Centering public impact scholarship among social work scholars to promote and contribute to the United Nations sustainable development goals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21495713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole F Bromfield (0000-0003-4709-3067, University of Houston, corresponding author), Filipe Duarte (0000-0003-1746-1981, University of Windsor) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1427-1440 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Work Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-5479 • E-ISSN: 1470-1227 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02615479.2022.2104241 |
| OpenAlex | W4288033943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 19 |
The United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development includes 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) that focus on ending poverty, protecting our planet, and ensuring prosperity. The SDGs align with social work values related to eradicating racial, social, political, environmental, and economic injustices and realizing human rights. Although social work scholars support, promote, and contribute to the SDGs’ achievement, we have the opportunity to make a more significant impact by centering public impact scholarship to advance the SDGs. Public impact scholarship refers to research activities and engagement that build public knowledge while working with stakeholders to address social justice issues. This commentary expands the current discourse by applying public impact scholarship specifically to the SDGs and responds to the call made by the international social work bodies—the International Association of Social Workers and the International Federation of Social Workers—to address the importance of contributing to sustainable development. Furthermore, the social work global definition, the Global Agenda, and the Global Standards for Social Work Education and Training demonstrate that promoting sustainable development falls into the scope of social work practice globally. Therefore, we assert that social work scholars must prioritize public impact scholarship to forward the SDGs
Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Poverty · Prosperity · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Sustainable development · Community Development and Social Impact · Community Health and Development · Public Administration · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
The Age of Sustainable Development
Lost in knowledge translation
From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals
Achieving Research Impact Through Co‐creation in Community‐Based Health Services
The Value and Challenges of Participatory Research
The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development
Introduction to the Special Section on Public Impact Scholarship in Social Work
Advancing the Public Impact of Social Work Scholarship
Podcasting as Social Scholarship
Positioning Social Work Researchers for Engaged Scholarship to Promote Public Impact
The Imperatives of Sustainable Development
Towards Integration at Last? The Sustainable Development Goals as a Network of Targets
Promoting community and environmental sustainability
Global standards for social work education and training
Sustainable Development Goals and Social Work
| Citations per year | 2.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |