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Social work practice following the COVID-19 pandemic: Reflections from Brazil, India and Scotland (2025)
Journal Article
Garcia, M. L. T., Spolander, G., Leal, F., Adaikalam, F., & Gibson, N. (in press). Social work practice following the COVID-19 pandemic: Reflections from Brazil, India and Scotland. International Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728241313034

COVID-19 impacted globally, on individual health, care systems and social reproduction. Excessive death, lockdowns and social policy change had immediate and long-term national and global implications. Attention has been given to the immediate conseq... Read More about Social work practice following the COVID-19 pandemic: Reflections from Brazil, India and Scotland.

Entrepreneurship in the Favela: Negotiating Precarity and Mental Health During Covid-19 (2024)
Journal Article
Garcia, M. L. T., Spolander, G., Tomlins, R., Xavier Leal, F., Santana Borges, R. E., & Sukumar, A. (2024). Entrepreneurship in the Favela: Negotiating Precarity and Mental Health During Covid-19. Social Work in Public Health, 39(1), 48-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2024.2316874

This paper aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and mental health of necessary entrepreneurs in Brasilian favelas, the social problems they experienced and implications for public health social work. The study used struct... Read More about Entrepreneurship in the Favela: Negotiating Precarity and Mental Health During Covid-19.

Higher education decolonisation: #Whose voices and their geographical locations? (2021)
Journal Article
Adefila, A., Teixeira, R. V., Morini, L., Garcia, M. L. T., Delboni, T. M. Z. G. F., Spolander, G., & Khalil-Babatunde, M. (2022). Higher education decolonisation: #Whose voices and their geographical locations?. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 20(3), 262-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1887724

Calls continue for the decolonisation of higher education (HE). Based on internationalisation debates, a research team from Africa, Europe and Latin America reviewed published decolonisation voices. Using bibliometric analysis and a conceptual review... Read More about Higher education decolonisation: #Whose voices and their geographical locations?.