Research Handbook on Leadership in Social Work and Social Care

Edited by Robin Miller (), Catherine Mangan (), Helen Dickinson () and Caroline Jackson ()

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Abstract: This comprehensive Research Handbook explores how the social work and social values of social justice, equality and human rights underpin leadership in the sector and beyond. Whilst this is a strength of the sector, realising such values raises a series of tensions and complexities within the contemporary context of social work and social care. Bringing together over 60 renowned experts from Europe, North America and Australia, the Research Handbook provides key insights into the distinct aspects of leadership within social work and care.

Keywords: Social Work; Social Care; Human Services; Leaders; Leadership; Values Based And Inclusive Leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035314485
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: leadership in social work and social care

Robin Miller, Caroline Jackson, Catherine Mangan and Helen Dickinson

Ch 2 Does leadership impact on care outcomes for service users in social care contexts?

Axel Kaehne, Aniekan Ekpenyong and Julie Feather

Ch 3 Leadership in and through the voluntary and community sector: a state-of-the-art review

Carol Jacklin-Jarvis and James Rees

Ch 4 Strengthening research in social work practice: how a professional association can contribute to the leadership of social work research

Sue Gillieatt, Bindi Bennett, Lynette Joubert, Louise Whitaker, Wilma Peters and Fiona Oates

Ch 5 The contribution of codependency to leadership challenges in social work and mindfulness as a path forward

S. Colby Peters

Ch 6 Conflicts and synergies: dualities in professional leadership of social care

Zsuzsanna Antal, Zoltán Cserháti, Éva Krenyácz and Éva Révész

Ch 7 Learning from Bourdieu: social work and leadership

Luke Geoghegan

Ch 8 Leading across boundaries: system leadership and social care

Richard Humphries

Ch 9 Independent Chairs of Safeguarding Adults Boards: system leadership in practice

Adi Cooper Obe and Michael Preston-Shoot

Ch 10 Boundary spanning leadership: an essential praxis within social care

Lisa Smith and Dez Holmes

Ch 11 Leading and participating: examining collaborative leadership

Lynn Berger, Susan Evans, Caroline Lambert, Erica Russ, Melissa Petrakis, Louise Whitaker, Caroline Walters, Liz Reimer, Mark Woolven and Monica Short

Ch 12 The role of value-based leadership in multi-agency safeguarding responses to child sexual exploitation

Gareth Addidle, Sarah Shorrock and Joyce Liddle

Ch 13 Advancing the case for adaptive leadership in human services

Mary Burns, Linda Lausell Bryant and Marc Ross Manashil

Ch 14 Leadership and automation: towards an understanding of the leader role when implementing robots and AI in social care

Maria Forsgren, Andreas Stenling and Susanne Tafvelin

Ch 15 I lead, and you follow: challenging concepts of leadership in co-production

Mel Hughes and Lynn Laidlaw

Ch 16 ‘We’re in it together’: generating opportunities for leadership through co-produced research

Jala Burton and Sally Robinson

Ch 17 Behind the barbed wire fence, looking up at the concrete ceiling: Aboriginal “leadership” and considerations for social work

Bindi Bennett, Kelly Menzel and Liz Cameron

Ch 18 Lesbian perspectives and experiences of gender and sexuality in leadership in social work and social care: a review of the literature

Christine Cocker, Adi Cooper Obe and Trish Hafford-Letchfield

Ch 19 Social care leadership and system failures: how to do the impossible well

Kylie Valentine

Ch 20 Sousveillance and the leadership gaze: meaning-making, organisational and representational leadership, and sousveillance social media advocacy in mandated social welfare contexts

Tara La Rose and Jennifer Mulé

Ch 21 A contemporary approach to leadership education and development for the health and human service sector

Kate L. Fennell and Pieter J. Van Dam

Ch 22 Prospects, dilemmas, and constraints of global leadership in social work education and frontline practice: perspectives from international social workers

Janet Walker, Guanyu Jason Ran, Tatenda Goodman Nhapi and Diwakar Khanal

Ch 23 Leaders in plain sight: what the experiences of early career social workers tell us about leadership in Scottish social work

Scott Grant, Trish McCulloch and Maura Daly

Ch 24 Human-centred leadership development for women in the human services

Karen Hopkins and Megan Meyer

Ch 25 “Lifting as we climb”: exploring the lived experiences of Black women social work leaders

Selena T. Rodgers, Jennette Allen-McCombs, Shirell Roeback, Azzie Forbes and Cathleen Lilavois

Ch 26 Critical social work leadership and labour unions: creating transformative change through courage, reflexivity, mindfulness, and action

Courtney Atlee and Aubrey Gonsalves

Ch 27 What do we know about leadership in social work and social care and where next for the field?

Helen Dickinson, Caroline Jackson, Catherine Mangan and Robin Miller

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