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Top five calls to action from the #MQScienceFestival

MQ Mental Health

This blog was written by Mariana Bolivar, Mental Health Inequalities Programme Lead at MQ Mental Health Research. But besides its success as a conference, the crucial question is 'Does this event make tangible contributions to mental health?' We are confident to say that it does.

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Meet the Author: SaraKay Smullens explains why Second Edition of Burnout and Self-Care in Social Work was desperately needed

Social Workers Speak

“Burnout and Self-Care in Social Work: A Guidebook for Students and those in Mental Health and Related Professions” is one of the most popular books at NASW Press. Q: The first edition of your book, “Burnout and Self-Care in Social Work” was a runaway hit when it was published by NASW Press more than seven years ago.

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Reflections and Takeaways from reading Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel’s book, The Genesis Machine

Social Work Futures

All of them stretched my sensibilities about “what is here” and “what is coming” by way of synthetic biology and the potential impact on things social workers care about: well-being, equity, human rights and more. Just finished reading (finally) the new book from Amy Webb and her co-author Andrew Hessel.

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10 Things from Twitter – Dispatches from the Future – Academic Literature Edition! October 4, 2020

Social Work Futures

Followers of this blog know I am a scanning machine – always looking around on Twitter and beyond, gathering and comparing signals of change or interesting bits of information with other futures practice colleagues. This blog has had a running series on these scans since it started. Brewer, L.C., Fortuna, K.I., Patten, C.A. &