Social justice in action: Showcasing the work of doctoral students in social work (Part 2)
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Abstract
After the successful publication of the first issue of this two-part series of the special issue "Social justice in action: Showcasing the work of doctoral students in social work", we are pleased to introduce this second part containing seven manuscripts.As outlined in Part 1, this special issue aims to spotlight the innovative and meaningful work of emerging scholars in social work who actively contribute to reflecting on social justice in diverse and evolving ways.By focusing on future experts, it seeks to highlight perspectives and approaches that respond to today's shifting sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscapes such as the inequitable impacts of climate change on women, girls (Alston, 2013;Ngcamu, 2023), and Indigenous communities (Fayazi et al., 2020), technology as a mechanism for disrupting or exacerbating exclusion (Stephens, 2024).They also encompass the aggravation of socioeconomic inequality (Patel et al., 2020) and racial disparities (Komeiha et al., 2025;Tai et al., 2021) resulting from responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the overall challenges of advancing social justice within a broader socioeconomic and political climate shaped by capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization (Guvremont, 2024;Silver, 2014).Over recent decades, these forces have led to major social and political shifts, including a reduced role of the state and weakened social and health services.As a result, social justice has suffered, and various populations' socioeconomic needs have reached unprecedented levels.For example, the systemic attacks on discourses of equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization (EDID) coupled with states clawing back hard-earned rights (e.g., reproductive rights) speak to some of these challenges (Hodge et al., 2024;McEwen & Narayanaswamy, 2023).Today's emerging social work scholars, practitioners, educators, and policymakers are grappling with the consequences of these developments by re-centering the justice mission that defines social work as a profession.Indeed, heightened awareness of the commitments outlined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, combined with social work's responsibility to advance social justice, calls on the profession to confront challenges directly, name disingenuous actors, and work toward a transformative and forward-moving agenda.Innovative solutions led by individuals, families,
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".