Dr. Shachar Timor-Shlevin
Critical Social Work; The Tensions Between Professionalism, Management, and Administration; Social Policy Processes; Poverty-Aware Social Work; Critical Reflection
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Education
2000–2004 - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Social Work, B.A.
2006–2010 - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Social Work, M.S.W Cum Laude | Master`s thesis: “With-ness: Layers of Connection in Collaborative Helping Relationships”. Supervisors: Professor Michal Krumer-Nevo & Dr. Ofrit Shapira-Berman
2013–2019 - Bar-Ilan University, Sociology and Anthropology, Ph.D. | Doctoral Dissertation: “New Public Management and Critical Social Work: A Struggle Over Professionalization in Israel”. Supervisor: Professor Orly Benjamin
2020 - Hunter College, CUNY, Department of Political Science, Post-Doc | Supervisor: Professor Sanford, F. Schram
Academic Employment
2010-2021: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Teaching Fellow
2015-2021: Ashkelon Academic College, Faculty of Social Work, Adjunct Lecturer
2019-2021: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Adjunct Lecturer
2020-2021: Tel Aviv University, Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Adjunct Lecturer
2021-present: Bar-Ilan University, The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Lecturer
Positions in Academic Administration
2010-2021: Youth Studies Program, BGU, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Member, Academic Steering Committee
2013-2016: BGU, Spitzer Department of Social Work – in cooperation with the Welfare Department, Beer-Sheva Municipality, Field-training supervisor, Poverty-Aware Social Work training
2016-2019: BGU, Spitzer Department of Social Work – in cooperation with the Welfare Department, Beer-Sheva Municipality, Senior field-training supervisor, Poverty-Aware Social Work training
2016-2019: BGU, Spitzer Department of Social Work – in cooperation with the Welfare Department, Beer-Sheva Municipality, Manager, Poverty-Aware Social Work training
Professional Functions Outside Universities/Institutions
2016: ELEM Youth Work Annual Conference 2016, BGU, Member, Scientific Steering Committee
2018-2021: The central school for social work practitioners, The Israeli Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services, Course Coordinator and Lecturer
Significant Professional Consulting
2015-present: Poverty-Aware Social Work in the Social Services Departments – in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, JDC-Ashalim, and the National Insurance Institute of Israel, Senior Supervisor
2017-present: Poverty-Aware Social Work in the Social Services Departments – in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, JDC-Ashalim, and the National Insurance Institute of Israel, Academic Consultant
2017-present: Poverty-Aware Social Work in the Social Services Departments – in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, JDC-Ashalim, and the National Insurance Institute of Israel, Member, Professional Training Committee
Professional Social Work Experience
2004-2007: Bait Ham Association for Youth at Risk, Jerusalem, Youth Social Worker
2007-2013: Bait Ham Association for Youth at Risk, Region Manager and Headquarter Professional Manager
2008-2016: Inbal Center for Sexually Abused Children, Beer-Sheva, Trauma psychotherapist
2012-2016: Regional Resilience Center, Eshkol Regional Council, Trauma psychotherapist
Academic & Professional Awards and Research Grants
2015: Excellence Award, The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
2016: Excellence Fellowship for Ph.D. Students, Bar-Ilan University
2019: Outstanding Young Researcher’s Article for 2019, ESPANet-Israel Association
2021: The Ministry of Social Affairs, the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, and the Israeli Ecological Society – A generic tool for examining the socio-economic impact of poverty intervention programs (Co-PI).
2023: Israel Science Foundation (ISF) – Using an Inequality Lens and the Capability Approach to Examine Children’s Removal to Out-of-Home Care in Israel (Co-PI).
Membership in Scientific Societies and Research Groups
Scientific Societies
2018-2020: Member, European Sociological Association; RN19, Sociology of Professions, and RN26, Sociology of Social Policy and Social Welfare
2021-present: Member, Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)
2021-present: Member, European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA)
Research Groups
2010-present: Member, The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research of People and Societies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2014-2019: Member, Doctoral Students’ Research Group for the Study of New Public Management and the Public Sphere, led by Prof. Orly Benjamin, Bar-Ilan University
2016-present: Initiator, the “With-Ness” Research Group of Professionals and Academics for the Study of Participatory Youth Work
Publications
Articles in Journals
Barak, A., & Timor-Shlevin, S., & Steinberg, A. (in press). A critical perspective on social services' organizational boundaries: Learning from transgender women. Journal of Social Work.
Timor-Shlevin, S. (in press). Critical public management studies: A research agenda proposition. Social Work.
Weiss-Dagan, S., & Timor-Shlevin, S. (2024). Aging, poverty, and agency: Reconceptualizing resistance to poverty in old age. The British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae107
Ali-Saleh Darawshy, N., Timor-Shlevin, S., & Lavie-Ajayi, M. (2024). Exploring the correlations between professional and personal attitudes toward discussing sexuality and degree of religiosity among social workers in Israel. Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swae030
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2023). Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: An integration of recognition and redistribution. European Journal of Social Work, 26(1), 28–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2021.1977250
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2023). Between othering and recognition: In search for transformative practice at the street level. European Journal of Social Work, 26(4), 650–662. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2022.2092456
Timor-Shlevin, S., Roose, R., & Hermans, K. (2023). In search of social justice informed services: A research agenda for the study of resistance to neo-managerialism. The British Journal of Social Work, 53(1), 23–39. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac131
Timor-Shlevin, S., Saar-Heiman, Y., & Krumer-Nevo, M. (2023). Poverty-Aware Programs in social service departments in Israel: A rapid evidence review of outcomes for service users and social work practice. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), 889. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010889
Timor-Shlevin, S., Oreg, A., & Stern Perez, A. (2023). “Whose milk was it, really? … it was a gift, a savior, a healer, and a connector”: Reflections on a collaborative autoethnography of breastmilk donation after stillbirth. The British Journal of Social Work, 53(3), 1561–1569. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad025
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2023). Integrating recognition and redistribution in direct critical practice in social work. Society & Welfare, 43(3), 411-423. (Hebrew).
Timor-Shlevin, S. & Benjamin, O. (2022). The struggle over the character of social services: Conceptualizing hybridity and power. European Journal of Social Work, 25(1), 131–142. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2020.1838452
Timor-Shlevin, S., Aharon, T., Segev, S., Mazor, S., & Ishai, E. (2022). From Critical Reflection to Critical Professional Practice: Addressing the Tensions Between Critical and Hegemonic Perspectives. Qualitative Social Work, 21(2), 277–293. Open Access Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250211006765
Oreg, A., Stern Perez, A., & Timor-Shlevin, S. (2022). “So whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement. Death Studies, 47(8), 938–947. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2022.2143936
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2021). The controlled arena of contested practices: Critical practice in Israel’s state social services. The British Journal of Social Work, 51(1), 279–296. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa059
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2021). Contextualized resistance: The mediating power of paradigmatic frameworks. Social Policy & Administration, 55(5), 802–814. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12660
Timor-Shlevin, S. & Benjamin, O. (2021). The tension between managerial and critical professional discourses in social work. Journal of Social Work, 21(4), 951–969. Open Access Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017320949359
Timor-Shlevin, S. & Benjamin, O. (2020). The struggle over the character of social services: Conceptualizing hybridity and power. European Journal of Social Work, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2020.1838452
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2019). Between conservatism, managerialism and criticism: A struggle over professionalization in Israeli social work. Social Security, 106, 189-218. (Hebrew).
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2018). Partnership: The practice and its meaning in youth work. Social Security, 104, 9-34. (Hebrew).
Timor-Shlevin, S., & Krumer-Nevo, M. (2016). Partnership-based practice with young people: Relational dimensions of partnership in a therapeutic setting. Health & Social Care in the Community, 24(5), 576–586.
Chapters in Edited Books
Timor-Shlevin, S., Segev, S., Mazor, S., Ishai, E., & Aharon, T. (in press). Bridging the Gap between Critical Reflection and Professional Practice. In J. Fook & D. Jatlow (Eds.), Transformative Social Work: Practices for Academic Settings. Columbia University Press.
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2020). Controlled arena: Critical practice in state social services. In M. Krumer-Nevo, R. Strier & I. Weiss-Gal (Eds.), Critical theory in action: Critical practices in the social sphere in Israel (pp. 149-194). Resling (Hebrew).
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2016). Partnership as a therapeutic and critical tool. In T. Walden (Ed.), Teen-outers: Psychosocial work with youth in risk situations (pp. 128-180). Carmel (Hebrew).
Timor-Shlevin, S. & Walden, T. (2016). Working in a partnership-based therapeutic center: The Israeli experience. In T. Walden (Ed.), Teen-outers: Psychosocial work with youth in risk situations (pp. 13-31). Carmel. (Hebrew).
Articles in Non-Refereed Journals
קרומר-נבו, מ', שמעי, נ' ותימור-שלוין, ש' (עורכים) (2015). אם זה לא מספיק לכם: מיצוי זכויות וסינגור אקטיבי. אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב: עבודה פרטנית לשינוי חברתי.
Papers Presented At Scientific Conferences
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2021). המרחב המבוקר של פרקטיקות ביקורתיות בשירותים החברתיים בישראל. הוצג בכנס הסוציולוגי ה-52, כנס וירטואלי.
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2021). Sustainable critical social policy? The case of Poverty-Aware Social Work. Presented at the SSWR 25th Annual Conference, Virtual Conference
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2021). Work with people living in poverty: Sharpening the resistance framework of radical incrementalism. Presented at the ESCWR Annual Conference, Virtual Conference
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2021). From critical reflection to professional practice: Addressing the tensions between critical and conservative perspectives. Presented at the 20th Thinking Qualitatively Annual Conference, Virtual Conference
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2020). מדיניות ציבורית ביקורתית ברת-קיימא? המקרה של עבודה סוציאלית מודעת עוני. הוצג בכנס השנתי האחד-עשר של ESPAnet ISRAEL, המכללה האקדמית אשקלון, ישראל.
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2019). בין השמרני, הניהולי והביקורתי: מאבק על פרופסיונליזציה בעבודה הסוציאלית בישראל. הוצג בכנס השנתי העשירי של ESPAnet ISRAEL, המרכז האקדמי רופין.
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2019). Obscured by ambivalence: Managerialist institutional work in Israel’s welfare ministry. The 14th European Sociological Association Conference, Manchester, UK.
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2019). Obscured by ambivalence: Managerialist institutional work in Israel’s welfare ministry. The 2019 European Group of Public Administration Conference, Belfast, UK.
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2018). Between recognition and denial of recognition in the experiences of social workers who adopt poverty-aware practice. International Seminar on Poverty-Aware Social Work: The Paradigm and its Challenges, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2018). Controlled arena: Critical practice in state social services. The European Conference for Social Work Research, Edinburgh, UK.
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2018). מרחב מבוקר: פרקטיקות ביקורתיות במחלקות לשירותים חברתיים. הוצג בכנס השנתי התשיעי של ESPAnet ISRAEL, המכללה האקדמית עמק יזרעאל, ישראל.
אהרון, ת', ישי, א', ניצן, ש', שגב, ש' ותימור-שלוין, ש' (2018). לחקור שותפות בקבוצת מחקר שיתופית. הוצג בכנס הישראלי השמיני למחקר איכותני, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב.
אהרון, ת', ישי, א', ניצן, ש', שגב, ש' ותימור-שלוין, ש' (2018). משחקים בארגז החול – התמודדות עם המתח בין שותפות כפרקטיקה ביקורתית ובין שיחים שמרניים בשטח. הוצג בכנס השנתי של עמותת עלם והתכנית ללימודי נוער במחלקה לעבודה סוציאלית באוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, באר שבע, ישראל.
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2017). לחבר את החוטים: שילוב של פרקטיקת מדיניות ופרקטיקה פרטנית בעבודה סוציאלית מודעת-עוני. הוצג בכנס העובדים הסוציאליים, תל אביב, ישראל.
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2017). השפעה רכה והשפעה קשיחה: מרחבים פנויים לקידום פרופסיונליות ביקורתית בשירותים החברתיים בישראל. הוצג בכנס השנתי השמיני של ESPAnet ISRAEL, בר אילן, ישראל.
Timor-Shlevin, S. (2017). Neoliberal barriers to critical social work in the public sphere. International Workshop on Transformative Social Work, Salisbury, UK.
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2016). אתנוגרפיה מוסדית כפתרון אתי לאתגרי מחקר הבכירים. הוצג בכנס הישראלי השביעי למחקר איכותני, באר-שבע, ישראל.
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2016). פרקטיקה ביקורתית בשירות הציבורי: פתיחה וחסימה של אפשרויות חדשות. הוצג בכנס השנתי השביעי של ESPAnet ISRAEL, חיפה, ישראל.
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2016). הקווים המקבילים של מיניות: ביני ובין המודרכ/ת, בינה ובין בני הנוער, והאפשרות או חוסר האפשרות לדבר על זה. הוצג בכנס השנתי של עמותת עלם והמחלקה לעבודה סוציאלית באוניברסיטת בן גוריון בנגב, באר שבע, ישראל.
תימור-שלוין, ש' ודהן, ד' (2014). עבודה פרטנית לשינוי חברתי: פרויקט משותף לאקדמיה ולמחלקות לשירותים חברתיים. הוצג בכנס העובדים הסוציאליים, תל-אביב, ישראל.
תימור-שלוין, ש' (2012). שותפות ככלי טיפולי: מחקר איכותני מראה שזה אפשרי. הוצג בכנס הישראלי החמישי למחקר איכותני, באר-שבע, ישראל.
Courses
7612901 - The Person in His Environment and Society - Introduction to Sociology
7631502 - Methods of Intervention with Individuals
7667401 - Emotional-Experiential Therapeutic Processes in Social Work
76720201 - Emotional-Experiential Therapeutic Processes in Social Work
76740201 - New Public Management in Social Services: A Critical Discussion
Research
- Critical Social Work, Practical and Theoretical Issues
- The Tensions Between Professionalism, Management, and Administration
- Social Policy Processes
- Poverty-Aware Social Work
- Critical Reflection
Last Updated Date : 26/01/2025
