The Social Work Coaching Network (SWCN) - October 2026

to 7:00pm
About this event

Social Work Coaching Network (SWCN)

Are you a social work professional interested in coaching?

With more understanding of the value of coaching for social workers and various research projects currently looking at the impact of coaching for social workers, this is a hot topic.

We want to develop an international platform for those interested in coaching and social work to come together, share knowledge, and support a movement to demonstrate the effectiveness and need of coaching within social work.

📢 We will be joined in this session by Christina Channer MA, PhD candidate, University of Bedfordshire; Social Worker; International Keynote Speaker; University Guest Lecturer.

Christina’s doctoral research explores the underrepresentation of Black women in social work management and leadership in the United Kingdom. Located within a constructivist-interpretivist paradigm, the study seeks to understand how knowledge and meaning are constructed through Black women’s lived experiences of management and leadership. The research draws on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and intersectionality as complementary theoretical lenses to examine how race, gender and class intersect in social work organisations. Using a qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews provide the primary source of data, which is being analysed through Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA), drawing on both inductive and theoretically informed deductive theoretical approaches to coding and theme development. This study is currently at the data analysis stage, with the interview data undergoing Reflexive Thematic Analysis; consequently, the findings, themes and conclusions have not yet been finalised.

We will then be thinking about and having a facilitated conversation about how coaching in social work can support the move into management and leadership and thinking about coaching approaches that work for this.

This group meet quarterly following it's launch in February 2025.

If you have any queries please contact events@basw.co.uk.