Nationality British Role Author Name Stephen Webb | Era Theorising social work Region Social work, Sociology | |
Notable ideas Evidence-based practice, New Social Work Left, ethics and value perspectives, history of social work, theories of intervention Books Evidence-based Social Work: A Critical Stance Influenced by Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu, Giorgio Agamben, Karl Marx Main interests | ||
Stephen A. Webb (born 28 November 1958) is Professor of Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. Previously he was Professor of Human Sciences and Director of the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and Professorial Fellow at the University of Sussex. Prior to this he was Reader at University of Sussex. He has held Visiting Professorships in Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and Lithuania and was awarded a DAAD Visiting Professorship at the Bielefeld University, Germany.
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He is author of several highly cited books including Social Work in a Risk Society (Palgrave, 2006) and Evidence-based Social Work: A Critical Stance (with Gray & Plath, Routledge, 2009). He is co-editor (with Gray) of Social Work Theories and Methods (Sage, 2008), the four-volume international reference work International Social Work (Sage, 2010), Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work (Palgrave, 2010). He has completed (with Gray and Midgley) The Handbook of Social Work for Sage, which is the world's first major international reference work in this field. Webb’s critical analysis, Some considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work, is the world’s most highly cited article in the field and the most influential publication in social work over the last ten years. He has completed The New Politics of Critical Social Work for Palgrave and the second edition of Social Work Theories and Methods for Sage, London, which was translated into Korean and Polish.