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The University of British Columbia
- a place of mind
- The University of British Columbia
- School of Social Work
Sponsored By: BC Ministry of Regional Economic and Skills Development
Principle Investigator: Elizabeth Jones, MSW, RSW
Co-investigators: Pilar Riano-Alcala, Ph.D. and Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Contact: elizabethjones@telus.net
Sponsored By: Dean of Arts
Principle Investigator: Edward Kruk, Ph.D.
Contact: Edward.Kruk@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: SSHRC
Principle Investigator: Sheila Marshall, Ph.D.
Contact: Sheila.Marshall@ubc.ca
This two-site, multi-informant research is concerned with the ways in which parents and adolescents act together with regard to adolescents’ time in structured and unstructured activities with peers. The primary objective of this research is to bring two broad areas of research together in this proposed project: (a) parent management of adolescents’ peer relationships and (b) adolescents’ management of friends and activities.
Our focus on the joint actions between parents, and adolescents and participants’ meanings attributed to the joint actions, contributes toward rectifying the unwarranted implication in a great deal of research and intervention literature that parents are the main source of adolescents’ problem behaviours with peers. A second objective is to examine whether information about relationship dynamics effectively assists families in guiding the adolescents’ peer relations.
Sponsored By: CIHR
Principle Investigator: Paule McNicoll, Ph.D.
Co-investigators: Amy Salmon, Ph.D. and Sydney Weaver, MSW
Contact: Sydney Weaver, MSW
This qualitative study pertains to fathers’ experiences of exclusion/inclusion in harm reduction maternity services. Findings from the 2009 ‘Left out’: Father Exclusion in maternal harm reduction services study, which employed both qualitative and quantitative methods, indicated that mother engagement in maternal harm reduction services is positively correlated with father engagement, suggesting the importance of engaging fathers in these services. Current data analysis is underway of 20 interviews with fathers and mothers, and a focus group with fathers and mothers.
Sponsored By: MITACS/BC-IRDI
Principle Investigator: Sydney Weaver
Co-investigator: Amy Salmon, Ph.D.
Contact: Sydney Weaver, Doctoral Candidate
In partnership with Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users; Funded by MITACS/ACCELERATE BC. This qualitative study, with 5 drug-using mothers and 5 service providers, focused on mothers’ experiences of having children placed in kinship care. Individual interviews were conducted with the ten participants, and a grounded theory qualitative method was used. Data analysis resulted in major codes: 1) “Welfare reports” or Technologies of regulation; 2) “Meet them at the bus stop” or Control of mother-child contact; 3) “No supports” or Lack of supports for mothers and carers; and 4) “We’re a distant family” or Mother as family scapegoat.
‘Structural Resistance Theory’ was developed from this grounded theory qualitative study. This theory emerged from codes that fell into two distinct categories: 1) mothers’ acts of resistance to power exercised against them by family members and/or child welfare workers and 2) impediments to mothers’ resistance. This theoretical framework builds on structural theory Carniol, 1992; Mullaly, 2007) and resistance theory (Coates & Wade, 2007; Reynolds, 2010). As an analytic strategy, it requires articulating from the data not only forms of structural violence and oppression, but also how and where subjects resist, and the impediments to their resistance.
Sponsored By: SSHRC/CURA
Principle Investigator: Paule McNicoll, Ph.D.
Co-investigator: Sydney Weaver, MSW, Ph.D.
Contact: paule.mcnicoll@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: CIHR with U of Calgary
Principle Investigator: Deborah O'Connor, Ph.D.
Co-investigator: Sing Mei Chan
Contact: deborah.oconnor@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: Faculty of Arts
Principle Investigator: Brian O'Neill, Ph.D.
Contact: Brian.Oneill@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: Metropolis British Columbia
Principle Investigator: Brian O'Neill, Ph.D.
Contact: Brian.Oneill@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: Hampton
Principle Investigator: Pilar Riano-Alcala, Ph.D.
Contact: Pilar.Riano-Alcara@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs (budget with Liu Institute for Global Issues)
Principle Investigator: Pilar Riano-Alcala, Ph.D.
Contact: Pilar.Riano-Alcara@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: SSHRC
Principle Investigator: Pilar Riano-Alcala, Ph.D.
Contact: Pilar.Riano-Alcara@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: HSS
Principle Investigator: Pilar Riano-Alcala, Ph.D.
Contact: Pilar.Riano-Alcara@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: Dean of Arts
Principle Investigator: Graham Riches, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: BC Ministry of Children & Family Development
Principle Investigator: Tim Stainton, Ph.D.
Contact: Timothy.Stainton@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: UBC Peer Wall Institute for Advanced Studies/Exploratory Workshop Grant
Principle Investigator: Tim Stainton, Ph.D.
Contact: Timothy.Stainton@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: Faculty of Arts
Principle Investigator: Tim Stainton, Ph.D.
Contact: Timothy.Stainton@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: Community Living British columbia
Principle Investigator: Tim Stainton, Ph.D.
Contact: Timothy.Stainton@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: Justice Institute of British Columbia
Principle Investigator: Richard Sullivan, Ph.D.
Co-investigators: Sevinj Askerova, Ph.D. Student
Contact: Sevinj Askerova
Sponsored By: SSHRC
Principle Investigator: Kwong-leung Tang, Ph.D.
Contact: Kwong-Leung.Tang@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: SSHRC
Principle Investigator: Frank Tester, Ph.D.
Co-investigators:Nathan Lauster, Ph.D. and Paule McNicoll, Ph.D.
Contact: Frank.Tester@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: SSHRC
Principle Investigator: Frank Tester, Ph.D.
Co-investigator: Paule McNicoll, Ph.D.
Contact: Frank.Tester@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: ArcticNet-Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE)/Research
Principle Investigator: Frank Tester, Ph.D.
Contact: Frank.Tester@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: ArcticNet-Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE)/Research
Principle Investigator: Frank Tester, Ph.D.
Contact: Frank.Tester@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: UBC Northern Scientific Training Program
Principle Investigator: Frank Tester, Ph.D.
Co-investigator: April Dutheil
Contact: Frank.Tester@ubc.ca
Sponsored By: CIHR with U's of Alberta, Manitoba and Regina
Principle Investigator: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
Co-investigators: Eduardo Jovel, Ph.D.
Contacts: Richard Vedan, Ph.D. and Eduardo Jovel, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: CIHR’s International Collaborative Indigenous Health Research Partnership
Co-investigators: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
With colleagues at the University of Otago, New Zealand and universities across western Canada a comprehensive review has been completed of work role factors that contribute to and detract from resilience in Indigenous Health Professionals. The Canadian Research Team will present a paper on findings at the International Network on Indigenous Health Knowledge Development conference in Brisbane Australia in November 2012.
Contact: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: Indigenous People’s Health Research Centre
Co-Principle Investigator: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
In collaboration with Dr. Raven Sinclair, University of Regina
Contact: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
Aboriginal Wellness in Alzheimer Disease: Intersections of Science and Tradition, 2011-2014
Sponsored By: CIHR
Co-Principle Investigator: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
In collaboration with colleagues in National Core for Neuroethics,UBC Faculty of Medicine and Thompson Rivers University Social Work engage in community based activities to identify ethical, cultural, mental, physical, social, psychological, spiritual, and environmental aspects of a genetically predetermined form of Early Onset Familial Alzheimer Disease (EOFAD).
Contact: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: SSHRC
Co-Principle Investigator: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
Faculty members from Thompson Rivers University, Madras Christian College (South India), University of British Columbia, University of Northern British Columbia, and the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in collaboration with community based partners such as the Kamloops Interior Indian Friendship Centre will be engaging in participatory action research to examine Aboriginal social work field education.
Contact: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: Institute of Aboriginal Peoples Health Research/CIHR
Co-Principle Investigator: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
Continue the work of capacity building and community based research activity throughout British Columbia and the Western Arctic. For the past four years served as the Kloshe Tillicum Board member for the Aboriginal Health Research Network (AHRNET) which is comprised of nine centres across the country. During past year co-chaired the AHRNET grant renewal team which succeeded in receiving IAPH/CIHR grants of $4.5 million for each of two years to fund the research activities of the nine centres.
Within Kloshe Tillicum serve with Dr. Eduardo Jovel, UBC Land and Food Systems as co-leader for research in Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Medicine (IKTM). At the national AHRNET level with Dr. Cora Weber-Pilwax of the University of Alberta as co-chair for the task group on IKTM.
Contact: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: Kloshe Tillicum/CIHR
Co-Principle Investigator: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
The TLEF and the Kloshe Tillicum grants in 2011 served as the foundation for a successful CIHR grant application in April 2012 and will continue the work begun with the Vancouver Urban Aboriginal Communities over the coming years.
Contact: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
Over the past year Dr. Vedan has been engaged in collaboration and consultation with the Dr. Judy Illes, UBC Neurology, Canadian Research Chair in Neuroethics and Dr. Nina Pietro, both of the National Core for Neuroethics UBC Hospital, on. Community based activities will develop initiatives to work with Indigenous communities to promote the health of children living with developmental disabilities and identify potential research priorities.
Contact: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
In the fall 2011 Dr. Kim van der Woerd (Namgis First Nation) Registered Psychologist and Principal of Reciprocal Consulting was awarded a contract to conduct an evaluation of the Squamish First Nations BSW Pilot Program. Dr. van der Woerd and her associates have been meeting with program students, instructors, community members and members of the Advisor Committee. A report will be presented to the Squamish First Nation Chief and Council and to the School Academic Council upon completion in 2012.
Contact: Richard Vedan, Ph.D.
This qualitative study is an exploration of how China reconfigures social work as a state apparatus to assure the social welfare needs of its people. As a response to the central government’s declaration of the establishment of a troop of social workers in 2007, local governments have experimented different approaches in fulfilling this national commitment. These efforts resulted in the emergence of a new social work field. More and more social work graduates have entered this new professional field. However, so far, only a few empirical efforts have been made to answer the research question: how do these new generation social workers enter the field? The study is conducted in Shenzhen, one of the fastest growing city in South China.
Sponsored By: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Principle Investigator: Ching Man Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Co-Investigator: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Duration: 2012-2013
Contact: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: CIDA/AUCC
Principle Investigator: Uzo Anucha (York University)
Co-Investigator: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Duration: 2007-2012
Contact: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: SSHRC (Standard Grant)
Principle Investigator: Martha Kumsa (Wilfred Laurier University)
Co-Investigator: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Duration: 2008-2012
Contact: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: SSRCH (CURA LOI)
Principle Investigator: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Duration: 2010-2011
Contact: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: SSHRC/The Metropolis Project
Principle Investigator: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Duration: 2010-2012
Contact: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: SSHRC (Standard Grant)
Principle Investigator: Sean Lauer (UBC Sociology)
Co-Investigator: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Duration: 2009-2012
Contact: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: SSHRC (Insight Grant)
Principle Investigator: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
Duration: 2012-2016
Contact: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.
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