Research and the Social Work Picture

RESEARCH AND THE SOCIAL WORK PICTURE\nResearch in social work\nDedication\nContents\nList of figures and tables\nIntroduction\n1. What is social work research?\n	Social work\n	Social work research\n	Being ‘scientific’ and doing ‘science’\n	Science and art\n	Is research success ever down to serendipity?\n	Values and science\n	Is social work research particular to the field?\n	Listening to researchers making judgements\n2. Why do research in social work?\n	Ernest House: reformist evaluation for social justice\n	Collaboration and cooperation\n	Social work in the academy\n	Is there a case for a public social work?\n3. Doing research application\n	Practice\n	Theory\n	Research and practice\n	The ‘impact’ of research\n	Lee Cronbach\n	Journals\n	The experience of doing practitioner research\n	Making practical sense\n4. Mapping social work research\n	What do we know about the subject matter of social work research?\n	Research content\n	Social work research methods\n	Networks of social work researchers\n	Making practical sense\n5. Social work research over time\n	Science, research and society\n	Can we detect what is happening?\n	Writing social work\n	The experimenting social worker\n	Innovations in social work research\n	Making practical sense\n6. Place and space\n	Globalisation\n	Research practices and place\n	Surveillance\n	Space and research methods\n	Making practical sense\n7. Sociological social work: a case example\n	Points of the compass for sociological social work\n	Frontier conversations\n	Sociological social workers\n	Sociologists of and for social work\n	21st-century sociology on social work\n	Methodological practice\n	Making practical sense\n8. Doing good social work research\n	Tensions and challenges\n	Disagreements and controversies\n	Donald Campbell\n	Lee Cronbach\n	Reflections\n	The limits of science\n	The misuses of research and science\n	Good quality in social work research\n	Rules for social work radicals\nReferences\n	Archives\n	References\nIndex