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British Journal of Social Work 2005 35(5):609-620; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch300
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Special Feature: Former Editors

Looking Back: The View from Here

Richard Hugman

Professor of Social Work and Head of the School of Social Work at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Correspondence to Professor Richard Hugman, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 NSW, Australia. E-mail: r.hugman@unsw.edu.au

This article considers key developments in social work in the last decade. From the vantage point of Australia, British social work (and the British Journal of Social Work) is seen in a particular perspective. However, some international comparisons are possible. Thus, the article focuses on two apparently contradictory developments: the ‘search for uncertainty’ in post-structural theory and the ‘search for certainty’ in evidence-based practice. It concludes that both, in different ways, describe social work in the early twenty-first century.

Keywords: social work theory, Britain, Australia, diversity, post-structuralism, evidence-based practice


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