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The sociological imagination and social work practice (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, R. (2024, February). The sociological imagination and social work practice. Presented at British Sociological Association, social work study group., Online

The presentation considers the nature of C Wright Mill's Sociological Imagination and its relevance to social work practice.

Social work, mental health inequalities, and the sociological imagination (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, R. (2023, April). Social work, mental health inequalities, and the sociological imagination. Poster presented at European Social Work Research Association, 12th European Conference for Social Work Research, Milan

The poster presentation discusses the background to my current doctoral research, how I have taken my inspiration from the work of C. Wright-Mills, and presents the early findings from data analysis. The presentation discusses the connection between... Read More about Social work, mental health inequalities, and the sociological imagination.

Can practitioners adopt a mental health equality imagination for recovery? (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, R. (2020, December). Can practitioners adopt a mental health equality imagination for recovery?. Presented at AWP NHS Trust & British Association of Social Work: Building a Movement for Social Approaches to Mental Health, Online

The lectured explored ways in which social work practitioners might seek to address the social determiants of mental health in their practice. An extension of C. Wright Mill's (1959) Socialogical Imagination to consider health inequalities was discu... Read More about Can practitioners adopt a mental health equality imagination for recovery?.

Asking for Help: Does Adult Care Law Help or Hinder Relationship Building (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Hubbard, R., & Lomax, R. (2019, October). Asking for Help: Does Adult Care Law Help or Hinder Relationship Building. Presented at British Association of Social Workers England Conference, Leeds

Presentation and workshop item focused on how adult care law - principally the Care Act 2014 , Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Health Act 1983(2007) - impact on service users' ability to ask for support in their lives. The presentation l... Read More about Asking for Help: Does Adult Care Law Help or Hinder Relationship Building.

Bouncing back and building up? – A critique of the concept of resilience in relation to social work practitioners and their employing organisations. (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, R., & Frost, E. (2019, September). Bouncing back and building up? – A critique of the concept of resilience in relation to social work practitioners and their employing organisations. Paper presented at Joint Social Work Education and Research Conference, Manchester

The overall aim of this paper is to critically discuss the findings of a literature review undertaken in 2018 by exploring the concept of resilience and social work. The findings will be illustrated throughout by drawing on examples from current rese... Read More about Bouncing back and building up? – A critique of the concept of resilience in relation to social work practitioners and their employing organisations..