Ian F Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 81092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian F Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian F |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW I F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6917-7574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 233 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Late colonial social work practice
I seek to depict in a relatively grounded way the form and character of social work practice under a late colonial regime. The article draws from an archival study of the development of social welfare in Singapore as a British colony, in the late colonial period from the end of Japanese occupation in 1945 through to final independence in 1965. In exploring social welfare in late colonial regimes, I take adoption as an illuminating example. I refe…
Approaching the Colonial
Notwithstanding the frequency with which the word ‘colonial’ and its variants occur in social work writing, it is treated with a curious lack of inspection and reflection. I will critically assess how social work writing has dealt with the colonial in the light of recent work in the field, before drawing several inferences. I will put forward a series of arguments as to useful ways of considering the nature and significance of late colonialism fo…
‘Circle of light’ and ‘this’
These poems were written during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘This' is a poetic paraphrase and development of a piece in The Guardian newspaper
Social work and sociology/sociology and social work
In this paper I seek to delineate how the relationship between social work and sociology has been regarded in more recent years as represented by textbooks. In the light of such writing, I review the nature, themes and extent of sociological interest in social work in the past and the present. I set out a partial and provisional agenda for interlacing disciplinary and professional work
Chicago Pastoral 1931
Association between social participation and cognitive function among middle- and old-aged Chinese
BACKGROUND: Social Participation (SP) is known to benefit cognitive function. However, whether the positive relationship holds across different types of SP and dimensions of cognitive function, and whether the statement stays true in middle- and old-aged Chinese have not been investigated. The present study aimed to understand the current patterns of SP and cognitive function in China's context, and therefore, explore the associations between cog…
The worlds of social work writing
One way in which academic and professional journals embody the identity of their field is through acting as a disciplinary marker of location. In this article, we explore how a leading social work journal in the UK locates the discipline of social work, both internationally and in relation to the various professional, policy and academic ‘worlds’ it inhabits. We draw on data from a multiple method historical case study to illustrate the journal’s…
Research Networking and Collaboration
Doing social science involves collaboration. Yet, there has been little attention to the character of collaboration between social scientists, or to if and in what ways research networks exist. This article reports aspects of a mixed method, participatory case study of a small international social work research network. It sets out how someone becomes a member of-or leaves-the network, how roles appeared to form and be assigned or taken, how the …
A Case of Neglect? (1996)
Children and the sociology of childhood unbroken voices children, young people and qualitative methods Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all? Involuntary childlessness and identity I don't eat peas anyway! Classroom stories and the social construction of childhood growing up respectable Safe? Involving children in protection whose life is it anyway? accounting for child prostitution how do young Asian and white people view th…
The nature and disposition of a traditional network
This paper reports aspects of a mixed method, participatory case study of a small international social work research network. The research calls attention to the apparent paradox of a form of collaboration that suggested the enduring significance of traditional intellectual forms of scholarly networking. The analytic framework draws from research and theorising regarding scientific collaboration, and thence in terms of the roles, membership and i…
Noel Timms 1927–2018
The passing of Noel Timms marks the loss of one of the most distinctive and enduring voices in 20 C social work. Noel Walter Timms was born on Christmas Day 1927, the only son of Harold Timms, a builder/decorator from Harrow, and Josephine Mary Cecilia Bogusz, who came from a tailor’s family in Croydon. As a child, he perceived the sharing of his birthday as something of a short straw and his children always were reminded by their mother to buy h…
Forms of Practitioner Research
Τhe aim of this paper is to draw on evidence to identify distinctions within those forms of research which are to significant degrees practitioner-engaged. The research review on which this is based took place in the fields of health, social care and social work. We suggest there are different forms of practitioner research, and that using a blanket term for all instances of such inquiry may confuse rather than enlighten. Drawing from the data, w…
A Case Study of Applied Scholarship
The British Journal of Social Work (BJSW) has played a significant role in the development of social work as a practice and discipline for over forty years. For the first three decades of its life, the BJSW was the only prominent social work journal published out of the UK and thus is a ‘journal of record’, holding a mirror to the profession. As such, the BJSW has a rich depository of data, which not only tell the story of the journal itself, but…
Balancing Methodological Rigor and the Needs of Research Participants
Despite growing consideration of the needs of research participants in studies related to sensitive issues, discussions of alternative ways to design sensitive research are scarce. Structured as an exchange between two researchers who used different approaches in their studies with childhood sexual abuse survivors, in this article, we seek to advance understanding of methodological and ethical issues in designing sensitive research. The first per…
Frank Förster . Der Abu Ballas-Weg. Eine pharaonische Karawanenroute durch die Libysche Wüste (Africa Praehistorica 28). 2015. 620 pages, 376 colour and b&w illustrations, 23 tables. Köln
Frank Förster . Der Abu Ballas-Weg. Eine pharaonische Karawanenroute durch die Libysche Wüste (Africa Praehistorica 28). 2015. 620 pages, 376 colour and b&w illustrations, 23 tables. Köln: Heinrich Barth Institute; 978-3-927688-42-1 hardback €78. - Volume 90 Issue 353
Gender‐Sensitive Research in a Chinese Community
The aim of this article is to foster an awareness of the need for gender‐sensitive research in the context of the methodological and ethical challenges posed by such research. We trace the development of gender sensitivity and masculinity in social work practice and research and connect this to an overview of the issues posed by research on sensitive topics. Reflecting on a research project involving Chinese male sexual abuse survivors, we draw c…
Good Practice in the Conduct and Reporting of Practitioner Research
This paper examines two distinct forms of practitioner research and makes tentative suggestions around what may constitute good practice in their conduct and reporting, and for the genre of practitioner research as a whole. We also explore their potential benefits and limitations within the wider set of research approaches. Discussion is informed primarily by an earlier review of practitioner research in adult social care and supplemented by know…
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Case work
Answers to the question just what is the 'case' partly defined the fields of sociology and social work in early 20th century Chicago. Drawing on the archives of the University of Chicago, I describe and appraise the way the 'case' figured in social work at Chicago and elsewhere. I ask the corresponding question of sociology. Finally, I briefly consider why not much came of social work and sociology ploughing similar territory in ways that served …
Developing good practitioner research
We set out how we see the agenda arising from developing good practitioner research. We begin by identifying what we mean by practitioner research. We then review what we know about the nature and practice of practitioner research in the UK. We consider how practitioner research is related to the wider category of practice research. We then identify what the experience of doing practitioner research is like for those involved. The findings are he…
Science and social work
While recognizing that understanding of ‘science’ varies across time and countries, there are strands of a shared albeit diverse inheritance. Failures to see where we are located within this inheritance make the social work community vulnerable to simplistic claims regarding what, for example, ‘doing science’ is like. This in turn makes it difficult to deal adequately with questions such as in what ways can or should we distinguish social work sc…
The Archaeology of Research Practices
From Foucault's understanding of discursive forms, I suggest a hitherto little-recognized archival framework for understanding disparate but related objects, statements, and themes in social work research practices at Chicago in the third and fourth decades of the last century. Viewing these as surrounding and overhanging present practices, I detect from archival sources distinctions between methodology as professional model (research practices a…
Sociology and Social Work
The Dronification of State Violence
This article explores the shifting methods of U.S. state violence. Building on their earlier work, the authors focus on the use of drones for targeted killings in Pakistan, but here they tease out the wider implications for the future of “warfare”—particularly the meaning and extent of sovereignty and territory. The authors argue that drone strikes both emerge from and feed back into a series of evolutions in the nature of state violence, centere…
Sociology and Social Work
In late nineteenth-century Europe and North America the emerging outlines of what would become social work shared with sociology that, as a distinct way of practice and thought, it ‘came into being in the face of momentous historical changes and from the first was shaped by the experience of those changes’ (Abrams, 1982, p. 3). In that swirl of developments, led perhaps by the process of western industrialisation, ‘Again and again we find the con…
An Exemplary Scheme? An Evaluation of the Integrated Children's System
We outline selected central results from a formative evaluation of four pilot sites in England and Wales of the Integrated Children's System (ICS) – one part of the UK's e-Government strategy. We concentrate on the aspiration of the ICS towards ‘integration’ and ‘systematization’ of services within children's services, at local and national levels. We look in turn at, the use of the ICS as a foundation for aggregate statistical profiles; the expe…
How Lay Are Lay Beliefs
The article explores and problematizes the concept of lay beliefs. The article undertakes this using an example of 'good practice' in lay beliefs research - an article by Ilka Kangas recently published in health: (2001 vol. 5(1)) - to illustrate how fundamental problems with the concept still arise. The article argues that lay beliefs are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to study because they are tied up with the certainty of diagnosis and…
A Science of Social Work? Response to John Brekke
I take the opportunity provided by John Brekke’s (2012) article to respond to the general assumptions and approaches that may be brought when considering the question of a science of social work. I consider first, what should be our frames of reference, our communities of interest, or our boundaries of inclusion, for such a discussion? Second, in what sense, and at what level, is agreement on epistemology and ontology essential to the social work…
Rereading The Jack-Roller
I revisit one of the iconic Chicago School studies, Clifford Shaw's The Jack-Roller. A naive reading of Shaw's book leaves the reader with a sense of having been inducted into a mélange of what we now know as "sociology" and "social work," but which to Shaw seems a coherent stance. I suggest that this is close to the heart of how things were, and not a temporary distortion in the distinct histories of sociology and social work. I develop and illu…
Practitioner Evaluation at Work
Practitioner involvement in evaluation, research, development, and other forms of disciplined inquiry that are small scale, local, grounded, and carried out by professionals who directly deliver those services is embraced across a wide range of professions as essential to good professional practice. However, little is known about the character, homogeneity or diversity, outcomes, motives, and practice of this activity. This article explores pract…
Practitioner Research
In this paper, I revisit some of the origins and more recent directions in practitioner research in social work, seeing it as a phenomenon that—rather than being special or narrowly associated with social work—manifests a pervasive cluster of concerns about good professional practice in contemporary society. Drawing on some general conclusions of a recent study of practitioner inquiry, I indicate ways in which the wider systems of which it is a p…
Do OFSTED Inspections of Secondary Schools Make a Difference to GCSE Results
The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) aims to improve school performance through inspection. A government indicator of a secondary school's performance in England and Wales is the students' success in examinations. The examination results of over 3000 OFSTED inspected secondary schools offering students for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination during the 1992 to 1997 inspection cycle were modelled statistically. …
Good Practice in the Conduct and Reporting of Practitioner Research
This paper examines two distinct forms of practitioner research and makes tentative suggestions around what may constitute good practice in their conduct and reporting, and for the genre of practitioner research as a whole. We also explore their potential benefits and limitations within the wider set of research approaches. Discussion is informed primarily by an earlier review of practitioner research in adult social care and supplemented by know…
Doctors, "Dirty Work" Patients, and "Revolving Doors
Using information from research into the phenomenon of "revolving-door" psychiatric patients, the author explores general practitioners' perceptions of difficult patients and the consequences for patient management. He first considers the concept of "good and bad" as a possible subtype of dirty work. He then presents the evidence of medical irritation with patients from interview data and explores the rationalizations for the way in which patient…
Cutting Edge Issues in Social Work Research
Taking the panel report on social work submissions to the British 2001 Research Assessment Exercise as a starting point, I comment on some of the central questions facing social work research. These include social work research methodology; social work's relationship to science; the relationship between social work practice and research; governance and research ethics; building research capacity; and establishing research quality. I outline actio…
The Archaeology of Research Practices
From Foucault's understanding of discursive forms, I suggest a hitherto little-recognized archival framework for understanding disparate but related objects, statements, and themes in social work research practices at Chicago in the third and fourth decades of the last century. Viewing these as surrounding and overhanging present practices, I detect from archival sources distinctions between methodology as professional model (research practices a…
Social work research-an urban desert
A search of two major social work databases suggests that contemporary published social work research in the English language may have had very little to say about the engagement of social work and urban life. The focus of this paper is on the illumination that an early historical episode throws on the nature and implications of the affinity of social work research and urban life. Frederick Thrasher's iconic 1920s study of Chicago gangs enables u…
Recognizing Social Work
There has been little interest until recently in the question of whether social work has the characteristics of an academic discipline. This article offers a synopsis of issues arising from a review of social work and social care research funded through the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). Following a brief scene setting, the first main section of the article gives a synopsis of the social work and social care community’s experience a…
Consumerism, Health and Social Order
The concept of consumerism has multiple meanings, many of which are heavily value-laden; similarly, there are conflicting stereotypes of ‘the consumer’. After exploring the key dimensions of debates about consumerism and the consumer, this paper addresses some paradoxical consequences of the discourse of consumer empowerment in the field of health promotion and specifically in the ‘new public health’ movement
Social Policy in South Korea
There are a number of features that make South Korea an interesting place to study social policy. First, it has experienced rapid economic development with the associated changes in urbanization and demography. This change has created social problems, which the state has had to address. Second, the country retains a strong cultural tradition and repeated affirmation of the values and practices of Confucianism. In this paper, these two features ar…
Understanding Young People and Prostitution
The practice and research literature on young people and prostitution reflects a number of methodological challenges. This paper offers a focused review of the literature in the context of those challenges and attempts to draw conclusions that are strong enough to provide a reflective and strategic approach to service planning and implementation. Definitional issues are discussed, particularly in relation to estimates of prevalence. The robustnes…
Estimating the Prevalence of Hard‐to‐Reach Populations
This paper assesses the potential of mark‐recapture methods as a relatively powerful innovative research method for estimating the prevalence of “hard‐to‐reach”human populations in the social welfare field. We outline the development of mark‐recapture methods, illustrating some recent applications. The body of the paper reviews the main methodological and practical questions raised by the method. We suggest, by way of illustration, how it might b…
Balancing Methodological Rigor and the Needs of Research Participants
Despite growing consideration of the needs of research participants in studies related to sensitive issues, discussions of alternative ways to design sensitive research are scarce. Structured as an exchange between two researchers who used different approaches in their studies with childhood sexual abuse survivors, in this article, we seek to advance understanding of methodological and ethical issues in designing sensitive research. The first per…
Constructing Practitioner Research
The authors draw on a case study evaluation of two networked cohorts of practitioner-researchers in a children's services national social work agency in one of the home countries of the United Kingdom. The aim of the present study was to understand the meaning of practitioner research for social work professionals through an exploration of how language, ascriptions of meaning, and interpretation provide a social environment through which the natu…
Networking practitioner research
The aim of this paper is to examine what we know about the experience and outcomes of networked initiatives aimed at facilitating practitioner research. We outline the roles and significance of practitioner research within social work; review emerging understanding of practitioner research network initiatives; and draw conclusions from a comparative analysis of three such initiatives in Auckland, New Zealand, Arhus County, Denmark, and across Sco…
Navigating Practitioner Research
Journal Article Navigating Practitioner Research Get access Ian Shaw, Ian Shaw * Dr Ian Shaw is Professor of Social Work at the University of York, England. Dr Neil Lunt is Senior Lecturer in Public Sector Management in York Management School at the University of York. *Correspondence to Ian Shaw, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author …
Forms of Practitioner Research
Τhe aim of this paper is to draw on evidence to identify distinctions within those forms of research which are to significant degrees practitioner-engaged. The research review on which this is based took place in the fields of health, social care and social work. We suggest there are different forms of practitioner research, and that using a blanket term for all instances of such inquiry may confuse rather than enlighten. Drawing from the data, w…
Developing good practitioner research
We set out how we see the agenda arising from developing good practitioner research. We begin by identifying what we mean by practitioner research. We then review what we know about the nature and practice of practitioner research in the UK. We consider how practitioner research is related to the wider category of practice research. We then identify what the experience of doing practitioner research is like for those involved. The findings are he…
A Letter of Consequence
The referral letter is a key instrument in moving patients from primary to secondary care services. Consequently, the circumstances in which a referral should be made and its contents have been the subject of clinical guidelines. This article is based on a project that demonstrated that physicians do not adhere to clinical guidelines when referring patients to secondary mental health services. This research supports earlier findings into noncompl…
Ideal Homes in Ancient Egypt
El-Amarna is the site of the largest surviving ancient Egyptian city, dating to the middle of the fourteenth century BC and occupied by a population of over 20,000. This article takes as its starting point the question ‘What would have constituted a desirable residence or neighbourhood?’ and attempts to reach an understanding of the social aspirations of the Egyptians of the pharaonic period by analyzing the residential areas of el-Amarna in the …
Consumer Opinion and Social Policy
Developments in the realms of social work practice, writing and research have provided fuel for the claim that the opinion of the consumer should exercise a formative influence in the development of policies impinging on the social services. However, it is difficult to decide when the opinion of the consumer has been understood. Also, even when the views of consumers are known, the question of how these views are utilized in the formulation of po…
Dictionaries and guide books
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Developing Models for Day Services
This paper reports an evaluation of a rural activity project for people with learning difficulties. The project is situated in (but not a regular part of) an agriculture college. Both statutory and voluntary interests are represented in the management of the scheme, which is funded by the All Wales Strategy for the Mentally Handicapped through the local authority. Despite the widespread presence of ideas about normalization and carer participatio…
Ideal Homes in Ancient Egypt
El-Amarna is the site of the largest surviving ancient Egyptian city, dating to the middle of the fourteenth century BC and occupied by a population of over 20,000. This article takes as its starting point the question ‘What would have constituted a desirable residence or neighbourhood?’ and attempts to reach an understanding of the social aspirations of the Egyptians of the pharaonic period by analyzing the residential areas of el-Amarna in the …
Constructing Causal Accounts in Social Work
Causal accounts are a relatively neglected aspect of occupational discourse. Using the example of social work, it is argued that the metaphor of narrative drama may have led to a framework in which the inspection of causal texture is not central to the analytic task. Starting from the literature on accounts, we argue that a promisingly fruitful way of exploring issues of social work talk and causality is through ethnography. Preliminary direction…
Amethyst Mining in the Eastern Desert
The most important of the archaeological remains at Wadi el-Hudi are a series of amethyst mines of the pharaonic period. Inscriptions associated with the site were published by Ahmed Fakhry in 1952, but the Middle Kingdom settlement and fortress adjacent to the mines were only briefly described. A preliminary survey of the site, undertaken in November 1992, has provided sufficient new data to allow the archaeological significance of the Wadi el-H…
Amethyst Mining in the Eastern Desert
Gebel el-Zeit, I
Balustrades, Stairs and Altars in the Cult of the Aten at el-Amarna
Balustrades, Stairs and Altars in the Cult of the Aten at El-Amarna
The fragments of stone balustrades, parapets and screen walling from the city of el-Amarna are an invaluable source of evidence for the idiosyncratic nature of the cult of the Aten and its associated architecture. The presence of ramps and steps flanked by balustrades in most of the major buildings at el-Amarna suggests that Akhenaten was obliged to devise innovative architectural forms to provide suitable contexts for the worship of the Aten
Pharaonic quarrying and mining
Across the rocky landscapes of Egypt lies evidence for pharaonic quarrying and mining; fresh fieldwork at neglected sites, such as the Hatnub travertine quarries and the Wadi el-Hudi amethyst mines, now tells us more. The surviving remains of quarrying and mining settlements suggest subtle adaptations in versatile response to changing economic and geographical parameters
The Simulation of Artifact Diversity at el-Amarna, Egypt
A program simulating artifact diversity is applied to excavated data front el-Amarna (14th century B.C.), the largest and best-preserved Egyptian town-site of the pharaonic period. The results of the simulation are used to reassess the function and history of two unusual areas of settlement at el-Amarna: the Eastern and Central Villages, which are traditionally known as the "Workmen's Village" and the "Clerks' Houses" respectively
Estimating the Prevalence of Hard‐to‐Reach Populations
This paper assesses the potential of mark‐recapture methods as a relatively powerful innovative research method for estimating the prevalence of “hard‐to‐reach”human populations in the social welfare field. We outline the development of mark‐recapture methods, illustrating some recent applications. The body of the paper reviews the main methodological and practical questions raised by the method. We suggest, by way of illustration, how it might b…
Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels
Game plans, buzzes, and sheer luck
Evaluation in Health and Social Care
Political disillusionment in the ability of the UK welfare state to impact significantly upon disadvantage and poverty has led to a shift in focus away from achieving positive change and towards the maintenance of social problems at manageable levels. The issue this shift has raised is the level at which disadvantage and other social problems should be maintained. This change of emphasis has indicated a move away from the realization of service g…
Keeping Social Work Honest
Studies, University of Wales Cardiff. His recent books include Evaluating in Practice (1996, Ashgate) and A Case of Neglect? (with Ian Butler, 1996, Avebury). He researches on homelessness, rough sleeping, prostitution, and on professional decision making. His book, Social Care and Housing (with Susan Thomas and David Clapham), is to be pub lished by Jessica Kingsley in 1998. Alison Shaw is a doctoral student in the School of Policy Studies at th…
Implementing the New Community Care (Book)
Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt
The Transferability of Welfare Models
In this paper, two examples of the close relationship between a national social welfare system, and explicit transnational influences are discussed. Both the state socialist and Scandinavian models have a recognized structure independent of the particular countries in which they have been implemented, although they are both associated with a home base, Russia and Sweden respectively. Our examples, Estonia and Finland, faced both common and specif…
Understanding Young People and Prostitution
The practice and research literature on young people and prostitution reflects a number of methodological challenges. This paper offers a focused review of the literature in the context of those challenges and attempts to draw conclusions that are strong enough to provide a reflective and strategic approach to service planning and implementation. Definitional issues are discussed, particularly in relation to estimates of prevalence. The robustnes…
Emerald mining in Roman and Byzantine Egypt
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Introduction
Resources for Social Policy
The paper attempts the difficult task of identifying and exploring key resource factors which may influence social policy in the next millennium. It begins by critically examining the impact of demographic trends upon finance and demand for welfare in Europe. The possible impact of this is then examined in relation to the role of the family as a primary welfare resource and upon the supply of professional services. The implications of diminishing…
Mental Health and Social Order
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