@article{hawkins_2024, title={Guns and the Culture of Violence in America}, volume={1}, ISSN={["1545-6838"]}, DOI={10.1093/swr/svae001}, abstractNote={Journal Article Guns and the Culture of Violence in America Get access Robert L Hawkins Robert L Hawkins PhD, MA, MPA, is associate dean for academic and faculty affairs and professor of social work, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University, 106 Caldwell Hall, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA; email: rhawkin2@ncsu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, svae001, https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svae001 Published: 24 January 2024}, journal={SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH}, author={Hawkins, Robert L.}, year={2024}, month={Jan} }
 @article{hawkins_2023, title={A New Journey, but an Old Passion}, volume={2}, ISSN={["1545-6838"]}, DOI={10.1093/swr/svac034}, abstractNote={Welcome to the new year and new adventure. I am honored to take on the role as editor-in-chief (EIC) of Social Work Research. I follow in very large footsteps and I both thank Charlotte Bright for her impressive time at the helm and promise to do my best to live up to bringing you the same high quality and meaningful scholarship she brought to the journal over the past four years. Social Work Research has a long history of strong editors who have taken the journal to new heights with each leader. It is my goal to continue in that tradition. For those who are not familiar with me, let me introduce myself. I grew up in rural North Carolina but have now had education and experiences that have taken me from Southern poverty to more than 25 countries for research and personal growth. For the last 18 years, I was on the faculty at New York University, holding research, teaching, and senior leadership roles at the Silver School of Social Work. In 2022, I returned to the South and am now a college-level administrator and social work professor at North Carolina State University. My research lies at the intersection of poverty, race, and policy. It is grounded in an interdisciplinary theoretical tradition with social work in the center while also borrowing from theoretical models found in psychology, sociology, public health, and antiracism. My work has spanned many areas, from examining social capital in low-income people in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to ethnographic work in the Philippines to looking at COVID hesitancy among African Americans in Southern states.}, journal={SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH}, author={Hawkins, Robert L.}, year={2023}, month={Feb} }
 @article{hawkins_2023, title={Bending toward Justice: Social Work Research Advocacy in Times of Political Turmoil}, volume={4}, ISSN={["1545-6838"]}, DOI={10.1093/swr/svad006}, abstractNote={Research has never been free of politics. What we learned about the scientific method, making observations, developing theories and hypotheses, testing, and eliciting findings and drawing conclusions has never been the whole story. The truth is that politics, the political environment, and social policy may affect every aspect of research. This is especially true of social work research. Currently, with white nationalist rhetoric reaching the mainstream, with certain states restricting access to knowledge, with local and state politicians targeting the very individuals and communities that social workers serve, and in some cases, social workers themselves, how can we respond? Can social work research respond to this political landscape? Should there be a response at all? The National Association of Social Workers’ (NASW, 2021) Code of Ethics has specified social workers’ responsibility to the community and broader society since its adoption in the 1960s. In fact, two ethical principles of the code remind us that social workers challenge social injustice and strive to respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person. These two principles alone place social workers at odds with a political system that targets marginalized members of a community and aims to impart further harm on those who have been historically and currently oppressed. It is a political system that threatens the civil and human rights of those whom social workers serve.}, journal={SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH}, author={Hawkins, Robert L.}, year={2023}, month={Apr} }
 @article{hawkins_2023, title={International Social Work Research: Some Lessons Learned}, volume={7}, ISSN={["1545-6838"]}, DOI={10.1093/swr/svad010}, abstractNote={Journal Article International Social Work Research: Some Lessons Learned Get access Robert L Hawkins Robert L Hawkins Associate dean for academic and faculty affairs and professor of social work, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University, 106 Caldwell Hall, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA email: rhawkin2@ncsu.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, svad010, https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svad010 Published: 11 July 2023 Article history Accepted: 27 June 2023 Published: 11 July 2023}, journal={SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH}, author={Hawkins, Robert L.}, year={2023}, month={Jul} }
 @article{hawkins_2023, title={Social Work Response to Climate Change: If We Are Not Already Too Late}, volume={10}, ISSN={["1545-6838"]}, DOI={10.1093/swr/svad020}, abstractNote={Journal Article Social Work Response to Climate Change: If We Are Not Already Too Late Get access Robert L Hawkins Robert L Hawkins PhD, MA, MPA, is associate dean for academic and faculty affairs and professor of social work, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University, 106 Caldwell Hall, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA; email: rhawkin2@ncsu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 47, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 231–235, https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svad020 Published: 23 October 2023}, journal={SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH}, author={Hawkins, Robert L.}, year={2023}, month={Oct} }