Nancy Lin, MSW, RSW is a healthcare social worker and PhD Candidate at the UBC School of Social Work.

Nancy’s research focuses on facilitating health inclusion for people with (dis)abilities. Her doctoral research aims to enhance mental health accessibility for people with acquired brain injury. Her work investigates cross-disciplinary methods of adapting psychosocial supports to accommodate brain injury-related (dis)ability. Nancy received a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship to support her doctoral research.

Nancy’s other interests include evidence-based practice and epistemological pluralism. Nancy is also affiliated with the UBC Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding and Coping with Neurological Symptoms Lab.

Research Interests

• (Dis)ability inclusion in health and mental health
• Psychosocial adjustment after acquired (dis)ability
• Evidence-based practice
• Research-practice gap
• Epistemological pluralism

SSHRC’s Storytellers Challenge: Accommodating Disability after Acquired Brain Injury in Mental Health Treatment

Lin, N.X.Y. (2024). Engaging with discursive complexities in mental health accessibility: Implications for acquired brain injury. Sociology of Health & Illness, 1-19. http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13856

Lin, N.X.Y. (2024). Abstract WP90: Participants with complex impairment profiles are systematically excluded from stroke psychosocial support research: A scoping review. Stroke, 55(Suppl_1). https://doi.org/10.1161/str.55.suppl_1.WP90

Lin, N.X.Y. (2024). Abstract HUP13: Participants with complex impairment profiles are systematically excluded from stroke psychosocial support research: A scoping review. Stroke, 55(Suppl_1). https://doi.org/10.1161/str.55.suppl_1.HUP13

Morris, R., Lin, N., & Bratiotis, C. (2023). ”Oh, you learn it all in the field”: Stakeholder perspectives on knowledge and skills development of MSW students. Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2023.2208153

Lin, N. (2023). Moving beyond either-or debates: An invitation to reconcile ideological divides in evidence-based practice. Clinical Social Work Journal, 51, 188-197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-023-00863-5

Lin, N., Bacala, L., Martin, S., Bratiotis, C., & Muroff, J. (2022). Hoarding disorder: The current evidence in conceptualization, intervention, and evaluation. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 46(1), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2022.10.007

Lin, N.X.Y. (2022, September 23). Adaptations for psychosocial supports after acquired brain injury: A scoping review. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/RM4H2

Lin, N. (2022). Enhancing access to psychosocial supports after acquired brain injury. Advances in Social Work & Welfare Education, 23(2), 84-89.

Muroff, J., Bratiotis, C., & Lin, N.X.Y. (2021, invited special issue). Hoarding disorder: Development in conceptualization, intervention, and evaluation. FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, 19(4), 392-404. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20210016

Lin, N.X.Y. (2020). Attitudes, self-efficacy, and feasibility: Exploring social work students’ perceptions of evidence-based practice. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 17(5), 538-557. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1781728

• 2024 SSHRC Storytellers Final Winner (2024)
• Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Program (2022-2025)
• President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award (2021-2024)
• Faculty of Arts Graduate Award (2021)

Dr. Christiana Bratiotis