9 articles in this issue
Claudia Barnard
This is the editorial to the special issue: Social work research and social justice
Lynn McDonald,Claudia Bernard,Donald Forrester,Sue White,David Shemmings
Abstract: Knowledge about research methodologies and positive attitudes about research are each essential for academics who teach social worker students to advocate for and to deliver effective, empowering services to vulnerable people. This paper evaluat... see more
Janet Melville-Wiseman
This paper focuses on practitioner views of professional sexual abuse in mental health services in the UK. In spite of high profile cases, and changes to the law and regulation of mental health professionals in recent years, it remains a significant probl... see more
Helen M Burrows
There is a long policy and tradition of service users being involved in the education of social work students and post-qualifying candidates, and they are recognised as educators in their own right, however there appears to have been limited measurement o... see more
Emma Kelly
This discussion paper is based on my experiences with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) on a 12 day placement as part of the Research Development Initiative 4 (RDI4) program. Claims and counter claims are made about the appropriateness of a ... see more
Martin Kettle
This article offers reflection on the tension between risk and justice in the context of working with social work students on child protection. Written within a Scottish context, the article begins by exploring tensions between different strands of policy... see more
Adam Barnard
Social work has a long and significant history in the use of the ‘self’. The first part of this paper is a contextualising discussion around recent reforms to social work. The second part is a historical examination of the conceptualisation of the self in... see more
Sarah Matthews
Abstract: This note offers an analysis of the issues of the social contextual impact of research methodology. Here the author discusses the potential of using ‘image based’ data collection and analysis methods in social work research and in particular foc... see more
Andrew Whittaker
The potential of a researcher development initiative (RDI) programme to develop capacity within the social work discipline will be explored from my personal perspective as a former participant in one of the earlier RDI programmes. Having undertaken the pr... see more