ABSTRACT
Social work research is a dynamic phenomenon not just in certain traditional academic centres but all across Europe. This is also reflected in the growing number of PhD programmes that are located in the discipline of social work itself, and it is to be welcomed that so many research products by PhD graduates have passed the journal's stringent review criteria and excellent examples of these advancements. Much of this effort of bringing research 'home' from 'neighbouring disciplines', such as sociology, psychology or pedagogy into the mainstream of social work education itself, was spurred by the challenges posed by the motto of 'evidence-based practice' (EBP). Authentic social work research can demonstrate that social work practice has no reason to shy away from basing itself on evidence and being professionally accountable as long as its notion of evidence recognises and does justice to the complexity of social problems and acknowledges the value of intersubjectivity in producing useable and ethically grounded evidence.
