Heidi Muurinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6615529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Muurinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Muurinen |
| SIGNATURE | MUURINEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1198-9945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping studies on practitioners’ communication skills in child and family social work
Building relationships through communication is considered to be at the core of the social work practice. In child and family social work, practitioners need communication skills that are applicable to both parents and children. The objective of this scoping review is to provide an overview of recent research on the relationship between practitioners’ communication skills and service user outcomes or high-quality practice in child and family soci…
Modelling outreach work in Finnish social services – professionals’ views of a programme theory
Enhancing Research-Based Social Work by Facilitating Practitioner Research–Enabling Factors and Issues to be Resolved
Purpose: The study focused on how professionals can conduct practitioner research. The research questions were (a) what benefits do professionals perceive in practitioner research and (b) what factors facilitate or hinder conducting research as part of one's practice? Method: We collected data in two focus groups ( n = 6) with social workers who conducted practitioner research as part of a development project. The data were analyzed thematically.…
Practice Research Collaboratives
Purpose: This article reflects an analysis of the establishment and development of the Practice Research Collaborative on Organizational Supports (PRC-OS) within the International Community of Practice Research. The basic thesis concerns the importance of building intersecting special interest groups to form communities of research practice. Methods: The study is a qualitative case study, consisting of diverse data as written documents, field not…
Organizational Supports for Practice Research
Organizational support represents a critical driver of practice research projects. This analysis includes four international examples of such support (Norway, Finland, Belgium, and USA and China). The four studies capture the similarities and differences between university support and national government support. The analysis is placed within the context of defining practice research and the core components of organizational support. The findings…
Integrating theory and practice in social work
How could social workers apply theory in their everyday practice? According to John Dewey, theories are helpful instruments in analysing situations and forming hypotheses which are tested in practical experiments. Inspired by Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy, we designed a “Practice and Theory” pilot intervention group in which social workers were provided external, theory-driven supervision. This research is a three-case study of the pilot interven…
Is there a shared social work signature pedagogy cross-nationally? Using a case study methodology to explore signature pedagogy in England, Israel, Finland, Spain and Sweden
While there is an international definition of social work as a profession, little is known about whether there is a shared pedagogy in social work cross-nationally. To our knowledge, this paper is the first empirical study which aims to fill this gap by applying the concept of signature pedagogy in social work education to explore the commonality of social work pedagogy across countries. The study uses a multi-site case study (six universities in…
Service-user participation in developing social services
Participatory approaches are needed in Finland for service users to participate in designing and developing social services. New collaborative methods are the focus of this research, as this pilot case-study analyses the experiment-driven design approach and its consequences on service users’ agency and participation. This practitioner research belongs to the pragmatist research tradition. The data comprises transcribed focus group and individual…
Is there a shared social work signature pedagogy cross-nationally? Using a case study methodology to explore signature pedagogy in England, Israel, Finland, Spain and Sweden
While there is an international definition of social work as a profession, little is known about whether there is a shared pedagogy in social work cross-nationally. To our knowledge, this paper is the first empirical study which aims to fill this gap by applying the concept of signature pedagogy in social work education to explore the commonality of social work pedagogy across countries. The study uses a multi-site case study (six universities in…
Organizational Supports for Practice Research
Organizational support represents a critical driver of practice research projects. This analysis includes four international examples of such support (Norway, Finland, Belgium, and USA and China). The four studies capture the similarities and differences between university support and national government support. The analysis is placed within the context of defining practice research and the core components of organizational support. The findings…
Service-user participation in developing social services
Participatory approaches are needed in Finland for service users to participate in designing and developing social services. New collaborative methods are the focus of this research, as this pilot case-study analyses the experiment-driven design approach and its consequences on service users’ agency and participation. This practitioner research belongs to the pragmatist research tradition. The data comprises transcribed focus group and individual…
Service-user participation in developing social services
Participatory approaches are needed in Finland for service users to participate in designing and developing social services. New collaborative methods are the focus of this research, as this pilot case-study analyses the experiment-driven design approach and its consequences on service users’ agency and participation. This practitioner research belongs to the pragmatist research tradition. The data comprises transcribed focus group and individual…
Integrating theory and practice in social work
How could social workers apply theory in their everyday practice? According to John Dewey, theories are helpful instruments in analysing situations and forming hypotheses which are tested in practical experiments. Inspired by Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy, we designed a “Practice and Theory” pilot intervention group in which social workers were provided external, theory-driven supervision. This research is a three-case study of the pilot interven…
Is there a shared social work signature pedagogy cross-nationally? Using a case study methodology to explore signature pedagogy in England, Israel, Finland, Spain and Sweden
While there is an international definition of social work as a profession, little is known about whether there is a shared pedagogy in social work cross-nationally. To our knowledge, this paper is the first empirical study which aims to fill this gap by applying the concept of signature pedagogy in social work education to explore the commonality of social work pedagogy across countries. The study uses a multi-site case study (six universities in…
Organizational Supports for Practice Research
Organizational support represents a critical driver of practice research projects. This analysis includes four international examples of such support (Norway, Finland, Belgium, and USA and China). The four studies capture the similarities and differences between university support and national government support. The analysis is placed within the context of defining practice research and the core components of organizational support. The findings…
Mapping studies on practitioners’ communication skills in child and family social work
Building relationships through communication is considered to be at the core of the social work practice. In child and family social work, practitioners need communication skills that are applicable to both parents and children. The objective of this scoping review is to provide an overview of recent research on the relationship between practitioners’ communication skills and service user outcomes or high-quality practice in child and family soci…
Modelling outreach work in Finnish social services – professionals’ views of a programme theory
Enhancing Research-Based Social Work by Facilitating Practitioner Research–Enabling Factors and Issues to be Resolved
Purpose: The study focused on how professionals can conduct practitioner research. The research questions were (a) what benefits do professionals perceive in practitioner research and (b) what factors facilitate or hinder conducting research as part of one's practice? Method: We collected data in two focus groups ( n = 6) with social workers who conducted practitioner research as part of a development project. The data were analyzed thematically.…
Practice Research Collaboratives
Purpose: This article reflects an analysis of the establishment and development of the Practice Research Collaborative on Organizational Supports (PRC-OS) within the International Community of Practice Research. The basic thesis concerns the importance of building intersecting special interest groups to form communities of research practice. Methods: The study is a qualitative case study, consisting of diverse data as written documents, field not…
Social Work (7 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Work (physics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (3 works)