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Contents
one Where academia and policy meet: an introduction
John Gal and Idit Weiss-Gal
two Social work academia and policy in Australia
Philip Mendes and Susan Baidawi
three Social work academia and policy in China
Minchao Jin, Xiao Li, Lei Wu and Jie Lei
four Social work academia and policy in Finland
Helena Blomberg and Christian Kroll
five Social work academia and policy in Germany
Andreas Herz and Stefan Kngeter
six Social work academics and policy in Israel
Idit Weiss-Gal and John Gal
seven Social work academia and policy in Portugal
Francisco Branco
eight Social work academia and policy in Puerto Rico
Gisela Negrn-Velzquez
nine Social work academia and policy in South Africa
Antoinette Lombard
ten Social work academics and policy in Spain
Mara Asuncin Martnez-Romn and Miguel ngel Mateo-Prez
eleven Social work academia and policy in Sweden
Katarina H. Thorn and Pia Tham
twelve Social work academia and policy in the United Kingdom
Hugh McLaughlin and Jo-Pei Tan
thirteen Social work academia and policy in the United States
Arati Maleku and Richard Hoefer
fourteen Where academia and policy meet: a cross-national perspective
Idit Weiss-Gal and John Gal
Appendix: Questionnaire on social work faculty engagement in the social welfare policy process
Idit Weiss-Gal and John Gal
List of tables and figures
List of tables
List of figures
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
John Gal is Full Professor at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a principal researcher at the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel. His fields of interest include social policy in Israel and in the Mediterranean region, and policy practice in social work. Prof. Gal has published extensively in academic journals and has been very much involved in social policy formulation in Israel. Recent books include one on policy practice in Israel, written jointly with Idit Weiss-Gal and published in July 2011, and Social workers affecting social policy: An international perspective, edited with Idit Weiss-Gal, and published by Policy Press in 2014.
Idit Weiss-Gal is Associate Professor and Head of the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Her fields of research and teaching include policy practice, critical perspectives in social work, and social work as a profession. She has published numerous articles in social work academic publications. Her Hebrew-language book, Policy Practice in Social Work, written with John Gal, was published in 2011. In addition, she has edited three cross-national comparative studies: Social workers affecting social policy: An international perspective (with John Gal, 2014); Social Work as a Profession: A Comparative Cross-national Perspective (with Penelope Welbourne, 2007); and Professional Ideologies and Preferences in Social Work: A Global Study (with John Gal and John Dixon, 2003).
Contributors
Susan Baidawi is a PhD candidate and Research Officer in the Department of Social Work at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. Her research interests include young people transitioning from state out-of-home care and older people in prison.
Helena Blomberg is Professor and Department Chair of Social Work and Social Policy at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. She was one of the team leaders in the Nordic Centre of Excellence research network, The Nordic Welfare State Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, and is currently one of the scientific coordinators of the consortium project Tackling Inequalities in Time of Austerity. Her research interests include child welfare issues, social workers well-being and attitudes toward welfare policies in a comparative perspective, and policy changes in the welfare state.
Francisco Branco is Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal. He has held a PhD in social work (with a specialisation in social policy and social movements) since 2001. He teaches social work history, social research and social policy, and coordinates the PhD in Social Work. Prof Branco is coordinator of the research group on Public Interest Policies and Human Development at the Centre for Studies in Human Development at the university and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the international journal Critical and Radical Social Work. His research interests include the development of social work as a profession; social work history; policy practice in social work; and public policies, especially social assistance and social minimum policies.
Andreas Herz is Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Social Pedagogy and Organization Studies at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. His key research areas are organizational research, social network research, social support, transnationalisation and migration, methods of empirical social research, and higher education research.
Richard Hoefer is the Roy E. Dulak Professor for Community Practice Research at the School of Social Work, University of Texas, Arlington, United States (US). His research and teaching interests include advocacy, social policy, nonprofit management, social enterprise and programme evaluation. He directs the Center for Advocacy, Nonprofit and Donor Organizations as well as the Professional Development Program. In his spare time, he is an avid fencer.
Minchao Jin is the Global Network Assistant Professor at New York University Silver School of Social Work, US and New York University, Shanghai, China. Dr. Jins research interests include financial inclusion, poverty, child health, and social welfare policy. His work has appeared in
