Call for Papers

[Bill Meezan <meezan@xxxxxxxxx>]

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CALL FOR NARRATIVES

SPECIAL ISSUE

WORKERS, STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND RESEARCHERS DISCUSS THE REWARDS, 
FRUSTRATIONS, challenges, and TRIBULATIONS OF Doing Research "on the 
Ground" in social work SETTINGS

Reflections is seeking narratives that explore worker, student, faculty, 
and other researchers' experiences in designing, executing, or 
participating in studies carried out in social work agencies.

Narratives may address

o	experience in any or all of the stages of research, including problem 
formulation, design, execution, analysis, dissemination and utilization.

o	any type of study, including exploratory, descriptive or causal. 
Narratives that report experiences in evaluation studies, including needs 
assessments, process/implementation evaluations, outcome evaluations, or 
cost analyses are particularly welcome

o	studies using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches

o	studies carried out using traditional, participatory, action, 
utilization-focused, theory driven, or other approaches or combination of 
approaches

o	research carried out in single or multiple sites

o	studies in any field of practice

o	studies that had positive, negative, null, or mixed findings

o	studies in which the narrator had  satisfactory, mixed, or unsatisfactory 
experiences

Address inquiries to:	

	William Meezan, DSW, Special Issue Editor
	School of Social Work
	University of Michigan
	1080 South University
	Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1106
	meezan@umich.edu

Manuscripts are due no later than MAY 1, 2005.  Early submissions are 
encouraged.

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