practice placements are an essential component in the development of student social workers (SSWs) to become responsive autonomous practitioners. They involve the practical application of knowledge with service users, but in Nigeria, they have yet to attain sustainable intervention outcomes due to many critical challenges. This study explored the views of the eighteen participants on how social work practice placements could be develo…
Empowering people and communities? The power of stories in asset-based approaches to health inequalities
In response to the global impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, many national governments have implemented ‘fiscal consolidation’ measures, invoking long-standing neoliberal discourses which advocate reduction in public services and state welfare support. Meanwhile, assets-based approaches to health, including voluntary welfare provision, have gained traction internationally, proposed as a means to reduce health inequalities by ‘empowering’ people an…
The ‘team’ in child and family social work
This paper draws upon qualitative data from a Department for Education (DfE) funded longitudinal study of child and family social workers in England, carried out between 2018 and 2022 exploring factors affecting recruitment and retention, involving annual surveys and follow-up interviews in each year of the project. The changing practice environment during the study – pre, during and post Covid – provided a unique opportunity to consider practiti…
Practitioner Perspectives on Agency Social Work in Children and Families Social Work in England
This article examines practitioner perspectives on agency social work in Local Authority Children’s Services Departments in England. There have been ongoing concerns about the use of agency workers, relating to cost, quality and impact on services, despite a recognition that temporary staff may be needed for a range of reasons. However, recent labour shortages and the escalating costs of agency staffing are fuelling calls for some form of regulat…
Volunteering, Identities and Wellbeing in Contexts of Health Inequalities
The causes of health inequalities are complex, involving material, psychosocial dimensions and power relations. Denigrating neoliberal discourses of individual responsibility shape and underpin policies which exacerbate poverty and compound its psychosocial impacts on people’s lives. Community asset‐based approaches, which mobilise voluntary action, have been proposed as a means of addressing health inequalities, and a substantial body of researc…
Understanding the Needs of Children Living with Parental Substance Misuse
The findings presented here are from a qualitative research study, adopting creative research methods with seven children to provide an in-depth understanding of their lived experience of living with Parental substance misuse (PSM). The children’s data were analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis. The research also included focus groups with twenty-two professionals which added further understanding to the children’s experiences. Br…
Alternative archives
The challenges and opportunities of accessing empirical material present a puzzle insofar as they index simultaneously the politics of research archives and the positionality of researchers. Today, amid increasing authoritarianism, disinformation, and the obstacles created by the securitisation and privatisation of data, access to reliable information is frequently blocked or complicated by the interests of political management, corporate monopol…
Indigenous knowledge and social work education in Nigeria
Social work education in Nigeria is largely dominated by Eurocentric knowledge, theories and beliefs. This has led to a one-sided narrative where Eurocentric ideologies are advanced and indigenous knowledge often sidelined in academic curricula. This non-inclusive teaching and learning methodology acts as a continuous (re)colonization process where knowledge from Europe is imported and planted in the African academy. To contribute to the discussi…
Social work education and practice in Africa
This article identifies some of the key challenges hindering effective social work education and practice in African nations. These problems include an orientation that is remedial or curative, involvement of non-social work graduates in social work posts, lack of a regulating or coordinating body, and an overall dependency on extrapolated curricula and Western methods among others. Most African nations although with huge wealth are wallowing in …
Should I Stay or Should I Go’? The Experiences of Forty Social Workers in England Who Had Previously Indicated They Would Stay In or Leave Children and Families Social Work
This article is focused on the concern about the retention of child and family social workers in England. Retention of workers is seen as a major issue for the delivery of quality services for service users, stability of workforces and development of social work. The article reviews international studies in relation to retention identifying a gap in relation to studies that have followed up those who indicated they were going to leave child and f…
Community service learning in complex urban settings
Urban diversity poses significant challenges for social work education in Europe’s major cities. These challenges manifest themselves in an accumulation of conflicts, inequalities, and fracture lines between individuals, networks, cultures, but also different groups and their institutional and political environments. This current challenge for the education of the next generation of social workers is also related to the rapidly changing environme…
Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work
Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work: Making Social Work Count, Barbra Teater, John Devaney, Donald Forester, Jonathan Scourfield and John Carpenter Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work: Making Social Work Count, Barbra Teater, John Devaney, Donald Forester, Jonathan Scourfield and John Carpenter, London, Palgrave, 2017, ISBN 978-1-137-40026-0, £31.99 (eBook) £25.99, pp. 278 Hugh McLaughlin Hugh McLaughlin Professor of Social Wo…
Service User Involvement and Covid-19—An Afterthought
We are researchers and activists working in the field of service user involvement for many years in the UK and internationally who are concerned that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, years of progress in service user involvement have been unravelled by service users being left on the outside of key decisions and matters affecting their lives. Instead, we argue, they have become an afterthought. As authors, we combine both academic and service user …
Indigenous knowledge and social work education in Nigeria
Social work education in Africa is faced with a myriad of challenges that require immediate attention for a sustainable future. If the principles of social justice, human rights and respect for diversities are central to the social work profession, then the education and practice of social work in Nigeria should be culturally relevant in engaging people and structures to address challenges. Participants for the study included four social work edu…
Advancing excellence in social work education
Back in 2014 Helen and I took over the editorship for Social Work Education: The International Journal. In our first editorial (McLaughlin & Scholar, 2014), we set our vision for the journal entitl
Social work education in a global pandemic
During the first week of March 2020, the Editorial Board of this journal met in Manchester, England where members from across England, Scotland, Spain, and the United States joined for the annual Board meeting.Back then, handshakes were a 'normal' formality in greeting one another (in this part of the Western world) before taking a seat tightly around a Board room table where water glasses were filled from communal bottles handed across and down …
Neither a professional nor a friend’
Home-Start is a family support charity whose delivery model is a national and global example of how targeted volunteer support can benefit parents, carers and children experiencing difficult times, in both domestic and other spaces. Parenting support continues to be a key policy area for the current UK government and other policy-makers across the Global North. In this article we draw on qualitative findings from an ethnography of a Home-Start or…
It's good to talk’ – judicial allocation decision making and the Family Court
This article focuses on the opportunities and potential benefits of collaborative judicial working and social processes within the new Family Court. To illustrate this, findings from a recent evaluation by the authors of the Greater Manchester Gatekeeping and Allocation – Care Proceedings Pilot (the Manchester Pilot) will be presented. In the Manchester Pilot, the allocation of care cases to a particular level of court became a collaborative judi…
Are Non-Traditional Social Work Placements Second-Best Learning Opportunities for Social Work Qualifying Students
This article reports on the evaluation of practice learning opportunities for student social workers within ‘non-traditional’ placements provided by a major children's charity in England, Scotland and Wales between 2010 and 2012. The student social workers undertook a well-being role within the project and the research here reports on the charity's ability to provide a twelve-week programme through the use of delivery partners. In particular, the…
Domestic violence and multi-agency risk assessment conferences (Maracs)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the potential and limits of the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs) in supporting adults with social care needs who also experience domestic violence. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports on a scoping review as part of a wider research project entitled: to identify and assess the effectiveness of social care's contribution to the development of MARAC and the prot…
Reflections of a Higher Specialist PQ Student Group on the Munro Recommendations for Children’s Social Workers
The article explores the perspectives of senior social work practitioners and managers on Eileen Munro’s analysis of the state of child protection, her recommendations and the impact on their agencies of her recommendations. Generally, Munro’s analysis resonated with the participants’ own experiences. They agreed she had accurately captured the complexity and frustrations of their daily experience and whilst her recommendations were welcomed by p…
Promoting a research-minded culture in welfare organizations
This article identifies the uneasy relationship between research and social work identifying differing conceptualizations on how research can influence practice. Alongside this is developed the notion of a learning organization as both a symbol and a process for encouraging and embedding research within social welfare organizations. Evidence-informed practice is championed over the exclusiveness of evidence-based practice and service user involve…
The nature of employer’s involvement in social work education
Email interviews and internet inquiries were used to explore the nature and extent of employer engagement in qualifying social work education programmes across 10 countries: Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, UK and USA. Findings indicate considerable variations in the nature and extent of engagement in admissions processes, programme management and assessment of student competence. Practice l…
Keeping Service User Involvement in Research Honest
Service user research has increasingly become a significant development on the research landscape. This article seeks to critically examine this development and to identify ways in which service user research can retain its honesty and avoid the twin dangers of either becoming a tokenistic exercise or being seen as a panacea. In particular the article highlights issues concerning our conceptions of service users, recognising both the benefits and…
Different Cultures, Different Ethics? Research Governance and Social Care
This article focuses on the governance and ethical conduct of research within the domain of social work and social care. Globally, research in this domain appears less well regulated than those in the domains of health care. Within the United Kingdom, the Westminster government is implementing a Research GovernanceFramework for Social Care in England (RGF Social Care). This article locates this development in a broader global context and uses as …
What's in a Name
This article challenges the terms we use to describe the relationship between those who assess and commission services and those who are the recipient of those services. In particular, the article identifies the different terms that have been used in British social work, including ‘client’, ‘customer’, ‘consumer’, ‘service user’ and ‘expert by experience’, highlighting their assumptive worlds and the relationships the terms suggest and signify. S…
Keeping Service User Involvement in Research Honest
Service user research has increasingly become a significant development on the research landscape. This article seeks to critically examine this development and to identify ways in which service user research can retain its honesty and avoid the twin dangers of either becoming a tokenistic exercise or being seen as a panacea. In particular the article highlights issues concerning our conceptions of service users, recognising both the benefits and…
Learn
This article describes the process and findings of a community study that was part of a task force to improve educational experiences for new English learners, particularly the large number of Latinos. Based on the analysis of a series of focus group interviews and a survey, the article discusses how students coming from other countries are usually accustomed to a different classroom environment and may be confused about how to relate with their …
Involving Young Service Users as Co-Researchers
This article seeks to contribute to the debate concerning the benefits and costs of involving young service users in research. The paper locates involvement within a continuum of consultation, collaboration and user-controlled research. The mandate for children and young people’s involvement is identified. In particular, the paper focuses on the benefits and costs in relation to: research and development, research dissemination and service develo…
Educational Discourses, the Nature of the Child, and the Practice of New Teachers
Reconciling Care and Control
One of the central ethical tensions that novice teachers face is how to care for their students while establishing and maintaining control. The author portrays one student teacher's intentions to care and control, analyzes the student teacher's caring actions, and proposes that teacher educators and prospective teachers have a responsibility to under stand the tensions and connections of caring and controlling. He describes some con straints on s…
The nature of employer’s involvement in social work education
Email interviews and internet inquiries were used to explore the nature and extent of employer engagement in qualifying social work education programmes across 10 countries: Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, UK and USA. Findings indicate considerable variations in the nature and extent of engagement in admissions processes, programme management and assessment of student competence. Practice l…
Alternative archives
The challenges and opportunities of accessing empirical material present a puzzle insofar as they index simultaneously the politics of research archives and the positionality of researchers. Today, amid increasing authoritarianism, disinformation, and the obstacles created by the securitisation and privatisation of data, access to reliable information is frequently blocked or complicated by the interests of political management, corporate monopol…
Should I Stay or Should I Go’? The Experiences of Forty Social Workers in England Who Had Previously Indicated They Would Stay In or Leave Children and Families Social Work
This article is focused on the concern about the retention of child and family social workers in England. Retention of workers is seen as a major issue for the delivery of quality services for service users, stability of workforces and development of social work. The article reviews international studies in relation to retention identifying a gap in relation to studies that have followed up those who indicated they were going to leave child and f…
Neither a professional nor a friend’
Home-Start is a family support charity whose delivery model is a national and global example of how targeted volunteer support can benefit parents, carers and children experiencing difficult times, in both domestic and other spaces. Parenting support continues to be a key policy area for the current UK government and other policy-makers across the Global North. In this article we draw on qualitative findings from an ethnography of a Home-Start or…
Learning from Rural Mexican Schools About Commitment and Work
During the last 3 years we have made many visits to two rural Mexican primary schools. As a result of our experiences there, we believe that students' sense of responsibility in a school setting depends on the nature of the commitments they make and the work they do in and for the school. We have also learned that certain educational and social concepts expressed in Spanish can enrich our thinking about the social curriculum that teachers and stu…
Service User Involvement and Covid-19—An Afterthought
We are researchers and activists working in the field of service user involvement for many years in the UK and internationally who are concerned that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, years of progress in service user involvement have been unravelled by service users being left on the outside of key decisions and matters affecting their lives. Instead, we argue, they have become an afterthought. As authors, we combine both academic and service user …
Different Cultures, Different Ethics? Research Governance and Social Care
This article focuses on the governance and ethical conduct of research within the domain of social work and social care. Globally, research in this domain appears less well regulated than those in the domains of health care. Within the United Kingdom, the Westminster government is implementing a Research GovernanceFramework for Social Care in England (RGF Social Care). This article locates this development in a broader global context and uses as …
Volunteering, Identities and Wellbeing in Contexts of Health Inequalities
The causes of health inequalities are complex, involving material, psychosocial dimensions and power relations. Denigrating neoliberal discourses of individual responsibility shape and underpin policies which exacerbate poverty and compound its psychosocial impacts on people’s lives. Community asset‐based approaches, which mobilise voluntary action, have been proposed as a means of addressing health inequalities, and a substantial body of researc…
Indigenous knowledge and social work education in Nigeria
Social work education in Africa is faced with a myriad of challenges that require immediate attention for a sustainable future. If the principles of social justice, human rights and respect for diversities are central to the social work profession, then the education and practice of social work in Nigeria should be culturally relevant in engaging people and structures to address challenges. Participants for the study included four social work edu…
Are Non-Traditional Social Work Placements Second-Best Learning Opportunities for Social Work Qualifying Students
This article reports on the evaluation of practice learning opportunities for student social workers within ‘non-traditional’ placements provided by a major children's charity in England, Scotland and Wales between 2010 and 2012. The student social workers undertook a well-being role within the project and the research here reports on the charity's ability to provide a twelve-week programme through the use of delivery partners. In particular, the…
Ethical Issues in the Involvement of Young Service Users in Research
This paper focuses attention on the ethical issues concerning the involvement of young service users as co-researchers. In particular the article offers an examination of the limitations of the term ‘service user’, comments on degrees of participation and explores the ethical issues prior to the start of the research, during the research and after the research has been completed. Particular emphasis is focused on the topics of: the funders of res…
Teaching and learning in rural Mexico
School reports
This article is based on research in Borough, a metropolitan borough in the North West of England. The research examined how the juvenile justice system was operated and how it was experienced by those who service its operation. The article begins by identifying the importance of school reports to magistrates in their decision-making. There is then an examination of a number of school reports submitted in 1984–5 and 1989 noting the link between p…
Court Clerks
The reflection on the blackboard
A common aim of teacher education is to encourage prospective teachers to analyze carefully their instructional performance. Yet, research on teacher cognition heretofore has concentrated primarily on experienced teachers’ planning and instructional thinking. We need more information on how student teachers think about and engage in the evaluation of their teaching performance. This study used data from initial structured interviews to elicit stu…
Reconciling Care and Control
One of the central ethical tensions that novice teachers face is how to care for their students while establishing and maintaining control. The author portrays one student teacher's intentions to care and control, analyzes the student teacher's caring actions, and proposes that teacher educators and prospective teachers have a responsibility to under stand the tensions and connections of caring and controlling. He describes some con straints on s…
The death of a child on the child protection register
This article uses the tragic death of a child on the child protection register to identify management issues and events. In so doing the article seeks to show what the likely chain of events will be and how managers can anticipate and respond to these. The article notes the responsibilities of managers to support staff and suggests ways in which this can be done. In particular, attention is paid to approaching the funeral, the child protection co…
Educational Discourses, the Nature of the Child, and the Practice of New Teachers
Learn
This article describes the process and findings of a community study that was part of a task force to improve educational experiences for new English learners, particularly the large number of Latinos. Based on the analysis of a series of focus group interviews and a survey, the article discusses how students coming from other countries are usually accustomed to a different classroom environment and may be confused about how to relate with their …
Learning from Rural Mexican Schools About Commitment and Work
During the last 3 years we have made many visits to two rural Mexican primary schools. As a result of our experiences there, we believe that students' sense of responsibility in a school setting depends on the nature of the commitments they make and the work they do in and for the school. We have also learned that certain educational and social concepts expressed in Spanish can enrich our thinking about the social curriculum that teachers and stu…
Teaching and learning in rural Mexico
Involving Young Service Users as Co-Researchers
This article seeks to contribute to the debate concerning the benefits and costs of involving young service users in research. The paper locates involvement within a continuum of consultation, collaboration and user-controlled research. The mandate for children and young people’s involvement is identified. In particular, the paper focuses on the benefits and costs in relation to: research and development, research dissemination and service develo…
Costs and Outcomes of Non‐Infant Adoptions
Ethical Issues in the Involvement of Young Service Users in Research
This paper focuses attention on the ethical issues concerning the involvement of young service users as co-researchers. In particular the article offers an examination of the limitations of the term ‘service user’, comments on degrees of participation and explores the ethical issues prior to the start of the research, during the research and after the research has been completed. Particular emphasis is focused on the topics of: the funders of res…
Different Cultures, Different Ethics? Research Governance and Social Care
This article focuses on the governance and ethical conduct of research within the domain of social work and social care. Globally, research in this domain appears less well regulated than those in the domains of health care. Within the United Kingdom, the Westminster government is implementing a Research GovernanceFramework for Social Care in England (RGF Social Care). This article locates this development in a broader global context and uses as …
What's in a Name
This article challenges the terms we use to describe the relationship between those who assess and commission services and those who are the recipient of those services. In particular, the article identifies the different terms that have been used in British social work, including ‘client’, ‘customer’, ‘consumer’, ‘service user’ and ‘expert by experience’, highlighting their assumptive worlds and the relationships the terms suggest and signify. S…
Keeping Service User Involvement in Research Honest
Service user research has increasingly become a significant development on the research landscape. This article seeks to critically examine this development and to identify ways in which service user research can retain its honesty and avoid the twin dangers of either becoming a tokenistic exercise or being seen as a panacea. In particular the article highlights issues concerning our conceptions of service users, recognising both the benefits and…
Promoting a research-minded culture in welfare organizations
This article identifies the uneasy relationship between research and social work identifying differing conceptualizations on how research can influence practice. Alongside this is developed the notion of a learning organization as both a symbol and a process for encouraging and embedding research within social welfare organizations. Evidence-informed practice is championed over the exclusiveness of evidence-based practice and service user involve…
The nature of employer’s involvement in social work education
Email interviews and internet inquiries were used to explore the nature and extent of employer engagement in qualifying social work education programmes across 10 countries: Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, UK and USA. Findings indicate considerable variations in the nature and extent of engagement in admissions processes, programme management and assessment of student competence. Practice l…
Reflections of a Higher Specialist PQ Student Group on the Munro Recommendations for Children’s Social Workers
The article explores the perspectives of senior social work practitioners and managers on Eileen Munro’s analysis of the state of child protection, her recommendations and the impact on their agencies of her recommendations. Generally, Munro’s analysis resonated with the participants’ own experiences. They agreed she had accurately captured the complexity and frustrations of their daily experience and whilst her recommendations were welcomed by p…
Domestic violence and multi-agency risk assessment conferences (Maracs)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the potential and limits of the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs) in supporting adults with social care needs who also experience domestic violence. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports on a scoping review as part of a wider research project entitled: to identify and assess the effectiveness of social care's contribution to the development of MARAC and the prot…
It's good to talk’ – judicial allocation decision making and the Family Court
This article focuses on the opportunities and potential benefits of collaborative judicial working and social processes within the new Family Court. To illustrate this, findings from a recent evaluation by the authors of the Greater Manchester Gatekeeping and Allocation – Care Proceedings Pilot (the Manchester Pilot) will be presented. In the Manchester Pilot, the allocation of care cases to a particular level of court became a collaborative judi…
Are Non-Traditional Social Work Placements Second-Best Learning Opportunities for Social Work Qualifying Students
This article reports on the evaluation of practice learning opportunities for student social workers within ‘non-traditional’ placements provided by a major children's charity in England, Scotland and Wales between 2010 and 2012. The student social workers undertook a well-being role within the project and the research here reports on the charity's ability to provide a twelve-week programme through the use of delivery partners. In particular, the…
Neither a professional nor a friend’
Home-Start is a family support charity whose delivery model is a national and global example of how targeted volunteer support can benefit parents, carers and children experiencing difficult times, in both domestic and other spaces. Parenting support continues to be a key policy area for the current UK government and other policy-makers across the Global North. In this article we draw on qualitative findings from an ethnography of a Home-Start or…
Advancing excellence in social work education
Back in 2014 Helen and I took over the editorship for Social Work Education: The International Journal. In our first editorial (McLaughlin & Scholar, 2014), we set our vision for the journal entitl
Social work education in a global pandemic
During the first week of March 2020, the Editorial Board of this journal met in Manchester, England where members from across England, Scotland, Spain, and the United States joined for the annual Board meeting.Back then, handshakes were a 'normal' formality in greeting one another (in this part of the Western world) before taking a seat tightly around a Board room table where water glasses were filled from communal bottles handed across and down …
Community service learning in complex urban settings
Urban diversity poses significant challenges for social work education in Europe’s major cities. These challenges manifest themselves in an accumulation of conflicts, inequalities, and fracture lines between individuals, networks, cultures, but also different groups and their institutional and political environments. This current challenge for the education of the next generation of social workers is also related to the rapidly changing environme…
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