The Social Work International Conference (SWIC) is the annual conference of the Department of Social Work of the University of Bucharest, organized in collaboration with the Romanian Association of Schools of Social Work. SWIC is now at the 5th edition: Social Work Diversity: A Dialogue Among Professions. Enriching solidarity in unruly times.
Past editions of SWIC
SWIC 2016: Envisioning Sustainable Social Work: Empowering Communities and Individuals
Conference Programme SWIC 2016
Keynote speakers SWIC 2016:
Dr. Rory Truell – International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)
Dr. Silvia Fargion – Free University of Bolzano, Italy; European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA)
Dr. Marian Preda – University of Bucharest, Romania
SWIC 2017: Social Work Responses to the New Realities of a Turbulent World
Conference Programme SWIC 2017
Keynote speakers SWIC 2017:
Dr. Malcolm Payne – University of Bristol, UK; Manchester Metropolitan University; UK; Opole University, Poland; St Christopher’s Hospice, London, UK
Dr. Iain Ferguson – University of the West of Scotland, UK
Dr. Annamaria Campanini – University Milano Bicocca; International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)
SWIC 2018: The Challenges of Glocal Social Work Education, Practice and Research
Conference Programme SWIC 2018
Keynote speakers SWIC 2018:
Dr. Nino Žganec – University of Zagreb; European Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)
Dr. Karen Lyons – London Metropolitan University (UK)
Dr. Lars Uggerhøj – Aalborg University, Denmark; University of Lincoln, UK.
SWIC 2019: The Place and Role of Social Work in the 2020s and Beyond
Conference Programme SWIC 2019
Keynote speakers SWIC 2019:
Dr. Darja Zaviršek – Professor of Social Work, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work, President of the East European Regional Association of Schools of Social Work
Dr. Judith Metz – Professor of Urban Youth Work, School of Social Work and Law, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Chair of the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA)
SWIC 2021: Social Work Diversity: A Dialogue among Professions. Enriching solidarity in unruly times
Keynote speakers SWIC 2021:
Dr. Vasilios Ioakimidis, Founding Professor of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Social Work at the University of Essex
Dr. Anna Rurka, Senior Lecturer in Education Science at the University Paris Nanterre. Former President of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe
SWIC 2022: Riding on the Shock Wave: Social Work Challenges during and after COVID-19
Keynote speakers SWIC 2022:
Aila-Leena Matthies, Ph.D., is a professor of Social Work at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU), Finland, since 2007
Lecture Rudi Roose, PhD, is professor of Social Work, affiliated to the department of Social Work & Social Pedagogy at Ghent University, Belgium
Lecture Alessandro Sicora, PhD, is associate professor at the University of Trento where he teaches at the Social Work BA and MA
SWIC 2023: Social work in changing times: From resilience to transformative action
Keynote speakers SWIC 2023:
𝐃𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐳 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭, DPhil, is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Social Work Research Association, and Co-editor of The Journal for Psychosocial Studies. She is the director of a post-graduate social work programme.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Wilken is a professor at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Dr. John Gal is full professor and former Dean at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Idit Weiss-Gal is a Full Professor and former Head of the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University in Israel
SWIC 2024: Building Bridges: Fostering Collaboration in Social Work Practice, Education and Research
Conference Programme SWIC 2024
Keynote speakers SWIC 2024:
Dr. Timo Toikko is a professor of Social Work at the University of Eastern Finland
P𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐫 is Professor of Social Work and Director of the Mental Health Social Care Research Centre at the University of York.
9th Social Work International Conference (SWIC) 2025 Social Work in a shifting world: Responding to transforming realities and their ripple effects 