Social Work and Social Innovation

Introduction - Jean Pierre Wilken, Anne Parpan- Blaser, Sarah Prosser, Suzan van der Pas and Erik Jansen





Part 1: Framing Social Innovation and Social Work


1. Social Work and Social Innovation: How the Twain Can Meet - Jean Pierre Wilken and Anne Parpan-Blaser


2. How to Change Our Neighbourhoods, Regions and the World: Using Symptoms, Systems and Transformation as a Framework for Social Innovation and Social Work - Sarah Prosser and Ole Pedersen


3. Social Work, Social Innovation, Discretion and Creativity: Day-to-Day Innovation of Practice - Tony Evans


4. Potential for Social Innovation in Social Work: Applying the Capability Approach - Annica Brummel, Erik Jansen, Mara A. Yerkes and Jana Javornik





Part 2: Examples of Social Innovations in Social Work across Europe


Theme A: Co-creation and Co-production of Social Services: Social Innovation in Practice


5. The Art of Co-creation: Service Innovation in Europe - Chris Fox and Susan Baines


6. Promoting Social Service Innovation: Regional and Local Examples from across Europe - Alfonso Lara-Montero


7. Co-creation in Action: Lessons from the CoSIE Project - Sandra Geelhoed and Eva Heijmans


8. Social Innovation and Service Users' Involvement: Enhancing the Knowledge of Social Work - Kristel Driessens, Sidsel Natland and Vicky Lyssens-Danneboom


9. Moderating the Process of Social Innovation: Insights from a Case Study on Labour Market Activation - Koen Dortmans, Erik Jansen and Lineke Van Hal





Theme B: Education and Learning: Social Innovation in Social Work Education and Learning


10. Regional Learning Networks in the Social Welfare Domain: Drivers of Social Innovation in Social Work - Suzan Van Der Pas and Erik Jansen


11. Putting Learning Communities into Practice: Innovation of Social Work Education - Meike Koop, Ankie Schoenmakers, Ina Tilma, Nathalie Grahame and Henk Spies


12. Learning from Innovation Processes: Introducing Easy Language in Adult Protection Services - Anne Parpan-Blaser





Theme C: Community Work, Community-Led Innovation and Collective Action


13. The Rediscovery of Community: Community Development as Social Innovation - Jean Pierre Wilken and Dagmar Narusson


14. Climate Change from a Green Social Work Perspective: Responding to a Constantly Evolving Crisis Challenging Social Work Practice - Lena Dominelli


15. Co-creation of Nature-Based Solutions: Guidelines for Citizen Engagement - Nathalie Nunes, Knud Erik Hilding-Hamann and Isabel Ferreira


16. Innovating Social Work Practices to Better Address Homelessness: Participatory Action Research with Community Services in Italy - Marta Gaboardi, Sabina Licursi and Emanuela Pascuzzi


17. Challenging the Power Status Quo: Paradoxes in Grass Roots Social Innovation - Luc De Droogh and Jeroen Gradener





Theme D: Social Entrepreneurship: Inclusive and Regenerative Models of Social Business and Innovation for Sustainable Impact


18. Social Entrepreneurship as Social Innovation: What about Social Work? - Leendert de Bell, Zsolt Bugarszki and Geof Cox


19. The Growing Rhetoric of Entrepreneurship in Times of Crisis: Future Challenges of Social Work in the Case of Portugal - Antonela Jesus and Maria Ines Amaro


20. Unlimited Incubators for Belonging, Cohesion and Impact: Nurturing 'What Is Already There' - Sarah Prosser, Ole Pedersen and Rosa Engebrigtsen Bye





21. Developing the Innovative Power of Social Work: Synthesis and Future Directions - Erik Jansen, Anne Parpan-Blaser, Suzan Van Der Pas, Sarah Prosser and Jean Pierre Wilken