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Dedicated to
Mekadas mum, Norah Mary Graham and
Charlottes mum, Catherine Alice Hughes
Notes on the editors and contributors
The editors
Mekada J. Graham is Professor and Director/Chair in Social Work at California State University Dominguez Hills, California, USA. She has published extensively in social work-related fields over the past 15 years. Her research interests include childhood studies and issues of social justice, social inequality and postmodern approaches in social work education and practice. She is co-editor of the Special Issue of the British Journal of Social Work (2014) entitled: A World on the Move: Migration, Mobilities and Social Work. She is currently working on a new book, Reflective thinking in social work: lessons from student narratives to be published by Routledge.
Charlotte Williams, OBE, is Professor and Deputy Dean of Social Work at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a qualified social worker and has over 25 years of experience in social work education. Her ongoing research interest focuses on issues of race and cultural diversity in social policy, social work education and practice. Her most recent publications include: Race and ethnicity in a welfare society (co-authored with M. Johnson) (Open University Press, 2010), and guest editorship with Mekada J. Graham of the Special Issue of the British Journal of Social Work (2014) entitled: A World on the Move: Migration, Mobilities and Social Work.
Contributing authors
Dan Allen of Salford University has a background in social work research and practice with Roma, Gypsy and Traveller children, families and communities. By attempting to link the fundamental concerns of social work practice with theory development and wider contextual challenges, Dan continually seeks to improve service provision and advance the knowledge, values and skills that inform social work practices and traditions with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people on a more general basis.
Claudia Bernard is Professor of Social Work in the Department of Social Therapeutic and Community Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests lie in investigating the intersection of race, gender, social class and child and family welfare. She is principally interested in developing research methodologies that open up new ways for understanding violence and abuse in the lives of vulnerable children from stigmatised and marginalised communities. She has written widely on child abuse and gender-based violence, including a book entitled Constructing lived experiences: representations of black mothers in child sexual abuse discourses (Ashgate, 2001). She is presently co-editing a book on Safeguarding black children (Jessica Kingsley, 2016).
Kish Bhatti-Sinclairs research interests include race and racism, ethics, values, and empowering practice, both with children and adults. Projects in 2015 include a project evaluation of the Think Family Programme, West Sussex Childrens Services and a report on the data analysis of black and minority ethnic children in looked after care for Wandsworth Borough Council. Recent publications include Race, racism and culturally appropriate interventions, in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences (Elsevier, 2015).
Stefan Brown is a social work lecturer at Royal Holloway University. He teaches on the MSc Social Work programme. His areas of interest are mental health policy and practice, mental capacity and multidisciplinary working. He is a registered social worker and has worked in mental health services.
Beverley Burke is a senior lecturer in social work at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She has practised as a social worker with children and families and has published widely in the areas of anti-oppressive practice, values and ethics. Beverley is co-editor of the practice section of the international peer-reviewed academic Journal Ethics and Social Welfare.
Janet Carter Anand is Professor of International Social Work at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland. She was a social worker for over 25 years before taking up an academic career. She has lectured in Social Work at the University of Tasmania, Australia; Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland; and Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom. Professor Anands teaching and research interests are in the areas of adult services, social gerontology and the internationalisation of the social work curriculum. The concepts of critical reflection and critical cultural competence are central to her approach to teaching and global mindedness in social work practice.
Sarah Cemlyn is a research fellow and former social work lecturer at Bristol University, with a background in community development, social work and advocacy, and undertook the first English national study of social works responses to Gypsies and Travellers. Her research with Gypsies, Travellers and Roma has focused on promoting rights, equality and anti-discrimination in social work, education, health and accommodation services, and engaging with activists in reflecting on community development and campaigning.
