PART I : Juha Hämäläinen, Brian Lililechild, Marie Špiláčková: Introduction: The Importance of Research for Social Work Across Europe...5 // I Considerations of the Nature of Social Work Research in Selected Countries // Ivana Loučková, Mirka Nečasová and Marie Špiláčková: Social Work Research in the Czech Republic...17 // Gergely Fábián, Lajos Hiise and Kalalin Szoboszlai: Social Work Research in Hungary...41 // Anita Gulczyňska and Ewa Marynowicz-Helka: Participative Inquiry in the Field of Social Work Socio-pedagogical Perspective...57 // Jorge M. L. Ferreira and Maria Joäo B. Pena: Research in Social Work: Education, Process and Practice in Portugal...83 // Andrej Mátel and Martina Mojtová: Research in Social Work in Slovakia...99 // Alenka Kobolt: Research in Social Work in Slovenia: Developmental Lines in Social Pedagogy...117 // Txus Morata, Pilar Muro and Jordi Sabater: Social Work and Social Research in Spain...131 // II Examples of Research in Specific Fields of Social Work // Inger Kraav, Siiri-Liisi Läänesaar: Child Well-Being as a Practical and Theoretical Problem of Social Work...157 // Irina Grigoryeva: Social Exclusion/Inclusion of Elderly People in Modern Russia 167 // The ERIS Institute...177
PART II : Juha Hämäläinen, Brian Littlechild, Marie Špiláčková: Introduction: The Importance of Research for Social Work Across Europe...5 // Doris Böhler and Frederic Fredersdorf: Social Work Research at Universities of Applied Sciences in Austria...15 // Juha Hämäläinen and Riitta Vornanen: Social Work Research in Finland: Benefiting from and Working for Research-based Social Work...31 // Emmanuel Jovelin: Research in Social Work in France: challenges and perspectives...45 // Armin Schneider: Research in Social Work from a German Perspective...59 // Hans van Ewijk: Social Work Research: A Dutch Revival...73 // Äke Bergmark: Social Work Research in Sweden...91 // Florian Baier, Samuel Keller, Martina Koch and Annegret Wigger: Switzerland’s Research Landscape in Social Work...107 // Roger Smith: Social Work Research in the UK: Staking Our Claim...119 // The ERIS Institute...137