Mariusz Granosik Author

Mariusz Granosik is a social pedagogue, sociologist, and associate professor in the Department of Social Pedagogy of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Łódź. His main field of interests include critical social work, governmentality studies, interpretive research methods, PAR, social problems in public discourse, and interpretive assessment. He is the author of the monograph Social Work: An Institutional Analysis from the Conversational Perspective.

Anita Gulczyńska is assistant professor at the Department of Social Pedagogy of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Łódź. Her main fields of interest include social work and community work in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods; participation and empowerment of unprivileged citizens in research and urban revitalization processes; interpretive assessment, qualitative research. She is the author of Boys in the Hoods: A Socio-Pedagogical Study from Interactional Perspective (2013).

Małgorzata Kostrzyńska is assistant professor at the Department of Social Pedagogy of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Łódź. Her academic interests focus on homelessness, participatory and empowering forms of research and social work practice with them as well as on art therapy in social work. She continually carries out participatory research with the homeless in Łódź. She has been the coordinator of the project titled Homeful-Homeless Box (2015–2018) in Łódź. Recent publications (in Polish) include: Association of the Excluded: Example of Homelessness.

Brian Littlechild is research lead for social work at the School of Health and Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. He has written, research and lectured nationally and internationally on issues of coproduction in social work education and research, and has carried out a number of projects and reviews with agencies, service users, and carers. He is a visiting professor at the University of Ostrava.