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What was formerly the CEDR/Ashgate Series
was renamed Contemporary
Social
Work Studies (CSWS),
extending the successful publishing partnership with Ashgate. Robin
Lovelock continued as Series Editor until May 2011 and kept those
elements of this website directly relating to the series up-to-date
until shortly thereafter. CSWS continues,
under new editorship,
from its base in Social Sciences (Social Work
Division) at Southampton.
This website remains ‘live’ as an ‘archive’ of CEDR’s overall activities and achievements. With this in mind, the detailed text has been left mainly in the present tense; organisational changes due to successive University restructurings have mostly not been incorporated. CEDR’s ‘in house’ publications – research reports and public lectures – as listed in these pages are in principle still available. CEDR has a particular interest in philosophical and methodological issues in the social sciences, including social and political theory. This informs the Centre's approach to evaluative research, which may be characterised in terms of "pluralism, process and partnership". CEDR's research is broadly but not exclusively qualitative; it aims to inform change in policy and practice and frequently gives an important place to the views of service users, carers, and front-line staff. Many of CEDR's specific studies have concerned innovative services at the interface of social and health care. CEDR is
also
strongly committed to the wide dissemination of research and
research-related
material. A series of hardback books is published by Ashgate "in
association
with CEDR". The Centre hosts an Annual Public Lecture and publishes the
text under its own imprint, along with research reports and other
material. These activities reflect the roles CEDR plays on behalf of
the Department
of Social Work Studies as a whole, which also include acting as a focus
for
networking and collaboration.
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Copyright Social Work Studies 1999
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