Stephen A. Webb is Professor of Social Work and Assistant Vice Principal of Community and Public Engagement at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and previously worked as Research Professor at University of Newcastle, Australia and University of Sussex. Stephen is author of Social Work in a Risk Society (2006), and co-author/editor of The New Politics of Social Work (2013); Evidence-based Social Work: A Critical Stance (2009, Routledge); Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work (2010); Social Work Theories and Methods (2012, second edition, translated into Korean and Polish); The SAGE Handbook of Social Work (2012); the major international reference work International Social Work (2010, 4 Volumes); and Information and Communication Technology in the Welfare Services (2003). In 2019 he edited the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work (2019), a major international reference work. His research interests focus on theorising social work, biopolitics, community, place and the more-than-human.