Lecturers Page Dr. Noga Pitowsky-Nave

Dr. Noga Pitowsky-Nave

מרצה וחברת סגל בכיר בבית הספר לעבודה סוציאלית. מרצה בתחומים של מדיניות רווחה, החברה האזרחית ועבודה סוציאלית מקדמת תעסוקה. חברת הנהלה באספנט ישראל ובוועדה הבינ"ל לזכויות אדם וצדק חברתי של איגוד בתי הספר לעבודה סוציאלית

Lecturer and faculty member at the School of Social Work, Sapir College.  Teaches  in the fields of welfare policy, civil society and employment promoting social work. A board member in ESPAnet Israel and a member of the international human rights and social justice committee in IASSW. 

Areas of interest and Teaching

Areas of interest

  • Management and Leadership in Social Services
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Policy engagement in Social Work
  • Employment promoting practices in Social Work

Teaching

Hebrew lective year: תשפד

Research


1. Management and leadership in Social Service Organizations

2. Social Entrepreneurship in social services

2. Social workers as social policy entrepreneurs

3. Employment promoting practices in social work

4. Professional identity development among social work students

Awards

2023- Excellence award for outstanding achievements. Sapir College

2016- Nira Shenhar Fellowship for excellent doctoral dissertation

2015- JDC award for excellent doctoral dissertation 

Publications

 

Hochman, Y. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2024). My journey to Become a Social Worker: Defining Moments of Professional Identity Formation.

The British Journal of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae033


Pitowsky-Nave, N., Almog-bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2024). Cross-sectoral Collaborations between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses: implications for organizations providing Mental Health Rehabilitation Services.

Social Work in Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2024.2317288


 Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2024). "Between the rocket and the outbreak": Civil society organizations in southern Israel negotiating COVID-19, social peripherality, and security threat. Journal of Social Security, 122 (Hebrew).

https://www.btl.gov.il/Publications/Social_Security/bitachon_122/Pages/20-%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99.aspx


Pitowsky-Nave, N., Almog-bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2023). Collaboration Between Businesses and Social Service Nonprofits as Organized Anarchy: The Insider Perspective. Human Service organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance, 47(4), 315-327.

https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2023.2195898


Lahat, L., Klenk, T. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (Equal contribution). (2023). Street-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Entrepreneurs and Collaborators: Findings from Israel and Germany. European Policy Analysis, fall 2023, 397-417.

https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1173


Gadot, L. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2023). Between Emotion and Occupation: Employment Promoting Practice with People in Unemployment from Social Workers’ Perspective. European Journal of Social Work. 26(6), 1152-1163.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2176469


Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2023). Layers of conflict: Teaching a multicultural Jewish-Arab seminar in Israel. Social Dialogue, 27, 83-87.

Social Dialogue 27 | 16


Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2022). From "Crisis" to "Opportunity": Israeli Social Service Nonprofits’ Responses to COVID-19. Human Service organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance.

https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2022.2066040

 

Pitowsky-Nave, N., Almog-bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2022). "Engineering corporate volunteering"- corporate volunteering in non-profit organizations. Journal of Social Security, 117, 75-106. (Hebrew).

https://www.btl.gov.il/Publications/Social_Security/bitachon_117/Pages/40-%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99.aspx


Gadot, L. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2021). From "something a bit made-up" to "a fully developed position": Occupational social work as a changing profession, Journal of Social security, 112, 41-70. (Hebrew) https://www.btl.gov.il/Publications/Social_Security/bitachon_112/Documents/20-gadot.pdf

  

Pitowsky-Nave, N., Almog-bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2020). "Our garden is full of joy"- Collaboration between business and social organizations, as a form of Corporate Social Responsibility. The Study of Organizations and Human Resource Management Quarterly, 5(1), 79-102. (Hebrew).

https://cohrm.haifa.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pitowsky-et-al.pdf

 

Almog-Bar, M., Cnaan, R.A., Pitowsky-Nave, N. & Turi, K. (2020). Israeli Peace Nonprofits Promoting Social Good: Characteristics of Active and Inactive Organizations. Research on Social Work Practice, 30 (2), 246-255.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1049731519868010

  

 

 

 



Presentations

2023- European Conference for Social Work Research- Social Service Workers as Street-Level Policy Entrepreneurs and Collaborators.

2022- Espanet2022 Vienna Conference- Street-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Entrepreneurs and Collaborators: Findings from Israel and Germany.

2022- The Association of Israel Studies international conference -From "Crisis" to "Opportunity": Israeli Social Service Nonprofits’ Responses to COVID-19.

2021-  Arnova- association for research on nonprofit organizations and voluntary action- "Social service NPOs and their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic"

2021- 14th International conference of the international Society for Third sector Research (ISTR)- "Cross-sector collaborations: Examining Business and NPO Collaborations"

2021- 14th International conference of the international Society for Third sector Research (ISTR)- "Social enterprises at times of global uncertainty"

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