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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.

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Cover of the book Skills to Build the Nation by Soma Chatterjee

Skills to Build the Nation: Immigrant Labour Market and Canadian Nationalism

Soma Chatterjee

Drawing attention to the simultaneous recruitment of skilled immigrants (as crucial for national prosperity), their devaluation (for lack of commensurate skills), and subsequent policy and programmatic affirmation of local Canadian experience as marker of integration/employability – triple dynamics that unfolded between the liberalization in 1962 and the last major immigration policy overhaul in 2016 – this book highlights the skilled labour market as a generative site for post-liberalization Canadian nation building. In the process, the author moves from the entrenched practices of studying the immigrant and how they measure up to the nation to studying the nation immigrants enter and how the labour market becomes an index for it.

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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. ...

Defining Critical Animal Studies

Atsuko Matsuoka
2014

Nocella, A. J. II, Sorenson, J., Socha, K.  & Matsuoka, A. (Eds.). (2014). Defining Critical Animal Studies: An Intersectional Social ...

Money in their Own Name

Wendy McKeen
2014

McKeen, W. (2014). Money in Their Own Name: The Feminist Voice in Poverty Debate in Canada, 1970-1995. University of Toronto ...

Towards positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare Book Cover

Sarah Maiter
2014

Cameron, G., Fine, M., Maiter, S., Frensch, K., & Freymond, N. (Eds.). (2014). Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: ...

AT RISK Book Cover

Karen Swift
2009

Swift, K., & Callahan, M. (2009). At Risk: Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services. Toronto: University of ...

Canadian Social Policy Book Cover

Karen Swift
2008

Graham, J., Swift, K. and Delaney, R. (2008). Canadian Social Policy: An Introduction. 3rd Edition. Toronto: Prentice Hall.

Desire for Development

Barbara Heron
2007

Heron, B. (2007). Desire for Development: The Education of White Women as Development Workers, Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Telling Tales: Living the Effects of Public Policy book cover

Anne O’Connell
2005

Neysmith, Sheila, Kate Bezanson and Anne O’Connell. (2005) Telling Tales: Living the Effects of Public Policy. Halifax: Fernwood Press.

Transforming the Field Book Cover

Narda Razack
2002

Razack, N. (2002). Transforming the Field: Critical Anti-racist and Anti-oppressive Perspectives for the Human Services Practicum. Halifax: Fernwood Publishers.

Ghosts and Shadows Book Cover

Atsuko Matsuoka
2001

Matsuoka, A.  & Sorenson, J. (2001). Ghosts and shadows: Constructions of identity and community in an African diaspora, Toronto, On.: ...

Practice Research in Social Work Book Cover

Amy Rossiter
2000

Faucett, B., Featherstone, B., Fook, J., & Rossiter, A. (Eds.) (2000). Practice and research in social work: Postmodern feminist perspectives. London: ...

Manufacturing Bad Mother Book Cover

Karen Swift
1995

Swift, K. (1995). Manufacturing "Bad Mothers": A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

From Private to Public Book Cover

Amy Rossiter
1988

Rossiter, A. (1988). From private to public: A feminist exploration of early mothering. Toronto: The Women's Press.