Completed projects
CHST has been engaged in a wide range of UK, EU and international interdisciplinary research and development projects
SUE-FUTURES, EPSRC funded consortium 5 year project 2004 - 2009. The FUTURES programme is concerned with research into the role of new technologies in progressing towards more sustainable urban mobility.
British Journal of Social Work Special Issue 2009 - Social Work in the Digital Age. Editors Jackie Rafferty and Jan Steyaert
Journal of Social Work Education Special Issue 2008 - Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching in Social Work Education. Editors Julia Waldman and Jackie Rafferty
Integrated Children's System Evaluation - funded by the Department of Children, Schools and Families (now Department for Education). This evaluation study was led by Margaret Bell and Ian Shaw at the University of York. Jackie Rafferty undertook the Technology Case Study for the evaluation.
New Technology in the Human Services (NTHS) was a journal devoted to the dissemination of information about the application of communications and information technology in the human services. It was produced by the Centre for Human Service Technology at the University of Southampton UK and was the leading European publication in this field. This site now contains an archived copy of the old NTHS site, complete with references and abstracts of past volumes.
Research Mindedness for Social Work - online resources funded by Department of Health and SCIE, completed 2005 - no longer being updated.
Virtual mobility: Implications for Accessibility, Social Inclusion and Travel - EPSRC one year Fit feasibility study, completed 2002.
IMPACT: Increasing the impact of assistive technologies - IMPACT was an EU funded research project on disability and assistive technologies, involving UK, Denmark, Finland, Ireland and The Netherlands. The project aimed to increase the awareness of and knowledge about assistive technology amongst professionals in health and social services. The text and multimedia learning materials can be downloaded free of charge. Completed 2000.
Child Welfare Across Borders - The development of the online course was one of a number of activities that took place within an international project entitled Child Abuse, Protection and Welfare, funded by the European Community - Canada Programme for Co-operation in Higher Education and Training. Online promotes the need for child welfare practitioners to act more effectively locally by thinking globally. 1997 - 2000.
ProCare - a Teaching and Learning Research Project which developed e-learning materials on Interpersonal Skills for social work and nurisng and Research Methods for Social Work. Completed 1999.
CTI Centre for Human Services - UK wide project supporting social work education in higher educations' use of learning technologies 1991 - 2000.
Member of the European Network for Information Technology in the Human Services (ENITH) 1990 - 2000. ENITH published two works: Colombi, D., Rafferty, J. and Steyaert, J. (Eds) 1993 Human Services and Informatin Technology: a European Perspective, published by ENITH; and, Steyaert, J., Colombi, D. and Rafferty, J. 1996, Human Services and Information Technology: an International Perspective, published by Arena, Ashgate Publishing Limited