MSW student, Egag Egag on mental health services at UofT
Categories: Students
Egag Egag, MSW student, is part of the Presidential and Provostial Task Force on Student Mental Health. His experiences are featured in UofT News.
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Read our news stories, below, and view our 2025-2030 Academic Plan to learn how FIFSW researchers, students, alumni and partners are working to create a more just, equitable and compassionate world.
Ran Hu, PhD student, receives the Feminist Manuscript Award by CSWE
Categories: Students
Ran Hu, a third-year FIFSW PhD student, is the recipient of the 2019 Feminist Manuscript Award presented at the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE). The Feminist Manuscript Award is awarded to an accepted Annual Program Meeting (APM) proposal “that advances feminist knowledge and is written by a scholar who shows dedication to feminism as it pertains to social work theory, research, practice, policy, and education”.
Prof. Toula Kourgiantakis receives Early Career Teaching Award
Categories: Faculty, Toula Kourgiantakis
FIFSW Assistant Professor Toula Kourgiantakis a winner of a 2019 Early Career Teaching Award, recognizing faculty who enhance student experience.
Andrew Eaton, PhD(c), receives awards from OHTN and GADE
Categories: StudentsAndrew 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
Categories: Faculty, Rupaleem Bhuyan
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
Categories: Dexter Voisin, Faculty
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
Categories: Carmen Logie, Faculty
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
Categories: Faculty, Tanya SharpeThe 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
Categories: Dexter Voisin, Faculty
UofT News covers the opening remarks from FIFSW dean Dexter Voisin and keynote speaker, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard.
On the Road to Masi
Categories: Faculty, Peter NewmanView a documentary video by Peter A. Newman on Community engagement in HIV vaccine research in South Africa