Project Team Members

Canadian Project Team Members

Dr. Nombuso Dlamini is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and has worked for the International Briefing Association, a CIDA Affiliate, preparing Canadian International Development professionals in cultural sensitivity for Southern African countries including Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. Her research include professional development, youth and women. Her areas of focus in teaching are critical race studies, language development and cultural understanding, gender, critical pedagogy and postcolonial/poststructuralist studies. Nombuso Dlamini also brings to the project her experiences of working as a teacher and researcher with young people in South Africa.
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Dr. Miu Chung Yan is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at UBC and has Diploma, BSW, MSW and PhD in Social Work. Dr. Yan has worked in social service fields in Hong Kong, England, Canada and US. Some of the international SWK projects that Dr. Yan is involved with through UBC include a partnership to develop an MSW program in Dalat University, Vietnam and Thammasat University, Thailand.
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Dr. Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale is a University Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Sexual Health. She has extensive international research experience on HIV/AIDS, most recently in Kenya and Nigeria. The focus of her work is to contribute to the knowledge base that can inform programming and policy on HIV prevention and to develop and test programs that are effective, self-modifying, sustainable, and have a wide reach. Her international work has been funded by CIDA, IDRC, DFID, CIHR, USAID, and Plan International for a career total of $12 million Cdn. Dr. Maticka-Tyndale has consulted to the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization as an expert advisor in developing policy documents related to HIV prevention.
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Mary Medcalf is the Field Education Administrator in the School of Social Work, University of Windsor. Ms. Medcalf has facilitated many community forums, working groups, boards, advisory committees and focus groups to identify community needs and capacities and fill identified needs by enhancing community capacities. Ms. Medcalf is currently involved in several community initiatives related to crime prevention, community mobilization, elder abuse, and innovative field practice learning centres for social work students.
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Dr. Narda Razack's research primarily focuses on North-South relations, globalization and international social work, critical race theory, issues of post-colonialism, and the Caribbean diaspora. She has written widely on these topics. For example, she is the author of the book Transforming the Field: Critical Anti-racist and Anti-oppressive Perspectives for the Human Services Practicum (2002), and several journal articles, including "Critical Race Discourse and Tenets for Social Work," (with Donna Jeffery) in Canadian Social Work Review (2003), and "A Critical Analysis of International Placement Exchanges," in International Social Work (2002). She is the chair of the Task force on Research and Exchanges, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), and is the principal researcher on a global survey of international social work exchanges and research.