Laura PenkethMichael Lavalette is Professor of Social Work at Liverpool Hope University. He has written several books and articles for all the main social work journals. He has also edited a wide range of books on a variety of social policy and social work themes most recently Radical Social Work Today (2011, The Policy Press) and Social Work in Extremis (2011, The Policy Press). He is co-editor of Critical and Radical Social Work, launching in 2013. Laura Penketh is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Liverpool Hope University. She has taught in Higher Education for over 20 years. Her first post was at the University of Central Lancashire (1999-2003); she then moved to the University of Manchester (2003-2009), before joining Liverpool Hope University in September, 2009. She has written widely about issues of social work and oppression, including an analysis of CCETSW's anti-racist initiative called Tackling Institutional Racism (2000, The Policy Press) Read More Read Less