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Vale Bruce Lord

Occasionally, amid the joys and frustrations of everyday life, something so unexpected happens that it shakes us to our core. This was our feeling when we heard, in April, of the sudden death of Dr Bruce Lord. Bruce was a highly respected social worker, researcher, and educator, and a dear friend and colleague to many social workers in Australia and internationally. Readers of the journal and Australian Association of Social Workers members may be aware that Bruce served on the Editorial Board (and the former Publications Committee) of Australian Social Work from the early 2000s. In 2013 he was appointed as Chair of the Editorial Board, a role that required his considerable leadership and organisational skills. He had a strong commitment to advancing social work knowledge, particularly through practice-based research and supporting his colleagues to be involved in research. During his association with the journal he reviewed a very large number of articles, providing invaluable and detailed advice to new and accomplished writers alike. In 2015 he co-edited a landmark special issue on Applied Research Methods in Social Work (vol. 68, no. 3) with Dr Grahame Simpson. In an editorial in 2001, Bruce wrote: