Speakers announced for SWAN Conference 2015

The Social Work Action Network (SWAN) have announced the guest speakers at their 10th annual conference entitled, The Politics of Hope: Fighting for the Future of Social Work.

Gerry Mooney of the Open University and Amal Azzudin of the Glasgow Girls will address the conference at the University of the West of Scotland (Paisley Campus), on Friday 10th & Saturday 11th April 2015.

Gerry Mooney (pictured) is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University. He was written widely on issues from class, poverty and social inequalities, social policy in Scotland, Scottish devolution and the independence debate through to issues in criminology, urban studies and industrial relations.

Among other publications, he is co-editor and author of Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland (Routledge, 2015 forthcoming); co-editor and author of Poverty in Scotland 2014: The Independence Referendum and Beyond (CPAG, 2014) and co-editor and author of Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland (Policy Press, 2012). Gerry is currently researching and writing around territorial stigmatisation in Glasgow and also around social welfare and Scotland’s constitutional futures.

Amal Azzudin is a community development worker and campaigner for human rights and social justice. Amal has just graduated with a masters degree in human rights and international politics at the university  of Glasgow. Amal was one of the Glasgow Girls, a group of seven school girls from Drumchapel High School in Glasgow that got organised and stood up against dawn raids, detention and deportation of asylum seekers in Glasgow. The Glasgow Girls story has since been turned into a BBC documentary, a stage musical and a television musical drama.

For full details on the conference, visit: http://www.socialworkfuture.org/