This writing illustrates the investigative process developed in the context of accompanying relatives who are victims of enforced disappearance in an area of high conflict in Colombia, this process carried out for three years by the hand of Social Work students belonging to the PAZS research seedbed.
Ever since its origins social work has put forward actions to alter a situation which, based on several criteria, is judged as undesirable. Its growth and legitimacy have been fundamentally founded on the response to situations of need that have emerged in the light of the development of social organisation models.
In this paper we seek to address the gender impact that the current health emergency caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic is bringing about. We will also tackle the differences between the countries of the North and the countries of the South in terms of their needs and interests in the face of the disease.
This article presents Barcelona City Council’s Best Social Practices Project, a new way of producing and relaying knowledge from a municipal organisation. It was created in 2012 and its main mission is to identify, compile and disseminate best social practices related to internal work methodologies, but also those related to services and projects aimed at citizens. These are the responsibility of the Department for Social Rights, Global Justice, Feminism and LGTBI affairs, in which the third sector and other administrations may participate.
This article compiles the reflections and lessons learned from the experience of supporting social service teams in the promotion of community work as part of their intervention models between 2017 and 2020. Through the systematic organisation of the work conducted, a host of key content- and process-related aspects are identified that may help bring about these changes to the forms of care offered and the organisational models needed to deliver this care.
We are immersed in an unstoppable, wide-ranging and profound technological evolution –the 4th industrial revolution– which for around fifteen years has been rapidly transforming all professional sectors through the mediums of big data and artificial intelligence.
We are offering you a journey through the unseen. It is a journey that seeks to change our organisations to enable them to be instrumental in the transformation that is unavoidably feminist and necessary for every person, organisation and context. We are proposing a journey that is fuelled by the collective lessons analysed from the organisational change strategy in pursuit of gender equality.
A project, period or moment such as the current crisis always provides an extraordinary opportunity for the organisation to transform its actions into knowledge and to learn from how it does things.
This article presents a constructed reflection that reworks and develops previous contributions, based on the author’s involvement in the field of Spanish social services as an independent consultant, and on a review of a host of recent bibliographical references.
At present, the most hegemonic notion of innovation is characterised by technological change, coupled with the emergence of new products. This reductionist view was already by refuted by Schumpeter’s theory of economic development from 1912 in which his idea of creative destruction gives rise to an innovation of processes and organisations.
