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Membership of GAPS is open to all and will particularly appeal to practitioners, students, and researchers in the area of social work and related fields as well as those interested in social work, psychodynamic and systemic theory and practice.

UK Membership of GAPS costs £28.00 per year, for which you will receive:

Four printed copies of the Journal of Social Work Practice (UK addresses only) published in March, June, September and December (normal cost approx £197.00)

  • Individual online access to the current issue of the JSWP and to an electronic archive of the journal back to Volume 1 Issue 1
  • Free online access to two other journals published by our publisher Taylor & Francis: Psychodynamic Practice (UK) and Psychoanalytic Social Work (USA)

plus

  • GAPS members receive a 30% discount on the price of Routledge published books
  • Advance booking of free GAPS events and discount on chargeable event ticket prices
  • GAPS members are able to apply to the Practice Development Bursary Fund after 1 year of membership

Membership outside the UK costs £28 for online only access, or £45 for members in Europe and £55 for members in Australia, Canada and USA which includes print journals.

Membership can take up to 48 hours to process. Subscriptions renew automatically each year until cancelled.

To Become a Member or Subscriber:

Name
How would you like your name to appear when taking part in online discussions on this site – you can use your own name or something else
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Annual Membership Subscription Type
Address for Printed Journals
Your quarterly issues of The Journal of Social Work Practice will be sent to this address
We will only call you if there is a problem with your membership
Please describe your work role or relationship to Social Work. It is helpful for us to know a little more about our community. We also restrict contributions to GAPS website to those connected professionally or academically to the Social Work profession. We aim for this group to be inclusive but not without boundaries. The information you give here helps us to fulfill this aim.
Your subscription will renew annually until you cancel

Centre for Social Work Practice Legacy Fund

The legacy fund was launched on 9th November 2021... find out more...

Practice Development Bursaries

GAPS Members may apply for bursaries to fund, for example, conference attendance, setting up a work discussion group, running a workshop, or other practice development opportunities.