All Stories

  1. Beyond a Single Story: Peripheral Histories of Boys Brought Up in a Residential School

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  2. Trauma: An Ideology in Search of Evidence and its Implications for the Social in Social Welfare

    Article • Scottish Affairs, November 2021, Edinburgh University Press

    Mark Smith

  3. Age-Friendly Ecosystems for Community Participation: A Rapid Realist Review

    Article • September 2021, University of Dundee

    Mark Smith

  4. Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues

    Article • August 2021, MDPI AG

    Mark Smith

  5. ‘We need to talk about Bona’: An autoethnographic account of fostering an unaccompanied asylum seeker

    Article • International Journal of Social Pedagogy, April 2021, UCL Press

    Mark Smith

  6. It really does depend: Towards an epistemology (and ontology) for everyday social pedagogical practice

    Article • International Journal of Social Pedagogy, November 2020, UCL Press

    Mark Smith

  7. The Social Work Regulator and Professional Identity: A Narrative of Lord and Bondsman

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, May 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  8. Recognising Strategy and Tactics in Constructing and Working with Involuntary Social Work Clients

    Article • Australian Social Work, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  9. ‘You Can’t Say That!’: Critical Thinking, Identity Politics, and the Social Work Academy

    Article • Societies, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Mark Smith

  10. The Routledge handbook of the philosophy of childhood and children

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  11. The politics and ethics of research into ‘wicked’ social problems

    Article • April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  12. Against empathy: the case for rational compassion

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  13. The origins of the Jimmy Savile scandal

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, March 2018, Emerald

    Mark Smith

  14. The Emotional Labour of Austerity: How Social Workers Reflect and Work on Their Feelings towards Reducing Support to Needy Children and Families

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  15. A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care

    Article • January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  16. Creating spaces for change: Engaging civil society to harness change in criminal justice practice

    Article • European Journal of Probation, December 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Trish McCulloch, Mark Smith

  17. From Attachment to Recognition for Children in Care

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, September 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  18. Moral panics and social work: A response to David Pilgrim

    Article • Critical and Radical Social Work, August 2017, Policy Press

    Mark Smith

  19. Editorial

    Article • International Journal of Social Pedagogy, December 2016, UCL Press

    Mark Smith

  20. Sexuality, Innocence and Agency in Narratives of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Implications for Social Work

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, November 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  21. A cautionary tale regarding ‘believing’ allegations of historical child abuse

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  22. Social Suffering: Changing Organisational Culture in Children and Families Social Work through Critical Reflection Groups—Insights from Bourdieu

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, July 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  23. Editorial

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  24. Standing up to complexity: researching moral panics in social work

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  25. The Role of Practitioner Research in Developing Cultures of Learning in Children and Families Social Work

    Article • Practice, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  26. Towards a theory of upbringing in foster care in Europe

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  27. Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth: Developing Evidence-Based International Practice

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, March 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  28. Critical reflection workshops and knowledge exchange: findings from a Scottish project

    Article • Child & Family Social Work, September 2014, Wiley

    Mark Smith

  29. Social Work and Pornography: Some Ethical Considerations

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  30. ‘It's what gets through people's radars isn't it’: relationships in social work practice and knowledge exchange

    Article • Contemporary Social Science, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  31. Moral Panics, Claims-Making and Child Protection in the UK

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  32. Moral panics and social work: Towards a sceptical view of UK child protection

    Article • Critical Social Policy, September 2012, SAGE Publications

    Mark Smith

  33. The Presentation of Child Trafficking in the UK: An Old and New Moral Panic?

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  34. A collaborative approach to defining the usefulness of impact: lessons from a knowledge exchange project involving academics and social work practitioners

    Article • Evidence & Policy, August 2012, Policy Press

    Mark Smith

  35. Social Pedagogy from a Scottish Perspective

    Article • International Journal of Social Pedagogy, January 2012, UCL Press

    Mark Smith

  36. Children and Families’ Involvement in Social Work Decision Making

    Article • Children & Society, December 2011, Wiley

    Mark Smith

  37. Engaging with Involuntary Service Users in Social Work: Findings from a Knowledge Exchange Project

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mark Smith

  38. The Transformation of Children's Services

    Article • October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  39. Care Ethics in Residential Child Care: A Different Voice

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  40. Reading Bauman for Social Work

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  41. Victim Narratives of Historical Abuse in Residential Child Care

    Article • Qualitative Social Work, August 2010, SAGE Publications

    Mark Smith

  42. Historical abuse in residential child care: An alternative view

    Article • Practice, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  43. Social education and social pedagogy: reclaiming a Scottish tradition in social work

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  44. Redox metals and oxidative abnormalities in human prion diseases

    Article • Acta Neuropathologica, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor George Perry, Prof. Herbert Budka, Professor Paula I. Moreira, Mark Smith

  45. What About the Dads?

    Article • Child & Youth Services, March 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Smith

  46. Gender in Residential Childcare

    Article • Wiley

    Mark Smith