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Books 

Austin, M.J. & Carnochan, S. (2020). Practice Research in the Human Services: A University-Agency Partnership Model. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.


Austin, M.J. (Ed) (2010). Evidence for Child Welfare Practice. London, UK: Routledge. [examples of extensive literature reviews for use in practice research]


Carnochan, S., Molinar, L., Brown, J., Botzler, L., Gunderson, K., Henry, C. & Austin, M.J. (2019). Public Child Welfare: A Casebook for Learning and Teaching. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. [based upon a child welfare data-mining practice research project]


Epstein, I. (2009). Clinical Data-mining: Integrating Practice and Research. New York, US: Oxford University Press.


Flyvbjerg, B. 2001. Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again. New York: Cambridge University Press. [“science of the concrete” directly relevant to practice research]


Fook, J. (2021). Practicing Critical Reflection in Social Care Organizations. London: UK, Routledge.

Joubert, L. & Webber, M. (Eds) (2020). The Routledge Handbook on Social Work Practice Research. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Mathiesen, A., Närhi, K., Julkunen, I., & Marthinsen, E. (2019)  生态社会工作与社会工作实践 Ecological social work and collaborative research in practice. Social Sciences Academic Press. 

 

Ruch, G. & Julkunen, I. (eds) (2016) Relationship-Based Research in Social Work. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, which is a book, so needs to be moved from practice research methods.

 

Satka, M., Julkunen, I., Kääriäinen, A., Poikela, R., Yliruka, L., & Muurinen , H. (eds) Käytäntötutkimuksen taito. (The Craft of Practice Research). Heikki Waris & Mathilda Wrede Institutes: Helsinki, Finland. https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/
handle/10138/166389/Käytäntötutkimuksen_taito_julkaisu.pdf?sequence=1


Sim, T. and Fook, J. (2024). ‘Practice Research and Transformative Social Work – Evolving Concepts and Social Impact’  in Fook, J. and Jatlow, D. (eds). Transformative Social Work. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

Sweeney, A., Beresford, P., Faulkner, A., Nettle, M. & Rose, D. (2009). This is Survivor Research. Ross-on-Wye, UK: PCCS Books. 

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