From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life
(2019)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H., Leigh, J., Beddoe, L., Singh Crooner, T., Disney, T., Warwick, L., & Plumridge, G. (2020). From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life. British Journal of Social Work, 50(6), 1706–1723. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz119
Research into social work and child protection has begun to observe practice to find out what social workers actually do, however no such ethnographic research has been done into long-term practice. This paper outlines and analyses the methods used i... Read More about From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life.