This shortform book provides a critical synthesis of research on professions and professionalism from an international perspective, highlighting the key opportunities and challenges as a field of scholarship, practice and policy.

Mike Dent is Professor in the School of Justice, Security and Sustainability at Staffordshire University, UK.

1. Professions and professionalism: contemporary challenges 2. Origins and theories of professions 3. Professional inequalities 4. Governing and governance 5. Professions, management and leadership 6. The new professionalism: conclusions