International Perspectives on Social Work and Political Conflict

Joe Duffy is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Queen's University where his research concentrates on the involvement of service users/social work clients to help social work students understand difficult topics such as the impact of political conflict and trauma. In addition, as a recipient of an All Disciplines US-UK Fulbright Scholar 2018-19, Joe's research concentrated on introducing service user involvement to the social work curriculum in the United States, working with New York University's Silver School of Social Work and Belmont University's Social Work Department, Nashville, Tennessee as pilot sites. In New York University, his research specifically focused on working with survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001. Jim Campbell was appointed to the Chair of Social Work at UCD in January 2015. Before then he had been Professor of Social Work and Head of the Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, and spent about 20 years teaching and researching social work at Queens University Belfast. He practised as a mental health social worker in Northern Ireland. Jim has two, broad teaching and research interests. He has published in the fields of mental health social work and policy, with a particular interest in related socio-legal studies. He was co-editor of the British Journal of Social Work from 2010-2015.Carol Tosone is Professor and Director of the DSW Program in Clinical Social Work at NYU Silver School of Social Work. She is recipient of the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award, Distinguished Scholar in Social Work in the National Academies of Practice in Washington, DC., and Editor-in-Chief of the Clinical Social Work Journal.