Course summary

Our social work researchers lead the field in a range of key social work research domains including mental health, children and their families, forced migration and refugees, and criminal justice. We have excellent links with leading professional bodies, policy-making organisations and professional and social work services in statutory and voluntary sectors throughout Scotland, the UK and internationally. Specifically, we also have a number of partnerships with agencies and organisations providing social work in the Global South. The research interests of staff cover the full range of applied service specialisms, theoretical issues and research methods. This includes expertise in:

• longitudinal research

• documentary analysis

• discourse analysis

• narrative and biographical methods

• qualitative enquiry

• evaluation approaches.