In addition to his roles as a sessional lecturer, and program coordinator for the UBC School of Social Work’s Continuing Education and Certificate Programs, Jack is a PhD student focused on concurrent mental health, substance use and low-barrier, harm reduction-informed supportive housing.

Jack has over fifteen years of frontline mental health practice and clinical supervision experience, in addition to experience working with Two-Spirit, trans and non-binary individuals.

Research Area

Peer-reviewed Publications

Loyal, J. P., Kaoser, R., York, J., & Norris, C. (2025). “It’s soul destroying to be honest”: A qualitative study of morally uninhabitable working environments and the responsibilization of healthcare professionals working in concurrent disorders. Social Science & Medicine 384(1982),18590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118590

Makolewski, J.*, & Wong, K. L. Y. (2023). The experience of teaching a Bachelor’s level social work practice course for the first time in the context of Covid-19. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 24(1), 57–66. https://journal.anzswwer.org/index.php/advances/article/view/279

Loyal, J., Lavergne, R., Shirmaleki, M.,, Fischer, B., Kaoser, R., Makolewski, J.*, Small, W. (2023).  Trends in involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in British Columbia: Descriptive analysis of population-based linked administrative data from 2008 to 2018. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

**Name prior to marriage