Inequalities in Zimbabwe : A Challenge for Poverty Eradication and Human Development

Ms. Judith Kaulem
Executive Director, Poverty Reduction Forum Trust, Zimbabwe

Judith Kaulem is the Executive Director of the Poverty Reduction Forum Trust (PRFT) since 2002.  PRFT is a non-profiting-making civil society network of multi-layered, multi-disciplinary, multi-audience process geared towards influencing the formulation of pro-poor policies.

Judith has more than 10 years experience working in human development related issues. She has published two papers on “Poverty Reduction and Land” and “Poverty and Millennium Development Goals” respectively.

She is also the Regional President East and Southern Africa of ICSW and the chairperson of the Management Board of the African Forum on Policy Analysis and Development as well as a Board Member for counseling Services Trust.

Working Poor Disabled

Prof. Darja Zavirsek  
Chair of the Department for Research of Social Justice  and Inclusion, Faculty of Social Work, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Prof. Darja  Zaviršek, Ph.D. is Chair of the Department  for Research of Social Justice and Inclusion at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work and the chair of the Indosow- International Doctoral Studies in Social Work.  Since 2002 she is honorary professor of the University of Applied Sciences Alice Salomon, Berlin. She has established the Eastern European Sub-Regional Association of the Eastern European Schools of Social Work as part of the IASSW and is member of the IASSW, chairing International Small Projects Committee. She writes on gender, disability, ethnicity and history of social work and wrote, edited and co-edited 14 books.

Human Rights and Social Work – Dialogue between East and West

Prof. Silvia Staub-Bernasconi  
Professor of Social Work and Human Rights
University of Applied Social Sciences Zurich and the Technical University in Berlin, Switzerland
& IASSW Katherine Kendall Awardee 2010

Inclusion or Exclusion of People with Intellectual Disability

Prof. Joav Merrick  
Founder and Director
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Israel

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, is professor of child health and human development affiliated with Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States. The medical director of the Health Services, Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem and the founder and director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Israel. Numerous publications in the field of child health and human development, rehabilitation, intellectual disability, disability, health, welfare, abuse, advocacy, quality of life and prevention. Received the Danish Peter Sabroe Child Award in 1985 and the International LEGO-Prize (“The Children’s  Nobel Prize”) in 1987.

The Status Quo and Future Development of China's Social Security System and Social Service System for People with Disabilities

Mr. Xinxian WANG  
Vice-Chairman and President
China Disabled Persons' Federation, China

Reconciling Evidence-based Practice and Practice-based Research: Clinical Data-mining as an Empowering Strategy

Prof. Irwin Epstein  
Rehr Professor in Applied Social Work Research
Hunter College School of Social Work
City University of New York, United States

Irwin Epstein holds the Rehr Chair in Applied Social Work Research at Hunter College School of Social Work in New York City. His primary professional interest is in promoting Practice-based Research (PBR) and engaging practitioners in evaluating their own practice with available agency data.  He refers to this as “clinical data-mining” (CDM) and has conducted CDM workshops at universities and social agencies in Australia, Britain, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States.  His most recent book on the subject is entitled Clinical data-mining: Integrating practice and research, and  was published by Oxford University Press.

Using a ‘Framework of Opportunity’ to Advance Practice Research'

Prof. Chista Fouche  
Associate Professor
School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work
University of Auckland, New Zealand

Dr Christa Fouche is Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is Head of the Bachelor of Social Work programme in the School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work. Christa has been employed in various academic, practice and research roles in South Africa, New Zealand and the USA during her professional career. She has extensive experience as researcher and research mentor with a particular focus on applied research in the social services. The focus of her current research and publications include Professional Workforce Development and Practice-based research strategies.

Is Social Policy Research Scientific?

Prof. Tatsuru Akimoto  
Professor
Graduate School and Faculty of Integrated Arts & Social Sciences
Japan Women's University, Japan

Tatsuru Akimoto, LL.B, MSW, DSW(City University of New York)

Professor, Graduate School and Faculty of Integrated Arts & Social Sciences, Japan Women's University (1990-) [Work and Social Work and International Social Work]; Board Member At-Large (2005-), IASSW; Employment Promotion Expert, ILO, 1992-94; "The unipolar world and inequality in social work:….Implications for social work,"  InternationalSocialWork, No. 5, September 2007, ShrinkageofUrbanSlumsinAsiaandtheirEmploymentAspects. (Ed.). Bangkok: ILO/ROAP, 1998, "A voice from Japan--Requestioning international social work/welfare: Where are we now?  Welfare world and national interest." Japanese Journal of Social Services. No.1.October 1997, etc.

After The Chaos of Traumatic Events: Working With Families and Communities

Prof. Grace H. Christ  
Professor
School of Social Work
Columbia University in NYC, United States

Grace Christ is Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work in NYC. Previously she had extensive practice, research, and administrative experience.  She was the Director of the Social Work Department of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where she established an innovative Social Work Research Unit. She is a co-founder of the Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network. Professor Christ has a substantial research record in oncology, palliative care, bereavement and disaster response. Post September 11 she developed support and research projects with bereaved families of Fire Fighters who died.  She has consulted, published and lectured extensively in the United States and internationally and is the recipient of numerous scholarly awards.

Exercising for Health - Use of Body in Search of Mental and Spiritual Well-Being

Prof. Cecilia L.W. Chan  
Professor
Department of Social Work and Social Administration
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Professor Chan is Si Yuan Professor in Health and Social Work, Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, and Director, Centre on Behavioral Health of the University of Hong Kong.  She is an international expert on integrative body-mind-spirit social work practice. She published hundreds of articles and book chapters in health and mental health, eastern integrative intervention, clinical outcome research, fertility and sterility, psychosocial oncology, bereavement and palliative care. She advocated a strength-focused and meaning-oriented approach in empowerment of traumatized individuals such as cancer patients, women of divorce, bereaved persons and victims of disaster. Her focus is on transformation through pain and suffering.

Community Health Practice: the Indian Scenario

Prof. Vimla Nadkarni  
Professor
School of Social Work
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

Professor Vimla V. Nadkarni, Ph. D., Dean of the School of Social Work (2006-2008), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, has spent 38 years in social work education and practice. Besides her regular teaching within the Centre of Health and Mental Health (formerly, the Department of Medical and Psychiatric Social Work of which she was Head from 1986-2005), she is involved in research and writing. Her edited book titled ``NGOs, Urban Health and the Poor’’ has been recently published by Rawat Publishers. She is Member at Large of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and Associate Editor (Asia) of the Social Work Education: the International Journal.

Stretching Social Work Wings of Influence in the Political Environments

Prof. Ira Colby  
President, Council of Social Work Education, &
Dean of Graduate College of Social Work
University of Houston, United States

Ira Colby is Dean of Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston. Currently Dr. Colby is serving as President of the Council on Social Work Education. He has more than 30 years of experience in social work education. Dr. Colby has served as principal investigator on many research projects; he has authored over 60 publications. His achievements have been recognized with a number of awards, including the Texas State Senate Resolution for Outstanding Contributions to the state, the Tarrant County (Texas) Social Worker of the Year, the Central Florida Social Worker of the Year, the Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Texas-Arlington, and the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work.

Taking Sides: Social Work in an Era of Zombie Capitalism

Dr. Iain Ferguson  
Convener, Social Work Action Network, &
Senior Lecturer in Social Work
University of Stirling, United Kingdom

Dr Iain Ferguson is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Before coming into social work education, he worked for many years as a social worker and community worker in the West of Scotland. Recent publications include an edited collection International Social Work and the Radical Tradition (with Michael Lavalette, Venture Press, 2007), Reclaiming Social Work: Challenging Neo-liberalism and Promoting Social Justice (Sage, 2008) and Radical Social Work in Practice (with Rona Woodward), (Policy Press, 2009.)  He is a founder member of the Social Work Action Network, a radical campaigning network in the UK.

Criticality, Reflexive Processes and Social Work Practice: Time to Revisit Core Social Work Concepts in Light of Contemporary Challenges?

Prof. Lena Dominelli  
Professor and Chair
School of Applied Social Sciences
Durham University, United Kingdom

Prof. DOMINELLI is the Professor of Applied Social Sciences, School of Applied Social Sciences in University of Durham. She was also the President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) from 1996-2004. She is an experienced educator, practitioner and has rich and extensive career in action research. She has published over thirty books in the fields of sociology, social policy and social work and several of which have been classics on gender and ethnic relations and anti-oppressive practice. She has received accolades for her contributions to social welfare in the international arena, including medal from the Social Affairs Committee of the French Senate.

Strategies for Social Development: Social Workers' Contribution

Prof. James Midgley  
Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services and
Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Welfare
University of California, Berkeley, United States

James Midgley is Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services and Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley. He has published widely on social development, social policy and international social welfare. His most recent books include Social Policy for Development (with Anthony Hall, Sage Publications, 2004); Lessons from Abroad: Adapting International Social Welfare Innovations (editor with M. C. Hokenstad NASW Press, 2004); International Perspectives on Welfare to Work Policy Haworth Press, 2006 (editor with Richard Hoefer); Social Security, the Economy and Development, Palgrave, 2008 (editor with Kwong-leung Tang) and The Handbook of Social Policy, Sage, 2009 (editor with Michelle Livermore) and Social Security and Poverty in East Asia (editor with Kwong-leung Tang). 

The Intersection of Human Rights with the Social-Cultural Pillar: A Perspective from ASEAN

Ms. Braema Mathi  
Regional President (South East Asian & Pacific)
International Council on Social Welfare, &
Committee Member, MARUAH, Singapore

Ms Braema Mathiaparanam is the current Regional President of the ICSW (South East Asia and Pacific).

She is also the Singapore focal point for The Working Group on ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism and currently leads a local group called, MARUAH, that works on human rights. Ms Braema recently completed a research on Unmet Social Needs for the Lien Centre of Social Innovation. As an activist for the last 16 years, Ms Braema has been President of the leading women's group in Singapore, AWARE and is currently the Vice-President of Action for Aids. She was a former Nominated Member of Parliament and continues to serve on committees for the Ministry of Health. 

People’s New Strategic Engagements for Larger Freedom in a Globalizing World: The Challenges for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the Information Age

Prof. On-Kwok Lai  
Professor
Graduate School of Policy Studies
Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

On-Kwok LAI, Professor at Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan, honorary professorship in Social Policy and fellowship in Urban Planning at The University of Hong Kong. Graduated from The University of Hong Kong (B.Soc.Sc., M.Soc.Sc.), and University of Breman (Dr.rer.pol.), Germany, he has taught/researched in Germany, China and New Zealand. He publishes over 100 journal papers and book-chapters on environmental, social and urban issues and policy in Asia and Europe, and has been invited as speaker for conferences of UNESCO, UNU-IAS and WHO. His recent research is on: social development issues of information society and globalization.

Evidence-based Practice and Social Work: Myths and Misconceptions

Prof. Bruce Thyer  
Professor of Social Work
Florida State University, United States

Prof. Bruce A. Thyer is the Professor of the College of Social Work of Florida State University and Professor of the Department of Social Welfare of Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. He also was the Professor of the Department of Social Work of University of Georgia and Visiting Professor of the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom and Queens’ University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Prof. Thyer’s research interests include Evidence-based Practice in Social Work, Behavior Analysis in Social Work, Evaluation Research and Clinical Social Work. He has published more than 230 refereed journal articles and 30 books.

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Practice-literate Research: Turning the Tables

Prof. Mike Fisher  
Head of Quality & Research
Social Care Institute for Excellence, United Kingdom

Professor Mike Fisher is Head of Quality and Research at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) – the UK national body developing the evidence base for social work and social care. At SCIE, he directs a programme of work on systematic reviews and on developing the research infrastructure for social work and social care.

Before moving to SCIE in 2001, he directed the National Institute for Social Work Research Unit and taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Bradford and York. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, and a qualified social worker.

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Linking Social Work Research and Practice: Global Issues and Local Experiences

Prof. Daniel T.L. SHEK 
Chair Professor
Department of Applied Social Sciences
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Daniel Shek (PhD, FHKPS, BBS, JP) is Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Advisory Professor of East China Normal University, and Honorary Professor of Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau. He is Chief Editor of Journal of Youth Studies, Consulting Editor of Journal of Clinical Psychology,and international consultant of American Journal of Family Therapy. He is Chairman of the Action Committee Against Narcotics of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He has published 46 books, 76 book chapters and more than 300 articles in international refereed journals.

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Asset Building for Development

Prof. Michael Sherraden  
Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development, and
Founding Director of Centre for Social Development
George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Washington University, United States

Dr. Michael Sherraden is Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development and founding director of the Center for Social Development (CSD), George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, and visiting Distinguished Chaired Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  He has proposed and studied asset building strategies for family and community development, including Individual Development Accounts (IDAs, matched savings for the poor), and universal Child Development Accounts (CDAs).  CSD research on IDAs and CDAs has influenced policy in the United States and many other countries, including the Australia, China, Canada, China, Hungary, Korea, Peru, Uganda, and the United Kingdom. For example, in the United Kingdom, Sherraden extensively advised the Prime Minister’s Office and Chancellor of the Exchequer in creating a Child Trust Fund, a savings account for every child beginning at birth.  CSD is also engaged in international research on civic engagement, productive aging, and other topics related to security and participation across the life course.  With colleagues Nancy Morrow-Howell and Gao Jianguo, CSD organized a 2009 conference on productive aging in China, the first of its kind in that country.  Sherraden has been a Fulbright Research Fellow, and a visiting professor in Israel, Mexico, and Singapore.  In 2009 he was honored to give the wrap up speech for Social Work Day at the United Nations.

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Getting Through Life Course Transitions

Prof. Walter R. Heinz  
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
International Graduate School of Social Sciences
University of Bremen, Germany

Since 2005 Senior Faculty, BIGSSS; 1972-2004 Professor of Sociology and Psychology, University of Bremen; 2002-2004 Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences; 1998-2004 Director of the Institute for Research on Social Opportunities (ISO), Cologne, Germany; 1988-2001, Chair, Special Research Centre “Status Passages and Social Risks in the Life Course”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); 1995/96 Visiting Chair of German and European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada; since 1992 Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota, USA, Universities of Alberta (Edmonton) and British Columbia (Vancouver), Canada.

Research Interests: Life course dynamics with a focus on transitions between education, training and employment.

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Poverty and Exclusion: a World of Differences and Similarities

Prof. Julien Damon  
Head
Department of Social Affairs at the Centre for Strategic Analysis
Paris Institute for Political Sciences, France

Julien Damon est professeur associé à Sciences-Po (Master d’Urbanisme). Ancien responsable de la Mission Solidarité de la Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer, puis de la recherche et des études dans le cadre de la branche Famille de la Sécurité sociale, il a été également chef du service des Affaires sociales au Centre d’analyse stratégique, auprès du Premier ministre.

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Social Innovation, Social Care and the Search for New Ways to Integrate Formal and Informal Support

Mr. Geoff Mulgan  
Director
The Young Foundation, United Kingdom

Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation and oversaw its creation in 2005/6 out of the Institute of Community Studies and the Mutual Aid Centre, both previously run by Michael Young who Harvard’s Daniel Bell described as ‘probably the world’s most successful entrepreneur of social enterprises’.

He has lectured in over 30 countries and is a visiting professor at London School of Economics, University College London, Melbourne University, and  the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy in Shanghai, and is a visiting fellow at the Australia New Zealand School of Government and the UK National School of Government.

His most recent book is The Art of Public Strategy: mobilising power and knowledge for the common good, published by Oxford University Press in December 2008.

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Dialogue in the Dark – Social Change Towards Social Innovation

Dr. Andreas Heinecke  
CEO and Founder
Dialogue Social Enterprise, Germany

Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, a dynamic Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization focusing on enabling the poor, and especially the poorest, to create a world without poverty, utilizing the tools of microfinance and technology.  GF has grown to a global network of microfinance and technology partners in more than 25 countries. Counts became Grameen Foundation’s first chief executive in 1997, after ten years of working in microfinance and poverty reduction, including six years living and working in Bangladesh. In 2007, he received the Horace Mann Alumni Association's Award for Distinguished Achievement.

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Microfinance and Technology for the Poor and Poorest

Mr. Alex Counts  
President and CEO
Grameen Foundation, United States

Dialogue in the Dark – social change towards social innovation
Dialogue in the Dark is an exhibition and a business workshop in pitch darkness. Blind people find work as guides, trainers or waiters and invite the sighted audience to understand a world without sight. This role reversal leads to an open dialogue between blind and sighted people, enhances empathy and respect. 6.000 blind people found work in 30 countries in the last 20 years. The success story of Dialogue in the Dark is based on a social franchise system, a strong international network, permanent innovation and the capacity of adaptation without a loss of the core values. It’s an example how social change can work out with an entrepreneurial spirit and the inclusion of disabled people.

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Learning Together to Work Together: Interprofessional Education and CDP in England

Prof. John Carpenter  
Chair of Social Work
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Professor John Carpenter has the Chair of Social Work at the University of Bristol, England.  He was previously Professor and Director of the Centre for Applied Social Studies at Durham University (1997-2005) and Senior Lecturer at Kent University (1988-96).  He was a founding Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. 
He designed and evaluated one of the first pre-qualifying programmes of interprofessional education (IPE) in England.  He has since completed comprehensive evaluations of the outcomes of postqualifying IPE in mental health and short courses for child protection. He is co-author of Interprofessional Education and Training, Policy Press (2008).

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Promoting and Sharing Best Practice in Social Work Education and Continuous Professional Development

Prof. Abye Tasse
Dean
Graduate School of Social Work
Addis Abab University, Ethiopia

Abye Tasse is an experienced social work educator. He is currently: Associate Vice-President for Strategic Planning and International Affairs at Addis Ababa University; Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work; Project leader on Capacity Building at Addis Ababa University. He serves at the Board of IASSW in the capacity of Immediate past President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work. During the past 21 years, Tasse has also acted in several other capacities: Associate Professor; Chair of Department; Deputy-Director at the Institute of Social Work of Echirolles (Grenoble) in charge of Academic Affairs; and Director General of the Institute for Social Development (Rouen) in France. Dr. Abye Tasse has also facilitated the development of social work education in other parts of the world. His most recent work has focused on Ethiopia.

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The Psychosocial Impact of Political Violence on Youth: The Middle East Case

Prof. Alean Al-Krenawi  
Professor
Spitzer Department of Social Work
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Alean Al-Kreanwi (Ph.D) is a full Prof. at the Spitzer Department of Social Work at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Professor Al-Krenawi's research interests include multicultural mental-health, Political violence and its impact on youth and social work with indigenous populations. He conducts studies in Israel, Canada, Africa, Palestine and other Arab countries. Prof. Al-Krenawi published two books, and currently he is working on two additional books; Islam and Social Work, and the psychosocial impact of Political Violence on Adolescents: The Israeli –Palestinian case. Prof. Al-Krenawi has also authored numerous book chapters and academic peer reviewed articles.

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Useful Research for Direct Practice: Examples and Procedures for Evidence-based Work

Prof. Jane F. Gilgun  
Professor
School of Social Work
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States

Jane F. Gilgun, Ph.D., LICSW, is a professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. She does research on change processes in practice with families and children, on human development under conditions of adversities, and on the development of violent behaviors.  She has special interests in the four cornerstones of evidence-based practice, qualitative research methods,  and on the construction of assessment tools. Her most recent book is Shame, Blame, & Child Sexual Abuse: From Harsh Realities to Hope.

Professor Gilgun has a Ph.D. in child and family studies from Syracuse University, a master's in social work from the University of Chicago, and a licentiate in family studies and sexuality from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.  In addition, she has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English literature.

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"Hikikomoir" - Social Withdrawal of Young People

Prof. Takeshi Tamura  
Professor
Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan

Takeshi Tamura, M.D. Professor at the Tokyo Gakugei University. Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Specialized in Family Therapy. Born in 1957, Graduated from University of Tsukuba Medical School. MSc for Family Therapy from Birkbeck College, London University. Publications; 1) Connectedness versus separateness: Applicability of family therapy

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