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Student Achievements
Recent Achievements
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Sarah Pearson successfully defended her PhD dissertation on April 30th, 2026: “My voice is trauma, my voice is healing:” a feminist, trauma-informed embodied study on the impact of gender-based violence in classical music communities |
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Cheri Bilitz successfully defended her PhD dissertation on January 5th, 2026: A Contribution to Constructing a Theory and Model of Social Work Leadership |
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Amilah Baksh, Alison Parnell, & Andrew Tibbetts are three of the co-authors for an article published in Transformative Social Work: Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy |
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Wenjuan Song successfully defended her PhD dissertation on December 22nd, 2025: “Who Am I Here?”: Exploring the Racial Identity Development of Chinese Adolescent International Students in Canada - A Constructivist Grounded Theory Approach |
Current Students: Achievement Highlights
Amilah Baksh
Katie Barber
Alesya Courtnage
Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy
Baksh, A., Parnell, A., Pollack, S., Rattner, M., & Tibbetts, A. (2025). "Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy" Transformative Social Work, 3(2).
Baksh, A., Parnell, A., Pollack, S., Rattner, M., & Tibbetts, A. (2025). "Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy" Transformative Social Work, 3(2).
Dwaikat-Shaer, N., Baksh, A., Elkassem, S., & King, B. (2025). "Phenomenologies of Silence: On the Palestine Exception and the Complicity of Social Work Academe" Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work, 3(2).
Baksh, A. (2024). "'She didn’t mean it that way': theorizing gendered Islamophobia in academia" Race Ethnicity and Education, 27(1), 39-54.
"Why Don't You Just Take it Off?": Hijab as Resistance
Baksh, A., & Baksh, B. (2023). “Why Don’t You Just Take it Off?” Girlhood Studies, 16(3), 52–68.
Baksh, A., & Baksh, B. (2023). “Why Don’t You Just Take it Off?” Girlhood Studies, 16(3), 52–68.
Baksh, A., & Khan, M. (2023). "Too Muslim to be a Feminist and Too Feminist to be a Muslim? Locating Lived Experiences of Feminism and Muslimness in Social Work Academe" Affilia, 38(4), 673-686.
Katie Barber
Barber, K. (2025). "Re-imagining Pedagogy in Social Work Education: Indigenous Love and Relationality" Canadian Journal of Native Education, 42(1).
Alesya Courtnage
Cait, C. A., Courtnage, A., Bilitz, C., & Ruby, S. (2025). "Walk-In Single-Session Therapy at a University Counselling Clinic and Clinician Experience" In Implementing Single-Session Psychotherapy, Routledge, 208-233.
Courtnage, A. (2024). "Solution Focused Single Session Therapy: Small conversations for big social change" In Women's Perspectives on the Solution Focused Approach, Routledge, 55-65.
Nathan Barnett
A place to find community: the role of autonomy and care in managed encampments
Pin, L., Suthakaran, A., Ermeta, N., & Barnett, N. R. G. (2025). A place to find community: the role of autonomy and care in managed encampments. Urban Geography, 1–23.
Pin, L., Suthakaran, A., Ermeta, N., & Barnett, N. R. G. (2025). A place to find community: the role of autonomy and care in managed encampments. Urban Geography, 1–23.
Bhagwati Gautam
Mental health services among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: perspectives from field service providers
ElRayes W., Malik S., Akesson B., Mahmood I., Hafiz MG., Aldalaykeh M., Mahmood A., Gautam B., Hoque S., Ul Haque F., & Watanabe-Galloway S. (2025). "Mental health services among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: perspectives from field service providers". International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 21(1), 17–35.
ElRayes W., Malik S., Akesson B., Mahmood I., Hafiz MG., Aldalaykeh M., Mahmood A., Gautam B., Hoque S., Ul Haque F., & Watanabe-Galloway S. (2025). "Mental health services among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: perspectives from field service providers". International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 21(1), 17–35.
Victoria Huang
Using photo-voice to understand factors affecting mental health at a high school in China
Huang, V. & Zhang, X. (2025). "Using photo-voice to understand factors affecting mental health at a high school in China" Transformative Social Work, 3(1).
Huang, V. & Zhang, X. (2025). "Using photo-voice to understand factors affecting mental health at a high school in China" Transformative Social Work, 3(1).
Sabina Mezhibovsky
Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy
Baksh, A., Parnell, A., Pollack, S., Rattner, M., & Tibbetts, A. (2025). "Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy" Transformative Social Work, 3(2).
Mezhibovsky, S. (2025). "The homeless grief - The loss of non-kin family: Middle-aged immigrant experience of disenfranchised grief over a friend’s death in Western society" Transformative Social Work, 3(1).
Alison Parnell
Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy
Baksh, A., Parnell, A., Pollack, S., Rattner, M., & Tibbetts, A. (2025). "Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy" Transformative Social Work, 3(2).
Sarah Pearson
Pearson, S. (2025). "Fostering Critical, Reflective, Trauma-Informed Social Work Education: A Polyvagal-Informed Approach to Pedagogy" In Trauma-Informed Care in Social Work Education, Routledge.
Julia Read
Smith, S., & Read., J. (2024). "Work with People in Mental Distress Who Access Spirituality/Religion" The British Journal of Social Work, 55(1), 401-418.
Sarah Southey
Morris, R., Southey, S., & Pilatzke, M. (2025). "Autistic-inclusive employment: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis" The British Journal of Social Work, 55(4), 1794-1815
McKenzie, C., & Southey, S. (2024). "Barriers and Facilitators to Access to Post-secondary Education for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Narrative Literature Review" Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 13(3).
Andrew Tibbetts
Baksh, A., Parnell, A., Pollack, S., Rattner, M., & Tibbetts, A. (2025). "Harms and possibilities: Social work doctoral students reflect on social justice pedagogy" Transformative Social Work, 3(2).
Sarah Tremblett
Tremblett, S. (2025). "Beyond risk: Centering relationality and reflexivity to transform child welfare" Transformative Social Work, 3(1).
Tremblett, S., Ellenbogen, S., Wadden, E., Koparan, L., Traverse, C., & Muise, M. (2025). "People with Lived Experience as Support Workers and Community Leaders: Findings from a Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Literature and Expert Consultation" Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 1-22.
Southey, S., Morris, R., Nicholas, D. & Pilatzke, M. (2024) "Autistic Perspectives on Employment: A Scoping Review" Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation 34, 756–76.
Cristina Aquilina
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“There Are Teachers Everywhere.” An artistic representation of the Decolonizing Subgroup Panel Discussion, 2025 |
Utamika Cummings van Zyl
An Invitation to Know
Cummings Van Zyl, U. (2025) "An Invitation to Know" ADVANCE Journal, 6(1).
Graduates: Achievement Highlights
2026 Graduates
Cheri Bilitz
A Contribution to Constructing a Theory and Model of Social Work Leadership
Wen Juan Song
"Who Am I Here?" Exploring the Racial Identity Development of Chinese Adolescent International Students in Canada: A Constructivist Grounded Theory ApproachA Contribution to Constructing a Theory and Model of Social Work Leadership
2025 Graduates
Alishau Diebold
Pathways to Sustainable Employment: Bridging Community Justice and Social Enterprise Programs for Criminalized Women
Esther Hayford
Student Engagement and Resistance: Exploring the stories of African Canadian girls in high schools in southwestern Ontario
Grace Ihejiamaizu
A Dance of War or Love: Applying a Gendered Lens on the Lived Experiences of Women Social Entrepreneurs in Nigeria
Yugita Looknauth
"Just Checking": Racial Profiling and the Criminalization of Black Students at Post-Secondary Institutions
2024 Graduates
Giselle Dias
Indigenous Wholistic Abolition: Visioning Indigenous Queer, Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Futures
Amar Ghelani
“If somebody takes the time to listen”: Understanding the risks and reasons for cannabis use among youth who have experienced psychosis
Lin Haag
"The Most Important Thing in IPV Right Now": The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Brain Injury
Azadeh Razbani-Tehrani
Young Adult Stepchildren's Lived Experience Of Blended Family Adjustment During Adolescence: A Retrospective Descriptive Phenomenological Analysis
2023 Graduates
Samantha Clarke
Swimming Against the Tide: The Relational Praxis of Social Justice in Social Work
Bronwyn Dickson
Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Distress in Companion Animal Veterinary Medicine: Mental Health Implications
Cara Grosset
Deep in the shadows of loss: An exploration of grief, mourning, and intellectual disability
Jessica Hutchison
“It Felt Like a Sense of Rape:” Women’s Experiences of Strip Searching in Prison as Gendered, Misogynoir, and Colonial Genocidal Sexual Violence
Jacqueline Nobiss
Anishinaabeg Niizh Manitoag: Asha Amaa, We Were Always Here
Judah Oudshoorn
Towards ending incarceration of Indigenous peoples in Canada: A critical, narrative inquiry of hegemonic power in the Gladue report process
Maxxine Rattner
Disrupting and expanding the discourse: Palliative care clinicians' experiences with patients' non-physical suffering
Stewart Smith
Best Practices for Social Workers Engaging with Spiritual/Religious Clients
Elizabeth Watters
"I'm not working, but I'm a professional": Precarious employment pathways, consequences, and resistance strategies impacting the health of racialized immigrant women