Guests: Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö: senior lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Dr. Ingo Stamm: postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Introduction to this episode: The social work training institutions around the world play a crucial role in helping shape the specific competencies and wider professional culture of new generations of social workers. Those emerging professionals are now taking up their diverse social work duties and roles against a backdrop of escalating physical environment and ecological justice challenges. Those challenges will inevitably influence the nature of social work practice in the future. It has been a key objective of this podcast series to hear what my interview guests think about such challenges, and their implications for future SW practice. Over the course of the series I have interviewed a significant number of university based social work educators and trainers - in Australia, the USA and the UK. Many of them have talked about their experiences in training new generations of social workers in eco-social work practice. I am delighted to be able to extend this particular focus of the series to welcome two interview guests based in Finland. They represent a mainland European perspective on eco-social work education and training issues. Dr. Ingo Stamm had a decade long career as a social work practitioner in the field of child and youth services before becoming a social work educator, incorporating a range of professional interests including ecosocial work and sustainability. Dr.Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö has almost twenty years’ experience in teaching and research across a wide field of inquiry. Some of her most recent research work focusses on the connection between social and environmental disadvantage in the mining industry, and the possible future of social work practice in the context of global ethics and the climate crisis. In this interview, I ask Satu and Ingo about the opportunities and challenges for training students in eco-social work (ESW) practice. They share their views on what ESW practice can do to help tackle climate change and other, physical environment and ecological challenges. And they consider what the short to mid-term future might hold for ESW intervention, either within the Finnish, European or international social work mainstream. SUMMARY OF MAIN INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS – with approximate time elapsed in minutes General Introduction - 0.50QUESTION 1: What are some key opportunities and challenges for training students in eco-social work practice in 2023 and beyond? - 2.50 QUESTION 2: As a trainer/teacher what is particularly rewarding for you in providing ESW training? - 07.50 QUESTION 3: How can ESW practice help tackle climate disruption, other sustainability challenges and linked social justice concerns? -13.00 Relevance of ESW to mainstream SW practice -19.47 QUESTION 4: How could or should ESW practice develop over the next 2 - 10 years? - 24.08 Guest take home messages – 31.22 Thanks to guests and closing comments -34.56 End – 36.26 RESOURCES RELVANT TO EPISODE DISCUSSION – please note that active URL links only appear on some podcast sites, notably the PODBEAN parent hosting site. Guest publication record Selected publications list of Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö on Researchgate and on ORCID Selected publications of Dr Ingo Stamm on Researchgate and Educational approaches Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – a fairly recent (2019) paper which discusses some pros and cons of MOOC use for social work education. MOOC ‘Introduction to planetary well-being’ – this course, produced by the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, is one of four they provide on the concept of planetary well-being, and may interest social work students and practitioners. This MOOC aligns with the growing interest in the concept of planetary health as a way of bringing together environmental, ecological and social justice concerns. The concept emphasises the close connection between the healthy functioning of planetary systems including nature and climate, and human health and wellbeing.MOOC ‘Planetary Boundaries’ covers earth system science understanding of the rapidly evolving trends in global environmental change and the responses aimed at slowing or eliminating these changes. Produced in conjunction with the prestigious Stockholm Resilience Center, this course is aimed, inter alia, at ‘anyone new to the concept of sustainable development who wants to understand the interplay between human actions and what the planet can support. Action Research education model – paper on the use of feminist participatory action research (FPAR) used within climate change advocacy in the Asia Pacific region - cited in Australian social work training course (Edith Cowan University) International collaboration IFSW: People’s Global Summit event: ‘Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving ...
