Deadline for application April 25, 2025
The School of Social Work has the following course that has one TA position available during the 2025 summer term:
| Course # | Course Name | Term | Schedule
Day |
Time | # of TA hours |
| SOWK 453.921 / 570H.921 | Disability and Justice | 1 | Monday & Wednesday | 1:00pm – 4:00pm | 50 |
This course considers the intertwining themes of disability and justice, which present a challenge to the health and human service professional, both on an intellectual and practical level. Just how are justice issues framed in the disability context? Is the law an effective vehicle to address injustices in the lives of persons with disabilities? What are the obligations of the health professional to push the justice agenda? If so, does this conflict with other responsibilities in the role of the professional? The course will take a cross disability approach, focusing on shared socio-economic issues. It will take a narrative/life course/systems approach, introducing students to the key challenges and issues faced by individuals with disabilities and their families as they progress through the life course. As far as possible, the course will be grounded in the lived experience of people with disabilities and their families as they engage with professionals, the service system and society.
Salaries will be in accordance with current negotiated CUPE2278 rates. Full-time students registered in a Master’s or PhD program may apply for this position.
This position is for marking subjective assignments and exams. Rate of pay as of September 1, 2024 is $40.16 per hour for GTA 1 and $38.65 per hour for GTA 2. A GTA 1 is a graduate student who has completed 2 years’ service as a graduate student teaching assistant. A GTA 2 is a graduate student with less than 2 years of service as a graduate student teaching assistant. All positions are subject to enrolment and funding.
Application form must be accompanied by a current CV and should be submitted to:
Rita Amisano, Administrator, School of Social Work: sowk.recruitment@ubc.ca
The application form is here https://socialwork.ubc.ca/graduate/funding/
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Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices
that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been
marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First
Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.