Sui-Ting Kong is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Durham University.

Hok-Bun Ku is Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Sibonsile Zibane is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Human Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Part I: Introduction - Sui-Ting Kong, Hok-Bun Ku and Sibonsile Zibane

1. Why this book? - Sui-Ting Kong, Hok-Bun Ku and Sibonsile Zibane

2. Social Work Practice Research: Development, Debates and the Decolonising agenda – Sui-Ting Kong, Hok-Bun Ku and Sibonsile Zibane

Part II: Critical Accounts of Social Work Professional Practice and Research

3. The Challenges of Decolonising Research: Speaking Left and Walking Right - Sibonsile Zibane, Zwelisha Mfishi, Nontobeko Buthelezi

4. “Three Big Mountains” and the Predicaments of Social Work Development in China - Ben Hok-bun Ku

5. Decolonisation of Social Work in Kazakhstan – Gulmira Abdiraiyimova, Dana Burkhanova and Aruzhan Saimasaeva

6. Overseas qualified social workers (OQSW) in the UK: barriers to professional diversity and transnational learning - Sui-Ting Kong

Part III: Practice Research in Social Work Practice (Clinical, Group, Community-Focused, Advocacy/Activism)

7. A Silent Revolution: the practice of rural feminism in transforming gender inequality in China - Xi Lan, Ben Hok-Bun Ku and Jun Liang

8. Case Studies from Gender and Distance Psychosocial Support Provision in the Philippines- Finaflor Taylan

9. Sex 'Act'ucation - Putting Action in Sex Education Knowledge Creation in Hong Kong - Bau Chung Sze Wan

10. Narrating to Transgress: Telling the Unspeakable Story for LGBT Students - Frank T.Y. Wang

11. Emerging Mobile Technology Assisting Fathers be Better Parents in Rural Areas in China - Jingqiang Zeng

12. Decolonising practice research with families who have a heritage of slavery - Shanaaz Hoosain

13. Poetic form of understanding the experience of an adolescent girl with self wrist-cutting: time to reflect on social work and care from a lifeworld-led perspective - Elsa Ngai Hung

14. The CORE-UPHOLD model for promoting quality end-of-life care in Hong Kong - Sui Ting Kong, Vivian Lou, Shirley Wong and Christine Meng-Sang Fang

15. South African older people, storytelling, passing on wisdoms - Sibonsile Zibane

16. Life and social skills training camp for adults with wheel chairs: Community-based rehabilitation and social work Practice in Guangzhou - Yuxin Pei, Jin Liu and Hui Li

17. From self-enjoyment to serving the people: Co-researching the fostering process and strategies of community social organizations - Yu Xiang; Zhifeng He; Nuanyu Yang and Josefina Pereira Priscila

18. Finding A Way Out of the Impasse: The Case of Marriage Migrants' Podcast Project to Revitalize Immigrants' Activism in Taiwan - Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

19. Afrocentric trauma-informed responses to climate-induced disasters: eThekwini Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - Nontobeko Buthelezi, Sibonsile Zibane, Phoswa Sthembiso, Zamansele Nqayi

Part IV: Practice Research in Social Work Education

20. Action Research on Practice-based Education in Social Work: an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach - Liying Xu and Yan Huang

21. Cultivating Seeds for Decolonizing: Transformative Action Research in Social Work Teaching - Jing Yang and Kun Tian

22. Opening the Door of Emancipation: Action Research on Using Theatre of the Oppressed for Teaching Social Work Ethics - Ya Liu

23. Deconstruction of the legacy of colonial education: learning experiences of international students in the UK - Echo Yuet Wah Yeung and Carol-Ann Howson

24. Social Work in the context of protection and prevention of family and gender violence in Kyrgyzstan - Musaeva Nurgul; Shailoobek Kyzy Aisuluu

25. Conclusion: Towards An Inclusive Framework For Social Work Practice Research – Sui-Ting Kong, Ben Hok-bun Ku, Sibonsile Zibane