Forthcoming SKH ( Social Work Journal)

AUGUST -2013

Building Resilient Communities: 

Communitarian Social Work

Editor (Special Issue) :

Dr. Venkat  Pulla,

Charles Sturt University, Australia

Dr. R. Shivappa

Head of the Dept. Social Work, Mysore

Editorial

This special issue on “Building Resilient Communities: Communitarian Social Work”  is Edited by Dr. Venkat  Pulla. After reading all the articles  included here in this special issue, we feel  they make a great contribution to the social work literature . We can also  feel   expertise shown in  editing this special issue. Dr Venkat has carefully edited all the  articles with great interest and passion . We have received sixty nine expressions of interest and twenty seven finally accepted abstracts. All abstracts and articles have gone through  peer review process. 

This is the first quarterly special issue brought out in the place of bilingual monthly during 2010-13. Our readers know that we have brought out 31 issues. Based on feedback we have decided to convert monthly into quarterly with the intention of publishing theme based issues. The journal further has changed its format, size from the previous one. We have reconstituted the advisory and editorial boards. On this occasion I sincerely thank all the former advisory and active committee members  for their service . We are happy to state that the  Advisory and Editorial Committee have decided to dedicate  this Special Issue to Dr H.M. Marulasiddaiah, Rtd professor of social work , Bangalore University , who  has made  a significant contribution   to  social work  in Karnataka, by designing novel programmes and literature particularly in Kannada . We are delighted to inform you that “Karnataka Association of Professional Social Workers” has recently (on 18-8-2013) presented an award to him namely  “ Samaja Karya Ratna”. We are proud to have him as a chief advisor on the board of this journal .

We are glad  and also  proud that our  “Niruta publications” book  ‘Social work and Social Welfare’ (author Shankar Pathak) is selected under  subsidy scheme of the  National Book Trust , I think it may be  the first book from the social work discipline to be  selected by NBT under the subsidy scheme .

Dr BT Lawani   is working on the next forthcoming special issue on  “Leadership Crisis in India : Social Work Perspective”. This issue  will probably be brought out in the month of  January 2014,  you can contact us if you are interested in  contributing articles on this  subject for the special issue .

I sincerely thank Dr Venkat Pulla for editing this  special issue and  I also thank     
Dr. R. Shivapppa  for being in the editorial team .  I thank  all the contributors for this special issue.

Ramesha M H

Editor