Books by David Race

Dr David Race is a full time member of staff in the School of Community, Health Sciences and Social Care at the University of Salford. He holds a BSc in Management Sciences from UMIST, a PGCE in primary education from Sheffield City Polytechnic and a PhD on services for adults with learning disabilities, awarded by Reading University. Dr Race has taught in a number of academic areas, most notably learning disability, social policy, management in human services, and social role valorization theory. He has also been involved in a considerable amount of service training, both in the UK and overseas, especially the USA and Canada. Dr Race currently teaches on a number of courses in the school, specifically at various points on the joint programme in Nursing and Social Work (Learning Disability), on the Level I module on Law and Social Policy, on the Level II Research Methods module, and on the Professional Studies degree programme in Registration and Inspection. Since coming to Salford he has been engaged in setting up a major cross-cultural research project on learning disability services, as well as establishing and leading a new MA in Learning Disability Studies. The two most recent of many publications are Learning Disability - a Social Approach (Routledge 2002, as editor and author of four chapters) and Leadership and Change in Human Services: Selected Readings from Wolf Wolfensberger. (Routledge 2003, as editor and commentator).