People

Faculty
Core Faculty

Christiana Bratiotis

Christiana Bratiotis

Associate Professor , PhD Program Chair

phone604 822 2460
location_on2011 West Mall
Christiana Bratiotis is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she teaches social work practice classes across the bachelor’s and master’s programs and supervises social work doctoral students. She serves as Faculty C...Read more

Grant Charles

Grant Charles

Associate Professor / BSW and MSW Awards Committee Chair

phone604 822 3804
location_on2011 West Mall
Grant Charles is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and an affiliated faculty with the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics with the Faculty of Medicine. He is also affiliated with the UBC Centre for Group Counselling and Trauma. He holds an adj...Read more

Jax Nobiss

Jax Nobiss

Assistant Professor

phone604 822 8599
location_on2011 West Mall

Karun Karki

Karun Karki

Associate Professor

phone604 827 1520
location_on2011 West Mall
Karun was born and raised in a rural community in eastern Nepal – profusely laden with spectacular landscapes of Mt. Kanchenjunga and a wide range of flora and fauna. The diverse topography and people with multilingual, multireligious, and multiethnic identities shape his ways of knowing and being...Read more

Kelly Allison

Kelly Allison

Assistant Professor of Teaching / Chair of Field Education

phone604 822 6220
location_on2011 West Mall
Kelly Allison, MSW, RCSW, is an Instructor with the UBC School of Social Work where she teaches social work practice courses in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in psychology at the University of Guelph and her Master of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier ...Read more

Mohamed Ibrahim

Mohamed Ibrahim

Assistant Professor / International Committee Chair

phone604 822 2100
location_on2011 West Mall
Dr. Mohamed is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia School of Social Work and a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar. He is an affiliated research investigator with Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and a past Clinical Addiction Fellow at the British Columbia Ce...Read more
Affiliated Faculty

Kenta Asakura

Kenta Asakura

Honorary Affiliate Associate Professor

Kenta Asakura is currently an Associate Professor at Smith College School for Social Work (Northampton, MA). Seeking to advance the practice and teaching of clinical social work with marginalized communities, Asakura leads a program of simulation-based research. Using simulation (i.e., working with ...Read more
Emeriti

Daniel Perlman

Daniel Perlman

Professor Emeritus

Edward Kruk

Edward Kruk

Associate Professor Emeritus

Edward Kruk is Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of British Columbia, specializing in child and family policy. As a child and family social worker in Canada and the U.K., he has practiced in the fields of welfare rights, child protection, school social work, hospital soci...Read more

Elizabeth Jones

Elizabeth Jones

Senior Instructor Emeritus

Margaret Arcus

Margaret Arcus

Professor Emerita

Margaret Wright

Margaret Wright

Associate Professor Emeritus

Paul McClelland

Paul McClelland

Assistant Professor Emeritus

Paule McNicoll

Paule McNicoll

Associate Professor Emerita

phone604 822 1248 / 604 822 5026
B.A. (Philosophy) (1968) Collège des Jésuites, Québec City BSW (1968-71) Université Laval MSW (1978-79) University of British Columbia Ph. D. (1985-89) University of Washington Prior to joining the faculty in 1990, Paule McNicoll had 15 years of experience as a professional social worker i...Read more

Richard Sullivan

Richard Sullivan

Associate Professor Emeritus

phone604 822 1248 / 604 822 5026
location_on2080 West Mall
In recent years more of my work has been in applied social work scholarship in partnership with public interest law firms and the public trustee and in the service of social justice in behalf of under-served or ill-served individuals and groups. In the latter stages of my academic career, I have ret...Read more

Roopchand Seebaran

Roopchand Seebaran

Assistant Professor Emeritus

Sheila Marshall

Sheila Marshall

Professor Emeritus

Professor; Associate Member, Division of Adolescent Health & Medicine, Department of Pediatrics Sheila Marshall is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Work and an associate faculty member of the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. She received he...Read more
Indigenous Advisor
Adjunct Professors/Sessional Lecturers

Allen Alvarez

Allen Alvarez supports healthcare professionals in building moral wellness through ethics education, evaluation, analysis of ethical issues and moral distress consultation. He engages applied ethics scholarship to understand moral experience and standards that define good healthcare practices and de...Read more

Melanie McDonald

Melanie McDonald

Adjunct Professor (Research)

Melanie is currently the Director of Support Services at the non-profit organization Pain BC working to improve the systems that impact people living with chronic pain.  Melanie holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto, and an Advanced Certificate in Health Leadership from BCIT....Read more

Nadia Kyba

Nadia Kyba

Adjunct Professor/Field Liaison

Nadia has worked in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution for 25 years. Within the Provincial Child Welfare system, Nadia worked as a social worker, team leader, collaborative practice facilitator, and practice consultant. She has extensive experience facilitating dispute resolution for a wide...Read more

Pascale de Kerckhove

Pascale de Kerckhove

Adjunct Professor

Pascale de Kerckhove, MSW, RSW, obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Major in Family Studies) in 2006 and a Master in Social Work in 2011 from the University of British Columbia, after a career as a ballet dancer and an arts administrator. Pascale is a healthcare social worker who has practiced in acute,...Read more

Tommy Spence

Tommy Spence

Adjunct Professor

Tommy Spence, MSW, RSW (he/him/his) is a white settler of English and German ancestry. Born on treaty four territory, Tommy has been living as an uninvited settler on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people...Read more