Professor Walter Lorenz

Professor Walter Lorenz will be giving the first EASSW Honorary Lecture, sponsored by the European Journal of Social Work.

Walter Lorenz is Professor for Applied Social Science at the Free University of Bozen / Bolzano in Northern Italy. Since 2001, he has coordinated a professional social work programme and has been Principal of the same university since 2008. A native of Germany, he qualified as a social worker at the London School of Economics and practised as a social work professional in East London before taking up a teaching position at University College, Cork in Ireland in 1978 where he became Jean Monnet Professor in 1995. His research interests include intercultural pedagogy, social pedagogy, comparative aspects of social work and social policy in Europe and quality standards in social services. He has published widely in these topics.


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