International collaboration in social work research

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Ian F. Shaw University of York, UK

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© Author 2023
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01 Apr 2023
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36–46
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Policy Press
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Volume 1: Issue 1
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https://doi.org/10.1332/MIAT2784
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This article is premised on the belief that the social work community needs to recognise that collaborative research – nationally or internationally – will take diverse forms. Setting up a standard model for such collaboration is likely to constrain too narrowly opportunities for good research. I begin by considering how ‘collaboration’ has been – and might be – understood within social work and research. I spend the main part teasing out the various senses in which I have sought, and encouraged others, to collaborate. These include developing homes for rigorous social work research, collaborative research and writing, crossing disciplinary boundaries, challenging national myopia, questioning conventional goods and ills, and doing the history of research.

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Ian F. Shaw University of York, UK

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