People

Ensherah Khoury

Ph.D

is the coordinator of the study on the development of poverty-aware model for the Arab-Palestinian society. Her doctorate thesis, which she wrote at the Gender Studies program in Bar-Ilan University, dealt with egalitarian gender ideologies and practices among Palestinian Arab men in Israel. Ensherah has major experience as a social worker in the field of marital violence. In her last role as a practitioner she was the director of the Center for Treatment and Prevention of Marital Violence in Acre.

Yuval Saar-Heiman

Ph.D.

is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellow at the department of social work of Royal Holloway University of London, where he studies parents' involvement in policy design, participatory practices with parents to children at risk and parent advocacy programs in the UK. He wrote his Ph.D. on the poverty-aware paradigm in child protection settings and he has significant experience as a practitioner working with parents of children at risk. He combined his theoretical and practical knowledge when teaching social workers at the framework of the implementation of the Poverty-Aware paradigm by the Welfare Ministry.

Shachar Timor-Shlevin

Ph.D

Ph.D. is a lecturer at the Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University. His research deals with professionalization processes in social work, mainly focusing on critical social work, the construction of a critical theory of practice, and implementing critical rationality in social policy.

Keren Tzafrir

is a lawyer, currently completing her MA studies in law at Bar-Ilan University. She is the research coordinator of the program for developing poverty-aware practice for lawyers who work with poor debtors. The research focuses on poverty-aware training delivered in a number of courses to attorneys working for the Ministry of Justice, specializing in debts and private debtors.

Eynat Vager-Atias

Ph.D

teaches poverty-aware training courses to senior social workers in social service departments and works on the development of poverty-aware practice in educational settings. Eynat’s expertise is in youth work, and she wrote her Ph.D. at BGU the discourse and practice of social workers with Young Ethiopian-Israelis.