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Research Skills for Social Work

Second Edition

Andrew Whittaker - London South Bank University, UK

Series:
Transforming Social Work Practice Series

Other Titles in:
Critical Thinking | Social Work Practice | Social Work Research Methods

June 2012 | 160 pages | Learning Matters

Social Work students often find research an intimidating and complex area of study, with many struggling to understand the core concepts and their application to practice. This book presents these concepts in an accessible and user-friendly way. Key skills and methods such as literature reviews, interviews, and questionnaires are explored in detail while the underlying ethical reasons for doing good research underpin the text. For this second edition, new material on ethnography is added.

Introduction

Planning your research

Undertaking a literature review

Interviews

Focus groups

Questionnaires

Documentary analysis

Analysing your data

Writing up your dissertation

Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index

this book contains various resources that will add value to students abilities to understand research : application of methods to projects with overviews and strategies to conducting research projects are integrated. The exploration of ethical considerations is also included. I particularly enjoyed the text that deals with reliability and bias in research; these are addressed skillfully in this book

Mr Craig Diver

Social Work Preston, University of Central Lancs

July 20, 2012

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Andrew Whittaker

Andrew Whittaker, PhD, is Professor of Social Work Research at London South Bank University, England, where he is head of the Risk Resilience and Expert Decision Making (RRED) research group. His research on risk and decision making has ranged from ethnographic to randomised controlled trial research designs. Andrew recently completed a review of professional decision making for a child death inquiry in Queensland, Australia. He is the Convenor of the Decisions, Assessment and Risk Special Interest Group (DARSIG) of the European Social Work Research Association. DARSIG is the main European network for researchers in the field of assessment... More About Author

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