Social Work Research

Ian Shaw works part-time in York as Professor of Social Work where he arrived in 2003, following a long career in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He has links with universities in Portugal and Denmark. His most cited book is Qualitative Evaluation (1999, SAGE). He was lead editor for the SAGE Handbook of Social Work Research (2010, SAGE) A major revision of an earlier book, Evaluating in Practice (Ashgate) was published in 2011, and, for the same publishers he has completed "Practice and Research: a retrospective collection of essays" (2012). The former is the most original argument he has accomplished in his career. He is contracted to write a book provisionally titled "Social Work, Science and Technology" for Columbia University Press, and is co-authoring "Doing Qualitative Research in Social Work" with Sally Holland, due out in 2014.

• VOLUME ONE - HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES, PURPOSES AND KEY CONCEPTSPart One: Emergence and Developing Trajectories of Social Work ResearchThe Scientific Spirit and Social Work - Arthur J. ToddWhat Is Social Case Work? An Introductory Description - Mary E. RichmondWhat Social Case Records Should Contain to Be Useful for Sociological Interpretation - Ernest W. BurgessIs Casework Effective? - Joel FischerMethods for Experimenting Society - Donald T. Campbell`How Psychology Got Its Variables - Kurt Danziger and Katalin DzinasRereading The Jack-Roller: Hidden Histories in Sociology and Social Work - Ian ShawPart Two: Purposes and Over-Arching Concepts of Social Work ResearchModels of Helping and Coping` - Philip Brickman et al.The Making and Molding of Child Abuse - Ian HackingA Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State - Fraser Nancy and Linda GordonThe Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice: Extensions and Cautions - Dennis SaleebeyOrganizational and Personal Dimensions in Diversity Climate: Ethnic and Gender Differences in Employee Diversity Perceptions - Michàl Mor Barak, David Cherin and Sherry BerkmanSocial Work and the Quest for Effective Practice - Aaron Rosen, Enola K. Proctor and Marlys M. StaudtThe Role of Science in Social Work: The Perennial Debate - William J. ReidUser Involvement in Research and Evaluation: Liberation or Regulation? - Peter BeresfordSocial Research Today Some Dilemmas and Distinctions - Martyn HammersleyResearch as an Element in Social Work’s Ongoing Search for Identity - Walter LorenzWhy Most Published Research Findings Are False - John P. A. IoannidisVOLUME TWO: KEY DECISIONS ABOUT RESEARCH STRATEGYExperimental Research in Social Casework - James RobinsonMousetraps, Developmental Research, and Social Work Education - Edwin J. ThomasKnowers, Knowing, Known: Feminist Theory and Claims of Truth - Mary E. HawkesworthConnecting Method and Epistemology: A White Woman Interviewing Black Women - Rosalind EdwardsStandpoint Theory and the Questions of Social Work Research - Mary E. SwigonskiPsychological Inquiry and the Pragmatic and Hermeneutic Traditions - Donald PolkinghorneQuality Issues in Qualitative Inquiry - Clive SealeFive Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research - Bent FlyvbjergDigging for Nuggets: How ‘Bad’ Research Can Yield ‘Good’ Evidence - Ray PawsonKnowledge for Theory and Practice - Andrew H. Van de Ven and Paul E. JohnsonIs Mixed Methods Social Inquiry a Distinctive Methodology? - Jennifer GreeneHorizons of Human Inquiry - K. GergenExplaining Social Work Practice – The CAIMeR Theory - Björn Blom and Stefan MorénOutcome Studies of Social, Behavioral, and Educational Interventions: Emerging Issues and Challenges - Mark W. Fraser et al.More than Method? A Discussion of Paradigm Differences within Mixed Methods Research - Gitte Sommer HarritsVOLUME THREE: THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORK RESEARCHThe Social Worker, the Client and the Social Anthropologist - Martin Davies and Elinor KellyEvaluation of a Social Work Service for Self-Poisoning Patients - J. S. Gibbons et al.Narrative Studies, Personal Stories, and Identity Transformation in the Mutual Help Context - Julian RappaportUnobtrusive Mobilization by an Institutionalized Rape Crisis Center - Frederika E. Schmitt and Patricia Yancey MartinPractitioners as Rule Using Analysts: A Further Development of Process Knowledge in Social Work - Michael Sheppard and Kate RyanNarrative in Social Work: A Critical Review - Catherine Riessman and Lee QuinneyComparison of Social Work Practice in Teams Using a Video Vignette Technique in a Multi-method Design - Leena Eskelinen and Dorte CaswellPropensity Score Matching Strategies for Evaluating Substance Abuse Service for Child Welfare Clients - Shenyang Guo, Richard Barth and Claire GibbonsMultidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: 2-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Clinical Trial - Patricia Chamberlain, Leslie D. Leve and Daivd S. DeGarmoResearching the History of Social Work: Exposition of a History of the Present Approach - Caroline SkehillMale Child Sexual Abuse: A Phenomenology of Betrayal - Ramons Alaggia and Graeme MillingtonHow Do Child and Family Social Workers Talk to Parents about Child Welfare Concerns? - Donald Forrester et al.Ethics and the Practice of Qualitative Research - Ian ShawPsychotherapy Change Process Research: Realizing the Promise - Robert ElliottTheorizing Practice Research in Social Work - Lars UggerhøjVOLUME FOUR: THE CONTEXTS OF SOCIAL WORK RESEARCHPart One: Problems, domains and social work institutional and practice contextsPreadmission Screening: An Efficacy Study - Barbara Berkman et al.The Background of Children Who Enter Local Authority Care - Andrew Bebbington and John MilesChildren in Secure Accommodation - Robert Harris and Noel TimmsWhen Evaluation Meets the ‘Rough Ground’ in Communities - Thomas Schwandt and Peter Dahler-LarsenHabitual Trust in Encountering Violence at Work: Attitudes towards Client Violence among Finnish Social Workers and Nurses - Tuija VirkkiPerforming ‘Initial Assessment’: Identifying the Latent Conditions for Error at the Front-Door of Local Authority Children′s Services - Karen Broadhurst et al.Part Two: Professional, Disciplinary and Governmental Expectations Regarding Best EvidenceThe Empirical Practice Movement - William J. ReidEvidence-based Practice: An Alternative to Authority-based Practice - Eileen GambrillEvidence-based Practice – The End of Professional Social Work or Architect of a New Professionalism? - Peter SommerfeldEvidence for the Art of Social Work - Clay T. GraybealPractitioner Expertise in Evidence-based Practice Decision Making - Stanley G. McCracken and Jeanne C. MarshPart Three: Political, Ethical, Intellectual, Social, Cultural and Spatial ContextsScience as a Vocation - Max WeberDemocratising Expertise and Socially Robust Knowledge - Helga NowotnyA Proper Place to Live: Health Inequalities, Agency and the Normative Dimensions of Space - Jennie Popay et al.Exploring Tongan Social Work Fakafekau’aki (Connecting) and Fakatokilalo (Humility) - Tracie Mafile’oBetween Professional Ethics and Bureaucratic Rationality: The Challenging Ethical Position of Social Workers Who Are Faced with Implementing a Workfare Policy - Monica KjoerstadHuman Rights and Capabilities - Amartya SenResearching ‘at Home’ as an Insider/Outsider: Gender and Culture in an Ethnographic Study of Social Work Practice in an Arab Society - Sahar S. Al-Makhamreh and Gillian Lewando-HundtBurden and Consequences of Child Maltreatment in High-Income Countries - Ruth Gilbert et al.