Editorial.

Jude, Irwin ; Noble, Carolyn ; Heycox, Karen 等

This is the third Women in Welfare Education Journal. We originally had envisioned that the journal would be published each year. However we now realise that it is more realistic for it to be produced every two years.

This edition of the journal has more articles than the previous journals, with six refereed articles, a research article and two book reviews. Its contents once again reflect the diversity of womens' research and writing. There are three articles on different aspects of social work and welfare education (field education, ethics and a critique of feminists' approaches to adult education); one on the complexities in identity formation of a young women in state care and two on women and different structural and cultural forms of violence. In the research forum, Susan Neighbour discusses aspects of her recently completed Master of Social Work thesis on sexual assault workers' experiences of working with people with multiplicity.

We see this journal as playing a significant role in providing an opportunity for women practitioners, students and academics to publish in a refereed journal. All articles are reviewed by two or more independent referees and usually require some additional work before being finally accepted for publication. So far most contributors have tended to be academics. As we are keen to have more articles from students and practitioners we would like you to encourage your colleagues to contribute to future editions.

This journal sits within the context of international women's networking, such as the Women's Interest Group of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). This group meets every two years at the Joint World Congress of IASSW and the IFSW (the International Federation of Social Work). A Women's Symposium was held in Israel in July 1998. The publication from the previous Women's Interest Group Symposium in 1996 in Hong Kong is now available (see enclosed information). The next Symposium will be in Montreal in the year 2000.

This edition of the WIWE Journal is dedicated to the memory of Helen La Nauze who was an active participant in WIWE Conferences and a contributor to an earlier WIWE Journal. An obituary is included in this journal. In writing this journal we are also reminded of other women colleagues who have died tragically and prematurely, including Yvonne Taylor Cullen, Helen Marchant, Nancy Gumprecht, Brenda Smith and Shirley Gilliver.

We would like to thank our women colleagues who have reviewed articles as well as women who have contributed articles to this edition. Finally we would like to thank AASWWE for their financial contribution which ensures funding for two editions of the journal.

Jude Irwin Carolyn Noble Karen Heycox Lesley Hughes