School of Social Work, Syracuse University, NY 13244-6350, USA.
Soc Work. 2011 Jul;56(3):225-33. doi: 10.1093/sw/56.3.225.
Placed in the historical context of government funding ofacademic research, this critical analysis identifies the complexities and implications of schools of social work pursuing federal grants for research. Schools of social work with particular organizational characteristics are better able to compete for federal grants, incurring lower opportunity costs than others. The low probability of grant success for most schools, the organizational adaptations needed for success, and the narrow epistemology of many funding programs call into question whether federal funding of research should be considered the sine qua non for academic social work.
置于政府资助学术研究的历史背景下，本批判性分析确定了各社会福利学院追求联邦研究资助的复杂性和影响。具有特定组织特征的社会福利学院更有能力竞争联邦资助，比其他学院承担的机会成本更低。对于大多数学院来说，获得资助的可能性较低，成功所需的组织调整，以及许多资助计划的狭隘认识论，都使得联邦资助研究是否应被视为学术社会工作的必要条件受到质疑。
