Tatsuru Akimoto is Director & Professor of the Social Work Research Institute, Asian Centre for Welfare in Society, Japan College of Social Work (since 2010) and is also Professor Emeritus, Japan Women's University. He is currently President of the Asia Pacific Association of Social Work Education (APASWE); and is a regional Vice-President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). For two decades he was Professor at, Japan Women's University. In addition to social work and international social work, his special interests include ‘work and employment’ and he was an Employment Promotion Expert for the International Labour Organisation (1992–1994). He has published a number of books and articles including ‘The unipolar world and inequality: implications for social work’, in International Social Work (2007).

Sahar Sulieman Al-Makhamreh was awarded her PhD in social work by Warwick University (UK) and has been a lecturer on the BA social work programme at Al-Balqa Applied University in Jordan since 2005. She is also Head of the Social Work Department and Assistant Dean (Development and Planning) at Princess Rahma University College and Al-Balqa Applied University. She is a co-founder of the Jordanian Association of Social Workers. Her main areas of research are: developing and professionalising social work; inter-professional relationships; health inequality; localising practice; cultural and gender sensitivity in Middle Eastern social work practice.

Margaret Alston commenced as Head of Department of Social Work at Monash University (Australia) in 2008, and has since established the Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability (GLASS) Research Unit. She has served on various national Boards (e.g. the Family Services Council and the National Women's Advisory Group overseeing the Rural Women's Policy Unit in the Department of Primary Industries and Energy). In the past decade her expert status has involved her in work with the Gender Division of the UN FAO in Rome, the Commission for the Status of Women in New York and UN-Habitat meeting in Kenya. Her writing, speeches and media commentary focus on rural social conditions, climate change and gender issues.

Harjeet Badwall from Toronto (Canada) has been a practising social worker for 18 years in the areas of community health, social justice, and working with survivors of violence. She is a doctoral candidate, specialising in the area of critical race studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, and is a faculty member at York University's School of Social Work. Harjeet Badwall's research explores the racial and colonial dimensions of social work theories and practices. Her doctoral thesis explores the narratives of racialised social workers and their encounters with race and racism in the field.

Liz Beddoe is Associate Professor in the School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). Her interests include critical perspectives on social work education, professional supervision, the sociology of occupations, the social work professionalisation project, learning discourses, interprofessional learning and practitioner research. She has published articles on supervision and professional issues in New Zealand and international journals. Recent publications include Best Practice in Professional Supervision: a Guide for the Helping Professions (2010) with Allyson Davys, and Mapping Knowledge for Social Work Practice: Critical Intersections, with Jane Maidment (2009).

Fred H. Besthorn is Associate Professor of Social Work at Wichita State University School of Social Work (USA). He has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences in addition to publications. His interests include developing a theoretical framework for the integration of a deep ecological awareness with social work policy and practice, including conducting research on the relationship between environmental degradation and the social, physical, economic and spiritual impact on at-risk populations. He is the founder of The Global Alliance for a Deep-Ecological Social Work–a forum for concerned social workers sharing a commitment to incorporating deeper environmental awareness into traditional social work practice.

Jennifer Bourassa obtained a Master's degree in Social Work at the University of Calgary (Canada). She is currently practising as a social worker with the Canadian forces. She previously worked for Alberta Health Services in a variety of roles including: Crisis Intervention Therapist, Brief Therapist, Community Developer and Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Consultant. Jennifer Bourassa has 17 years disaster experience working in countries such as Canada, the United States, Puerto Rico, Indonesia and Haiti. In 2009 her article ‘Psychosocial interventions with mass populations: a social work perspective’, was published in International Social Work, discussing the importance of utilising participatory methodology with disaster-impacted populations.

Wendy Bowles is Associate Professor of Social Work at Charles Sturt University and is a social worker with experience in the disability field. Her teaching and research interests cover the broad terrain of social work theory, practice and ethics with a focus on rural and regional practice. Two books written with colleagues include Ethical Practice in Social Work and Research for Social Workers–An Introduction to Methods. Wendy has served a full term as member of the National Ethics Committee of the Australian Association of Social Workers and is involved in professional practice issues in social work.

Paul Bywaters is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at Coventry University and Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick (both in the UK). He was co-founder and the first convenor of the international Social Work and Health Inequalities Network (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/swhin). Apart from his teaching, research and administrative roles in social work education, he has written extensively about social work and health over the past 25 years. His recent publications include Social Work and Global Health Inequalities (Policy Press, 2009); and he was the co-author of the revised International Federation of Social Workers’ policy statement on Health, ratified in 2008.

Ruby Chau is an independent researcher. She is formerly Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Lecturer at the University of Sheffield (UK). She is a registered social worker in Hong Kong and has worked in NGOs in Hong Kong and the UK. Her main research [Page xiii]interests include social exclusion, social diversity and welfare mix. She has conducted research in Hong Kong, China and the UK; and published in internationally renowned academic journals and refereed books.

David Cox is a retired Professor of Social Work, La Trobe University (Australia). He worked as a social worker with refugees and migrants for nearly 20 years before moving into academic social work. He worked in a variety of Australian universities over approximately a 30-year period, teaching and writing about social work with immigrants, international social work and social development.

Cindy Davis is an Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of Tennessee (USA). Her primary area of research is health and international social work. After receiving her PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, she spent two years backpacking across Africa and Asia. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Cindy Davis has since served as a behavioural scientist at the National Health and Medical Research Centre's National Breast Cancer Centre in Australia. She has published extensively in the area of health and international issues.

Murli Desai obtained her doctorate in Social Work from Washington University in St Louis (USA). From 1984 she was on the faculty of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (India), taking voluntary retirement in 2006 as Professor and Head of its Social Work Education and Practice Cell. In 2007–2008, she worked as a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Social Work, National University of Singapore and the following year, she worked as a Professor in the Department of Social Welfare, Seoul National University of South Korea. She has authored three books, edited six books and guest-edited ten special issues of journals on different themes in social work and social development.

Lena Dominelli as Professor in Applied Social Sciences and Associate Director at the Institute of Hazards, Risk and Resilience Research, Durham University (UK), heads the Vulnerability and Resilience Programme. She has a wealth of experience as an educator, researcher and practitioner and has published widely in social work, social policy and sociology. Her latest book is Green Social Work. She is recognised as a leading figure in social work education globally and was elected President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) from 1996 to 2004. She is currently chair of IASSW's Committees on Disaster Interventions and Climate Change. She has received various honours including a medal in 2002 from the French Senate and an honorary doctorate in 2008 from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).

Heather Fraser works as a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Social Work and Social Planning at Flinders University, South Australia, after years spent teaching social work in Melbourne, Cairns and Winnipeg (Canada). She teaches topics such as Reasons for Social Work, Integrity in Social Work, Social Work with Diverse Populations and Social Work with Addictions. Her practice experience relates predominantly to women and children, particularly in areas related to violence and abuse. Author of the book, In the Name of Love, Women's Narratives of Love and Abuse (2008), Heather Fraser identifies as a narrative feminist who works from a critical perspective.

John R. Graham is Murray Fraser Professor of Community Economic Development, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary (Canada). He has published extensively on spirituality and social work, international social work, and social policy analysis.

Gerda Heck is currently a post-doctoral research fellow in an international, transdisciplinary research project, ‘Global Prayers’ at the University of Frankfurt/Oder (Germany), investigating the role of (neo-)Pentecostal church communities on the migration routes of Congolese migrants. In her doctoral thesis (2006) she discussed the phenomenon of undocumented immigration in Germany and the USA, mainly focusing on the development of the respective migration regimes, the public discussion on the subject and the influencing thereof by relevant initiatives. Since 2007 she has been conducting research on the shifts in EU migration policy towards North African countries and the strategies of sub-Saharan migrants on the migration routes towards Europe.

Staffan Höjer is a Social Work Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). His main research areas concern the development of social work knowledge, organisational development and professionalisation in social work. His publications reflect these interests and include a cross-national analysis of models of supervision. He also has a special interest in international social work: he has undertaken research in Cuba and is currently involved in PhD supervision in Sweden, Rwanda and Uganda. He has been involved in the CERTS project (about doctoral studies in Europe) and is currently Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Social Work.

Jennifer Holder Dolly was for many years a Lecturer in Social Work and the Coordinator of Graduate Studies at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine. She is currently the Clinical Director and joint owner of a behaviour change consulting firm. She has also worked intensively in disaster recovery and management roles, heading the social sector recovery effort in Grenada after Hurricane Ivan. She has consulted with private, public and non-governmental organisations and conducted a range of psycho-educational and personal development workshops. Dr Holder Dolly has researched and presented many papers at regional and international conferences and workshops.

Richard Hugman is Professor of Social Work at the University of New South Wales (Australia). He has been a social work practitioner, researcher and teacher in Australia and the UK and has published widely in the field, both as an author and as an editor. Since 2004 he has been a consultant to UNICEF Vietnam on the development of professional social work in Vietnam. Richard is currently the chair of the Permanent Committee on Ethics of the International Federation of Social Workers. Recent publications include Understanding International Social Work (2010).

Marion Huxtable spent 29 years as a school social worker advocating for school children. She contributed to her profession by serving on Boards of state and regional professional associations, publishing in professional journals and books and serving as a consulting editor for Social Work in Education (now Children and Schools). Twenty years ago, she developed the International Network for School Social Work to give school social workers and their professional associations a way of communicating with peers around the world. It has grown to include 46 countries. She continues to operate the Network to foster international interaction among school social workers.

Jeff Karabanow is a Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University (Canada) in the Faculty of Health Professions. He has worked with homeless young people in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax and Guatemala. He has undertaken research in various locations and published numerous academic articles about housing stability, service delivery systems, street health and homeless youth culture. He has completed a film documentary looking at the plight of street youth in [Page xv]Guatemala City and several animated shorts on Canadian street youth culture. His most recent work is Leaving the Streets: Stories of Canadian Youth published in 2010 (Fernwood Press).

Synnove Karvinen-Niinikoski is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Helsinki (Finland), engaged in promoting the integration of teaching, research and professional development. Special interests include development of critical practice and reflexive expertise, and she is engaged in practice research and learning and researcher education. In 1998 Synnove Karvinen-Niinikoski was elected the first President of the Finnish Society for Social Work Research and she received the Biannual Nordic Prize for Social Work Educators in 2009. Since 2010 she has been a member of the Board of the International Association of Schools of Social Work; and up to 2012 Vice President of the European Resource Centre for Research in Social Work (CERTS).

Linda Kreitzer began her Social Work career in 1978 in the United States and migrated to Britain in 1981 where she worked in social service departments for over a decade. Between 1994 and 1996 she taught social work at the University of Ghana, leaving to undertake a Master's degree in international social work at the University of Calgary (Canada), specifically looking at refugee issues. After a year's work in Armenia she returned to Calgary to undertake PhD research. The focus of her doctorate (awarded in 2004) was the development of a culturally appropriate social work curriculum at the University of Ghana, Legon. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Edmonton, Canada.

Susan Lawrence qualified as a social worker in 1976 and has been a social work educator since 1991, she is currently Principal Lecturer in International Social Work at London Metropolitan University (UK). She has been actively involved in European social work research, networks and exchanges throughout her career and is Course Director of the MA in Comparative European Social Studies (MACESS) and Course Leader of the Professional Doctorate in International Social Work. Susan Lawrence is currently President of the European Association of Schools of Social Work and Regional Vice-President of International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). She has published in the area of international social work and is on the editorial Board of the European Journal of Social Work.

Kathryn Libal is Assistant Professor in Community Organisation at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work (USA). An anthropologist by training, she has conducted historical and ethnographic research on women's and children's rights in Turkey. Recently she has collaborated with Dr Scott Harding on research regarding non-governmental organisation advocacy for Iraqi refugees. She also writes on the US human rights movement, with a focus on children's economic rights, and has co-edited the book, Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (2011). She teaches courses on social policy, human oppression and human rights.

Reima Ana Maglajlic was a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Swansea University (Wales) (2007–2011). Prior to this she worked as a consultant and activist across south-east Europe, but primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her doctoral research used participatory action research with service users, students and practitioners in England and Bosnia to explore social work education. Her main interests and experiences focus on working on the reform of social care services, in societies ‘in transition’ and/or affected by political conflict. In 2011 she became the Research and Monitoring Director at the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, an international non-governmental organisation based in Budapest, Hungary.

Kathleen Manion has lived and worked in various countries and studied psychology and community development in Canada and international social work in England. She undertook cross-national research into commercial sexual exploitation of girls in London, Sydney and Vancouver for her doctoral degree and was awarded her PhD by the University of East London in 2006. She has since relocated to New Zealand where she works for the Ministry of Social Development.

Golam M. Mathbor is the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor in the School of Social Work at Monmouth University (USA). Currently, he is Vice President of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS), and of the International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD). He has taught in Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, Latvia, Kosovo and the USA and his teaching areas include research methods, programme evaluation, social welfare policy and planning, management of non-governmental organisations, migration and intercultural cooperation, and international social work. Areas of research include disaster relief and management, international social development and international social work. Golam Mathbor has published extensively on disaster relief and other topics including most recently, Effective Community Participation in Coastal Development.

Jennifer McKinnon is an Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University (Australia). She has a social work practice background in hospitals and mental health, as well as in youth work and private practice, and has been an academic since 1992. Her doctoral studies were on the topic of the social/environmental nexus in social work practice, which is also now her major research focus. Jennifer has published widely on the topic of social justice and environmental justice, and has presented at many international conferences. She has also published on the topic of social work practice in schools, and is the co-editor of two editions of Social Work: Fields of Practice (Oxford University Press).

Lengwe-Katembula J. Mwansa is a Professor at the University of Botswana in the Department of Social Work. He began his teaching career in social work in 1996 after completing his PhD (awarded by Brandeis University, USA). He has taught in several universities and held various portfolios including headship of the Department of Social Work at the Universities of Zambia and Botswana 1998–1991 and 1999–2005, respectively; Presidency of Southern African Social Sciences Conference (1994–1999); and recently, the Presidency of the Association of Schools of Social Work in Africa (2005–2010), His areas of interest and publications include social policy (health policy), youth, social work education in Africa, and nongovernmental organisations.

James Midgley is Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley (USA). He has published widely on issues of social development, international social welfare and social policy. Recent books include The Handbook of Social Policy, Sage, 2009 (co-editor, Michelle Livermore); Social Work and Social Development, Oxford University Press, 2010 (co-editor, Amy Conley); Grassroots Social Security in Asia, Routledge, 2011 (co-editor, Mitsuhiko Hosaka) and Colonialism and Welfare: Social Policy and the British Imperial Legacy, Edward Elgar, 2011 (co-editor, David Piachaud). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and an Honorary Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Nihon Fukishi University in Japan; the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; and Sun Yat-sen University in China.

Joan Orme is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton (UK). She has been a member of the Board of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and has worked with colleagues in Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Poland and the USA. Her research includes workloads, care management and aspects of social work practice and education and she has published on social work practice and research and feminism. She co-edited the Sage Handbook of Social Work Research (2010) and co-authored (with David Shemmings) Developing Research Based Social Work Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Henry Parada is an Associate Professor at Ryerson University (Canada) where he teaches Theories of Social Work Practices, Transformative Social Work, International Social Work, Graduate Research Seminar and Child Welfare. Henry's research interests include: analysis of institutional practices; social work epistemology; and institutional ethnography methodology. He has published in the area of child protection and governance of workers and clients, institutional ethnography, the construction of subject locations, and community social work and education in Latin American. He has undertaken a variety of research projects with funding from various sources including the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Latin American and Caribbean Exchange Grant (LACREG), UNICEF-Santo Domingo and SSHRC International Opportunity Fund.

Malcolm Payne is Policy and Development Adviser, St Christopher's Hospice (London, UK) where he was previously Director of Psycho-social and Spiritual Care. He has broad experience of social work, having worked in probation, social work, community work and management, consulting on teamwork in health and social care organisations. He was Professor and Head of Applied Community Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, for many years, during which he was involved in child and mental health service advocacy projects, research and international social work. Among his recent books are: Modern Social Work Theory; Humanistic Social Work; Citizenship Social Work with Older People and Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care (with Margaret Reith). He has visiting/honorary academic appointments at a number of UK and European Universities, including Opole University, Poland, and Kingston University, UK.

Michael Preston-Shoot is Professor of Social Work and Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire (UK). He has worked in social work education since 1988 following a career as a social worker. He has been Editor of Social Work Education; Managing Editor of the European Journal of Social Work; and is a Founding Editor of Ethics and Social Welfare. He has written and researched widely on law and social work, and on social work education and practice. Currently, he is an independent chair of two local Safeguarding Boards (Children, Vulnerable Adults) and sits on the governing body of an NHS Trust and of the National Skills Academy for Social Care.

Shulamit Ramon is mental health research lead at the University of Hertfordshire and Emeritus Professor at Anglia Ruskin University (UK). A social worker and clinical psychologist by training, Shulamit Ramon has researched mental health and social work issues, introducing user involvement in research and education internationally. She has focused on introducing social work education to post-communist countries in the 1990s (Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan), and on the impact of political conflict on social work since 2000. She has recently edited the book Social Work in the Context of Political Conflict (2008); has led two related [Page xviii]International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) projects on this issue, and has researched the impact of the end of intifada on Israeli Arab and Jewish social workers.

Narda Razack is an Associate Dean (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies) and Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, York University (Canada). She has extensive experience in research, teaching and administration. She has published in the areas of critical race and oppression, international social work and field education; and co-edited Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order. Narda Razack currently co-directs a CURA-funded project, ‘Assets Coming Together for Youth: Linking Research, Policy and Action for Positive Youth Development’; and is a team member on a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)-funded project, ‘Social Work in Nigeria’. Research areas include: North–South relations, globalisation and international social work, critical race theory, post-colonialism and equity in administration.

Taly Reininger is a Professor of Social Work at the Universidad Andres Bello in Santiago (Chile). She received her MSW from the University of Wisconsin (USA). Currently she teaches Field Placement Seminars and Foundations of Social Work and is embarking on her research and writing career.

Amy Restorick Roberts is a doctoral candidate at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is currently in preparation for an academic career in gerontological social work research and education to improve the quality of life of older adults.

Letnie Rock completed her doctoral studies at Fordham University, New York (USA) and after a period in practice is a Lecturer in Social Work and Head of the Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work at the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill Campus, Barbados). She is currently the President of the Caribbean Association of Social Work Educators, a member of the Editorial Board of the Caribbean Journal of Social Work and of the Boards of the North American and Caribbean Association of Schools of Social Work and of the International Association of Schools of Social Work. Research and publications to date have primarily been in the fields of child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, disaster management and social work practice.

Mahia Saracostti Schwartzman qualified as a social worker and with a Master's in Business Administration of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, before being awarded her PhD in Social Welfare at City University of New York. She is currently Director of Social Work at the Universidad Autónoma de Chile in Santiago, and has held posts at various Chilean Universities previously. She has been member of the Editorial Board of International Social Work, and is a faculty advisor at Hunter College School of Social Work, New York, as well as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and for the European Union. She has published in specialised journals, newspapers and books.

Uma A. Segal is Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Missouri, St Louis (USA). Her Areas of research are immigrant and refugee concerns, Asian American acculturation, and cross-national issues in family violence. In 2004, Uma Segal was appointed Editor of the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies and redirected it toward an international, interdisciplinary focus in exploring human migration. She serves as resident scholar on immigration for the Advisory Board of the Katherine A. Kendall Institute (KAKI) of the (US) Council on Social Work Education; and co-edited Immigration Worldwide with Elliott and Mayadas in 2010.

Micheal L. Shier qualified as a social worker (BSW) before completing his MSW and is now a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) researching human service organisations and service delivery outcomes. He is currently working as a research associate at the University of Calgary and Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Pennsylvania. He has co-authored articles on the subjects of spirituality and religion in social work, the lived experiences of vulnerable populations, and practice-based experiences of social workers in diverse contexts.

John Solas is currently Senior Lecturer in Human Services and Counselling at the University of Southern Queensland (Australia). John previously lectured on social policy at Monash University and human rights at Queensland University of Technology. He was a member of the Centre for Rural, Social and Economic Research Centre at Central Queensland University and of the Health and Well-Being Research Group at Ballarat University. While Head of Social Work and Welfare Studies at Charles Darwin University, he was a representative on the Northern Land Council where his research and advocacy were instrumental in improving the delivery of primary health care services to Indigenous communities in Central and Northern regions of Australia. John has published widely on social work theory and practice. Among his major works is The Deconstruction of Educational Practice in Social Work.

Cynthia Akorfa Sottie gained her MSW at West Virginia University in the United States in 1996 and completed her PhD in Social work at Queens University in Belfast in 2010. She has been teaching at the Department of Social Work, University of Ghana since 2000. Her main area of research interest is child and family welfare with specific interest in ways of helping young people from disadvantaged backgrounds break out of the cycle of poverty and overcome vulnerability when social and economic conditions place severe limits on opportunities.

Silvia Staub-Bernasconi is a member of the Academic Board and Lecturer of the European network programme, INDOSOW (International Doctoral Studies in Social Work), following eight years as Director of the Master's programme ‘Social Work as Human Rights Profession’ in Berlin. She has been a Professor at the Technical University in Berlin teaching Social Work Theory and Human Rights Practice since 1997. Initially she qualified as a social worker in Zurich, gaining a UN-Fellowship to study social work in the USA. She subsequently practised in New York and Zurich, including study visits (e.g. to Birmingham (UK), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, U of California/Santa Cruz). From 1967 to 1997 she was Professor of social work at the Zurich School, while studying sociology, psychological pedagogy and social ethics, finishing her studies with a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Zurich. She published widely on social problems, social work as discipline and profession, social work and human rights/social justice, theories of power and empowerment. At the Joint World Conference on Social Work in Hong Kong she received the “Kathleen Kendall Award 2010”.

Decha Sungkawan is Associate Professor of Social Welfare and Criminal Justice at the Faculty of Social Administration, Thammasat University, Thailand where he teaches social work, social welfare, social policy, criminology and criminal justice. His research interests and publications have addressed the interrelated issues of social work and social welfare and criminal justice. He has been involved in several studies and development projects in Thailand including the projects on human rights plan education, community justice, restorative and transitional justice, conflict resolution and reconciliation, drug control policy, offenders and drug addicts rehabilitation programmes, victim compensation and reparation, human trafficking, refugees and migrant workers, disabilities and older persons, family violence, volunteer network and social work education. He holds Ph from the School of Social Service Administration, the [Page xx]University of Chicago. Presently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Administration, Thammasat University.

Ming-sum Tsui is a Professor of Social Work and Leader of the Doctor of Social Work (DSW) Programme in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include social work supervision, social work theory and practice, human service management, substance abuse, and international social work practice. Ming-sum Tsui has published more than 100 pieces of research works, including 11 books and 50 journal articles. He is involved in editorial or reviewing work for 20 professional/academic journals. Recently, his article ‘From resilience to resistance: A reconstruction of the strengths perspective in social work practice’, published in International Social Work was awarded the Frank Turner Prize - Best Paper in 2010.

Khuajin Ulziitungalag is Professor in the Social Work Department at the State University of Education in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (where she has worked since 1997). Her teaching includes courses on Macro Social Work Practice, Child Protection, and Human Rights and Social Work. Khuajin Ulziitungalag's research is informed by her previous social work experience with maltreated children in public and private settings and focuses on child protection in the social welfare system. She is currently working to adapt a community-based child protection service aimed at increasing community participation in protecting children.

Julia M. Watkins is the Executive Director of the Council on Social Work Education (USA). She serves as treasurer of the International Association of Schools of Social Work. Previous positions have included President of the American University in Bulgaria (1993–2003), Professor of Social Work, and interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College of Social And Behavioural Sciences at the University of Maine. Other leadership positions have included President of the Alliance of Universities for Democracy and President of the Association of American International Colleges and Universities. She received the MSW and a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Utah.

Joseph Wronka is Professor of Social Work at Springfield College in Massachusetts (USA). He is also Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva for the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). He has also taught extensively on the college level; practiced in inner cities and Indigenous communities; and presented his work in roughly 13 countries. He is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in social work with specialties in poverty, social justice, human rights, psychology, and phenomenology. His doctorate in social policy is from Brandeis; his Master's is in existential-phenomenology from Duquesne. He also studied the phenomenology of the performing musician at the University of Nice.

Darja Zaviršek is Chair of the Department for Research on Social Justice and Inclusion at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work (Slovenia) and Chair of the Indosow programme (International Doctoral Studies in Social Work). In 2002 she was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Applied Sciences Alice Salomon, in Berlin. She initiated the Eastern European Sub-Regional Association of the European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW) serving as its President since 2008. She has been on the Board of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) since 2003. Areas of research and publications include: disability and mental health; gender and violence; history of social work; diversity studies, ethnographic research and international social work.