Social Work and Research in Advanced Welfare States

Kjeld Høgsbro is Professor of Social Work at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, DenmarkIan Shaw is S R Nathan Professor of Social Work at the National University of Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of York.

• Introduction. Understanding Social Work in Advanced Welfare States Section 1: Advanced welfare states: European patterns and trends1. Diversities and Patterns in Social Work and Research in Advanced Welfare States 2. Social work and research in a Europe of Superdiversity 3. Beyond Flexicurity: The Shift towards Work-First and its Implications for Street-Level Work in the Danish Employment System 4 The impact of Neoliberalism through ideas of productivity - The Case of Child Welfare in Denmark Section 2: Directions in social work research in advanced welfare states 5. Controversies in social work research - A critical hermeneutic perspective 6. Driving forces in practice research7. The materiality and materials of social work: on socio-material theories and social work research 8. Institutional Ethnography for people in a vulnerable and oppressed situation. 9. Disagreement as Reparative Critique in the Development of Social Work Practice Section 3: Directions in social work practice in advanced welfare states 10. Local Community Work as an Incubator – The Role of Governance Technologies in Local Community Work Approaches to Inclusion 11. Proactive, Ambivalent and Defensive Relations between Social Work and Social Policy: The Shaping of Productivity 12. Vulnerable children and young people: An enduring challenge in the Danish welfare state13. The conception of disability and mental illness in advanced welfare states – A review and a proposal. 14. The body in social pedagogical work Conclusion References

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