{"id":232,"date":"2020-06-25T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T09:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/rural-social-work-scotland\/?p=232"},"modified":"2020-06-25T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T09:37:58","slug":"celebrating-rural-social-work-online-opportunities-and-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/rural-social-work-scotland\/2020\/06\/25\/celebrating-rural-social-work-online-opportunities-and-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Rural Social Work – online opportunities and futures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As lockdown enters its fourth month I have been reflecting on the Celebrating Rural Social Work conference (11.3.2020) and wondering, might this be a time of opportunity for rural social workers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As rural social workers we have much in common and this includes our remoteness from one another. At the outset of planning the conference we were aware that this remoteness <\/strong>would prove itself to be a barrier to attendance, and so the idea of Celebrating Rural Social Work online was born. As the organiser of this aspect of the conference, I wanted to use the event to see how technology could allow us to connect to the conference, and in the fullness of time, establish and maintain a community of rural social workers who can engage, exchange and collaborate irrespective of our physical distance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n