Poverty, Inequality and Welfare
Senior Faculty
Research Topics:
Satisfaction and happiness among the general population, with a particular focus on developing countries. Her research seeks to identify the personal and environmental factors that contribute to individuals' ability to develop a high level of well-being, even in the face of adversity.
Research Topics:
Poverty, marginalized communities, social policy, and critical social work.
Research Topics:
Aspects of knowledge and power intertwined in the maintenance of poverty and inequality their deepening or reduction within public welfare services.
Research Topics:
Trans theory, queer theory, trans rights, gender-affirming healthcare, sex assignment at birth, LGBTQ+ parenting.
PhD students and postdoctoral fellows
Moria Maslati
Research Topic:
The experience of shared living among families living in poverty.
Recent Publications
Krumer-Nevo, Michal, Weiss-Gal, Idit, & Levin, Lia. "Searching for poverty-aware social work: Discourse analysis of job descriptions." Journal of Social Policy 40 (2011).
Levin, Lia. "Israel". In M. Odekon (Ed.) SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty (2nd Ed., Sage: 2015), pp. 848-849.
Levin, Lia, & Tayri-Schwartz, Talia. "Attitudes toward poverty, organizations, ethics and morals: Israeli social workers’ shared decision-making." Health Expectations 20 (2017).
Feldman, Guy. "Contradictory logics in asset-building discourse: Habits, identities, and discipline." Social Policy & Administration 52 (2018)
Feldman, Guy. "Towards a relational approach to poverty in social work: Research and practice considerations." The British Journal of Social Work 49 (2018).
Feldman, Guy, & Schram, Sanford F. "Entrepreneurs of themselves: How poor women enact asset-building discourse." Journal of Social Policy 48 (2019).
