Aila‐leena Matthies
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aila‐leena Matthies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aila‐leena |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthies |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHIES A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5758-4869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social work practitioners’ views of ecosocial work
The globe is in transition due to changes in ecosystems, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. One challenge is to guide this transition toward a more sustainable future at the local and global levels. The discussion around ecosocial work as a transformative framework for social work theory and practice underlines the interdependency of social and ecological sustainability and calls for a definition of social work's role in the ecosocial …
Applying transdisciplinary sustainability transitions research in international social work doctoral training
In the last 15 years, transdisciplinary research of sustainability transitions has become an increasingly powerful approach. We discuss it as a perspective for social work discipline, and as a theoretical-conceptual frame of a new international doctoral training and research programme in social work taking place in seven European countries. In our qualitative study, we investigate how the participating social work doctoral students reflect upon t…
Ecosocial innovations enabling social work to promote new forms of sustainable economy
Social work research and practice that address environmental sustainability have already become prominent. However, a change in unsustainable economic structures is also urgently needed. This study explored emerging opportunities in theory and practice for a sustainable economy that are relevant to the aims of social work. As practical examples, our study concerns ‘ecosocial innovations’, i.e., social innovations that combine ecological and socia…
Research‐based knowledge about social work and sustainability
Combining labour market and unemployment policies with environmental sustainability? A cross-national study on ecosocial innovations
Labour market and unemployment policies in particular are rarely connected to issues of environmental sustainability. In the present article, the link is examined by focusing on ecosocial innovations in four European countries – Finland, Germany, Belgium and Italy. These innovations are small-scale associations, cooperatives or organizations that create new integrative practices combining both social and environmental goals. By asking how their s…
Participation, Marginalization and Welfare Services
Participation, marginalization and welfare services
Reviewed by Jane George, West Coast District Health Board, Greymouth, New Zealand.
Internationalisation of social work doctoral studies
The internationalisation of doctoral education in social work has become a newly developing area particularly in Europe during the last two decades. It has been promoted by two factors: (1) the reform of higher education (Bologna reform), which contributed to the development of doctoral study and (2) the establishment of European funding programmes that would allow international cooperation and ensure the quality of the programmes. Also, in the E…
The ecosocial approach in social work as a framework for structural social work
The article aims to deepen the understanding of structural social work from the point of view of the ecosocial framework. It analyses selected current international literature from the debate on the new wave of various interpretations of ecological social work. The debate shares four main themes: (a) a global perspective, (b) a critical view of professional social work, (c) a holistic ecosocial transition of society and (d) environmental and ecol…
The concept of subjectivisation by Adorno – applied in social work
This article focuses upon subjectivisation as one of the core aspects of critical theory. Subjectivisation refers to the process of becoming a subject, a fully responsible, autonomously thinking and acting adult citizen, as opposed to a manipulated and system-functioning object. It is discussed in the context of the current debates on critical reflection in social work, as it contributes to discovering the power structures in which social work is…
Nordic civic society organisations and the future of welfare services
When well functioning national welfare states are put under pressure, also the tasks of civic society and citizens' mutual responsibility are being re-defined. Hence, the significance of the civic society organisations in one of the most successful and stable circumstances of welfare states - in Northern Europe - is of great interest.This publication gives a first comprehensive overview of existing research on civic society organisations in the a…
Towards research-oriented social work education in Europe
The last decade has brought with it an increasing level of co-operation amongst social work educators in Europe. Specifically, the ERASMUS Programme has provided a powerful vehicle for educators to
Between science, practice and politics
This paper reflects the growth in the field of social work research in Europe in the background of the new Masters degrees. The discussion in the paper is focussed on the question of what may be identified as a special character of social work research. The argumentation is built on the thesis that the special character of social work research is the focal point of practice and scientification, policy relevance and professionalism. It is at the s…
Interrogating Social Capital
The motivation, professional development and identity of social work students in four European countries
Four European Universities (University of Durham, UK; University of Jyväskylä, Finland; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany) have been collaborating on an EC-funded Erasmus Curriculum Development Project (2001-03) in order to enhance the European dimension in their programmes of social work education. As part of this co-operation, a comparative study of the student groups in each countr…
The ecosocial approach in social work as a framework for structural social work
The article aims to deepen the understanding of structural social work from the point of view of the ecosocial framework. It analyses selected current international literature from the debate on the new wave of various interpretations of ecological social work. The debate shares four main themes: (a) a global perspective, (b) a critical view of professional social work, (c) a holistic ecosocial transition of society and (d) environmental and ecol…
The motivation, professional development and identity of social work students in four European countries
Four European Universities (University of Durham, UK; University of Jyväskylä, Finland; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany) have been collaborating on an EC-funded Erasmus Curriculum Development Project (2001-03) in order to enhance the European dimension in their programmes of social work education. As part of this co-operation, a comparative study of the student groups in each countr…
Combining labour market and unemployment policies with environmental sustainability? A cross-national study on ecosocial innovations
Labour market and unemployment policies in particular are rarely connected to issues of environmental sustainability. In the present article, the link is examined by focusing on ecosocial innovations in four European countries – Finland, Germany, Belgium and Italy. These innovations are small-scale associations, cooperatives or organizations that create new integrative practices combining both social and environmental goals. By asking how their s…
Ecosocial innovations enabling social work to promote new forms of sustainable economy
Social work research and practice that address environmental sustainability have already become prominent. However, a change in unsustainable economic structures is also urgently needed. This study explored emerging opportunities in theory and practice for a sustainable economy that are relevant to the aims of social work. As practical examples, our study concerns ‘ecosocial innovations’, i.e., social innovations that combine ecological and socia…
Internationalisation of social work doctoral studies
The internationalisation of doctoral education in social work has become a newly developing area particularly in Europe during the last two decades. It has been promoted by two factors: (1) the reform of higher education (Bologna reform), which contributed to the development of doctoral study and (2) the establishment of European funding programmes that would allow international cooperation and ensure the quality of the programmes. Also, in the E…
Interrogating Social Capital
Between science, practice and politics
This paper reflects the growth in the field of social work research in Europe in the background of the new Masters degrees. The discussion in the paper is focussed on the question of what may be identified as a special character of social work research. The argumentation is built on the thesis that the special character of social work research is the focal point of practice and scientification, policy relevance and professionalism. It is at the s…
The motivation, professional development and identity of social work students in four European countries
Four European Universities (University of Durham, UK; University of Jyväskylä, Finland; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany) have been collaborating on an EC-funded Erasmus Curriculum Development Project (2001-03) in order to enhance the European dimension in their programmes of social work education. As part of this co-operation, a comparative study of the student groups in each countr…
Towards research-oriented social work education in Europe
The last decade has brought with it an increasing level of co-operation amongst social work educators in Europe. Specifically, the ERASMUS Programme has provided a powerful vehicle for educators to
Between science, practice and politics
This paper reflects the growth in the field of social work research in Europe in the background of the new Masters degrees. The discussion in the paper is focussed on the question of what may be identified as a special character of social work research. The argumentation is built on the thesis that the special character of social work research is the focal point of practice and scientification, policy relevance and professionalism. It is at the s…
Interrogating Social Capital
Nordic civic society organisations and the future of welfare services
When well functioning national welfare states are put under pressure, also the tasks of civic society and citizens' mutual responsibility are being re-defined. Hence, the significance of the civic society organisations in one of the most successful and stable circumstances of welfare states - in Northern Europe - is of great interest.This publication gives a first comprehensive overview of existing research on civic society organisations in the a…
The concept of subjectivisation by Adorno – applied in social work
This article focuses upon subjectivisation as one of the core aspects of critical theory. Subjectivisation refers to the process of becoming a subject, a fully responsible, autonomously thinking and acting adult citizen, as opposed to a manipulated and system-functioning object. It is discussed in the context of the current debates on critical reflection in social work, as it contributes to discovering the power structures in which social work is…
Participation, Marginalization and Welfare Services
Participation, marginalization and welfare services
Reviewed by Jane George, West Coast District Health Board, Greymouth, New Zealand.
Internationalisation of social work doctoral studies
The internationalisation of doctoral education in social work has become a newly developing area particularly in Europe during the last two decades. It has been promoted by two factors: (1) the reform of higher education (Bologna reform), which contributed to the development of doctoral study and (2) the establishment of European funding programmes that would allow international cooperation and ensure the quality of the programmes. Also, in the E…
The ecosocial approach in social work as a framework for structural social work
The article aims to deepen the understanding of structural social work from the point of view of the ecosocial framework. It analyses selected current international literature from the debate on the new wave of various interpretations of ecological social work. The debate shares four main themes: (a) a global perspective, (b) a critical view of professional social work, (c) a holistic ecosocial transition of society and (d) environmental and ecol…
Ecosocial innovations enabling social work to promote new forms of sustainable economy
Social work research and practice that address environmental sustainability have already become prominent. However, a change in unsustainable economic structures is also urgently needed. This study explored emerging opportunities in theory and practice for a sustainable economy that are relevant to the aims of social work. As practical examples, our study concerns ‘ecosocial innovations’, i.e., social innovations that combine ecological and socia…
Research‐based knowledge about social work and sustainability
Combining labour market and unemployment policies with environmental sustainability? A cross-national study on ecosocial innovations
Labour market and unemployment policies in particular are rarely connected to issues of environmental sustainability. In the present article, the link is examined by focusing on ecosocial innovations in four European countries – Finland, Germany, Belgium and Italy. These innovations are small-scale associations, cooperatives or organizations that create new integrative practices combining both social and environmental goals. By asking how their s…
Applying transdisciplinary sustainability transitions research in international social work doctoral training
In the last 15 years, transdisciplinary research of sustainability transitions has become an increasingly powerful approach. We discuss it as a perspective for social work discipline, and as a theoretical-conceptual frame of a new international doctoral training and research programme in social work taking place in seven European countries. In our qualitative study, we investigate how the participating social work doctoral students reflect upon t…
Social work practitioners’ views of ecosocial work
The globe is in transition due to changes in ecosystems, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. One challenge is to guide this transition toward a more sustainable future at the local and global levels. The discussion around ecosocial work as a transformative framework for social work theory and practice underlines the interdependency of social and ecological sustainability and calls for a definition of social work's role in the ecosocial …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Social Work (10 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (10 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Work (physics (7 works) · Social science (6 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Ecology (4 works)