Faculty

Cindy Blackstock

Professor

 Canada Research Chair,

Tier 1

• 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

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

syndie.david [at] mcgill.ca (Syndie David)

Assistant Professor

Information coming

Régine Débrosse

Assistant Professor 
 

William Dawson Scholar

• Racial/ethnic identity
• Adolescence/youth
• Immigration/acculturation
• Communities
• Youth programs

Myriam Denov

Professor

Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)

Killam Research Fellow

Trudeau Fellow

• 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

Amal Elsana-Alhjooj

• Social change service organizations
• Community organizing and Policy change.
• Advocacy and Activisms
• Human Rights, Justice and Peacebuilding
• Gender and development
• Social Work in conflict settings
• Indigenous social work; Research and knowledge-making
• Global indigeneity and intersectionality

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,
• Environmental Justice,
• Gender issues,
• Open Government and globalization
• Transnational social work practice

Jill Hanley

 Professor

• 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

Director

&

 Professor

• 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

Ainsley Jenicek

Assistant Professor

(On Leave)

• Couple and Family Therapy
• Chosen family, voluntary kinship
• Trauma-informed therapy, somatic techniques
• Mental health in adolescents, young adults and their families
• Stigmatization, marginalization and interpersonal power dynamics

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

&

MSW Director

On sabbatical 2024-2025

• 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

(On sabbatical 2025)

• 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

Katherine Maurer

Associate Professor

• Adolescent mental and behavioural 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

Associate 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

Associate Professor

M.Sc. (A) CFT Director 

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

Ann Seymour

 Associate Professor

&

Director of IAM

• Mental health and  suicide prevention
• Community-based participatory research
• Cultural sensitivity
• Indigenous worldviews
• Indigenous people's advocacy

Tamara Sussman

Professor

&

 Ph.D. Director

• 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

sarah.tarshis [at] mcgill.ca (Sarah Tarshis)

• Intimate partner violence (IPV), intersectionality, and trauma-informed practice
• The use of simulation-based research in education and practice
• Access to employment services, anti-poverty initiatives, economic empowerment
• Social justice and clinical social work practice
• Qualitative and mixed-methodologies

Nico Trocmé

Professor

Philip Fisher Chair in Social Work

MSW Director (Interim)

• Child Welfare
• Program Evaluation