Social Work Practitioner Research into Participation of People with Learning Disabilities in Elections in the UK—A Local Case Study.

There has been renewed interest across social work in professional discourse into the conceptualisation of social work as an activist profession with upholding human rights as a centrally organising principle. Implementing social work practice which upholds human rights is not, however, without diff...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Social Work Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 3382 - 3399
Autores principales: James, Elaine, Mitchell, Rob, Reeves, Clare, Ali, Amani
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Oct2023
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          James, Elaine
          Mitchell, Rob
          Reeves, Clare
          Ali, Amani
        affil: Department Adult Social Care, Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Bradford BD1 1HX, UK
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          Social Workers
          Research, Social Work
          Consumer Participation
          Persons with Disabilities Psychosocial Factors
          Intellectual Disability
          Elections United Kingdom
          United Kingdom
          Human Rights
          Social Work Practice
          Implementation Science
          Research Personnel
          Professional Role
          Discrimination
          Political Participation
          Voting
      ab: There has been renewed interest across social work in professional discourse into the conceptualisation of social work as an activist profession with upholding human rights as a centrally organising principle. Implementing social work practice which upholds human rights is not, however, without difficulties. The contextual and abstract nature of the expression of human rights poses challenges to conceptual and measurement work. Practitioner researchers have a key role here, translating abstract concepts into rights-related personal outcomes and ultimately into evidence and knowledge informed practice. This article presents a case study of a local activist research project, Promote the Vote. The international literature indicates discrimination through denial of the rights of people with learning disabilities regarding political participation. In writing our learning from this case study, the authors have set out to consider the following: how can social workers engage in practice based research?; does an activist project such as Promote the Vote act as a mechanism through which social workers can evidence allyship with disabled people's self-determined right to political participation? and how does a project which applies research methods support generation of practitioner-research evidence, which in turn contributes towards knowledge informed practice?
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