December 2020 Academic & Specialist Bristol University Press

Research in Social Work

Social Work and the Making of Social Policy Contributions by Frank Sowa, Markus Gottwald, Pawel Polawski, Sergio Sánchez Castineira, Ravit Alfandari, Tony Evans, Michael Lavalette, Rich Moth, Riccardo Guidi, John Gal, Idit Weiss-Gal, Francisco Branco, Paloma Vivaldi Vera, Paolo Raciti, Giovannina Assunta Giuliano, Matteo D'Emilione, Jason Ostrander, Megan Feely, Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, Roger Smith, edited by Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber, Sigrid Leitner

Research in Social Work

Social Work and the Making of Social Policy
Contributions by Frank Sowa, Markus Gottwald, Pawel Polawski, Sergio Sánchez Castineira, Ravit Alfandari, Tony Evans, Michael Lavalette, Rich Moth, Riccardo Guidi, John Gal, Idit Weiss-Gal, Francisco Branco, Paloma Vivaldi Vera, Paolo Raciti, Giovannina Assunta Giuliano, Matteo D'Emilione, Jason Ostrander, Megan Feely, Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, Roger Smith, edited by Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber, Sigrid Leitner


Paperback | Jan 2021 | Policy Press | 9781447349167 | 256pp | 234x156mm | RFB | AUD$64.99, NZD$79.99

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy. 

Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers) in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer examples of policy making from seven different countries and demonstrate how social work practitioners can become political actors, while also encouraging policy makers to become aware of the potential of social work for the social policy-making process.