#Asian social work journal professional#
#Asian social work journal series#

A preliminary historical study of the relationship between sociology and social work in the UK.Archival research on the history of social work and sociology in the USA.A case study of research networks in social work.

However, I think that a focus on social work research provides an invaluable gateway to several core issues – joined-up policy, professional decision making, evidence based practice, theorizing practice, involving service users in public sector services, transdisciplinary research, the role of the university in society, the meaning of 'science' in professional work, and so on. My research work has never been narrowly focused on social work, but has been at the interfaces with especially sociology, but also social policy, health studies, education and housing.

Co-Editor of Policy Press book series for ESWRA, ‘Research and Social Work' 2016-2019.Nathan Professor of Social Work, National University of Singapore, Summer 2016-2019 and from August 2021

Founder Chair and then Vice Chair of the European Social Work Research Association.

Founder European Conference for Social Work Research.

Founder Editor of Qualitative Social Work.

In 2020 I completed a Masters degree in Creative Writing and have published a number of poems. My current teaching is around Social Theory and Social Work and Qualitative Methods. I have also taught social work practice through eLearning, utilizing packages for which I took the lead developer role. I have aimed, in addition, to develop a view of professional practice in social work that embeds an evaluative dimension as part and parcel of good direct practice. Much of my teaching has been at the borders of practice and research, including qualitative methods, dissertation and thesis skills, and evidence and knowledge for practice.

I worked full-time from 2017 to 2019 as S R Nathan Professor of Social Work in the Social Work Department at the National University of Singapore, and will be returning there in 2021. I am now Emeritus at York, continuing with several research and writing projects. I arrived in York as Professor of Social Work in Spring 2003, following a long career in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. I followed my first degree with social work training in South Wales, before returning to Sheffield in the north of England to work as a Probation Officer for five years. My first degree was in sociology, and it has continued to influence my social work practice and, subsequently, my university work.

Social Work within Asian nation states.

The history of social work research in the USA and Europe.

Developing social work research strategies.

Qualitative research and evaluation methodology, practitioner and action research.Understanding the nature of social work as an applied social science both in its own right and in relation to disciplines like sociology.My later interests within social work and social science focus on several themes: I have been working in a university most of my career, after five years working as a probation officer.

#Asian social work journal professional#

#Asian social work journal series#