Stephen A. Webb

For other people named Stephen Webb, see Stephen Webb (disambiguation).

Stephen A. Webb
Born	Margate, Kent
Nationality	British
Era	Theorising social work
Region	Social work and sociology
School	Critical social work
Main interests	Critical theory, Continental philosophy, inter-disciplinary social sciences
Notable ideas	Evidence-based practice, New Social Work Left, ethics and value perspectives, history of social work, theories of intervention
Influences Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu, Giorgio Agamben, Karl Marx

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.

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 ‘Considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work’ (2001) in British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 31, pp. 57–79. 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.

Publications

Authored books

• 2009 – Evidence-Based Social Work: A Critical Stance, Routledge Publishers, London (with M. Gray and D. Plath), ISBN 978-0415468237 (240 pages).
• 2006 – Social Work in Risk Society: Social and Political Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 978-0333963616 (285 pages).

Edited books

• 2010 – Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work, (with M. Gray) Palgrave, London, ISBN 978-0230221451 (272 pages)
• 2012 – The New Politics of Critical Social Work, (with M. Gray) Palgrave, London, commissioned, in preparation.
• 2009 – Social Work Theories and Methods, (with M. Gray) Sage, London ISBN 978-1412947411 (221 pages).
• 2003 – Information and Communication Technologies in the Welfare Services, (with E. Harlow) Jessica Kingsley, London, ISBN 978-1843100492 (255 pages).
• 2012 – Social Work Theories and Methods, 2nd Edition, (with M. Gray) Sage, London, ISBN 978-1412947411 (296 pages)

Major international reference works

• 2010 – International Social Work: Welfare Theory and Approaches: Volume 1-4 (ed. with M. Gray), Sage London, ISBN 978-1847875631 (1680 pages).
• 2012 – The Sage Handbook of Social Work (ed. with M. Gray), Sage, London, ISBN 978-1849207515 (768 pages).