inSocialWork

By University at Buffalo School of Social Work

inSocialWork is the podcast series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The purpose of this series is to engage practitioners and researchers in lifelong learning and to promote researc... more

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The podcast currently has 103 episodes available.

inSocialWork episodes:

January 20, 2026 Public Interest Technology & Social Work
By working together, social work and public interest technology fields ensure that advanced technology is not just powerful or profitable, but also equitable and ethically sound.” – Soobin Kim, PhD
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49min
December 16, 2025 Student-Initiated Confrontations in Social Work Education
"I think a lot of instructors are just trying to survive. They are just trying to survive the semester without any sort of conflict with students."
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59min
November 18, 2025 Post-DSM: Reconciling the DSM’s Medical Model with Social Work Values
“[The DSM] misses so much when we think about folks from the BIPOC community, when we’re looking at anyone that is not white and predominantly male. It’s really not speaking to that group.”
— Lisa Borneman
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55min
October 21, 2025 A Journey to Joy for Social Work, Social Policy and Leadership
“What I want people to understand is that you don’t have to earn joy, you don’t have to have money to have joy. You don’t have to do anything in order to know that it exists within you.”
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49min
September 23, 2025 Supporting Neurodivergent Students
“He said, ‘I don’t have a learning disability. I learn really well. I have a school disability.’”
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1h
August 19, 2025 Building Bridges, Not Walls: Resisting Anti-Immigrant Policy
"Migration is not a crime; it’s actually a natural, fundamental part of human existence.” — Laurie Cook Heffron, PhD
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1h 1min
June 17, 2025 Our Current Moment: The Future of Social Work and DEI
“Our task is to resist authoritarianism and to cultivate liberatory alternatives to set agendas as social workers. We need to be agenda setters.”
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58min
May 20, 2025 Mobilizing Social Workers to Action: Frameworks for Social Change
“I was taught social justice meant more services. Now I understand that social justice means we don’t need so many services.”
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59min
April 22, 2025 White Social Workers’ Path to Showing Up for People of Color
"Any place that you would show up and advocate for your own child, now you show up and you advocate for people and families and children of color, too."
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59min
March 18, 2025 The Inclusion of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Supervision
“Keeping the ‘why’ central — the ‘why’ we talk about religion and spirituality is because we care about the clients. Oftentimes, when we get caught up in our own discomfort, we avoid these conversations.”
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56min

FAQs about inSocialWork:

How many episodes does inSocialWork have?

The podcast currently has 103 episodes available.