News & Announcements

Prof. Carmen Logie on sex education and young people with disabilities

Prof. Carmen Logie Global News interview

Prof. Peter A. Newman leads UNICEF report on HIV among adolescents and youth from key populations in Asia

Prof. Peter A. Newman served as lead researcher for a 4-country UNICEF formative assessment officially released on […]

“America the Beautiful and Violent” is a case study amplifying structural inequalities and tensions in neighbourhoods around the world

The Caribbean Camera spoke to Dean Dexter Voisin about his new book America the Beautiful and Violent: […]

Prof. Tanya L. Sharpe interviewed by Global News on the traumatic impact of the Dafonte Miller assault case

Prof. Tanya L. Sharpe interviewed by Global News on the trial of Michael and Christian Theriault. The brothers Theriault are jointly charged with aggravated assault in the December 2016, beating of Dafonte Miller. The trial raises issues of structural racism and its impact on Black communities.

Warning: Graphic images of violence

MSW student, Egag Egag on mental health services at UofT

Egag Egag, MSW student, is part of the Presidential and Provostial Task Force on Student Mental Health. His experiences are featured in UofT News.

Ran Hu, PhD student, receives the Feminist Manuscript Award by CSWE

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

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

  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.”