Where Academia and Policy Meet

John Gal is a professor at the Paul Baewald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and senior researcher at the Taub Centre for Social Policy Studies. He has published extensively on social policy in a comparative perspective and in Israel and on policy practice among social workers. Idit Weiss-Gal is an associate professor and Head of the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University. She has published extensively on the professional ideologies of social workers, on social work as a profession and on policy practice among social workers.

• Where academia and policy meet: an introduction ~ Jon Gal and Idit Weiss-GalSocial work academia and policy in Australia ~ Philip Mendes and Susan BaidawiSocial work academia and policy in China ~ Minchao Jin, Xiao Li, Lei Wu and Jie LeiSocial work academia and policy in Finland ~ Helena Blomberg and Christian KrollSocial work academia and policy in Germany ~ Andreas Herz and Stefan KöngeterSocial work academics and policy in Israel ~ Idit Weiss-Gal and John GalSocial work academia and policy in Portugal ~ Francisco BrancoSocial work academia and policy in Puerto Rico ~ Gisela Negrón-VelázquezSocial work academia and policy in South Africa ~ Antoinette LombardSocial work academics and policy in Spain ~ María Asunción Martínez-Román and Miguel Ángel Mateo-PérezSocial work academia and policy in Sweden ~ Katarina H. Thorén and Pia ThamSocial work academia and policy in the United Kingdom ~ Hugh McLaughlin and Jo-Pei TanSocial work academia and policy in the United States ~ Arati Maleku and Richard HoeferWhere academia and policy meet: a cross-national perspective ~ Jon Gal and Idit Weiss-Gal

"This well-researched book throws down a challenge to those who educate social workers to become more political and policy oriented in their own practice. A must read for all academics in this area." Graeme Simpson, University of Wolverhampton