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Our expert faculty members are conducting crucial research work. As dedicated professionals, they continue winning awards, accolades and recognition. Some of our awards include grants and research funding. See some of our award winning work below.

Browse the cutting edge research from our tireless and dedicated faculty members who continue to push boundaries and gain recognition for their contributions. We hope their efforts help and inspire your work. Please feel free to reach out to us for collaboration opportunities.

Featured Publication

Dog's Best Friend?
Rethinking Canid-Human Relations

edited by John Sorenson and Atsuko Matsuoka

In almost 40 per cent of households in North America, dogs are kept as companion animals. Dogs may be man's best friends, but what are humans to dogs? If these animals' loyalty and unconditional love have won our hearts, why do we so often view closely related wild canids, such as foxes, wolves, and coyotes, as pests, predatory killers, and demons?

Re-examining the complexity and contradictions of human attitudes towards these animals, Dog's Best Friend? looks at how our relationships with canids have shaped and also been transformed by different political and economic contexts.

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Dog's Best Friend?

Atsuko Matsuoka
2019

Sorenson, J. & Matsuoka, A. (Eds). (2019) Dog’s Best Friend?: Rethinking Human-Canid Relations. Montreal and Kingston: McGill & Queen University ...

Mobilizing Global Knowledge Book Cover

Susan McGrath
2019

McGrath, S., & Young, J. E. E. (Eds). (2019). Mobilizing Global Knowledge: Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement. Calgary: ...

A Violent History of Benevolence Book Cover

Chris Chapman
2019

Chapman, C. & A.J. Withers. (2019) A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working. ...

Sharing Breath Book Cover

Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
2018

Batacharya, Sheila, and Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, eds. 2018. Sharing breath: Embodied learning and decolonization. Edmonton, Canada: Athabasca University Press.

Imagining Child Welfare

Daniel Kikulwe
2018

Montgomery, M., Badry, Kikulwe, D., Bennett, M., & Fuch, D.(Eds.). (2018) “Imagining child welfare in the spirit of reconciliation: Voices ...

Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2018

Nicol, N., Jjuuko A., Lusimbo, R. Mulé, N.J., Ursell, S., Wahab, A. & Waugh, P.  (Eds.) (2018). Envisioning Global LGBT ...

Critical Animal Studies Book Cover

Atsuko Matsuoka
2018

Matsuoka, A. and Sorenson, J. (Eds). (2018) Critical Animal Studies: Toward Trans-species Social Justice, London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Transnational Social Policy Book Cover

Luann Good Gingrich
2017

Good Gingrich, L. & Köngeter, S. (Eds.). (2017). Transnational social policy – Social welfare in a world on the move. ...

The Shifting Terrain Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2017

Mulé, N.J. & DeSantis, G.C. (Eds.) (2017). The Shifting Terrain: Public Policy Advocacy in Canada. Montreal, QC-Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Working with immigrants and Refugees Book Cover

Uzo Anucha
2017

Yan, M. C. & Anucha, U. (Eds.) (2017). Working with Immigrants and Refugees: Issues, Theories, and Approaches for Social Work ...

Transforming Child Welfare Book Cover

Daniel Kikulwe
2016

Montgomery, M., Fuch, D., Badry, D. & Kikulwe, D.  (Eds.) (2016) “Child welfare transformations interdisciplinary practices, field education and research” ...

Out of Place Book Cover

Luann Good Gingrich
2016

Good Gingrich, L.(2016) Out of place: Social exclusion and Mennonite migrants in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Queering Social Work Education Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2016

Hillock, S. & Mulé, N.J. (Eds.) (2016). Queering Social Work Education. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

LGNTQ People and Social Work Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2015

O’Neill, B.J., Swan, T.A. & Mulé, N.J. (Eds.) (2015). LGBTQ People and Social Work: Intersectional Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

Appalachian Black People Book Cover

Wilburn Hayden
2015

Hayden, W.  (2015). Appalachian Black People: Identity, Location and Barriers. Pittsburgh: 91 South.

Disability Incarcerated Book Cover

Chris Chapman
2014

Ben-Moshe, L, C. Chapman, & A.C. Carey (Eds). (2014). Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada. ...