Located in the School of Political Science and Sociology, Paul Michael Garrett (PhD, D.Litt., MRIA) has accepted an invitation to provide a keynote paper to Eleventh Indian Social Work Congress (ISWC) scheduled to take place at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) in Hyderabad. Organised by the Association of Professional Social Workers in India (NAPSWI), in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the theme of the conference is ‘Leave No One Behind: Revisiting Pedagogy and Practice of Social Work in India’. 

A recent survey of global social work scholarship named Dr Garrett as one of the world's most impactful academic scholars within the discipline of social work. The only educator, on the island of Ireland included on the list, he was in the top half-dozen in Europe.  Relatedly, the International Journal of Social Welfare has referred to him as 'probably the most important critical social work theorist in the English-speaking world'. The Indian conference is expected to be attended by 500 participants representing social work educators, development practitioners and civil society organizations and Dr Garrett will speak on the theme of ‘Dissenting social work and the destabilisation of common sense’

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