Stephen is Professorial Fellow and previously worked as Professor of Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland and Assistant Vice Principal for Community and Public Engagement.

Previously he was Professor of Human Sciences and Director of the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing,[1] University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and Professorial Fellow at the University of Sussex.

He is author of several highly cited books including Social Work in a Risk Society (Palgrave, 2006) and Evidence-based Social Work: A Critical Stance (with Gray & Plath, Routledge, 2009).

Webb's critical analysis, Some considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work,[3] is the world's most highly cited article in the field and the most influential publication in social work over the last ten years.

[4] His highly acclaimed The New Politics of Critical Social Work was published in 2013 for Palgrave and the second edition of Social Work Theories and Methods for Sage, London, has been translated into Korean and Polish.