Dr Paul Stepney is currently an Adjunct Professor of Social Work at the University of Tampere in Finland. Prior to this he has taught at universities in the UK including Hull, Manchester, Exeter and more recently Wolverhampton. He is a qualified soc
...MoreDr Paul Stepney is currently an Adjunct Professor of Social Work at the University of Tampere in Finland. Prior to this he has taught at universities in the UK including Hull, Manchester, Exeter and more recently Wolverhampton. He is a qualified social worker and has worked in generic fieldwork teams and in the 1990s combined university teaching with a hospital social work post.
Paul’s current research interests are in the area of critical practice and prevention. This includes a critical realist model of practice combining critical theory, policy analysis and integrated methods in the fields of mental health, child protection and adult care.
He has also undertaken comparative policy and practice research with particular reference to the Nordic welfare states especially Finland. He has researched practitioners responses to the increasing use of technologies in auditing services with a view to developing strategies of prevention alongside protection.
He is co-author of two books:
i) co-editor with Deirdre Ford (2000) Social Work Models, Methods and Theories: A Framework for Practice, Russell House Publishing;
ii) co-author with Keith Popple (2008) Social Work and the Community: a critical context for practice, Palgrave Macmillan.
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Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
