International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Programs

About David R. CoxManohar Pawar

After a distinguished career as a social work educator and administrator Dr. Cox currently teaches as an adjunct lecturer at La Trobe University in Australia. His professional interests have included work in social work and immigration and the experiences of refugees. He has written scores of articles and several books. He was awarded his Ph. D. from La Trobe in 1974. Manohar Pawar BA MASW and PhD is Professor of Social Work at the School of Social Work and Arts Charles Sturt University (New South Wales Australia). He has made distinguished contributions to the field of international social work and social development. His books are translated in Chinese Hindi Indonesian Khmer and Korean languages and used for social work education research and practice internationally.   To advance social science research and publications on community and social development Prof. Pawar conceptualised and established a new peer reviewed journal entitled the International Journal of Community and Social development published by Sage. As its founding Editor-in-chief he has enhanced the academic quality and status of the journal from nonindexed to Scopus indexed achieving a SCImago ranked Q1 status for the journal in a short period. In addition he is President of the International Consortium for Social Development and Editor of Springer Series in Social Development. He has received several honours and awards including an ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery grant; Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 conferred by the National Association of Professional Social Workers in India; the invitation to deliver the Council on Social Work Education 2017 Hokenstad International Lecture USA; the Australian Learning and Teaching Councils Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning 2008; and Quality of Life Award 2001 from the Association of Commonwealth Universities.   Prof. Pawar is on the editorial boards of International Social Work the Indian Journal of Social Work South Asian Journal of Participative Development and Journal of Social Development Studies. He also reviews articles for many journals including the British Journal of Social Work. Prof.  Pawars research follows a mixed methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative research methods including integrating teaching and practice. He has nearly 200 publications which include over 20 books and monographs published by leading international publishers (Cambridge University Press Palgrave Macmillan Routledge SAGE Springer). His research has focused on international social work social development and social policy social work and social policy practice social consequences of climate change and water social work education informal care and ageing NGOs and community development and virtues and social work practice. Prof. Pawar has been an invited keynote/panel speaker at many international professional conferences/seminars/workshops organised by universities/academic institutions/professional bodies in Australia Bangladesh Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Ireland Japan Kenya Nepal Singapore South Africa South Korea Sweden Taiwan Thailand and US.