Jan Fook has been a social worker and academic for 30 years. She is currently Director, School of Social Work, Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was recently Professor of Professional Practice Research and Director of the Interprofessional Institute at the South West London Academic Network (Royal Holloway, St Georges (University of London) and Kingston University), UK. She has born and educated in Australia where she has worked most of her life. She has held a variety of academic positions in Australia, the UK and Norway (including professorial positions at Deakin, La Trobe and Southampton Universities, and Diakonhjemmet College, Oslo) but has an… ongoing interest in professional education and practice research. Over the last 15 years she has focused on developing critical reflection, and has conducted many workshops with professionals across Australia and in Europe, the UK, Asia and Canada.She is probably most well known for her work on critical social work and critical reflection. Her research work involves the empirical research of professional practice, and developing better methods for representing the complexity of this. In particular, she is currently engaged in developing critical reflection as a method for researching experience. She has published approximately 80 book chapters and articles. Her 13 books include: Radical Casework (Allen & Unwin); Professional Expertise (with Martin Ryan & Linette Hawkins, Whiting & Birch); Social Work: Critical Theory and Practice (Sage), and Practising Critical Reflection (with Fiona Gardner, Open University Press)
"Renate Klein" earned a Ph.D in psychology from the University of Marburg, Germany, teaches family studies and women's studies at the University of Maine in the United States, and coordinates the European Research Network on Conflict, Gender, and Violence. "Bernard Wallner" studied behavioral endocrinology and anthropology at the University of Vienna, where he received his Ph.D.