Qualitative Social Work
Research and Practice
| Editors: | |
| Roy Ruckdeschel | Saint Louis University, USA |
| Ian Shaw | University of York, UK |
| Associate Editor: | |
| Robyn Munford | Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand |
Description:
CALL FOR PAPERS - Research Ethics
Qualitative Social Work provides a forum for those interested in qualitative research and evaluation and in qualitative approaches to practice.
The journal includes the following regular special features:
Response and Commentary: Responses to previous articles in the journal or contributions that initiate discussion of current research and practice issues.
Practice and Teaching of Qualitative Social Work: Critical 'how-to' accounts and reflections on the methodology and practice of qualitative social work.
New Voices: Articles (in the form of concise reviews, syntheses, reports or reflective analyses based on dissertations and theses, conference papers or practice accounts) by practitioners, dissertation and graduate students, academics at the early stage of their career, and marginal voices that have often been silenced.
Technical Applications: Reviews of developments that impact on qualitative research and practice such as qualitative analysis software and voice activated recording devices.
"Qualitative Social Work has become an extraordinary resource for social scientists and practitioners alike" Catherine Kohler Riessman, Boston College, USA
"QSW is a key reference source both for substansive studies and for methodological papers." Mike Fisher, Social Care Institute for Excellence, UK
"In five short years Qualitative Social Work has become a pre-eminent journal, showcasing the range, usefulness and forms of qualitative social work research. This journal has been long-overdue."
Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
"Qualitative Social Work bridges the theory-practice divide by providing up-to-date field-based research that develops and tests the theoretical foundations of social work practice. Equally important, it brings the rigorous thinking of research to bear in investigating scholarly work on social work practice and issues. Both scholars and practitioners need access to this important resource."
Michael Q. Patton, Ph.D.
"Qualitative Social Work provides a truly international forum for academics and practitioners to explore the interrelationship between qualitative research and knowledge practice in social work and related disciplines. In encouraging reflection on both the outcomes and processes of research and practice it will contribute to internationally relevant knowledge creation and quality practice. A journal of this stature is most welcome and long overdue." Joan Orme Glasgow University
Electronic Access:
Qualitative Social Work is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://qsw.sagepub.com