Faculty

Cindy Blackstock

• Indigenous theory
• Indigenous rights advocacy
• Identification & remediation of structural inequalities affecting First Nations children, youth & families.
• Culturally based & evidence informed solutions for Indigenous children, youth & families.

Alicia Boatswain-Kyte

• Anti-racism
• Community-based child welfare
• Practice with marginalized individuals
• Social work education
• Program evaluation

Sharon Bond

Associate Professor

M.Sc. (A) CFT Program Founder

• Couple and Family Therapy Outcome Research
• Couple and Family Therapy Process Research 
• Attachment Styles and Couple Conflict
• Psychological Distress in Couples Seeking Assisted Reproductive Technology 
• Families With Maternal Perinatal Depression

Shari Brotman

• Gerontological Social Work Theory, Policy and Practice (Access To Care; Care Giving; Gender, Race, Class, Sexual Orientation and Disability Issues in Aging)
• Anti-Oppression Social Work Theory and Practice

Delphine Collin-Vézina

Professor

Nicolas Steinmetz and Gilles Julien Chair in Social Pediatrics

CRCF Director

• Child Sexual Abuse
• Trauma-Informed Practices
• Child Protection Services and Out-of-Home Care
• Social Pediatrics
• Social Return on Investment Models

Régine Debrosse

• Self/identity
• Motivation/engagement
• Adolescence/youth
• Youth intervention programs
• Strength-based approaches
• Immigration/acculturation
• Race/ethnicity
• Stigma/marginalization
• Child education

Myriam Denov

Professor

Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)

Killam Research Fellow

Trudeau Fellow

(on sabbatical 2020-2021)

• Children and families affected by war/genocide
• Children born of war
• Intergenerational resilience
• Post-conflict reconciliation and peacebuilding
• War-induced migration and resettlement
• International social work
• Participatory & arts-based research methods

Wanda Gabriel

Assistant Professor

QYMSW Co-Director

IAM Director

• Community-based research on sexual abuse and other forms of abuse within families, communities and in the context of institutional racism and colonialism

• Indigenous healing and reconciliation processes
• Indigenous organizational policy and protocol development
• Cultural safety practices and process

Charles Gyan

Assistant Professor

• The dynamics of community participation in community, social and policy development,
• Government policy systems and the complexity of contemporary policy practice, including evidence-based policymaking and stakeholder engagement.
• Refugees and immigrants’ issues,
• Social inequality,
• Gender issues,
• Open Government and globalization
• Transnational Social work practice

Jill Hanley

Associate Professor

Ph.D.  Director

• Social Policy: Immigration/Refugee Policy; Labour Rights; Health; Social Housing
• Community Organizing: Cross-Cultural; Feminist; Neighbourhood; Anti-Poverty; Immigration; Labour
• Community Development: Housing; Community Economic Development

Nicole Ives

Associate Professor

MSW Director

• Refugee/Immigrant resettlement practice and policy
• Issues facing asylum-seeking populations
• Comparative migration policy
• Social welfare issues facing First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples
• Access to post-secondary education for historically and present-day marginalized communities
• Connections between culture and pedagogy

Julia Krane

Associate Professor

BSW Director   

• Critical Approaches to Child Welfare and Child Protection
• Feminist Practice Responses to Intimate Partner Violence
• Qualitative Research Methods

Lucyna Lach

Associate Professor

• Children with Chronic Health Conditions and Disabilities and Their Families
• Mixed-Method Research
• Caregiver Health
• Health-Related Quality of Life
• Parenting

Heather B. MacIntosh

Associate Professor

M.Sc. (A) CFT  Director

• Couple therapy interventions for childhood trauma survivors
• Couple therapy adaptations for complex trauma
• Mentalizing, affect regulation and attachment processes in relationships or childhood trauma survivors
• Diverse approaches to the treatment of childhood trauma including the use of creativity in healing.
• GLBTQ issues and same sex marriage.

Michael J. MacKenzie

Professor

 Canada Research Chair in Child Well-Being (Tier 1)

• Transactional Processes in Child Development
• Child Well-Being
• Child Welfare Policy & Practice
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Cumulative Risk, & Trauma
• Foster Care Placement Trajectories & Models of Group Care
• Etiology and Outcomes of Child Maltreatment

Assistant Professor

On Leave (July 2020-July 2021)

• Critical research ethics and community-based research

• Engagement scholarship

• Health in queer and trans communities 

• Harm reduction

• Knowledge synthesis, scoping reviews, and systematic review methodologies

Katherine Maurer

• Adolescent mental and behavioral health during the transition to adulthood
• The physiological impact of exposure to extreme stressors, such as violence and poverty, on the development of self-regulation capacities

Pam Orzeck

Assistant Professor

Field Education Director

• Caregivers
• Caregiver bereavement
• Social gerontology
• Community and homecare practice
• End of life care
• Social policy
• Social isolation
• Field education

Marjorie Rabiau

• Supporting Trans Youth and their families
• Supporting refugee youth and their families
• How to best train a couple and family therapist

Tamara Sussman

Associate Professor

(on Sabbatical 2020-2021)

• Social work practice with older adults
• Family caregiving
• End of life, palliative care and bereavement
• Gerontological services including home care,  community programs and long-term care
• Social work pedagogy

Jim Torczyner

Professor

• Inequality and Peace Building
• Community Development and Social Action
• Research on The Demographic Characteristics of Ethnic Groups In Canada
• Designing Alternative Organizations
• Human Rights, Law And Social Action
• Welfare Advocacy and The Homeless

Nico Trocmé

Director

Professor

Philip Fisher Chair in Social Work

• Child Welfare
• Program Evaluation