SSWR Task Force On Safeguarding Social Work Research Webinar and Listening Session
Navigating Research In Uncertain Times. A Conversation FOR Tenured Research Faculty
PLEASE NOTE: This event has been rescheduled for December 11, 2025.
Associate Professors, Full Professor and Emeritus Professors welcome!
December 11, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 PM EST
The Society for Social Work and Research created the Task Force on Safeguarding Social Work Research in the Spring of 2025 to develop strategies to defend our longstanding commitment to advance social work research in response to government threats that undermine science generally, and social work research specifically. This year we are focusing on engaging SSWR members to better understand how they are navigating the current research climate, and developing a series of webinars and next steps based on your input. We will be presenting on the work of the Task Force during an invited symposium at the SSWR January 2026 conference.
The purpose of this Webinar and Listening Session is to engage tenured faculty to better understand how you are navigating research and solicit your ideas for how the Task Force can support your research in the current climate.
During this webinar and listening session we will share a brief description of the Task Force, what we have done this year and our next steps. We will have two sets of breakout groups for listening and engagement to discuss the impact of the current climate on:
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Research Climate and Pressures
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Service and Institutional Responsibilities
This listening session will be facilitated by the Co-Chairs of the SSWR Task Force: https://sswr.org/safeguardingswr/