Research Handbook on Leadership in Social Work and Social Care

Edited by Robin Miller, PhD, Professor of Collaborative Learning in Health & Social Care, Department of Social Work & Social Care, School of Social Policy & Society, University of Birmingham, Catherine Mangan, Professor of Public Management and Leadership, Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Government, University of Birmingham, UK, Helen Dickinson, PhD, Professor of Public Service Research, School of Business, University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia and Caroline Jackson, PhD, Research Fellow, Department of Social Work & Social Care, School of Social Policy & Society, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents1 Introduction: leadership in social work and social care 1Robin Miller, Caroline Jackson, Catherine Mangan and Helen DickinsonPART I PROFESSIONAL AND PRACTICE LEADERSHIP2 Does leadership impact on care outcomes for service users in social carecontexts? 21Axel Kaehne, Aniekan Ekpenyong and Julie Feather3 Leadership in and through the voluntary and community sector: a state-of-the-art review 38Carol Jacklin-Jarvis and James Rees4 Strengthening research in social work practice: how a professionalassociation can contribute to the leadership of social work research 51Sue Gillieatt, Bindi Bennett, Lynette Joubert, Louise Whitaker, WilmaPeters and Fiona Oates5 The contribution of codependency to leadership challenges in social workand mindfulness as a path forward 63S. Colby Peters6 Conflicts and synergies: dualities in professional leadership of social care 76Zsuzsanna Antal, Zoltán Cserháti, Éva Krenyácz and Éva Révész7 Learning from Bourdieu: social work and leadership 90Luke GeogheganPART II ORGANISATIONAL AND SYSTEM LEADERSHIP8 Leading across boundaries: system leadership and social care 103Richard Humphries9 Independent Chairs of Safeguarding Adults Boards: system leadership inpractice 113Adi Cooper OBE and Michael Preston-Shoot10 Boundary spanning leadership: an essential praxis within social care 127Lisa Smith and Dez Holmes11 Leading and participating: examining collaborative leadership 139Lynn Berger, Susan Evans, Caroline Lambert, Erica Russ, MelissaPetrakis, Louise Whitaker, Caroline Walters, Liz Reimer, MarkWoolven and Monica Short12 The role of value-based leadership in multi-agency safeguarding responsesto child sexual exploitation 152Gareth Addidle, Sarah Shorrock and Joyce Liddle13 Advancing the case for adaptive leadership in human services 164Mary Burns, Linda Lausell Bryant and Marc Ross Manashil14 Leadership and automation: towards an understanding of the leader rolewhen implementing robots and AI in social care 177Maria Forsgren, Andreas Stenling and Susanne TafvelinPART III COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP15 I lead, and you follow: challenging concepts of leadership in co-production 190Mel Hughes and Lynn Laidlaw16 ‘We’re in it together’: generating opportunities for leadership throughco-produced research 203Jala Burton and Sally Robinson17 Behind the barbed wire fence, looking up at the concrete ceiling:Aboriginal “leadership” and considerations for social work 217Bindi Bennett, Kelly Menzel and Liz Cameron18 Lesbian perspectives and experiences of gender and sexuality in leadershipin social work and social care: a review of the literature 229Christine Cocker, Adi Cooper and Trish Hafford-Letchfield19 Social care leadership and system failures: how to do the impossible well 241kylie valentine20 Sousveillance and the leadership gaze: meaning-making, organisationaland representational leadership, and sousveillance social media advocacyin mandated social welfare contexts 253Tara La Rose and Jennifer MulePART IV DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP21 A contemporary approach to leadership education and development for thehealth and human service sector 269Kate L. Fennell and Pieter J. Van Dam22 Prospects, dilemmas, and constraints of global leadership in social workeducation and frontline practice: perspectives from international socialworkers 281Janet Walker, Guanyu Jason Ran, Tatenda Goodman Nhapi andDiwakar Khanal23 Leaders in plain sight: what the experiences of early career social workerstell us about leadership in Scottish social work 295Scott Grant, Trish McCulloch and Maura Daly24 Human-centred leadership development for women in the human services 307Karen Hopkins and Megan Meyer25 “Lifting as we climb”: exploring the lived experiences of Black womensocial work leaders 320Selena T. Rodgers, Jennette Allen-McCombs, Shirell Roeback, AzzieForbes and Cathleen Lilavois26 Critical social work leadership and labour unions: creating transformativechange through courage, reflexivity, mindfulness, and action 334Courtney Atlee and Aubrey Gonsalves27 What do we know about leadership in social work and social care andwhere next for the field? 348Helen Dickinson, Caroline Jackson, Catherine Mangan and Robin Miller

‘This welcome Handbook draws together ideas, international case studies and themes shaping social work leadership today, and points towards emerging priorities, especially tackling inequity. It includes historical overviews, learning from praxis, theoretical, empirical, ethical and political perspectives, lived experience and indigenous approaches, and the huge challenges of decoloniality and gender equality - to name a few. The Handbook situates ‘leadership’ as a complex, contextual endeavour that overlaps with the many other necessary drivers of practical effectiveness and ‘doing the right thing’. It will enable and encourage readers to explore leadership realistically - as a vital, difficult, practical, hope-filled but hard to pin down activity, like social work itself.’