Researching social work practice close up: using ethnographic and mobile methods to understand encounters between social workers, children and families

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Researching social work practice close up: using ethnographic and mobile methods to understand encounters between social workers, children and families

Research into child and family social work has largely stopped short of getting close enough to practice to produce understandings of what goes on between social workers and service users. This is despite the known problems in social worker engagement with children in cases where they have died. Thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ferguson, Harry
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press 2014
Subjects:	Ethnography; Mobilities; Social work practice; Mobile methods; Children and families
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34062/

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