Core Faculty
Antoine Coulombe
Antoine Coulombe
Assistant Professor of Teaching / BSW Program Chair
phone604 822 2703
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 231
Antoine Coulombe, MSW, RSW, joined the Faculty as a full-time instructor on January 1st, 2019.
Antoine's career in Social Work started in the late 90's. He has a BSW from the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi and a MSW from the University of Quebec in Montreal. He has over 12 years of Social Wor...Read more
Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Services to Children and Families and an academic affiliate of the SIM Social Work Research Lab at Carleton University.
Ph.D. University of Toronto
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Wo...Read more
Christiana Bratiotis
Christiana Bratiotis
Associate Professor , PhD Program Chair
phone604 822 2460
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 236
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
Deborah O'Connor
Deborah O'Connor has over 30 years of direct professional Social Work practice working in the field of aging and health care. This includes maintaining a small, ongoing practice providing consultation on complex cases, especially when there are issues related to decision-making capacity and/or abuse...Read more
Donna Baines
Donna Baines is a Professor and the previous Director of the UBC School of Social Work. She joined the School in July of 2019 with an enthusiasm for the School’s commitment to social justice and an ethic of care. Dr. Baines comes to UBC from the University of Sydney, where she served as the Chair ...Read more
Grant Charles
Grant Charles
Associate Professor / BSW and MSW Awards Committee Chair
emailGrant.Charles@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3804
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 337
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
Hannah Kia
Hannah Kia
Assistant Professor
emailhannah.kia@ubc.ca
phone604 822 6073
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 240
Hannah Kia is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work. She is also affiliated with the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity. Her current program of research addresses a variety of issues pertaining to sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations. Hannah’s work centres, in particu...Read more
Harpell Montgomery
Harpell Montgomery
Associate Professor / MSW Program Chair
phone604 822 6622
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 239
H. Monty Montgomery is cis-gender male of Irish-Canadian and Mi’kmaq ancestry who has maintained residences in urban and rural BC for over 40 years. He has steadfastly worked to develop and maintain strong relationships in service to First Nations governments and non-profit Aboriginal organization...Read more
Kelly Allison
Kelly Allison
Assistant Professor of Teaching / Chair of Field Education
emailKelly.Allison@ubc.ca
phone604 822 6220
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 233
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
Lea Caragata
Lea Caragata
Director and Associate Professor
emaillea.caragata@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5493
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 333
Lea Caragata completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, focused on the interplay between land use, social movements and the democratization of public space. Her return to academe to do a PhD followed an almost 20-year career that included grassroots community organizing, social housing developm...Read more
Marie Nightbird
Marie Nightbird
Assistant Professor of Teaching / Indigenous Program Committee Chair
phone604 822 3520
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 335
Marie is of Saulteaux, Sioux and Ukrainian ancestry from beautiful Treaty 4 lands in Saskatchewan. She has been a grateful visitor on Coast Salish territories her entire life. For the past 25 years Marie has lived on the unceded, traditional, occupied territories of xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sk...Read more
Miu Chung Yan
Miu Chung Yan joined the School in 2004. Prior to joining UBC, he studied, practiced and taught social work in Hong Kong, London, England, Toronto and San Francisco. His sojourner’s experience has influenced his major research interests covering settlement and integration of immigrants and refugee...Read more
Mohamed Ibrahim
Mohamed Ibrahim
Assistant Professor / International Committee Chair
phone604 822 2100
location_on2080 West Mall 241
Research Area
Health and Mental Health Social WorkDr. Mohamed is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia School of Social Work. Dr. Mohamed’s areas of research focuses on global mental health, health equity and human rights. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in health and addiction. His health leadership and clini...Read more
Research Area
Health and Mental Health Social Work
Tim Stainton
BSW (Western), MSW (Toronto), PhD, Social Policy and Political Theory (London School of Economics and Political Science).
Tim Stainton is currently Professor at the School of Social Work and Director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship. He has held faculty appointments at the ...Read more
Tina Wilson
Tina Wilson
Assistant Professor
emailtina.wilson@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2383
location_on2080 West Mall Room 237
Tina Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. She works broadly speaking on the evolving encounter between scientific and social movement knowledges as they converge within professional social work and social welfare infrastructures. These encounters include changing understand...Read more
Affiliated Faculty
Allen Alvarez
Allen Alvarez
Honorary Research Associate
emailallen.alvarez@ubc.ca
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
Kenta Asakura
Kenta Asakura
Honorary Affiliate Associate Professor
emailkasakura@smith.edu
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
Melanie McDonald
Melanie McDonald
Honorary Research Associate
Research Area
Health and Mental Health Social WorkResearch Area
Health and Mental Health Social WorkEmeriti
Brian O'Neill
Brian O'Neill
Associate Professor Emeritus
emailBrian.Oneill@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1248 / 604 822 5026
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 133
Brian O’Neill is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia School of Social Work. He received a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Windsor, a master of social work from Carleton University, and a doctorate in social work from Wilfrid Laurier University. He has...Read more
Edward Kruk
Edward Kruk
Associate Professor Emeritus
emailEdward.Kruk@ubc.ca
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
Graham Riches
Graham Riches
Professor Emeritus
emailgraham.riches@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1248 / 604 822 5026
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 133
Research Area
Social and Community Development
BA, MA (1965/1968) University of Cambridge
Dip. SA (1966) London School of Economics
Graham Riches served as Director of the UBC School of Social Work from 1998 until his retirement in 2008. His early practice was in community development in Sarawak/Malaysia (Voluntary Service Overse...Read more
Research Area
Social and Community Development
Mary Russell
Mary Russell
Professor Emerita
emailmary.russell@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1248 / 604 822 5026
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 133
B.A. (Honours Psychology) UBC
B.S.W., M.S.W., UBC
M.A. (Developmental Psychology), SFU
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology), SFU
Mary Russell’s work on violence in families has included research on treatment programs for abusive men, services to and relationship beliefs of women who have been abused,...Read more
Paule McNicoll
Paule McNicoll
Associate Professor Emerita
phone604 822 1248 / 604 822 5026
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 133
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 Vedan
Richard Vedan
Associate Professor Emeritus / First Nations Advisor
emailrichard.vedan@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1248 / 604 822 5026
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 133
Richard Vedan, (Secwepemc First Nation) First Nations Advisor, joined the UBC School of Social Work in 1995 and has just completed appointments (2001-2008) as the Director of the First Nation House of Learning and Senior Advisor to the President on Aboriginal Affairs. Before coming to UBC he was a m...Read more
Sheila Marshall
Sheila Marshall
Professor Emeritus
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 133
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 receive...Read more
Indigenous Advisor
Marie Nightbird
Marie Nightbird
Assistant Professor of Teaching / Indigenous Program Committee Chair
phone604 822 3520
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 335
Marie is of Saulteaux, Sioux and Ukrainian ancestry from beautiful Treaty 4 lands in Saskatchewan. She has been a grateful visitor on Coast Salish territories her entire life. For the past 25 years Marie has lived on the unceded, traditional, occupied territories of xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sk...Read more
Richard Vedan
Richard Vedan
Associate Professor Emeritus / First Nations Advisor
emailrichard.vedan@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1248 / 604 822 5026
location_on2080 West Mall Rm 133
Richard Vedan, (Secwepemc First Nation) First Nations Advisor, joined the UBC School of Social Work in 1995 and has just completed appointments (2001-2008) as the Director of the First Nation House of Learning and Senior Advisor to the President on Aboriginal Affairs. Before coming to UBC he was a m...Read more
Sessional Instructors
Rhea Del Vecchio
Rhea Del Vecchio
Adjunct Professor/Field Liaison
Research Area
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Social WorkResearch Area
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Social Work
Simon Davis
Simon Davis
Adjunct Professor
emailsimon.davis@ubc.ca
Research Area
Health and Mental Health Social WorkResearch Area
Health and Mental Health Social Work