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*Qualitative Social Work*
Discipline	Social Work
Language	English
Edited by	Lissette Piedra, Lisa Morriss
Publication details
History	March 2002-Present
Publisher	SAGE Publications (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Qual. Soc. Work
Indexing;
ISSN	1473-3250;
OCLC no.	609948399
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

Qualitative Social Work is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers six times a year in the field of social work. The journal's founding editors were Roy Ruckdeschel (Saint Louis University) and Ian Shaw (University of York). The current co-editors are Lissette Piedra (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Lisa Morriss (Lancaster University). The journal has been in publication since 2002 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

Scope

Qualitative Social Work is primarily aimed at those interested in qualitative research and evaluation and in qualitative approaches to practice. The journal provides a forum for debate on the nature of reflective inquiry and practice, emerging applications of critical realism in social work, the potential of social constructionist and narrative approaches to research and practice.