Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Introduction -- PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH -- 1 Cutting Edge Issues in Social Work Research -- 2 Is Social Work Research Distinctive? -- 3 Ways of Knowing in Social Work -- 4 Re-reading The Jack-Roller: Hidden Histories in Sociology and Social Work -- 5 William J. Reid: An Appreciation -- PART II: EVALUATION -- 6 Social Work and the Human Services -- 7 Evidence from Qualitative Evaluation
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I seek to depict in a relatively grounded way the form and character of social work practice under a late colonial regime. The article draws from an archival study of the development of social welfare in Singapore as a British colony, in the late colonial period from the end of Japanese occupation in 1945 through to final independence in 1965. In exploring social welfare in late colonial regimes, I take adoption as an illuminating example. I refer to the significance of private markets in adoption, the Chinese kinship system as it was at the time, and the cultural significance of mui tsai. I suggest that we should conclude that colonial governmental regimes were not monochrome, and that the tenor of late colonial welfare practices and policies should not be regarded as set on a unilinear course of modernisation. Taken as a whole, the historical material points to the need for a form of imperial social work research – and of imperial social work as such – that avoids the assumption, perhaps too evident in social work writing, 'that all they needed to know about colonialism was its horrors' (Cooper).
In this paper I seek to delineate how the relationship between social work and sociology has been regarded in more recent years as represented by textbooks. In the light of such writing, I review the nature, themes and extent of sociological interest in social work in the past and the present. I set out a partial and provisional agenda for interlacing disciplinary and professional work.
This article reflects on journal practices in a study of The British Journal of Social Work conducted as a multiple method historical case study, focussing on the first 40 years of the journal. What constitutes a journal's identity is slippery. Broadly speaking, there are those practices that are located primarily within the immediate creation of volume upon volume, and there are practices through which the journal interacts with those worlds that touch on its boundaries. Editorial appointments, editors' visions, the work of reviewers, and the infrastructure of technology are all located fairly close to the journal's day-to-day practice. In this article, the focus is on these comparatively internal practices. This includes becoming a British Journal of Social Work editor; doing the job; reviewers and reviewing; editorial judgement; and technology. We gained a strong sense of continuity in terms, for example, of how those to whom we spoke understood the journal's identity, and managing editorial succession. There were tensions – perhaps essential – manifested in the deployment of rhetorical arguments and pleas. But while calculated to persuade, the ebb and flow of rhetorical issues are no less about substance and realities.
• Summary: The article approaches questions of research ethics with three emphases: first, the process of research; second, ethical questions raised by qualitative research; and third, precedent and stimulation from the work of writers outside the usual boundaries of social work. • Findings: The ethics of qualitative research design pose distinctive demands on principles of informed consent, confidentiality and privacy, social justice, and practitioner research. Fieldwork ethics raise special considerations regarding power, reciprocity and contextual relevance. Ethical issues raised by the analysis and dissemination of qualitative enquiry emphasize questions concerning narrative research, outcomes and justice, and the utilization of research. • Applications: Social work needs a culture of ethical awareness, a review of ethical approval, an awareness of the ethical issues posed by practitioners' involvement in evaluative research, and an understanding of the ethical dimensions of different parts of the research process.
