All Outputs (5)

Face-to-face: Social work and evil (2014)
Journal Article
Humphrey, C. (2015). Face-to-face: Social work and evil. Ethics & social welfare, 9(1), 35-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2014.968179

The concept of evil continues to feature in public discourses and has been reinvigorated in some academic disciplines and caring professions. This article navigates social workers through the controversy surrounding evil so that they are better equip... Read More about Face-to-face: Social work and evil.

A paradigmatic map of professional education research (2013)
Journal Article
Humphrey, C. (2013). A paradigmatic map of professional education research. Social Work Education, 32(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2011.643863

This article maps out research in professional education with reference to a threefold typology of paradigms i.e. the positivist, interpretivist and critical paradigms. The rationale for such an endeavour is fourfold. First, it directs attention to t... Read More about A paradigmatic map of professional education research.

Dilemmas in doing insider research in professional education (2012)
Journal Article
Humphrey, C. (2013). Dilemmas in doing insider research in professional education. Qualitative Social Work, 12(5), 572-586. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325012446006

This article explores the dilemmas I encountered when researching social work education in England as an insider researcher who was simultaneously employed as an educator in the host institution. This was an ethnographic project deploying multiple me... Read More about Dilemmas in doing insider research in professional education.

The faith closet (2009)
Journal Article
Humphrey, C. (2009). The faith closet. Journal of practice teaching and learning, 8(3), 7-27. https://doi.org/10.1921/146066909X478271

This article is based upon research with student social workers and their educators which foregrounded the personal-professional interface in becoming a social worker.  Faith was an explicit dimension of this research project insofar as an interest i... Read More about The faith closet.

By the light of the Tao (2009)
Journal Article
Humphrey, C. (2009). By the light of the Tao. European Journal of Social Work, 12(3), 377-390. doi:10.1080/13691450902930779

This article unveils a three-stage model of critical reflection which has emerged from research with social work students and their educators in England. In the first stage we acquire the art of reflection in everyday life-worlds as we process raw ex... Read More about By the light of the Tao.