Professional Social Work

About

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Parker is Professor of Society & Social Welfare at Bournemouth University Emeritus Professor at University of Stavanger Norway. He is Visiting Professor at the Tasik Chini Research Centre Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and Doctoral programme team member at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan. He was one of the founders and director of the Family Assessment and Support Unit a placement agency attached to the University of Hull and Head of Department of Social Work. He was Chair of the Association of Teachers in Social Work Education until 2005 Vice Chair of the UK higher education representative body the Joint University Council for Social Work Education from 2005- 2010 and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has published widely (over 200 scholarly papers and chapters and 37 books): on disadvantage marginalization violence social work and welfare education. He is author of the best-selling book Social Work Practice (SAGE 2021) and series editor for the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series (SAGE). Mark Doel PhD MA (Oxon) CQSW is Research Professor of Social Work at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a registered social worker and was in practice for almost twenty years including two separate years living and working in the US. His research focuses on groupwork social work practice and practice education and he has an international reputation in these fields. Professor Doel is widely published. His fifteenth book Social Work Placements: a travellers guide (Routledge) introduces readers to Socialworkland a travel guide approach to practice learning. Other recent books include: Educating Professionals: practice learning in health and social care (Ashgate with Shardlow) which explores how students learn their practice in nine different professions using a virtual local community to bring the professions together; Experiencing Social Work: learning from service users (Sage with Best) which tells the stories of service users who have had positive experiences of social work and reflects on what we can learn from this; Using Groupwork (Routledge) and The Task-Centred Book (Routledge with Marsh). He is co-editor of the journal Groupwork and founding co-editor of the journal Social Policy and Social Work in Transition published in Republic of Georgia. Mark directs a 3-year EU-funded project to develop social work education and research in the republic of Georgia and the Ukraine and he is a consultant with UNICEF and EveryChild. He leads training workshops in practice education and groupwork.