摘要: AbstractIn light of the growing trend developing practice doctoral degree programmes in social work, author uses first Doctor Social Work (DSW) programme Hong Kong, which is a unique China, as case study to examine pedagogy and constraints work. The serves an alternative typical PhD designed particularly for seasoned practitioners field who strive achieve balance between research orientation academic pragmatic focus. This paper emphasises that, stand out from crowd, doctorates Kong should take part practice-based publish refereed journals.