
SWE exists as a platform to share my social worker musings with you, while I work towards a community without borders
Post-ISTR Conference Reflections
[17th International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)] While the Voluntas journal has been a key reference source throughout my research journey, this is my first ISTR conference. I came slightly apprehensive yet expectant, hoping to takeaway concrete social innovation ideas for my action-oriented work as a Research Fellow in the Policy…
Mr. Sunshine
There are few Kdramas that linger powerfully in my mind, as few can achieve the perfect ideal of having both excellent cinematography and meaningful themes involved. Mr. Sunshine is one of these. I’ve had this as a draft post from since my PhD days when I watched this Kdrama and it gave me the needed…
Rethinking Money: Its Role in Society and Wellbeing
What follows is a raw synthesis of my hurried, functional readings on money (This is a write to think kind of post) – In titling the piece as such, I believe the key to understanding money and finding solutions to the issues it has contributed to is that money is seen as a currency, among…
Empowering Intergenerational Programming for Aging Communities
2025 is shaping out to be a year where ‘writing for fun’ is at an all-time low. I’ve been preoccupied with writing and editing a book chapter on community work with older people (a follow up from this journal piece- unfortunately paywalled but happy to share the PDF), and the second piece on the dual…
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