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Professional Social Work magazine

PSW is the leading monthly magazine for the profession and is distributed to every BASW member across the UK. With its combination of news, analysis, feature articles, interviews, letters and opinion pieces, PSW will keep you up to date. Browse the latest issue on MyBASW.

British Journal of Social Work

BASW members discounted subscription rate: £34.00 (normal rate: £86.00)

To subscribe contact the membership department.

British Journal of Social Work is an acknowledged leader in publishing authoritative social work scholarship both nationally and internationally. Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2010, BJSW has published substantive papers and book reviews written by an international authorship, providing critical commentary on social work practice, research and theory. With eight issues a year, including a varied mix of articles at the forefront of critical arguments, BJSW serves social work educators, researchers, practitioners and managers, who wish to keep up to date with theoretical and empirical developments in the field. Print subscriptions include a licence to access the online version.

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Practice: Social Work in Action

BASW members discounted subscription rate: £28.00 (normal rate: £80.00)

To subscribe, contact the membership department.

Practice: Social Work in Action provides a forum for the publication of research and knowledge from practice and the experiences of people using services, in a peer reviewed journal. The journal has a strong base in social work practice and seeks to promote a proactive, reflective and critical perspective. Increasing to five issues a year from 2010, the journal promotes the international dimension of social work and fosters an exchange of learning, knowledge and values. Academics and researchers are encouraged to translate practice based research into a format relevant to practising social workers, whatever their role and task. Practice: Social Work in Action includes contributions from the field. Practitioners and people using services are encouraged to submit material. The Editorial Board is committed to offering constructive support to those in the early phases of their publishing careers.

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Rostrum

Rostrum is the quarterly magazine of BASW Scotland. Its comprehensive coverage of events in Scotland includes news, analysis, conference reports, interviews, opinion columns and a wide range of features by front line practitioners to provide the very best insight into modern practice.

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Books

Find a selection of book titles on Social Work at our bookshop. BASW members can get 20% off books using the discount code found in their membership booklet.

Upcoming events

BASW hosts a series of conferences and seminars around the UK and we regularly contribute to a number of major events hosted by other organisations within the Social Work field. Book now for these forthcoming events: