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Richard James Estes (born June 20, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is Professor Emeritus of Social Work of the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Estes is an active scholar in the fields of comparative social welfare, social development, and quality of life and well-being research.  Early life and education Estes was born in Philadelphia to a working-class family. His father was a fireman for the city and his mother was a homemaker raising six children. He took an A.B. degree in English Literature and Philosophy at La Salle University in Philadelphia (1960-65), a Master’s in Social Work degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (1965-67) and a certificate in psychiatric social work from the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas (1967-68). His formal education was completed with a Doctor of Social Welfare degree from the University of California at Berkeley (1970-73). Career Estes began his academic career with the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania where he quickly received tenure and promotion to full-professor. He directed a variety of research centers at Penn, developed the School’s Social and Economic Development concentration, and contributed substantially to the School’s graduate degree programs in social policy, non-profit leadership, and enhanced Master of Social Work program. He taught research methods in the school’s Ph.D. program for many years as well as interdisciplinary graduate courses in social planning, resource development, and comparative social development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Estes remained at Penn from 1973 until his formal retirement from the university in June 2010. While at Penn he received three Fulbright-Hays Awards (Iran, 1978 and Norway, 1979) and a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar Award to Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (1994). He also was a frequent guest lecturer both nationally and internationally on various topics associated with international and comparative social welfare and social development. He also received many international awards for his work in comparative analysis. Among other countries, he spent extended periods of time as a visiting scholar in leading academic institutions in Iran, Norway, the People’s Republic of China, Morocco, South Korea, Hawaii, Japan, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, Belgium, Sweden, Mexico, Hong Kong and elsewhere.

Research Dr. Estes’ primary areas of research cover six (N=6) areas of scholarly work. He has written more than 100 articles and monographs in these areas including a dozen books since 1984 focused on the following themes: (1) international and comparative social welfare and social development (2, 3, 14); (2) the increasing internationalization of social work and social welfare (1, 4, 5); (3) quality of life and well-being research (9, 12, 13); 4), including in-depth work on the (commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth (6, 7, 10); (5) the state of social progress in societies with predominately Muslim populations (11); and, (6) the origins and contemporary dynamics of Jihadist terrorism directed internally and at Western nations. He has lectured and written extensively on these and other topics (11, 15). He is particularly noted for his development of the 41-item Weighted Index of Social Progress (WISP) which are used in the measurement of social development in 162 nations spanning more than 50 years (2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 14, 15).  Honors and awards Dr. Estes has been the recipient of many awards and grants for his research on international social work and comparative social development including two Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Awards (Iran, 1978 and Norway, 1979) and a Fulbright Scholar Award to Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (1994). In 1992, he was elected Social Worker of the Year by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers for his international activities. In 1996 he received the Alumni Recognition Award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. In 1997 he was awarded the Distinguished Recent Contribution to Social Work Education Award by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the International Rhoda G. Sarnat Award of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Best Article in Social Indicators Research Award of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS). In 2002 he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Scholar of United College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he served as an External Examiner for the University’s Department of Social Work until 2008. In 2005, the Global Commission of the Council on Social Work Education awarded Dr. Estes its Partner in International Education Award. In 2007, Dr. Estes received the Distinguished Quality of Life Research Award of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) and served as University Distinguished Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Selected Recent Books (1) Estes, Richard J. (1984). Health Care and the Social Services: Handbook of Social Work Practice in Health Settings. St. Louis, Mo.: Warren H. Green, Inc. (2) Estes, Richard J. (1984). The Social Progress of Nations. New York: Praeger Publish¬ers. (3) Estes, Richard J. (1988). Trends in World Social Development: The Social Progress of Nations. New York: Praeger. (4) Estes, Richard J. (1992). Internationalizing Social Work Education: A Guide to Resources for A New Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. (5) Estes, Richard J. (1992). Towards a Social Development Strategy for the ESCAP Region. Bangkok: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ST/ESCAP/1170. (6) Azaola, Elena, Estes, Richard J. (2003). La Infancia Como Mercancia Sexual: México, Canadá y Estados Unidos (The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Mexico, Canada and the United States). Mexico City: CIEASAS & Siglo XXI Veintiuno Editores. (7) Estes, Richard J. (2005). Medical, Legal & Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation: A Comprehensive Review of Child Pornography, Child Prostitution, and Internet Crimes Against Children (with Cooper, Sharon W., Richard J. Estes, Angelo P. Giardino, Nancy D. Kellogg & Victor I. Vieth (Editors), St. Louis MO: GW Medical Publishing.       (8) Estes, Richard J. (2005). Social Development in Hong Kong: The Unfinished Agenda. London & New York: Oxford University Press. (9) Estes, Richard J. (2007). Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World.  Dordrecht NL & Berlin: Springer, Inc. (10) Estes, Richard J. (2007). Child Sexual Exploitation: Quick Reference for Healthcare, Social Services, and Law Enforcement Professionals (with Cooper, Sharon W., Angelo P. Giardino, Nancy D. Kellogg & Victor I. Vieth), St. Louis MO: GW Medical Publishing. (11) Tiliouine, Habib, Estes, Richard J. (2015). Social Progress in Islamic Societies: Social, Political, Economic, and Ideological Challenges (with University of Oran, Algeria), Dordrecht NL: Springer. (12) Estes, Richard J. (2017). The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History. Dordrecht NL & Berlin: Springer. (13) Estes, Richard J., Sirgy, M. Joseph (2018). Advances in Well-Being: Toward a Better World for All (with) (London: Rowman and Littlefield). (14) Estes, Richard J. (2019). The Social Progress of Nations Revisited. Dordrecht: Springer. In preparation. (15) Sirgy, M. Joseph, Estes, Richard J., Rahtz, Donald, & El-Sayed El-Aswad (2020). Human Well-Being and Policy Making (with M. Joseph Sirgy, Donald Rahtz, and). Special Monograph series (Dordrecht: Springer). In preparation.

External links 2015	Live interview with Michael Frisch in Philadelphia focusing on career in quality of life and social development research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQOMokxG70. Posted July 9, 2015, Philadelphia. 2014	Live interview with Michael Frisch relating to professional career in all aspects of my research. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQOMokxG7. Posted January 2012, San Diego CA.