Welcome to the SWAT Group
Social Work and Tech
Our SWAT:Lab welcomes anyone based in Singapore 🇸🇬, including researchers, social workers, counsellors, social service professionals, computer scientists, and also students. We are passionate about exploring how technology and AI can be used in the social services.
Our interests focus on:
Exploring new technologies that be used to support social work practice in the social service sector
Understanding how social service practitioners interacts with technologies that promotes their autonomy, competencies, and relational needs and that aligns with professional values and ethics
Identifying areas where technologies can enhance social work training and education of students and professionals
Our work:
- Evaluation research to examine the effectiveness or implementation of technologies in social work training and practice
- Research on how social work professionals and students, and service users interact with technologies
- Consultation work to support research, development, and implementation of technologies
- Training and talks to share our research and work