CHRONOLOGY  OF INTERVENTIONS

1998:

01. ‘Notes from the Diaspora: anti-discriminatory social work practice, Irish people and the Practice curriculum’ Social Work Education, vol. 17, No 4, pp 435-448.

02. H. Buckley, C. Skehill and E. O’Sullivan, Child Protection Practices in Ireland, Dublin, Oak Tree Press (1997) Social Work Education, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 256-258 (Book Review)

1999:

03. ‘Mapping Child-Care Social Work in the Final Years of the Twentieth Century: A Critical Response to the Looking After Children System’ British Journal of Social Work, vol. 29, pp 27-47.

04. ‘The Pretence of normality: intra-family violence and the response of state agencies in Northern Ireland’ Critical Social Policy, vol. 19, No 1, pp 31-56.

05. ‘Questioning the new orthodoxy: the Looking After Children (LAC) system and its discourse on parenting’ Practice, vol. 11, No 1, pp 53-65.

06. ‘Producing the moral citizen: the Looking After Children’ system and the regulation of children and young people in public care’ Critical Social Policy, vol. 19, No 3, pp 291-312.

07. (With Paula Brady) ‘Anti-discriminatory social work practice, Irish people and the practice curriculum/assessed practice’ unpublished paper presented to conference, Practice Teaching in the Children’s Society, Waddington Conference Centre, 24^th November.

2000:

08. ‘Responding to Irish “invisibility”: Anti-discriminatory social work practice and the placement of Irish children in Britain’ Adoption and Fostering, Vol. 24, No 1, pp 23-34.

09. ‘The abnormal flight: The migration and repatriation of Irish unmarried mothers’, Social History, Vol. 25, No 3, pp. 330-344.

10. ‘The hidden history of the PFIs: The repatriation of unmarried mothers and their children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s, Immigrants and Minorities, Vol. 19, No 3, pp. 25-44.

11. ‘How convincing was the research? Action and Assessment Records and the Looking After Children system’ Economic & Social Research Council-funded Seminar Series, Theorising Social Work Research, University of Cardiff, 27^th April

12. ‘Have you seen my assessment schedule? Proceduralisation, Constraint and Control in Social Work with Children and Families’ (2000) Dilemmas 2000: Dilemmas facing the Public Sector – Issues for Professionals, Managers and Users in the Millennium, 4^th International Conference, University of East London, 2^nd September

2001:

13. ‘Interrogating “Home Alone”: The critical deconstruction of media representations in social work education’ Social Work Education, Vol. 20. No. 6, pp. 643-659.

14. Bibliography on the Irish in Britain for the Association of University Teachers (AUT)

15. Bibliography on the Irish in Britain for the Nottinghamshire County Council branch of Unison.

16. ‘Erasing Irish Children? Irish children in public care in England and Wales and the lack of attention devoted to their ethnicity’ Visions and Divisions: Challenges to European Sociology, 5^th Conference of the European Sociological Association, 28^th – 1^st September.

17. ‘Neglecting Irish Children? Notes on Irish children in public care in Britain and the failure of theory, policy and practice’, All-Party Irish in Britain Parliamentary Group – Annual General Meeting, House of Commons, London, 24^th January.

2002:

18. ‘No Irish Need Apply: Social work in Britain and the history and politics of exclusionary paradigms and practices’, The British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 32, pp. 477-494.

19. ‘Yes Minister: Reviewing the ‘Looking After Children’ experience and identifying the messages for social work research’, The British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 32, pp. 831-846.

20. ‘Getting a grip: New Labour and the reform of the law on child adoption’, Critical Social Policy, Vol. 22. No. 2, pp.174-202.

22. ‘Encounters in the new welfare domains of the Third Way: Social Work, the Connexions Agency and Personal Advisers’, Critical Social Policy, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp.592-615.

23. ‘Social Work and the “Just Society”: Diversity, Difference and the Sequestration of Poverty’, The Journal of Social Work, Vol. 2, No.2, pp. 187-210.

24. ‘We do not really differentiate “white Irish” from “white British”’: Preliminary findings from a survey on social work responses to Irish children and families in England and Wales’, Irish Youth Forum, London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre, London, 8^th November

25. ‘Social Services and Irish Children and Families’, Irish Equality Working Group, Commission for Racial Equality, London, 25^th October 

26. ‘Social Work and Diaspora: Irish people in Britain, social work education and practice’, Paper given at the 30^th Bi-annual conference of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW): Citizenship and social work education in a globalising world, University of Montpellier, France, 15^th – 18^th July.

27. ‘Social care provision and Irish people in Britain: The case of social work and Irish children’ (Seminar hosted by the Renville Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland, 3^rd May).

2003:

28. Remaking Social Work with Children and Families: A critical discussion on the ‘modernisation’ of social care, London, Routledge, ISBN 0 415 29839 3 (pb) ISBN 0 415 29836 9 (hb)

29. The ‘Invisible’ Ethnic Minority: Social Work, Social Services Departments and Irish Children and Families: A Report for the All Party Irish in Britain Parliamentary Group, London, Action Group for Irish Youth (1 871414 10 5)

30. ‘The “Daring Experiment”: The London County Council and the discharge from care of children to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s’, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 32 (1), pp. 1-18.

31. ‘The Trouble with Harry: Why the “new agenda of life politics” fails to convince’, The British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 33 (3), pp. 381-397.

32. ‘Swimming with Dolphins: The new assessment framework, New Labour and new tools for social work with children and families’, British Journal of Social Work, Vol 33 (4), pp 441-463.

33. (with Sinkkonen, J.) (2003) ‘Putting children first? A comparison of child adoption policy and practice in Britain and Finland’, European Journal of Social Work, 6 (1), pp. 19-33.

34. Calder, M. C. and Hackett, S. (eds.) Assessment in child care: Using and developing frameworks for practice, Lyme Regis, Russell House (Child and Family Social Work, Vol 8 (4), pp. 357-359 (Book Review)

35. Harriet Ward & Wendy Rose (eds.) Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children’s Services, London: Jessica Kingsley, Children & Society, Vol 17, pp. 329-330 (Book Review)

36. ‘The “Invisible” Ethnic Minority: Social Work, Social Services Departments and Irish Children and Families’ Keynote speaker at the launch of this report, House of Commons, 19^th May.

37. ‘Social work with children and families in a “surveillance society’, Social Work in a Future Europe, IFSW/EASSW/FESET Conference, Copenhagen, 26^th – 29^th May

38. ‘Irish social workers and the politics of (mis)recognition’, Invited guest speaker at the School of Social Work and Social Care, University of Sussex, 3^rd December

39. ‘Social Work and Irish children and families in Britain’, London Irish Councillors’ Network, City Hall, London, 8^th December

40. Social Work and Irish People in Britain: Historical and contemporary responses to Irish children and families, Bristol: Policy Press, ISBN 1 86134 411 2 (pb) ISBN 1 86134 412 0 (hb)

2004:

41. ‘Talking Child Protection: The Police and Social Workers “Working Together”’, Journal of Social Work, Vol 4 (1), pp 77-97.

42. ‘More Trouble with Harry: A Rejoinder in the “Life Politics” Debate’, British Journal of Social Work, Vol 34 (4), pp. 571-583.

43. ‘The electronic eye: emerging surveillant practices in social work with children and families’, European Journal of Social Work, Vol 7 (1), pp. 57-71. 

44. ‘Have you seen my Assessment Schedule? Proceduralisation, Constraint and Control in Social Work with Children and Families’ in M. Dent, J. Chandler and J. Barry (eds.) New Public Management: Dilemmas for Public Sector Managers and Professionals, London, Avebury.

45. (With Ann Davis) ‘Progressive practice for tough times: Social work, poverty and division in the 21^st century’ in M. Lymbery and S. Butler (eds.), pp. 13-34, Social Work Ideals and Practice Realities, London, Palgrave.

46. ‘Lost in the Crowd’, Community Care, 4-10 November, pp. 36-38.

47. Irish People in Britain: A Bibliography prepared for the Federation of Irish Associations in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (FIANN)

48. ‘Irish Social Workers in Britain and the Politics of (Mis)Recognition’, Sociological Association of Ireland, Annual Conference in Athlone, 23^rd – 25^th April.

49. ‘Social Work’s “Electronic Turn”: Notes on the deployment of information and communication technologies in social work with children and families’, Social Policy Association Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, 13^th – 15^th June.

50. ‘New Labour’s New Electronic ‘Telephone Directory’: A Critical Commentary on Clause 8 of the Children Bill’, ‘Changing Social Work’ symposium, University of Lancaster, 16^th – 17^th September.

2005:

52. ‘Irish Social Workers in Britain and the Politics of (Mis) Recognition’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 35 (8): 1357-1376.

53. ‘Social Work’s ‘Electronic Turn’: Notes on the deployment of information and communication technologies in social work with children and families’, Critical Social Policy, vol. 25 (4), pp. 529-554.

54. ‘New Labour’s New Electronic “Telephone Directory”: The Children Act 2004 and plans for databases on all children in England and Wales’, Social Work and Social Sciences Review, vol. 2 (1), pp. 5-22.

55. ‘Laming, ‘Race’ and Place: An alternative reading of the Laming Report on the death of Victoria Climbie’, Social Policy Association Annual Conference, University of Bath, England, 27^th – 29^th June.

56. ‘Inclusive practice, excluded Irish’, Learning Difficulties and Ethnicity Network Newsletter, April, Issue 6, p. 10.

57. ‘Problems and possibilities in seeking to evolve an approach to social work informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu, European Sociological Association Bi-Annual Conference, Torun, Poland, 8^th – 12^th September.

58. Holland, S. (2004) Child and Family Assessment in Social Work Practice, Sage, London in Journal of Social Policy, 34 (1), pp. 169-70 (Book Review)

2006:

59. ‘Protecting Children in a Globalised World: ‘Race’ and Place in the Laming Report on the death of Victoria Climbié’, Journal of Social Work, vol.  6 (3): 315-336.

60. ‘Personal Social Services’ in T. Fitzpatrick, H. Kwon, N. Manning, J. Midgley, and G. Pascall, (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Social Policy, London, Taylor & Francis,

61. ‘Official accounts of “exodus” and “repatriation”: The flight of “unmarried mothers” from Ireland in the mid-20^th century’, Galway Labour History Group, Town Hall Theatre, Galway, 10^th March.

62. ‘How to be “modern”: Notes on New Labour’s plans for social work with children & families in England, Social Work in the 21st Century conference, University of Liverpool, 7th – 8th April, 2006

63. ‘“Sinbin” Solutions: The “pioneer” projects for “problem families” and the forgetfulness of social policy research’, International Federation of Social Workers European Conference, 30 July – 3 August 2006, Munich, Germany.

2007:

64. ‘New England and New Labour: Retracing American Templates for the Change for Children programme?’, Journal of Comparative Social Welfare vol. 23 (1): 31-46.

65. ‘Messages from Research: Social Services Departments and Irish Children and Families in England and Wales’, Social Work Education, vol. 26 (4): 329-347.

66. ‘Sinbin’ Solutions: The ‘pioneer’ projects for ‘problem families’ and the forgetfulness of social policy research, Critical Social Policy, vol. 27 (2): 203-230.

67. ‘Making Social Work more Bourdieusian: Why the Social Professions should critically engage with the work of Pierre Bourdieu’, European Journal of Social Work, vol. 10 (2): 225-243.

68. ‘”Sinbin” research and the “lives of others”’, Critical Social Policy, vol. 27 (4): 560-565.

69. Book Review - Clarke, J., Newman, J., Smith, N., Vidler, E. and Westmarland, L. (2007) Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics and Changing Public Services, London, Sage in Critical Social Policy, 27 (4): 569-572 (Book Review).

70. ‘Reflections on Light and Shade’: A Photography Exhibition by Kenneth Madden – Introductory Talk, Galway, 16^th August. 

71. ‘An attack on the poor’, Socialist Worker, 15^th September: 12.

72. ‘The Relevance of Bourdieu for Social Work: A Reflection on Obstacles and Omissions’, Journal of Social Work, vol. 7 (3): 357-381.

73. ‘Making “Anti-Social Behaviour”: A Fragment on the Evolution of “ASBO Politics” in Britain’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 37 (5): 839-856.

74. ‘Learning from the “Trojan Horse”? The arrival of “Anti-Social Behaviour Orders” in Ireland’, European Journal of Social Work, vol. 10 (4): 497-511.

2008:

75. ‘Marginalized youth, the ‘modern’ professional and the ‘modern’ workplace: A note on the need for a critical approach to ‘modernizing’ strategies’, Marginalized Youth, International Conference, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 31st Jan – 2nd Feb.

76. ‘How to be Modern: New Labour’s Neoliberal Modernity and the Change for Children programme’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 38 (2): 270-289.

77. ‘Helping Labour to Win Again? Anthony Giddens’ programme for the new prime minister’, Critical Social Policy, vol. 28 (2): 235-245.

78. ‘Social Work Practices: Silences and elisions in the plan to ‘transform’ the lives of children ‘looked after’ in England’, Child and Family Social Work, vol. 13 (3): 311- 318.

79. ‘The hidden history of the PFIs: The repatriation of unmarried mothers and their children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s’ in A. O’’ Day and N. C. Fleming (eds.) (2008) Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays, Vol. 3, Aldershot, Ashgate.

2009:

80. ‘Thinking with the Sardinian: Antonio Gramsci and Social Work’, European Journal of Social Work, vol. 11 (3): 237 – 250.

81. ‘Pierre Bourdieu’ in M. Grey and S. Webb (eds.) (2008) Thinking About Social Work: Theories and Methods for Practice, London, Sage.

82. ‘Marginalized Youth, the “Modern” Professional and the “Modern” Workplace: A note on the Need for a Critical Approach to “Modernizing” Strategies, Social Work & Society, vol. 6 (2)

http://www.socwork.net/2008/2/special_issue/garrett

83. ‘Marx and “Modernization”: Reading Capital as social critique and inspiration for social work resistance to neoliberalization’, Journal of Social Work, vol. 9 (2): 199-221.

84. ‘A “syndrome of permanent temporary posts” and crises in child protection’, European Journal of Social Work, vol. 12 (2): 273- 275.

85. ‘Defining the Irish Diaspora’, Invited Panel Chairperson, American Conference for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, 10 – 13 June.

86. ‘The “whalebone” in the (social work) “corset”? Notes on Antonio Gramsci and Social Work Educators’, Social Work Education, vol. 28 (5): 461-475.

87. ‘The case of “Baby P”: Opening up spaces for debate on the “transformation” of Children’s Services’, Critical Social Policy, vol. 29 (3): 533-547.

88. ‘Questioning Habermasian social work: A note on some alternative theoretical resources’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 39 (5): 867-883.

89. ‘Defending the Social Worker’, feature article, Irish Times Health Supplement, 13 October

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2009/1013/1224256494167.html

90. ‘Lisa Arthurworrey and the 'transformation' of children's services’ Community Care, 27 October

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-care-experts-blog/2009/10/thinking-critically-about-the.html

91. ‘Transforming’ Children’s Services? Social Work, Neoliberalism and the ‘Modern’ World, Maidenhead, McGraw Hill/Open University, ISBN 10 0335234259 (pb) ISBN 13 9780335234257 (hb).

2010:

92. ‘The Ryan & Murphy Reports – Responding to Child Abuse’, Marxism 2010 Conference, Galway.

93. ‘Examining the “Conservative Revolution”: Neoliberalism and Social Work Education’, Social Work Education, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 340-355.

94. ‘“It is with deep regret that I find it necessary to tell my story”: Child abuse in industrial schools in Ireland’, Critical Social Policy, Vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 292-306.

95. ‘Creating Happier Children and More Fulfilled Social Workers: Neoliberalism, Privatization and the Reframing of Leftist Critiques in Britain’, Journal of Progressive Human Services, 21, pp. 83-101.

96. ‘Recognizing the Limitations of Recognition Theory: Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser and Social Work’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 1517-1533.

97. ‘Making Social Work More Habermasian?’ A Rejoinder in the Debate on Habermas, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1517-1533.

98. (with R. Lynch) ‘More than Words’: Touch practices in child and family social work’, Child & Family Social Work, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 389-398.

99. Book Review – Waiton, S. (2008) The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics, London, Routledge in The Political Quarterly, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 451 – 453 (Book Review).

2011:

100. ‘Social Work in a “Broken Society”’, European Journal of Social Work, vol. 14, no. 2, pp 281-286.

101. ‘The Evolution of New Technologies of Surveillance’ in S, Van der Hof and M. M. Groothuis (eds.) Innovating Government: Normative, Policy and Technological Dimensions of Modern Government, Springer.

102. Book Review - Wacquant, L (2009) Punishing the Poor The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity, Durham & London, Duke University in Critical Social Policy, vol. 31, no. 2, pp 331-334.

103. ‘Adjusting “our notions of the nature of the State”: A political reading of Ireland’s child welfare and child protection crisis’, Joint Nordic Conference on Welfare and Professionalism in Turbulent Times, Reykjavik, Iceland, 11-13 August 2011.

104. ‘Recent Enquiries into Child Abuse in the Republic of Ireland: A Re-examination’, Keynote address, ‘Working within the forensic paradigm’ international conference, Prato, Italy, 12-14 September, 2011.

105. ‘Theory won’t get you through the door: Thinking about theory and social work’, Invited paper, University of Gent, Belgium, 9 December, 2011.

2012:

106. ‘A note on the “transformation” of social work’, invited paper, the Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2 March, 2012.

107. Book Review – Keenan, M. (2011) Child Sexual Abuse & the Catholic Church, New York: Oxford University in Critical Social Policy, vol. 32, no. 3, pp 488-492.

108. ‘Adjusting “our notions of the nature of the State”: A political reading of Ireland’s child protection crisis’, Capital & Class, vol. 36, no. 2, pp 263-281.

109. (with L. Gaughan) ‘The “most twisted and unaccountable force in the state”? Newspaper accounts of social work in the Republic of Ireland in troubled times’, Journal of Social Work, vol. 12, no. 3, pp 267-286.

110. ‘The Future(s) of Social Work’ in M. Gray, J. Midgley and S. A. Webb (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Social Work, London, SAGE, pp. 631-646.

111. ‘From “Solid Modernity” to “Liquid Modernity”? Zygmunt Bauman and Social Work’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 42, no. 4, pp 634-651.

112. ‘Amplifying the “White Noise”’, British Journal of Social Work, advanced electronic access from 11 October.

113. ‘Welcoming the Social Work Action Network (SWAN) to Galway’, The Amnesty International Shop & Cafe, Galway, 20 November.

114. ‘The “most radical reform of child welfare and protection services ever undertaken in the State”: Critically analyzing the “change agenda”’, Dispatches from the Frontline, Winter Issue.

2013:

116. ‘Pierre Bourdieu’ in M. Grey and S. Webb (eds.) Thinking About Social Work: Theories and Methods for Practice, London, SAGE (2^nd edition).

117. ‘A “catastrophic, inept, self-serving” Church?: Re-examining three reports on child abuse in the Republic of Ireland’, Journal of Progressive Human Services, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 43-65

118. Social work and social theory: Making Connections, Bristol, The Policy Press, (ISBN 9781847429605/9781847429612)

119. ‘Reactivating the ‘Communist Hypothesis’: Alain Badiou and Social Work’, European Journal of Social Work, vol. 16, no. 4, pp 551-567.

120. ‘Active Equality and Social Work: Rancière’s Lesson’: International Conference on Sociology and Social work, University of Aalborg, Denmark, 30-31 May.

121. ‘Beyond the Community of Persons to Be Accorded “Respect”? Messages from the Past for Social Work in the Republic of Ireland’ in M. Carey & L. Green (eds.) Practical Social Work Ethics, Farnham, Ashgate.

122. ‘Building Alliances, Defending Services’, Social Work Action Network (SWAN) Ireland Annual Conference, Focus Ireland Training Centre, Dublin, 1 November.

123. ‘Destabilizing Classifications’: Thinking with Rancière about Class and Marginality, ICLHC Conference, 21-22 November.

124. ‘Mapping the Theoretical and Political Terrain of Social Work’ in M. Gray and S. A. Webb (eds.) The New Politics of Social Work, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

2014:

125. Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work: Children and Families, Bristol, The Policy Press (ISBN 9781447316190)

126. ‘The children not counted: reports on the deaths of children in the Republic of Ireland’, Critical and Radical Social Work, vol. 2, no. 1, pp 23-43.

127. ‘Re-enchanting Social Work? The Emerging “Spirit” of Social Work in an Age of Economic Crisis’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 503-521.

128. ‘Transcending the Politics of “Difference” and “Diversity”’ in C. Cocker and T. Hafford-Letchfield (eds.) Rethinking Anti-Oppressive Theories for Social Work Practice, Houndsmill, Palgrave Macmillan.

129. ‘Confronting the ‘Work Society’: New Conceptual Tools for Social Work’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 1682-1699. 

2015:

130. ‘Taking Back the Neighbourhood: the introduction of ASBOs’ in R. Meade and F. Dukelow (eds.) Defining Events: Power, Resistance and identity in twenty-first century Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University.

131. ‘Neoliberalism and “welfare” in the shadow of the prison’ in R. Sheehan and J. Ogloff (eds.) Working with the Forensic Paradigm: Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice, Abingdon, Routledge.

132. (With A. Harmon) ‘It’s like Weber’s “iron cage”’: Irish social workers’ experience of the Habitual Residence Condition (HRC), Critical and Radical Social Work, 3 (1), pp. 35-52.

133. ‘Thinking about “Welfare” as a “Keyword”’, Social work and changing relations between citizens and civil society within marketized welfare states, University of Ghent, Belgium, 4-8 May, 2015.

134. (With E. Conneely) 'Social Workers and Social Justice During a Period of Intensive Neoliberalization: A Preliminary Investigation From the Republic of Ireland', Journal of Progressive Human Services, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 126-147.

135. ‘Active Equality: Jacques Rancière’s contribution to Social Work’s “New Left”’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 1207-1223.

136. ‘Words matter: deconstructing “welfare dependency” in the UK’, Critical and Radical Social Work, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 389-406.

137. ‘Constraining and confining ethnic minorities: impoverishment and the logics of control in neoliberal Ireland, Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 414-434,

138. ‘Social work and critical sociology: Thinking about ‘Keywords’: Keynote address, ‘5^th International Conference on Sociology and Social Work’, University of Chester, 27^th August

2016:

139. ‘Confronting neoliberal penality: Placing prison reform and critical criminology at the core of social work’s social justice agenda’, Journal of Social Work,  vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 83-103.

140. ‘Unmarried Mothers in the Republic of Ireland’, Journal of Social Work, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 708-725.

141. ‘Social work and neoliberalism’, invited paper presented at seminar at the University of Trondheim, Norway, 28^th April

142. ‘Sleeping with a philosopher? Emmanuel Levinas and “critical social work”’, Critical and Radical Social Work, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 185-198.

143. ‘Introducing Michael Gove to Loïc Wacquant’: Why social work needs critical sociology’, British Journal of Social Work, 46 (4): 873-889.

144. ‘Child Adoption and the Neoliberal “Stealth Revolution”’, Invited Paper, The International Social Work & Society (TiSSA) Plenum, University of Ghent, Belgium, 22 August.

145. ‘Questioning tales of “ordinary magic”: “Resilience” and neoliberal reasoning’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 46, no. 7, pp. 1909-1925.

2017:

146. (With Bertotti, T. F.) ‘Social work and the politics of ‘austerity’: Ireland and Italy’, European Journal of Social Work, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 29-41.

147. ‘Excavating the past: Mother and Baby Homes in the Republic of Ireland’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 358-374.

148. ‘Keywords, care and neoliberalism’, Critical and Radical Social Work, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 269-85.

149. ‘Encountering the “greatest ethical philosopher”: Emmanuel Levinas and social work’, International Social Work, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 1457-1468.

150. ‘Social Work and “Welfare Words”, Invited Keynote paper at Social Work & Social Theory Symposium, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, 8^th June

151. ‘Social work education, disruptive thinking and “welfare words”’, Invited keynote at European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW) Bi-annual European Conference: Social Work Education in Europe – Challenging Boundaries, Promoting a Sustainable Future, Paris, 27^th June

152. ‘Keywords, care and neoliberalism’, Critical and Radical Social Work, 28 (2): 51-54.

2018:

153. Welfare Words: Critical Social Work and Social Policy, London, SAGE.

154. (With Ryan, D) ‘Social work “logged on”: contemporary dilemmas in an evolving “techno-habitat”’, European Journal of Social Work, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 32-44.

155. ‘Disrupting, destabilising and declassifying: Jacques Rancière’s potential contribution to social work’, International Social Work, 61 (1), pp 106-118.

156. ‘Wired: Early intervention and the “neuromolecular gaze”,’ British Journal of Social Work, 48 (3), pp 656-674.

157. Social Work and Social Theory: Second Edition, Bristol, Policy Press.

158. ‘Social work and Marxism: A short essay on the 200^th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx’, Critical and Radical Social Work, 6 (2), pp. 179-196.

159. ‘Ending the “Cruel Rationing of Human Love”? Adoption Politics and Neo-Liberal Rationality’, British Journal of Social Work, 48 (5): 1239-1256.

160. ‘Welfare Words: Critical and Radical Social Work’, Welfare Words book launch, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College City University of New York, 19 March

161. One of invited Chairpersons at 'Dublin Honours Magdalenes' event organised by Justice for Magdalenes Research, Mansion House, Dublin, 6 June

162. ‘Mother and Baby Homes: Notes on the Irish State and its “shameful classes”’, Transitional Justice, Truth-telling, and the Legacy of Irish Institutional Abuse conference, Boston College, USA, 2^nd November.

2019:

163. (With O’Reilly, A.) ‘Playing the Game?: The sexual harassment of female social workers across professional workspaces’, International Social Work, 62 (1): 105-118.

164. ‘Welfare words, neoliberalism and critical social work’ in S. A. Webb (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work, London, Routledge, pp. 3-15.

165. ‘The politics of Michel Foucault’ in in S. A. Webb (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work, London, Routledge, pp. 137-148.

166. ‘What are we talking about when we talk about “Neoliberalism”?, European Journal of Social Work, 22 (2): 188-200.

167. (With Marthinsen, E. Juberg, A. & Skjefstad N. S.) ‘Social work and neoliberalism: the Trondheim papers’, European Journal of Social Work, 22 (2): 183-187.

168. ‘Castaway Categories: Examining the Re-emergence of the Underclass in the UK’, Journal of Progressive Human Services, 30 (1): 25-45.

169. ‘Revisiting “The Birth of Biopolitics”: Foucault’s account of neoliberalism and the remaking of social policy’, Journal of Social Policy, 48 (3): 469-487.

2020:

170. ‘Social Work & Hannah Arendt’, European Social Work Research Association, Leuven, Belgium 11 April

171. ‘Hannah Arendt and Social Work: A Critical Commentary’, Qualitative Social Work, 19 (1): 38-55.

172. Book review of Leary, J. P. (2019) Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism, Chicago, Haymarket Books in Critical Social Policy, vol. 40, no 1, pp. 171–172.

173. ‘Disordering’ the world: Frantz Fanon’s contribution to social work’s understanding of decolonisation, Critical and Radical Social Work, 8 (3): 305-322

174. ‘Social Work and Marx’, Invited lecture for SOSNET (Finnish National University Network for Social Work), 8^th December

175. ‘Marxism and Social Work: Reflecting on Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks’, C. Morley, P. Ablett, C. Noble and S. Cowden (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work, London: Routledge.

176. ‘Creating “common sense” responses to the “unmarried mother” in the Irish Free State in the 1920s’, Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, 55(1-2): 120-41.

177. ‘Looking east: (Re-)creating a social work “industry” in the People’s Republic of China’, Critical Social Policy, 40 (3): 410-429

178. ‘Faulty “tools”? Why social work scholarship needs to take a more critical approach to Michel Foucault’, Journal of Social Work, 20 (4): 483-500.

179. ‘Against Stultifying Classifications, for a “New Humanism”: Frantz Fanon’s Contribution to Social Work’s Commitment to “Liberation”’, British Journal of Social Work, 51(8): 290-297

180. ‘Getting “creative” under capitalism: An analysis of creativity as a dominant keyword’, The Sociological Review, 69 (1): 21–36.

181. ‘Mapeando el territorio teórico y político del trabajo social’ in M. Gray y S. Webb (ed.) (2020) Nuevas Agendas Politicas Para El Trabajo Social, Chile: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, pp 73-97 (Traducción de Gianinna Muñoz Arce)

2021:

182. ‘”A World to Win”: In Defence of (Dissenting) Social Work—A Response to Chris Maylea’, British Journal of Social Work, 51 (4): 1131-1149.

183. Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance, Pandemic, London, Routledge.

2022:

184. Marthinsen, E., Skjefstad, N., Juberg, A. and Garrett, P. M. (eds.) Social Work and Neoliberalism, London, Routledge.

185. (With Brockmann, O.) ‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order’, European Journal of Social Work, 25 (5): 880-893.

186. ‘Marxism and Dissenting Social Work’ in Shaikh, S. S., LeFrançois, B. A. and Macías, T. (eds.) (2022) Critical Social Work Praxis, Canada, Fernwood.

187. ‘Surveillance Capitalism, COVID-19 and Social Work’: A Note on Uncertain Future(s), British Journal of Social Work, 52 (3): 1747-64.

188.‘Creating ‘Common Sense’ Responses to the ‘Unmarried Mother’ in the Irish Free State’ in K O’Donnell, M. O’Rourke and J. M. Smith (eds.) REDRESS: Ireland’s Institutions and Transitional Justice, Dublin: UCD Press, pp. 182-196

189. (With W. Marovatsanga), Social work with the Black African diaspora. Bristol, Policy Press.

190. (With Policante, E.) ‘The “medieval castle approach”: Social work and the Irish and Swiss asylum-seeking processes, Critical and Radical Social Work, 11 (3): 438-456.

191. ‘BOURDİEU’NÜN SOSYAL ÇALIŞMAYLA İLİŞKİSİ: ENGELLER VE İHMAL EDİLENLERE DAİR BİR TEFEKKÜR’ [The Relevance of Bourdieu for Social Work: A Reflection on Obstacles and Omissions], Ethos: Dialogues in Philosophy and Social Sciences, 15 (2): 91-125. Translated into Turkish by Taha Tunc.

192. ‘The end of social work or dissenting social work?’, Invited Paper, The International Social Work & Society (TiSSA) Plenum, University of Ghent, Belgium, 22 August.

193. ‘Introduction to the special section on dissent in social work’, Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 34 (3): 6-8.

2023:

194. ‘Anger and Social Work’ in M. Kamali (ed.) Revolutionary Social Work, London, Routledge, pp. 69-86.

195. ‘Bowlby, attachment and the potency of a “received idea”’, British Journal of Social Work, 53 (1): 100-117.

196. ‘Social work and the “social doctor”: Bowlby, social reproduction and ‘common sense’, British Journal of Social Work, 53 (1): 587-603.

197. ‘A note on dissenting social work and the destabilisation of common sense’, Invited paper, Eleventh Indian Social Work Congress, Hyderabad, India, 3-5 November

198. With E. Marthinsen, N. Skjefstad and A. Juberg (eds), Social Work and Neoliberalism, London, Routledge (paperback edition).

199. ‘Social Work and Common Sense’, seminar presentation, University of Ghent, 12 December.

2024:

200: ‘What are we talking about when we are talking about “decolonising” social work?’, British Journal of Social Work, published online 27 February

201: (With W. Marovatsanga), Social work with the Black African diaspora. Bristol, Policy Press (paperback edition).

202: ‘Human Rights and Social Work: Making the Case for Human Rights Plus (hr+)’, British Journal of Social Work, published online 5 March

203: ‘Dissenting Social Work 2024’, Lecture, University of Ghent, 21 March

204: Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south. Latin American critical theory', European Journal of Social Work, published online 2 April

205: Social Work and Common Sense: A Critical Examination. London, Routledge