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Future social work practice requires a holistic framework to deal effectively with the great social and economic disruptions of this unprecedented time. Innovation and creativity are indispensable to empowering social workers and social service organizations to make an impact on the lives of people and societies in today's world. This book provides a range of innovative practices of social work drawing from alternate theories and with a global orientation. It is forward-looking with a focus on social resilience, social inclusion and recovery. Using a strengths perspective, discussions in the chapters provide useful insights in restructuring social life and social services at the individual as well as community and societal levels for meeting the challenges of a new global era. The chapters draw on the experiences of the authors in their academic and practice engagements and focus on a variety of arenas of social work education and practice to enrich the understanding of the present and future of the field. Authors discuss theoretical and conceptual models to review social work education and practice of engaging in a fast-changing global era and complex contexts. Topics explored include: New Era for Social Work in the Global Future Remaking Social Work by Applying an Anti-oppressive Lens Vulnerability and Resilience of Refugee Women and Children Critical Green Social Work as Futuristic Social Work Practice Globalisation and the Future of Social Work Practice and Education Equipping Social Workers for a New Global Era Remaking Social Work for the New Global Era is an essential resource to inform practice, enrich teaching, and direct future research for social work academics, researchers, educators, students, and field supervisors, as well as social care, social work and social service practitioners in both clinical and policy settings. The book also wouldbe of interest to mental health and community professionals in various practice contexts across the globe. 

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Author:   Ngoh Tiong Tan ,  P.K. Shajahan
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.518kg
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9783031083518

ISBN 10:   3031083512
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   31 August 2022
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"​Foreword by Annamaria Campanini, IASSW President Foreword by Sang-Mok Suh, ICSW President Preface Acknowledgements About the Editors and Contributors Part I:               Tracing the Contours of the New Era Chapter 1: New Era for Social Work in the Global Future By Ngoh Tiong TAN, Professor Singapore University of Social Sciences, Treasurer, IASSW, former Vice President (AP) IFSW  This lead chapter sets the framework for the book recounting what the global means for the future of social work practice. Starting from global trends and issues and the worldwide social-economic disruptions, the chapter suggests that social work needs to transform itself to be relevant and futuristic. Riding on the tide of various revolutions, is the way towards the new revolution for social work as a disruptive force in the changing contexts. It needs also to change and disrupt itself towards decolonization and indigenization along with innovations in social service delivery and education and centering on core values, skills and competencies. Resilience and adaptability are key dimensions of a responsive profession like social work in a fast-changing world. The authors underscore the relevance of ethics and human relationships as key elements in sustaining the profession for the future.   Chapter 2: Social Work and Social Development Challenges to the COVID-19 Pandemic By Leila Patel, Professor of Social Development Studies and the South African Research in Welfare and Social This chapter provides an overview of social development strategies and social work responses to mitigate the human costs of the Covid-19 pandemic. Three responses were reviewed: social protection polices, humanitarian relief and mutual aid and social solidarity including civil society responses and the impact of the pandemic on social workers and service delivery. The findings show that there was an exponential expansion of social protection policies in all countries. While government provision was expansive, other non-state social arrangements were crucial to the response. The pandemic has also accelerated the use of technology in service and opened new lines of enquiry for social work research and in education and training. While social work services are better integrated with social protection in some countries, it is imperative for social work services to address the multi-dimensionality of human needs and improve social outcomes. The social development approach provides a sound platform for post-Covid recovery, to build societal resilience and responsiveness to crises while not losing sight of social work’s transformative mission and vision for a more just world.       Chapter 3: Remaking Social Work by Applying an Anti-oppressive Lens By Elena Allegri, University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy; Mara Sanfelici & Barbara Rosina, University of Trieste, Italy Anti-oppressive social work has become a central topic among social work scholars, guiding the analysis of practices, services and policies. Both theoretical and empirical studies highlight the importance to raising awareness about the multiple mandates of social workers, guiding a process of reflexivity on challenges and ethical dilemmas. The research presented in this chapter analyzed the perception about the role of social workers in fighting against oppression and discrimination and in enacting a ‘political role’ as well as exploring types of oppression and discrimination in the everyday practice within the social work agencies. The chapter contributes in raising awareness and advancing knowledge about processes that can promote of hamper anti oppressive ways of doing social work. The discussion aims to propel social work into the future with a social justice and equity principles that counters oppressive practice.  Part II.             Sustainable Approaches to Social Intervention Chapter 4: Partnerships as Citizens' Rights By Heloisa Helena Mesquita Maciel, Prof. Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro-PUC-Rio Member of Research Group,  Josué de Castro at PUC-Rio and Ilda Lopes Rodrigues da Silva Free Professor Social Service-UGF, Profa. Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro-PUC-Rio, President of CBCISS In Brazil, as in other countries, the growth of the Third Sector as a reality that coexists with the First Sector, being represented by the government, and the Second Sector, represented by the market. The Third Sector has provoked much debate about its meaning, but it affirmed that the development of civil society and nonprofit services are key in the public interest. These different sectors face the challenge of coexistence that should enhance social protection, tackle social inequality considering the characteristics, roles and the real need of the population. It is the right of citizens to participate in decision making that affects them. The inclusion and partnership as guaranteed rights is the way forward for social work in the new era.   Chapter 5: Vulnerability and Resilience of Refugee Women and Children By Hadijah Mwenyango and George Palattiyil, Department of Social Work & Social Administration, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Although migration is perceived as an immediate response to crises, those affected by forced displacement face significant risks and vulnerability. Drawing on mixed-methods research findings from Uganda’s Nakivale Refugee Settlement, this chapter examines the conceptualization of vulnerability and its impact on refugee women and children. The findings show that women and children continue to suffer physical, social, economic, structural and environmental vulnerabilities after settlement. Their lives paint a complex picture of human rights violations, discrimination, political persecution. There is a need to use the strength-based approach to build their resilience. Social work is envisaged to work in solidarity with those who are disadvantaged by removing obstacles to personal development and access to resources and promote social inclusion. Social work should lead the way in designing and delivering multi-sectoral programs aimed at promoting their well-being. With social work’s commitment to social justice, human rights and empowerment of the poor, we argue that robust and coproduced interventions are needed if we are committed to facilitating their recovery from suffering, strengthening their resilience and transforming their lives.    Chapter 6: Critical Green Social Work as Futuristic Social Work Practice By Carolyn Noble, Emerita Professor, Social Work ACAP, Sydney, Emerita Professor, Social Work, Victoria University, Melbourne This chapter explores the critical ‘discontents’ of capitalism and global neo-liberalism highlighting the ecological damages, natural disasters, socio-political problems and health pandemics that have resulted from its rapid growth and been exacerbated post COVID-19 where further changes in social, political, cultural, and economic life have created more social problems and dislocations. Social work needs a stronger collective voice in addressing environmental destruction and the impact of COVID-19 to address social issues and problems, protect life and the environment in which all species and non-species live. ‘Green’ social work in focusing on challenging humanism and its destructive elements is great place to start. To move forward, however it needs to form allegiances with eco-feminists, indigenous land politics and provide a potent vison and practice for the future. A future that will face and respond to the impact of climate change, environmental destruction, and the COVID-19 pandemic and advocate for policies and programs that challenge rampant capitalism and post-colonial politics and their environmental destruction on humans and non-humans and the planet.  Part III.            Capacities of Social Work Education, Practice and Research  Chapter 7 Partnership in Social Work Education Along the New Silk Road: Towards a Transformative Cultural Inclusion Model  By Angelina Yuen-Tsang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Benjamin H.B. Ku, HKPU, Gulmira Abdiraiymova, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, In Young Han, EWHA Womens University, Korea,  Mona Khoury-Kassabri, Hebrew University, Israel, Lan Nguyen, Vietnam National University, Fengzhi Ma, Beijing University,  Sabira Serikzhanova, Department of Sociology and Social Work for Science and International Relations, Al-Farabi Kazakh, National University, Li Shen, Shanghai Normal University, Roni Strier, School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel. There is a revitalization of collaboration among countries along the ancient Silk Road, including the routes on-land and the sea routes. This New Silk Road initiatives enhance regional connectivity, mutual understanding and sharing, and appreciation of cultural diversity through collaboration in social work education. It is expected that the initiative will continue to grow and will significantly impact the future development of social work education and transform the paradigm of regional and international collaboration amidst the global reset. Social work educators from countries and regions along the New Silk Road, including China, Hong Kong, Israel, Kazakhstan, South Korea, and Vietnam, highlighted the opportunities and challenges in strengthening collaboration among different especially with the global reset brought about by the covid-19 pandemic. The authors propose a model on partnership for our on-going and future social work collaborations in the regional and international arena. Social work is a catalyst for social change and development and the partnership hopefully will redress the divisive global discourse through proactive collaboration.  Chapter 8: Globalization and Future of Social Work Practice and Education By Viktor Virág, Nagasaki International University, Youjin Chung, SUSS, Ngoh Tiong Tan, SUSS, Mariko Kimura, Japan Women’ s University, Boon Kheng Seng, Singapore University of Social Sciences This research seeks to understand the impact of globalization and how international contexts and unique cultures shape the models of social work practice in different countries and specifically, Japan and Singapore. On the global level, most responses ranked economic and political changes as the most impactful social changes for social work. Knowledge, awareness, attitudes and skills were ranked as most necessary social work competencies in the context of globalization. Globalization related courses in the social work programs included lectures, seminars and practicum courses. It is necessary that teachers in social work engage in faculty development for global social work education. Social work must necessarily respond to the culture and the countries unique context. Social changes in terms of the social milieu and globalization shape the models of social work practice in different countries. Social work model for the future is poised towards cross cultural, creative, resilient and integrated as well as value-based, international social work.    Chapter 9: Reflective Ethical Decision Making Process for Advancing Social Work By Monika Čajko Eibicht, Charles University, & Walter Lorenz, Charles University, Pátkova, Czech Republic The study presents reflectivity as a key tool of inter-personal practice in the health and social care professions. Adopted from psychotherapeutic contexts, reflectivity enhances accountable practice through critical self-awareness. This chapter briefly reports on the results of comparative research that found significant differences between both professional groups against the background of their respective practice and training experiences. This has implications for selecting candidates for both professions and provides a broader understanding of how reflective practices can involve practitioners critically in ongoing global social and policy developments globally. The authors stressed a comprehensive and detailed understanding of reflection and '‘mindfulness'’ for social care and health professionals. concerning the concept's psychological and political implications in the face of current social policy trends.    Chapter 10. Knowledge creation in social work during the time of COVD-19 By Justin Francis Leon V. Nicolas, University of the Philippines Diliman This chapter discusses the experience of three graduate students of social work enrolled in field instruction on the first semester that it has been redesigned to be handled using totally remote approaches due to the restrictions of the COVD-19 community quarantine in the Philippines. Using a critical realist stance, the authors re-described theories used to analyze knowledge creation in social work to come up with a framework on knowledge creation systems in social work field instruction in the time of COVD-19. Knowledge shared by the organizations, the clients, faculty supervisors, agency supervisors, combined with theories and perspectives in social work and theories specific to the sectors involved and the insights gleaned from innovative practice which led to technology assisted helping approaches and technology mediated learning, as well as the construction of strategies reflected in the proposed models of the graduate students. This knowledge creation is vital towards the remaking of social work for the future.   Part IV.            Looking Forward: Global Challenges Chapter 11. Making Societies Social Again After the Crisis By Walter Lorenz, Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Humanities The spread of the Covid-19 virus has triggered a global crisis which has profound social implications. It can be shown that the weakening of social rights and bonds caused by the constraints on welfare spending and a diminishing commitment to equality in recent social policy developments has now exacerbated social divisions. The nature of these polarization behind these cleavages has been clearly recognized in social work and the knowledge and experience of this profession and discipline can therefore provide essential reference points towards the re-building of social solidarity in post-Corona societies. In this project, the Global Definition of Social Work, ratified jointly by IASSW and IFSW forms an incentive to strengthen social workers’ political role in combination with their inter-personal competences.  Chapter 12. Equipping Social Workers for a New Global Era By P.K. Shajahan, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India This final chapter provides a vision of the way ahead for social work into the next millennium. Coivd19 pandemic has brought to the fore heightened vulnerabilities and increasing inequalities in the global society. The concomitant challenges the profession of social work faces, need a careful analysis for future of social work engagements. Beyond the current pandemic, the possibility of other such economic, social, health and environmental crises necessitates the need for developing newer tools in addressing inequalities and enhanced vulnerabilities for marginalised communities. In addition to this, citing relevant literatures on the future world of work, the chapter emphasise the need for new age skills for social workers to uphold the avowed principles of social justice and promoting human agency. Annexure: AUTHOR’S RESUME 1.      Tan Ngoh Tiong, PhD, is Professor and former Dean of S. R. Nathan School of Human Development, Singapore University of Social Sciences.  He is currently Treasurer, and Main Representative to United Nations Bangkok for International Association of Schools of Social Work, President of ConneXions International, and Chair of the Global Institute of Social Work. He served on a number of Boards including International Consortium for Social Development, Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises, National Council of Social Services and Family Resource and Training Centre. He is past Co-chair of Commonwealth Organization for Social Workers, Life member and Past President of Singapore Association of Social Workers, past Vice President of International Federation of Social Workers. He led IFSW and COSW’s Families And Survivors of Tsunami Project as an international social work response to the Asian tsunami disaster. Dr Tan was a consultant to a UNICEF Project in Thailand, Principal Investigator for research and consultancy projects. He has also taught social work models, family practice, conflict resolution and mediation, disaster management, research and evaluation courses at the university.  He has authored and edited a number of books and scholarly articles and was consultant editor and reviewer for a number of international journals.   2.      P.K. Shajahan, PhD, is a Professor of Social Work and Dean, Academic Affairs at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. He was formerly the Dean, Social Protection, Dean Students' Affairs, Chairperson, Centre for Community Organisation and Development Practice and Chairperson of South Asia Centre for Studies in Conflicts Peace and Human Security at TISS. He is currently the Vice-President of International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and represents ICSW at the Task Force on Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development 2020 - 2030. As a Member of the Board of Directors, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), he Chairs the Publication Committee of IASSW. He along with colleagues from Europe, Americas and Africa founded two global academic alliances - Critical Edge Alliance (CEA) and Solidarity Economy Reciprocity and Social Innovation (SERESI). He is heading international collaborative academic projects with University of Bristol (UK), Roskilde University (Denmark), University College Dublin (Ireland), University of California, Berkeley and Tribhuvan University (Nepal). His research, publications and areas of expertise include, Participatory Development; Social Enterprises and Social Innovation; Diversity and Social Cohesion; Community and Civic Engagement; School Education and Accountability; Social Protection and Social Policies; International Social Work; and Youth Development. He has been a visiting faculty at University of Chicago (USA), Gavle University (Sweden), Tampere University (Finland) and Roskilde University (Denmark). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6130-230X   1.      Leila Patel is Professor of Social Development Studies and holds the South African Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.  She is also the Founding Director of the Centre for Social Development in Africa where she is based and conducts leading edge research in social welfare and social work in development contexts. Much of this research grapples with documenting and understanding the progression of social welfare and social development in the Global South in a rapidly changing world. Her research interests include social protection, gender, care and social work and social services for children and families and youth with a particular focus on youth employment issues. Currently she is conducting a multi-and trans-disciplinary research of Community of Practice for social Systems Strengthening to improve child well-being outcomes. Her work experience spans academia, government, non-profit organisations and private sector social involvement initiatives. She was the former Director General of Social Welfare in the Mandela government and played a leading role in the development of South Africa’s welfare policy after apartheid. Leila was Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and later, as head of the Department of Social Work at the University of Johannesburg.   2.      Elena Allegri, Ph.D., is Professor (Tenured researcher) in Sociology and Social Work, Department of Law and Political, Economic and Social Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy. She's main fields of research interest are: critical and anti-oppressive social work, community social work, migration studies and involvement of service users in research and education. Elena Allegri https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-0675   3.      Mara Sanfelici, Ph.D, is a research fellow at the University of Trieste, Italy. She collaborates as a social work researcher at the National Foundation of Social Workers.  Her research interests relate to social work in personal and collective crises, migration studies and parenting in poverty. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6588-5338   4.      Barbara Rosina (Ph.D.) is a social worker with many years of experience in mental health services. She teaches Principles and Fundamentals Basis of Social Work - theory and ethics at the University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy. Her research interests relate to social work in mental health and violence against social workers. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3552-5267   3.      Elena M. Cortes-Florín. MSc., Social Worker, Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, member of the Research Group on Social Work and Social Services, Department of Social Work and Social Services, Faculty of Economics, University of Alicante (Spain) and doctoral student in the doctorate program in Business, Economics and Society at the University of Alicante (Spain). Her research focuses on the participation and co-production of users and professionals of social services in the decision-making processes. His main research interests include the study and analysis of co-production in social services at the micro, meso and macro levels, the right of participation of users and professionals of social services, the practice of social work in organizational contexts, the teaching practice in social work and the educational innovation in social work. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1111-0179   4.      Víctor M. Giménez-Bertomeu, PhD, Social Worker, Sociologist, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Director of the Research Group on Social Work and Social Services, Department of Social Work and Social Services, Faculty of Economics, University of Alicante (Spain). Prior to working in social work education, he worked as social worker and team manager in the social services of the city of Alicante (Spain). His teaching interests focus on social work research, social work with organizations and social services. His main research interests include development and validation of standardized instruments for social work assessment, users’ participation at macro and micro levels, social work practice and organizational contexts, teaching practice in social work, and social work research. He has served as Vice-Dean of Social Work Field Practice (2008-2010) and Vice-Dean of Social Work (2010-2018) at the University of Alicante (Spain). ORCID iD: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7405-4090   2.      Javier Ferrer-Aracil. MSc., Social Worker, Anthropologist, Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (TA), Department of Social Work and Social Services, Faculty of Economics, University of Alicante (Spain). Member of the Research Group on Social Work and Social Services (GITSS) of the University of Alicante (Spain), and of the Research Institute on Migration, Ethnicity and Social Development of the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). He has developed his professional activity in the field of social intervention, both in the public and private sectors, highlighting his time in the Intercultural Community Intervention Project of the ""la Caixa"" Foundation in which he has held positions of different responsibility during ten years. His teaching interests focus on social work with communities and on social work models and methods. His research interests include community action, sociability processes in multicultural contexts, and innovation. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4455-0587   3.      Dr. Hadijah Mwenyango is a Lecturer in Social Work at Makerere University Kampala. She is the current Course Director for the Master of Social Work (MSW) Course on Human Rights, Ethics and Values in Social Work. She is a Regional Coordinator for the IASSW’s East African Social Work Regional Resource Centre (rrc.mak.ac.ug); a member of the Global Refugee Health Research Network (GRHRN) based at the University of Edinburgh UK and an Associate Member at the Centre for Health and Social Economic Improvement (CHASE-i’s). Dr. Mwenyango also chairs the Ugandan Board of Directors for the Children of Ssuubi (NGO) https://childrenofssuubi.com/. Her teaching and research interests include Social Work, Forced Migration and Refugees, Health, Human Rights, Social Services and Social policy. She has engaged in various research projects and published widely about the situation of refugees. She strongly believes in partnerships as a means to bridge the gap between research, policy and practice. She currently offers support for coordination and facilitation of an Online Course on Health and Migration organised by the Centre for Health and Migration, Vienna and Makerere University.   5.      Dr. George Palattiyil is Head of SW and a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. His teaching and research interests are in the area of forced migration and refugees, human rights, individuals and families affected by HIV and AIDS and older people. With teaching and research experience spanning across India, Scotland, Jordan, Uganda and Bangladesh, he is deeply committed to diversity and social justice and is passionate about internationalising the curriculum and cross-cultural learning. For his contribution to student support, he won the Best Personal Tutor Award by the Edinburgh University Students Association in 2019. He sits on the Board of Directors of Multi-Cultural Family Base, and the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services. He has served on the British Journal of Social Work editorial board and currently contributes to the Editorial Board of Practice – Social Work in Action and European Social Work Research Journal, and is coediting a special issue on Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development. He also sits on the Advance HE Working Group: Embedding Race Equality in FE/HE in Scotland – Understanding and Developing an Anti-Racist Curriculum project.   6.      Carolyn Noble, MSW, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at ACAP in Sydney and Emerita Professor of Social Work at Victoria University, Melbourne. She has taught and developed undergraduate and post-graduate programs in social work, counselling and psychotherapy, social science, mental health, and professional supervision; all with a critical lens. She has been active in Australian, Asia Pacific and International Schools of Social Work Associations and has held executive positions in each of these organisations. Her research interests include social work theory, philosophy and ethics, critical pedagogies, and professional supervision. Further areas of research include gender democracy and equal employment opportunity for women in higher education and human services. She is editor-in-chief of open access social issues magazine for IASSW.   4.      Professor Angelina Yuen was President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and is actively involved in capacity building programmes in the international arena. She was Vice President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University responsible for global and student affairs before her retirement in 2018.  She is Hon. Professor of PolyU, and Visiting Professor of Peking University, Sichuan University, Yunnan University, China Women’s University and Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology. She has been actively involved in the promotion of social work education and capacity building programmes for social workers in Hong Kong, Mainland China and many developing countries. In particular, Professor Yuen has been actively involved in the development of social work education in the Chinese Mainland since the late 1980s and had played a key role in introducing the first MSW programme in the country, in collaboration with Peking University. Professor Yuen is advisor and Executive Board Member of numerous government organizations and charitable foundations in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. These include the Hong Kong Social Workers’ Association, Hong Kong Academy of Social Work, All-China Federation of Women, China Association of Social Work Education and the Keswick Foundation of Hong Kong. Professor Yuen was appointed Justice of Peace and awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Government.   5.      Hok Bun KU obtained his PhD from the department of anthropology and sociology at SOAS, University of London. He is associate professor, panel chair of sociology, program leader of Doctor in Social Work in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also honorable professor at the China Youth University for Political Sciences. He is the director of the Peking U-PolyU Social Work Research Center and China Research and Development Network. He is chief editor of China Journal of Social Work and associate editor of Action Research. He was Fulbright Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis in 2007 and Senior Research Fellow at Durham University in UK. He has been an honorable professor at the Minzu University of China, Yunnan University, Sun Yat-sen University in China, and Shandong Youth University for Political Sciences. He has also been visiting scholar at the Central China Agriculture University and Taiwan National Central University, York University in Toronto.   7.      Gulmira Abdiraiymoba is a Doctor of sociological sciences, Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Work at al-Farabi Kazakh National University. She is currently a Director of Center of Sociological Researches and Social Engineering at al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Her special expertise lies in higher education system reforms, value orientations and life strategies of youth, national youth policy. She is the author of over 200 scientific publications. She served as Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists at the Foundation of the First President of Kazakhstan (2007-2020), member of the Council for Youth Policy under the President of Kazakhstan, Scientific Secretary of the Association of Sociologists of Kazakhstan, Chairman of the Dissertation Council at al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2013-2014) in social sciences. She was awarded the Prize for young scientists of the Association of Sociologists of Kazakhstan (2003),  M. Auezov Prize for the best work in the field of humanities (2006), the state grant ""The best teacher of the university"" (2007), the state scholarship for outstanding scientists of Kazakhstan (2010-2012), the badge of the Ministry of Education and Science ""For merits in the development of science "" (2012), Badge of the Ministry of Education and Science ""Honorary Worker of Education"" (2014).   8.      In-young Han, Ph.D, ACSW is Professor Emeritus at Ewha Woman’s University.  Professor Han is a licensed clinician and educator in Social Work especially on mental health, health, child welfare, and family therapy. She earned her doctoral degree from Case Western Reserve University and held clinical positions in the United States before assuming her academic post in Korea. Her research on child sex abuse set national data in Korea. Professor Han has involved in international activities and made key note speech on Human Rights during World Congress in Melbourne.  She hosted Global Social Work Congress held in Seoul 2016. She has served numerous government and non-profit organizations in Korea and abroad and helped found the Social Work Master’s Program at Royal Phnom Penh University in Cambodia.   6.      Mona Khoury-Kassabri, is professor and the Vice President for Strategy and Diversity. She is previous Dean of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  She is an alumna of the Israel Young Academy and of the Global Young Academy. She holds the Frances and George Katz Family Chair at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University. Prof. Khoury-Kassabri had won the Bruno Memorial Award, presented to young scholars by the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS). She was a visiting professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work University of Toronto. Khoury-Kassabri’s research revolves around issues related to child and youth welfare. It focuses on child and adolescents’ deviant and delinquent behaviors in three particular areas: school violence, cyberbullying, and juvenile delinquency and political violence.   7.      Associate Professor Nguyen Thi Thai Lan is senior lecturer, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Hanoi. She gained her B.A. in Vietnam, a Master of Social Work from the University of Regina, Canada (2004), and a PhD in Social Work from the University of New South Wales, Sydney (2015). She is among the pioneer qualified trained lecturers in social work in Vietnam at the beginning of the 2000s. Her contribution to the development of social work in Vietnam is well acknowledged in both field: education and professionalization of the social work profession. She has been involving in the development of undergraduate and graduate social work training program as well as of the training materials in local context. Her teaching and research fields include social welfare rights, child care and protection, social services for children and persons with disabilities, social care, the social work professionalization, social work theories and models, and social work indigenization and authentization. Some of her current research projects are Implementing the people' welfare rights through Social Care in Vietnam; social work professionalization (2020); Family sustainability and child protection in Vietnam, Multi-country review of the social service workforce in the East Asia and Pacific region: Vietnamese case.   9.      Fengzhi Ma is Professor of social work at Peking University. She is a leading figure in social work education in China and actively promotes the professionalization and indigenization of social work in China. Currently, she serves as Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Association of Social Work Education, Executive Vice Director of the National Committee for MSW Education, and Co-Director of PKU-HK PolyU China Social Work Research Centre. Her research areas include social work education, medical social work, family social work, social transformation and social development, etc.   10.  Sabira Serikzhanova received her B.Sc in Social Work from al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan. She holds an MSc and a Ph.D. in Sociology. She serves as a Deputy Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Work for Science and International Relations at al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Serikzhanova is involved in multiple national and international research projects. Her research interests include social integration of internal migrants, new forms of inequality in urban space, neighborhood effects and young scholars’ careers. Her research initiatives have been supported by, among others, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, N. Nazarbayev Foundation and Open Society Foundations. She is the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan’s ""Best University Teacher of 2020"", and The Best Young Scientist of al-Farabi KazNU of 2020, Kazakhstan Sociological Association Award winner for talented young scientists.   8.      Shen Li is a professor and the director of the MSW Program at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He is the deputy director and secretary-general of the Social Work Supervision Committee of the China Association of Social Work Education and the director of the Social Work Ethics Committee of the Shanghai Association of Social Workers. His research interests focus on social work ethics and social work supervision.   9.      Roni Strier is an Associated Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa, Israel. His areas of teaching and research are social exclusion, poverty, university-community partnerships, and fatherhood studies. He is the founder of the Leadership and Social Change Track at the SWMA Program, the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Poverty and Social Exclusion, the University of Haifa Flagship Program ""Fighting Social Exclusion and Promoting Solidarity"", and the founder and present academic chair of the University of Haifa Academic Unit for Social Mobility and Higher Education. Prof. Strier has published multiple articles in main academic journals such as Higher Education, Journal of Social Policy, British Journal of Social Work, Social Work, etc.   10.  Dr. Viktor Virág is Senior Assistant Professor of Social Work, Faculty and Graduate School of Human and Social Studies, Nagasaki International University. His other teaching experience includes lecturing at the Japan College of Social Work, Showa Women’s University, Sophia University, Hosei University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, and Hitotsubashi University. He is a Board Member of the Japanese Association for the Study of International Social Work, the Japanese Society for the Study of Social Work, and the Japanese Association of Social Workers. He is on the International Committees of the Japanese Federation of Social Workers and the Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare. Formerly, he served as Secretary for International Affairs at the Japanese Association of Schools of Social Work, as Special Assistant to the President at the International Federation of Social Workers Asia Pacific Region, on the International Affairs Committee of the Japanese Association for Social Work Education, and as Board Member of the Asian and Pacific Association for Social Work Education. In Japan, he authored the books Social Work in the Era of Diversity: Professional Educational Program for Supporting Migrants and other Minorities and Understanding Migrant Care Workers: Building a Good Working Environment through Recognizing Differences. His research interests are diversity and international issues in social work education and practice.   11.  Dr Youjin Chung is a senior lecturer at the Social Work Programme, S R Nathan School of Human Development, Singapore University of Social Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from National University of Singapore. Her research area covers mental health: community mental health (mental health services and service delivery system), adolescents’ identity and well-being, practitioners’ well-being and resilience, and social work education and field placement. Recently she has conducted and published research on frontline social workers’ stress, resilience and organizational support. She has served on several social service institutes and organisations: Social Service Institute, Singapore Children Society, and Social Service Research in NUS.   12.  Dr. Mariko Kimura is Professor Emeritus, Japan Women’s University.  She has worked as a social work educator over 25 years specialized in international social work, and community mental health. She received Ph.D. from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1993, she taught at Tokai University, Kwansei Gakuin University, and Japan Women’s University. Between 2014 and 2018, she served as the Regional President of International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) Asia Pacific Regional President. She was awarded Andrew Mouravieff- Apostol Medal, the highest honour of the IFSW.  She has served for the IFSW Education Commission since 2016 and now representing Asia Pacific Region.  She is a member of Japanese Association of Mental Health Social Workers.  She has written a number of book chapters, social work textbooks, and Journal articles on international social work and community mental health. Her recent work includes book chapters on “Globalization and International Social Work” In International Social Welfare, (2020), and “Inter-organizational network development in IFSW Asia Pacific Regional member countries”, Best Practices of Social Work Methods.   13.  Dr Boon Kheng Seng is Professor and Head of Social Work, S R Nathan School of Human Development, at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). She is a registered social worker (RSW) and has been practicing social work in the Healthcare sector for many years. Prior to her joining SUSS, she was the Head of the Social Work Department at the Institute of Mental Health. She has served on several and is currently serving on some of the Boards of Professional Bodies, National Councils and Voluntary Welfare Organizations in the National Council of Social Service and the Ministry of Social and Family Development. She is a qualified therapist in Clinical Hypnosis, Neuro- Linguistic Programming and Reality Therapy. She has published research papers in various areas including mental health, caregiving and dementia.   11.  Monika Čajko Eibicht is a Ph.D. student of the Social Work program at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, with a professional background in nursing and social work. She obtained her nursing qualifications in Canada, one in community nursing at the Thomson Rivers University in Kamloops, and one in emergency nursing education at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver. She subsequently graduated with a master's degree in social work at Charles University, Prague. She is working currently under a research contract with Charles University’s Faculty of Humanities on international research tasks and projects. Her doctoral research focuses on promoting reflection in health and social work education.   12.  Walter Lorenz was Professor of social work at University College, Cork in Ireland (1978-2001) and at the Free University of Bozen /Bolzano in Italy (2001-2017) where he served also two 4-year terms as Rector. He is currently contract professor at Charles University Prague. A native of Germany, he qualified as a social worker at the London School of Economics and practised this profession for 8 years in East London. His research interests cover anti-racism practice and current and historical aspects of European social work and social policy. He co-founded the European Journal of Social Work and Social Work & Society together with Hans-Uwe Otto. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Ghent and Aalborg.   13.  Dr. Justin Francis Leon V. Nicolas, is a registered social worker and an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development in Diliman, Quezon City. He is currently the Chairperson of the Department of Social Work and part of the Doctor of Social Development Program faculty pool. He is president of the Social Welfare and Development Leaning Network (SWD L-Net) in the National Capital Region. He received his PhD in Social Work from the University of Newcastle, Australia with the thesis titled Articulating Creativity in Social Work Practice. He finished his BS Social Work and Master of Social Work at the University of the Philippines. He has served as Field Instruction Coordinator at the UP CSWCD and as former board member of the National Association of Social Work Education Inc. Philippines where he was president of the NASWEI NCR Chapter. He was a lecturer of Sociology at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines for eight years prior to teaching at the University of the Philippines. He was also a policy analyst at the Council for the Welfare of Children under the Department of Social Welfare and Development."

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Ngoh Tiong Tan, PhD, is professor and former Dean of Singapore University of Social Sciences.  He is Treasurer, Co-chair of the Publications Committee and Main Representative to United Nations Bangkok for International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), President of ConneXions International, and Chair of Global Institute of Social Work. He served on the International Consortium for Social Development and National Council of Social Services Boards. He is past Co-chair of Commonwealth Organization for Social Workers, Past President of Singapore Association of Social Workers, past Vice-President of International Federation of Social Workers. Dr. Tan was a consultant to a UNICEF Project in Thailand, Principal Investigator for research and consultancy projects. He has taught social work models, family practice, conflict resolution and mediation, disaster management, research and evaluation courses at the University.  He has authored and edited a number of books and scholarly articles and was consultant editor and reviewer for international journals. P.K. Shajahan, PhD, is a professor of Social Work and Dean, Academic Affairs at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, India. He was formerly the Dean, Social Protection, Dean Students' Affairs, Chairperson, Centre for Community Organisation and Development Practice and Chairperson of South Asia Centre for Studies in Conflicts Peace and Human Security at TISS. He is currently the Vice-President of International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and represents ICSW at the Task Force on Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development 2020 - 2030. As a Member of the Board of Directors, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), he chairs the Publication Committee of IASSW. He, along with colleagues from Europe, the Americas and Africa, founded two global academic alliances – Critical Edge Alliance (CEA) and Solidarity Economy Reciprocity and Social Innovation (SERESI). His research, publications and areas of expertise include Participatory Development, Social Enterprises and Social Innovation, Diversity and Social Cohesion, Community and Civic Engagement, School Education and Accountability, Social Protection and Social Policies, International Social Work, and Youth Development. He has been a visiting faculty at University of Chicago (USA), Gavle University (Sweden), Tampere University (Finland) and Roskilde University (Denmark).

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