Contents: Introduction: taking up the call for critical and creative methods in social work research, Lia Bryant. Part I Narrative and Action: Transforming Social Work Research and Practice: Storytelling as a research method: Iraqi women narrating their life stories, Fatin Shabbar; Investigating the impact of sexual violence through ethnographic longitudinal reflection: a qualitative interviewing technique for survivors of trauma, Andrea Nikischer; Communicative methodology of research and Romaní migrant women in Spain: a process of social change, Aitor Gómez and Ariadna Munté; Ngapartji Ngapartji - narratives of reciprocity in 'yarning up' participatory research, Deirdre Tedmanson; Reflexivity as autoethnography in indigenous research, Amy Parkes. Part II Creating Critical Exchanges in Social Work Using Visual and Textual Methods: Opening the lens to see, feel and hear: using autoethnographic textual and visual methods to examine gender and telephony, Lia Bryant and Mona Livholts; Imagine transfigurement: the chapter exhibition as a critical and creative space for knowledge in social work and media studies, Mona Livholts; Digital ethnography: research methods for the study of online communities, Danielle May; Creative endeavours in eating disorder research, Lisa Hodge; Touching on emotions: using clay work in a context of relational empowerment to investigate sensitive issues, Fiona Buchanan; Arts based methods in social work education and research as critical method, Ephrat Huss, Dorit Segal-Engelchin and Roni Kaufman; Conclusion: social creativity and social change, Lia Bryant. Index.