Innovations in Social Work Research
Using Methods Creatively
Published on 21. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-1-84905-585-7 (ISBN)
Description
A valuable reference to help practising researchers not only to understand but also to apply innovative approaches to social work research.
Featuring extended case studies of actual research projects, the book provides an overview of a number of central features and qualities of social work research. It incorporates both distinctive methodological features, such as approaches to participatory inquiry, and provides accounts of researcher strategies to address particular challenges, such as carrying out studies with hard to reach populations. This book combines important methodological insights with pragmatic guidance on commonly experienced problems and how these challenges can be overcome.
This is a key resource for social work and social care students, social work practitioners and academics engaged in research.
Featuring extended case studies of actual research projects, the book provides an overview of a number of central features and qualities of social work research. It incorporates both distinctive methodological features, such as approaches to participatory inquiry, and provides accounts of researcher strategies to address particular challenges, such as carrying out studies with hard to reach populations. This book combines important methodological insights with pragmatic guidance on commonly experienced problems and how these challenges can be overcome.
This is a key resource for social work and social care students, social work practitioners and academics engaged in research.
Reviews / Votes
This is a rich and stimulating compendium of innovative social work research. Combining many contemporary big names with innovative early career research, this volume illustrates the open-minded, methodological pluralism social work really needs as an academic discipline. -- Sue White, Professor of Social Work (Children and Families), Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham This excellent book offers ample evidence that social work researchers are doing research in imaginative and productive ways across a variety of social work settings. It contains a wealth of insights into the 'doing' of research using a wide variety of methods and showcases the commitment of an impressive cast of authors to using such research to support excellent social work practice. -- Brid Featherstone, Professor of Social Work, Faculty of Health & Social Care, The Open University The book achieves what I am sure was the main goal of the editors and contributors. It is very pleasing to see a publication that specifically tries to encourage the social work research community to think more widely about methods rather than unreflectively remain tied to trusted research methodologies and methods. The book is thus a welcome addition to the processes of helping to extend the methodological and methods repertoires in social work, and social care, research. -- Michael Clark, Associate Professional Research Fellow * Research, Policy and Planning *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84905-585-7 (9781849055857)
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Additional editions
Louise Hardwick | Roger Smith | Aidan Worsley
Innovations in Social Work Research
Using Methods Creatively
E-Book
09/2015
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
€45.99
Available for download
Persons
Cherilyn Dance is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Social Research at the University of Bedfordshire. She previously worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, and her primary concern is with services for looked-after children. David Westlake is Research Fellow, Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care, University of Bedfordshire, UK.
Content
About the Editors and Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Section 1: Innovations in Design and Planning. 1. Action Research for Social Justice: Researching and Organising on Household Debt, Sarah Banks, Durham University. 2. A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Therapeutic Intervention for Children Affected by Sexual Abuse, Tricia Jessiman, John Carpenter and Trish O'Donnell, University of Bristol. 3. Front Row Seats: Why Researchers Need to Get Closer to Practice and How We Can Do So, David Westlake, University of Bedfordshire. 4. Archival Resources for Social Work History, Pat Starkey, University of Liverpool. 5. A Study of Long Term Outcomes of Children with Harmful Sexual Behaviour: Using Social Media to Reach and Engage a 'Hard to Reach' Population, Simon Hackett, Durham University with Myles Balfe, University College Cork, Helen Masson, University of Huddersfield and Josie Phillips, Durham University. 6. Involving People with Dementia in a Systemic Review, Nicolette Wade and Mike Fisher, University of Bedfordshire. 7. Acting as a Critical Friend - Developmental Evaluations, Service Users and the Role of the Researcher, Roger Smith, Durham University. Section 2: Innovations in Research Methods. 8. Observing Social Work Practice:Using Ethnographic and Mobile Research Methods with social workers and service users, Harry Ferguson, University of Nottingham. 9. Using Mobile Methods to Explore the Lives of Marginalised Young Men in Manchester, Alistair Roy, Jenny Hughes, Lynn Frogett and Jennifer Christensen, University of Central Lancashire. 10. Being Brave, Doing Creative: Using Visual Ethnography in Social Work Research to Explore the Impact of Space and Environment on Organisational Culture, Jadwiga Leigh, University of Sheffield. 11. Researching Recovery from Substance Misuse Using Visual Methods, Julian Manley, Alistair Roy and Lyn Frogett, University of Central Lancashire. Section 3: Innovations in Data Analysis. 12. Validating Meaning Making: The Potential of Phenomenological Inquiry, Sue Thompson, Avenue Media Solutions. 13. The Elephant in the Room: Taking Language Difference Seriously in Research, Bogusia Temple, University of Central Lancashire. 14. Data Analysis in Participatory Research with Adults with Asperger's Syndrome, Jackie Robinson, De Montfort University. 15. Quantitative Research and the Secondary Analysis of Longitude Data in Social Work Research, Martin Elliot, Cardiff University. Section 4: Innovations in Dissemination and Impact. 16. Participatory Action Research: Empowering Women to Evaluate Services, Lena Dominelli, Durham University. 17. 'A Little Bit of What I'm About': Urban Photography For Social Work Research, Natalie Robinson, University of Liverpool. 18. Incorporating 'Knowledge Exchange' Into Research Design and Dissemination Strategies, Aisha Hutchinson and Cherilyn Dance, University of Bedfordshire. 19. You're Not in The Picture: Service Users, Research, Involvement and Change, Jennifer Taylor, Gina Barrett, Vic Forrest, People First Lambeth, Shaping Our Lives, Peter Beresford, Brunel University, Becki Meakin, People First Lambeth, Shaping Our Lives. Conclusion.