This volume, which brings together chapters and journal articles published by renowned academic Ian Shaw, focusses on the practice/research relationship within social work – a theme that has preoccupied much of his writing over the last forty or more years.

0.Introduction. Section A - Forming Professional Practice. 1.Professional Practices in National Contexts. 2.Navigating Practitioner Research. 3.Constructing Practitioner Research. 4.An Exemplary Scheme? An Evaluation of the Integrated Children’s System. 5.A Frame for Evaluating in Practice. Section B - Forming Social Work Research. 6.Times Present, Times Past: The History of Social Work Research in the United Kingdom. 7.‘Kinds and Quality of Social Work Research’. 8.Places in Time: Contextualizing Social Work Research. 9.Science and Social Work: A Sketch. 10.Social Work Science and Evidence. 11.The Nature and Disposition of a Traditional Network: A Paradoxical Case. 12.One-eyed Mules and Social Work: An Essay on Serendipity. 13.When Walking on a Slow Ascending Street. 14.Qualitative Research in Social Work. 15.Researching and Evaluating Interventions and Outcomes. 16.‘Ethics and the Practice of Qualitative Research’. 17.The Craft of Journal Practice. 18.Writing Social Work Science. Section C - Chicago, Sociology and Social Work. 19.Rereading The Jack-Roller: Hidden Histories in Sociology and Social Work. 20.Sociology and Social Work – In Praise of Limestone?. 21.Casework: Re-forming the Relationship Between Sociology and Social Work. 22.The Archaeology of Research Practices: A Social Work Case. 23.Chicago Pastoral 1931. 24.Sociological Social Work: A Case Example. Section D - Critical Tributes and Debates. 25.‘A Science of Social Work? – Response to John Brekke’. 26.The Positive Contributions of Quantitative Methodology to Social Work Research: A View From the Sidelines’. 27.Noel Timms: A Brief Appreciation. 28.Lee Cronbach (1916–2001) – A Critical Appreciation. 29.F. Stuart Chapin. 30.‘Let Us Go Then, You and I’ – Journeying with Ada Eliot Sheffield. 31.Ian Shaw Career Interview.