News & Announcements

Andrew Eaton, PhD(c), receives awards from OHTN and GADE

  Andrew Eaton has received an Endgame Student Leader Award from the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN). […]

Prof. Rupaleem Bhuyan research on precarious status featured in UofT Magazine

Ruplaeem Bhuyan, FIFSW Associate Professor and lead researcher of the Migrant Mothers Project speaks to the effect of Toronto’s housing crunch on non-status migrants and people with a precarious status.

Prof. Dexter Voisin on gun and gang violence – Toronto Sun interview

Policing will not address the rise of gang-related activity and shootings. Dean of the FIFSW, Dexter Voisin thoughts on gang shootings: “We typically think in terms of law enforcement — surveillance, arrests, gun buy backs, and those sorts of measures. But what you have to look at are the structural drivers of gun and gang violence.”

Prof. Carmen Logie interviewed by Xtra Magazine

Carmen Logie, FIFSW Associate Professor and the Canada Research Chair in global health equity and social justice with marginalized populations, tells Xtra that based on her research, bisexual women are more likely to report sexual abuse and transactional sex and less likely to receive appropriate sexual health advice in comparison to other women and sexual minorities.

Prof. Tanya Sharpe deputation in support of Race-Based Data Collection Policy

  The Toronto Police Services Board’s Race-Based Data Collection Policy is aimed at addressing racist discriminatory practice. […]

New cohort of MSW students inspired by exceptional leaders in the field

UofT News covers the opening remarks from FIFSW dean Dexter Voisin and keynote speaker, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard.

On the Road to Masi

View a documentary video by Peter A. Newman on Community engagement in HIV vaccine research in South Africa

Prof. Carmen Logie launches Ugandan storytelling project

Professor and Dean Dexter Voisin research on urban violence featured in UofT News

In his new book, America the Beautiful and Violent, Dexter Voisin, Dean of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, calls into question the systemic issues that are at the root of urban violence.

Prof. Tanya Sharpe on shootings in Toronto

In a recent CTV News interview, Professor Tanya Sharpe emphasizes the lack of opportunity to have equitable access to education, secure employment and housing among unmet needs causing increase in gang activity in Toronto.