Time for a Well-Deserved Tribute to Social Work ’s Research Resilience and a Call for a Long Overdue Debate

As readers will notice, our first issue for 2021 is an extensive one. The number of articles published in the current issue has almost doubled. Such change reflects both the continued support our journal has received from the social work community as well as the perseverance social work academics have shown during the extraordinary times, we live in. Indeed, the flow of articles submitted to our journal has not declined, as one might have expected, during the lockdown. Instead, the urgent bio-political and broader socio-political dilemmas, exposed by the impact of COVID-19, have triggered a renewed interest in, and subsequent debate about, the nature, function and future direction of the social work profession. The current issue introduces part of this debate which, we are confident, will unfold in the forthcoming issues. Our Editorial team promise that theBritish Journal of Social Work will remain the appropriate platform for difficult debates as well as a keen facilitator of a much-needed dialogue about social work theory and practice in the context of crisis, change and transition.
Source: British Journal of Social Work - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research