Collective Impact (CI) is a framework for collaborative social change that has gained
considerable attention over the past seven years. In this article we review the peer-reviewed …

There is growing interest in community development. It offers ways of dealing with social,
political, economic and cultural issues across the globe. Indeed, community development …

This article revisits the concept of empowerment that has underpinned the global movement
to address gendered violence. Using a critical praxis lens, the article explores different …

Translating the social justice ideals of social work into practice can pose significant
challenges for new social work graduates in contemporary contexts that are characterised …

In a rapidly changing and unpredictable global environment, there is new impetus to draw
on community development approaches in the face of complex practice challenges that …

Although, arguably, the origins of social work in the UK have been closely aligned to
community development in the past few decades, social work has occupied a bureaucratic …

This article reports upon the efforts of three social work/social science academics in
partnership with social and community practitioners, at radicalising community development …

Community development theorists such as Bryson and Mowbray [(1981) Community: the
spray-on solution, Australian Journal of Social Issues 16 (4): 255–267] argue that community …

Dominant individualised social work methods and practices are being criticised in a growing
body of Greek literature, as is the case in many other countries also experiencing the effects …

In a rapidly changing global environment, there have been renewed calls to position
community development more centrally in social work, particularly in the face of …