Neil Ballantyne

Biographic Data

ID6026034
NAMENeil Ballantyne
GIVEN NAMESNeil
FAMILY NAMEBallantyne
SIGNATUREBALLANTYNE N
AFFILIATIONSOpen Polytechnic
ORCID0000-0002-3598-5319
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Mental health struggles of social work students

    Open AccessLiz Beddoe, Moya Baker et al.ARTICLEQualitative Social Work2024

    Growing evidence reports that social work students experience financial hardship and negative impacts on their health and wellbeing as they juggle study, paid work, and family commitments. Social work qualifying programmes require extended compulsory field placements, which increase students’ financial stress and potentially exacerbate mental health vulnerabilities. A national survey of social work students and recent graduates in Aotearoa New Ze…

  • Scholarly publication, open access and the commons

    Open AccessNeil BallantyneARTICLECritical and Radical Social Work2022References: 5

    The article argues that social work academics, especially critical and radical social work academics, ought to contribute to alternative, open and more collective approaches to academic publication. The prevailing problematic of price gouging, that is, for-profit publishers enclosing scholarly articles behind paywalls, is discussed, along with mainstream liberal responses in the form of open access initiatives that aim to reorient the business mo…

  • Troubling Trauma-Informed Policy in Social Work Education

    Open AccessLiz Beddoe, Neil Ballantyne et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2019References: 18

    Social work education is a contested site in many Western countries, where neoliberal governments tend to privilege individual-focused rather than structural, rights-based welfare perspectives and expect curricula to reflect this preference. Over 2014–2015, well-publicised criticism of social work referred to graduates’ lack of knowledge of trauma informed practice and risk assessment. Our qualitative study employed focus groups with social work …

  • Promoting the empowerment and liberation of people in Palestine

    Raed Amira, Neil Ballantyne et al.ARTICLECritical and Radical Social Work2018

  • Human Services in the Network Society

    Neil Ballantyne, Walter La MendolaEDITORBOOKHuman Services in the Network…2014

    The Internet and the many applications it supports continue to transform and expand the ways in which it is possible to relate, communicate, collaborate, and perform human service work. In this book, human service researchers and practitioners explore major opportunities and challenges to well being, social justice, and human service work that technology use in everyday life has exposed. Drawing on the latest research their contributions examine …

  • Practitioner Networks

    Walter Lamendola, Neil Ballantyne et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2009Cited by: 4References: 10

    This article reports on a study of a networked learning approach among remote social work practitioners in a large, rural local authority. The intervention was a blended approach that combined facilitation, face-to-face meetings, online communications and access to e-library resources. The intervention was focused on discussions of case management issues for three fictional cases. A method of text analysis used in community of enquiry research wa…

  • Child Care Social Work and the Internet

    Open AccessNeil BallantyneARTICLEAdoption & Fostering1996Cited by: 1References: 1

    The Internet is here to stay. From its origins as an experimental US military project in the 1960s, this highly decentralised system of communication is today used by some 40 million people worldwide. Among them are a growing number of social care organisations, Neil Ballantyne explores its actual and potential uses in relation to child care issues, with specific reference to adoption and fostering. Currently leading the field in Britain is the N…