The research and scholarship at the School of Social Work reflect our interest in both the development of knowledge and interventive approaches. Our major areas of study are: family and children - strategies for protecting from abuse, poverty, and other threats to well-being and for advancing alternative living arrangements for groups such as the elderly and sole-support mothers; culture and identity - identifying sources of suppression and means of affirmation, including in outport and aboriginal/Inuit communities; health -- developing approaches for promotion, prevention, and care with a focus on women, HIV/AIDS, and addictions; justice -- advancing collaborative approaches to prevention, assessment, and intervention into youth and adult crime so as to safeguard victims and communities; community development and social administration -- in varied contexts including non-profit organizations and developing countries; professional issues -- including social work history, education, and ethics; and research approaches -- including community-building and empowerment strategies.
BALL, Helen Assistant professor
Keywords
• Feminist methodology; issues of representation in text;
post-modern approaches to therapy; women's mental health; social
constructionism
Current research
• Quilts as social text
Past research
• Psychotherapeutic discourses
Potential research
• Narratives of mental health
• Vicarious trauma in mental health workers
BARTER, Ken Associate professor, Chair in Child Protection
Keywords
• Child welfare; community building; collaboration; foster
care
Research specialty
• Child welfare, specifically in the area of child protection.
Extensive theoretical research conducted since 1995 to develop
a conceptual framework for child protection practices. This research,
with a focus on community-building has resulted in:
5 book chapters, refereed
7 articles in refereed journals
3 journal articles
3 conference proceedings publications
15 paper and workshop presentations at provincial, national and
international conferences
Current research
• A community-building framework, currently receiving input
from field practitioners
• Seeking funding opportunities to apply the community-building
framework
• Looking at collaboration and innovation as concepts for
change in public, child- welfare organizations
Past research
• Foster care in public, child-welfare systems
• Collaboration as a social-work, practice framework
Potential research
• Developing models for best practices in child protection
• Exploring community-building initiatives in child welfare
• Rethinking social work practices
BELLA, Leslie Professor
Keywords
• Social policy analysis: feminist analysis; reproductive
labour; social work; education and diversity
Current research
• Family-making, family as a process
• Migration and social support
• Challenging heterosexualism
Past research
• The Christian Imperative
• Family leisure and women's work
• Political economy of national parks
• Evaluating Alberta's preventive social services
Potential research
• Program evaluation; family-making in nontraditional families
BIRNIE-LEFCOVITCH, Shelly Associate professor
Keywords
• Community mental health; primary prevention; normative
life transitions; social support
Current research
• Adaptation during transition from high school to university
• Rural student adaptation to university
KIMBERLEY, M. Dennis Professor
Keywords
• Child-youth abuse; sibling incest and sexual abuse; pedophilia;
incest; human sexuality; addictions; substance abuse; gambling;
sex addiction; Internet addiction; best-practices and program
evaluation; parenting capacity assessment
Current research
• Sex abuse
• Sibling incest
• Sexually-intrusive children
• Sex addiction
• Internet addiction
• Adolescent sex offenders
• Sex offender assessment and treatment
• Female sex offenders
• Parenting assessment
• Mentally ill parents of children in need of protection
Past research
• Addictions
• Sibling incest
• Female sex offenders
• Mental health
• Community-action research
• Organizational development
• Social work education
• Social work assessment
Potential research
• Sexuality; sexual abuse; sexual addiction; Internet addiction;
parenting capacity assessment, associated with children in need
of protection; female sex offenders: assessment and treatment;
sibling incest: assessment and treatment; managing children and
adolescents with ADHD
Other research and consulting
• Child-protection policy and program evaluations for social
work education
• Links between substance abuse and sexual abuse
• Links between substance abuse and violence
• ADHD
KLEIN, Ross Associate professor
Keywords
• Cruise ship industry; fishery disputes; nonviolent conflict
and change
Current research
• Cruise ship industry
Past research
• Disputes over fishing rights
• Child abuse prevention
• Employment and employability enhancement
• Women and addictions
Potential research
• Social construction of leisure
PENNELL, Joan Professor
Keywords
• Women abuse; child welfare; crime prevention; organizational
development; collaborative action research; women and education
Current research
• Demonstration project on family violence intervention
• Family group conferencing
Past research
• Comparative study of labour unionized shelters for abused
women in Canada and the U.S.
• Comparative study of feminist social work education in
mainstream and non-mainstream classrooms
• Program evaluation of alternative living programs for young
people who are wards of child welfare
• Study of workplace democracy in feminist organizations
• Action research with student parents on post-secondary
education
Potential research
• Aboriginal social programs
SACHDEV, Paul Professor, President's Award for Outstanding
Research (1985)
Keywords
• AIDS and HIV
Current research
• The changing face of adoption
• AIDS/HIV: knowledge and perception of risk among young
people
• International adoption: the India connection
• Editor, Advances in Social Work, published by Indiana State
University, School of Social Work
Past research
• Unlocking the adoption files
• Reunion of adoptees and their birth relatives, and its
impact on the triad
• Sex knowledge and attitudes of university students
• Abortion trends and international review
• Sex, abortion and unmarried women
ZAMPARO, JoAnne Assistant professor
Keywords
• Research methodologies; community development theories
and practices; community-based health and social policies; administrative
practices that promote implementation; designing Web-based social
work curriculum; complementary, allied helping; healing
Current research
• Inuit traditional knowledge on helping and healing
• Anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices and educational
resource materials
Past research
• Discovering models of excellence in public and non-profit
organizations
• Social supports and social networks
• Board of directors, volunteer leadership development
Potential research
• Nunavut social and health policies from current project
Special equipment or facilities
• Distance-delivery modules for Web-based learning curriculum
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