The Blackwell Companion to Social Work 4e

Martin Davies is Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia, UK, where he taught the university's Social Work in Society course for twenty years. He came to UEA after a distinguished research career in the UK Home Office and at Manchester University, where he taught criminology, research methods, and research applications. The founding director of UEA's graduate programme in Social Work, he has authored and edited 12 books, including the previous editions of this volume, as well as more than a hundred scholarly papers. Professor Davies has also served as a research administrator with the Norwich NHS Primary Care Trust, in addition to a five-year term on the Norfolk and Waveney NHS Research Governance Committee with special responsibility for health and social care.