Assistant Professor

School of Social Work
St. John's College
Room: J-3018
Memorial University
St. John's, NL

Phone: (709) 864-8150
Email: jstol@mun.ca 

Dr. Jacqueline Colting Stol (she/her) holds a B.A. Specialization in Psychology from the University of Ottawa (minor in French as a second language), a Master of Social Work (MSW) from Carleton University and a PhD in Social Work from McGill University. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Université de Montréal (University of Montreal) funded by the Quebec Research Funds for Society and Culture in the School of Social Work and Department of Sociology. She worked with Clinique Mauve, a multilingual social lab conducting research, training and supervision with students and service providers building a multidisciplinary access point for LGBTQ+ migrants in collaboration with AGIR Montreal (Action LGBTQ+ for immigrants and refugees).

She has been a course lecturer in the School of Social Work at McGill University and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC). She was also a lecturer in French in the School of Social Work at Université de Montréal.

She has held a variety of roles in non-profit and community organizations in the areas of youth mental health and houselessness, refugee and newcomer settlement and integration, care coordination, peer support in sexual and gender-based violence, program evaluation and organizational development, and community health and development.

Her research stems from community engagement and collaboration with Filipino and queer and trans diasporic and migrant communities, such as Kapwa Centre in Montreal, a by-and-for Filipino youth mental health non-profit organization. She is actively engaged with queer and trans, diaspora and migration focused labs and networks, such as the Critical Refugee and Migration Studies (CRMS) network, the Filipino Canadian Social and Community Workers Network (FCSCWN), and the Canadian South-East Asian Studies Initiative (CSEASI).

Her recent research and writing projects include:

• co-creating counter-archives through the Refugee States project, which expands and challenges narratives of forced migration in partnership with community organizations.
• exploring connections between community-led archiving, healing and community care among Filipino and other diasporic communities.
• social justice and group and community practice in field education and supervision, such as the use of storytelling and critical reflection in supervision.
• cultural-rootedness and Indigenization of social work from Filipino perspectives in collaboration with interdisciplinary colleagues in the Philippines and Australia.
• creative, arts-informed and multi-media storytelling methods within the classroom, research, and group and community practice.

She advances how social work can transition toward and be in solidarity with community organizing and social movements, specifically migrant justice, anti-colonialism, and anti-imperialism. She studies from an interdisciplinary perspective how models of mutual aid, healing, transnational solidarity, community care, and Filipino cultural epistemologies and ontologies can support decolonization.

Overall, her research, pedagogy and practice areas include:

Queer of colour critique and queer diaspora, Filipino/a/x diaspora, transnational solidarity, gender, sexuality, and race, migration and social and immigration policy, youth and intergenerational mental health, healing, and community care, community organizing, social movements, and decolonization, social justice-oriented pedagogies and field education in group practice and community development, qualitative and community-based research, arts-based inquiry, cultural epistemologies in storytelling and community-based archiving

Selected Publications

Stol, J. & Alcaraz, N. (2025). Bayanihan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Grounding in community organizing and social movement praxis toward transformative social work. Transformative Social Work Journal, 3(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.55016/ojs/tsw.v3i1.80135

Stol, J. (2025). Adapting Photovoice: Knowledge production and ethics. In J.J. Chonody (Ed.), Teaching Activities for Social Work: Creative Pedagogies to Engage Students. Springer Nature.

Stol, J. (2022). How mutual aid and care ignite and further grassroots organizing possibilities for long-term change: A case of Kapit-Bisig Laban COVID Montreal (linked arms in the struggle against COVID). ALON: Journal for Filipinx American Diasporic Studies, 2(2), 141-146. https://doi.org/10.5070/LN42258019

Stol, J. (2021). A few reflections on the process of "Coming Out", in/visibility, and social service settings. In J.G. Aquines (Ed.), Home is in the Body: LGBTQ2IA+ FilipinX Femme, North of the 49th Parallel (pp. 40-41). Calgary Arts Development Association.

Khan, A., Khanlou, N., Stol, J., & Tran, V. (2018). Immigrant and refugee mental health: A scoping review of empirical literature. In S. Pashang, N. Khanlou, & J. Clarke (Eds.), Today's Youth Mental Health: Hope, Power, Resilience (pp. 3-20). Springer.

Rae, J., Pettey, D., Aubry, T., & Stol, J. (2015). Factors affecting smoking cessation efforts of people with severe mental illness: A qualitative study. Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 11(1), 29-42. https://doi:10.1080/15504263.2014.992096

 

Creative Publications

Stol, J. (2024). Queer kuwentuhan [E-Magazine]. https://www.centrekapwa.org/kapwa-blog/queer-kuwentuhan

Vicente, A., Nardo, D.L.C, Métivier, M., & Stol, J. (2023). MAGLALA (interwoven): Weaving our webs of home [Art Exhibit]. Exhibited at Maison de la culture – Côte-des-neiges from December 3^rd, 2023, to January 28^th, 2024.

Research and Policy-ready Reports

Brunet-Bélanger, A., Brown, N., Atari, O., Litalien, M., Brouard, F., Chen, L., & Stol, J. (2024). Political Implications of Diasporic Philanthropy [Research Note]. Nipissing University and the Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Research Network (PhiLab). https://carleton.ca/profbrouard/wpcontent/uploads/ReportRNPhilab3DiasporaEthnicPhilanthropyPolitical20240503.pdf

Stol, J., Fontan, J-M., Glass, J. Morena, E., & Audet, R. (2020). Foundations and climate action: Exploratory research. Report prepared for the Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Research Network (PhiLab), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). https://philab.uqam.ca/en/publication/foundations-and-climate-action-exploratory-research/

Stol, J., Khanlou, N., Nguyen, H., Tran, V., Omer, S., Yip, A., & Carter, C. (2015). Taking action on health equity and diversity: Responding to the mental health needs of children, youth and families new to Canada. Report prepared for the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health (now the Knowledge Institute on Child and Youth Mental Health and Addictions) and the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS). https://www.cymha.ca/Modules/ResourceHub/?id=FB782BC8-389E-43C1-B80C-EE468039719E