REFLECTING ON SOCIAL WORK
DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSION
Contemporary Social Work Studies
Series Editor:
Robin Lovelock, University of Southampton, UK
Series Advisory Board:
Lena Dominelli, University of Southampton, UK
Peter Ford, University of Southampton, UK
Lorraine Gutirrez, University of Michigan, USA
Walter Lorenz, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Karen Lyons, University of East London, UK
Joan Orme, University of Glasgow, UK
Jackie Powell, University of Southampton, UK
Chris Warren-Adamson, University of Southampton, UK
Contemporary Social Work Studies (CSWS) is a series disseminating high quality new research and scholarship in the discipline and profession of social work. The series promotes critical engagement with contemporary issues relevant across the social work community and captures the diversity of interests currently evident at national, international and local levels.
CSWS is located in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton, and is a development from the successful series of books published by Ashgate in association with CEDR (the Centre for Evaluative and Developmental Research) from 1991.
Titles include:
Broadening Horizons: International Exchanges in Social Work
Edited by Lena Dominelli and Wanda Thomas Bernard
Beyond Racial Divides: Ethnicities in Social Work Practice
Edited by Lena Dominelli, Walter Lorenz and Haluk Soydan
Valuing the Field: Child Welfare in an International Context
Edited by Marilyn Callahan, Sven Hessle and Susan Strega
Social Work in Higher Education: Demise or Development?
Karen Lyons
Community Approaches to Child Welfare: International Perspectives
Edited by Lena Dominelli
Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Offenders: New Theory and Research
Edited by Christopher Bagley and Kanka Mallick
First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Reflecting on social work - discipline and profession.
(Contemporary social work studies)
1. Social service - Great Britain 2. Social service - Research - Great Britain
I. Lovelock, Robin II. Lyons, K. H. (Karen Hamilton), 1944- III. Powell, Jackie
361.320941
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reflecting on social work - discipline and profession / edited by Robin Lovelock, Karen Lyons, and Jackie Powell.
p. cm. (Contemporary social work studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-1905-5
1. Social serviceGreat Britain. I. Lovelock, Robin, 1946- II. Lyons, K. H. (Karen Hamilton), 1944- III. Powell, Jackie, 1946- IV. Series.
HV245.R33 2004
361.30941dc22
2003056932
Transfered to Digital Printing in 2012
ISBN 9780754619055 (hbk)
ISBN 9781138269996 (pbk)
THE EDITORS
Robin Lovelock is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences (Social Work Studies Division), University of Southampton, having been Director of the Centre for Evaluative and Developmental Research (CEDR) in the then Department of Social Work Studies prior to taking early retirement in 1991. After gaining a BSc (Soc Sci) in Politics and Sociology, he studied for but did not complete a doctorate in political theory. He has a long-standing interest in research methodology, especially qualitative evaluative research, and in the role of research in relation to policy and practice. From 19742001 he researched mainly in the field of social and health care services, first at Portsmouth Polytechnic (now University) and from 1988 at the University of Southampton. Services at the social and health care interface were a particular focus, especially innovative community-based provision; later publications include Disability: Britain in Europe (Avebury, 1994, with Jackie Powell), Visual Impairment; Social Support (Avebury, 1995), and Shared Territory: Assessing the Social Support Needs of Visually Impaired People (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1995, with Jackie Powell and Sarah Craggs). His main scholarly interests in more recent years have been in the relationships between social work and political and social theory; he took an MSc (Soc Sci) in Political Theory during 199598 (part time). With Alan P. Brier he co-edited Communication and Community: Anglo-German Perspectives (Avebury, 1996), which includes Communication or incommensurability? Some contested issues in social work theory and practice (with Jackie Powell).
Karen Lyons is Professor of International Social Work at the University of East London, where she has worked for many years following experience in social work practice and management, also mainly in east London. Having recently retired she continues to work part time at UEL as course tutor for an MA in International Social Work. Prior to professional qualification her disciplinary background was in geography, then social administration. In her more recent PhD studies she analysed social work education in the context of policy change and with reference to different theoretical perspectives on professions and disciplines. Her other main fields of research include: the effects of globalisation on welfare arrangements and social work education and practice; and the organisation of social work in the UK (particularly as reflected in the employment destinations of newly qualified social workers). Among her recent publications are Social Work in Higher Education:Demise or Development?
