Derek Clifford

DEREK CLIFFORD is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, where he is module leader for the Anti-Oppressive Practice and Social Divisions modules of the Diploma in Social Work programme. He has taught in Australia and the West Indies as well as taught and practised in the UK and he is the author of Social Assessment Theory and Practice: A Multi-Disciplinary Framework (Ashgate, 1998).

BEVERLEY BURKE is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, where she is module leader for the Social Work Theory and Method module of the Diploma in Social Work programme. She is the author, with Jane Dalrymple, of Anti-Oppressive Practice in Social Care and the Law (Open University Press, 1995) and has contributed chapters to Adams et al: Social Work: Themes, Issues and Critical Debates (Palgrave, 1998, 2002) and Davies (ed): Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Work (Blackwell, 2000).