“…This network has sought to articulate the social work contribution to disaster management, and in doing so, has become aware of the need to establish a research agenda. The paucity of appropriate literature available means the evidence for social work practice in disaster contexts is still in its infancy with much of the published literature providing a description of practice approaches (Abbas and Sulman, 2016), programmatic or educational interventions through case studies (Findley et al, 2017, Ku and Ma, 2015, Cooper and Briggs, 2014 or reflective pieces (Du Plooy et al, 2014, Corin, 2011. While these forms of knowledge are critical for our profession (reflecting the values-based and reflexive stance of social work), it makes establishing an evidence for social work practice challenging and, therefore, the development of a knowledge-base more urgent.…”