Social Work Day is the great qualitative social work get-together. Held each May at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) in Urbana, IL, USA, Social Work Day attracts researchers from throughout the world. This is the premier international qualitative social work conference where scholars pre-sent cutting edge research using both traditional and innovative qualitative methods of qualitative inquiry. Norman Denzin is the director of ICQI, Dr. Denzin is emeritus Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.Jane Gilgun is the organizer of Social Work Day. Dr. Gilgun is professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.Many thanks to Austin Oswald, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who helped organize this program.The papers are organized into panels based primarily on methods and methodologies.