Lifting the lid on Pandora’s box: Putting professional curiosity into practice

Professional curiosity has recently become a ‘buzzword’ in the field of probation and social work. However, little research has sought to understand what professional curiosity means definitionally, conceptually or operationally. In this article, we analyse interview data from 49 probation practitio...

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Authors: Phillips, Jake (Author) ; Ainslie, Sam (Author) ; Fowler, Andrew (Author) ; Westaby, Chalen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Criminology & criminal justice
Year: 2024, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 321-338
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