Faculty Members and Areas of Research

Andrew Armitage, PhD (Bristol) (Emeritus)

Family policy, social policy towards Indigenous peoples, social service administration

Leslie Brown, PhD (Victoria)

Research Methods, Indigenous Governance, Social Work Education, Community Development, Child Welfare

Marilyn Callahan, PhD (Bristol) (Emeritus)

Child welfare, employment equity, gender discrimination

Jeannine Carriere, PhD (Alberta)

Indigenous child and family practice and policy, Indigenous ways of knowing, mental health and decolonization for Indigenous people

Jacquie Green, MPA, PhD Candidate (Victoria)

Indigenous issues and child welfare policy and practice

Yvonne Haist, MEd (UVic)

Working with trauma through the lens of affect regulation, embodied practice, chronic illness and spirituality in social work practice

Donna Jeffery, PhD (OISE-Toronto)

Research interests are interdisciplinary in orientation: feminist, critical race and poststructural scholarship in the contexts of pedagogy, policy, knowledge production, professional identity and social work education

Teresa Macias, BSW (Ryerson), M.Ed, PhD (OISE/Toronto)

Transnational human rights regimes, state initiatives to deal with human rights abuses and historical injustices, professional ethics, anti-oppressive and social justice oriented pedagogy and practice methods

Patricia MacKenzie, PhD (Edinburgh)

Health promotion, interdisciplinary practice, disability; rural issues; aging; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered issues; social work practice in health care settings; qualitative research methods

Pamela Miller, PhD “Philosophy” (Indiana), PhD “Social Work” (Ohio)

Use and impact of information technology in teaching and learning, professional development and in human services, professional ethical decision making, leadership in human services and community development

Cheryl Moir-van Iersel, MSW (British Columbia)

Feminist and group work practice; integrating play and creativity in the classroom

Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha, PhD (Southampton)

Citizenship rights of children and marginalized communities, child welfare policy and practice, anti-racist, feminist theory

Catherine Richardson, PhD (Victoria)

Indigenous resistance, decolonizing approaches to social work, response-based practice, safety-oriented and dignity-based child protection work, recovery from violence, and Indigenous approaches to research and scholarship centered around cultural, ecological and spiritual integrity

Kristin Smith, BA/ BSW, MSW (McMaster), PhD (OISE/Toronto)

Public service restructuring, critical analysis of social work practice, government power, politics and the production of subjectivities

Susan Strega, PhD (Southampton)

Critical, feminist and poststructural analysis of sex work, violence against women and child welfare practice and policy

Robina Thomas, MSW, PhD Candidate (Victoria)

Residential schools, Indigenous social work education, story telling and oral history

Barbara Waterfall, PhD (OISE-Toronto)

Indigenous research ethics and methods in conjunction with traditionalist grass roots aspirations

Barbara Whittington, MSW (British Columbia)

Restorative justice, transformative learning, family practice, education and workplace equity issues, grandparents raising grandchildren policy and practice, as well as social work and the law