News Category: Faculty
V-P & Provost Cheryl Regehr named one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women
Categories: Cheryl Regehr, FacultyProvost and Vice-President Cheryl Regehr is the former Dean of the FIFSW. Regehr was named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women for her work in the public sector by the Women’s Executive Network. She was presented with the award at the Top 100 Toronto Gala on Nov. 26, 2015.
Prof. David Hulchanski addresses refugee housing on CBC’s Metro Morning
Categories: FacultyToday the federal government will reveal how it plans to bring 25000 Syrian refugees to Canada. Among the questions to be answered, where will they live? Matt Galloway spoke with David Hulchanski.
Prof. Carmen Logie presents at TEDx UofT on HIV Stigma
Categories: FacultyHow do social and structural contexts affect HIV? Dr. Carmen Logie’s work explores the impact of these factors on HIV risk and resilience and how we can influence these contexts to prevent HIV infection. In 1994, volunteering at the Wellesley Hospital led her to her current CIHR and SSHRC funded studies: using theatre for change to reduce stigma towards sexual and gender minority communities in Swaziland and Lesotho, examining connections between social environments and HIV vulnerability among sexual and gender minority youth in Jamaica, and exploring arts-based HIV prevention strategies in the Northwest Territories grounded in Indigenous knowledge.
Cyberbullying pervasive among public school students
Categories: Faculty, Faye MishnaProfessor Faye Mishna, FIFSW Dean, has completed a three-year study on cyberbullying based on interviews with students, parents and teachers in schools in the Toronto District School Board. Research indicates that girls are blamed for cyberbullying more than boys, even when girls are the target, and that those bullied are unlikely to talk about the experience with adults.
Prof. Daniyal Zuberi named member of Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Categories: FacultyDaniyal Zuberi’s innovative social policy research has made important contributions to the study of urban poverty, inequality, […]
Generalized anxiety disorders twice as likely in those with inflammatory bowel disease
Categories: FacultyProf. Esme Fuller-Thomson is lead author of a study that find generalized anxiety disorder is much more common among individuals with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.
Prof. David Brennan urges Ontario to fund HPV immunizations
Categories: David Brennan, FacultyThe province of Ontario should consider publicly funding immunization against the human papillomavirus (HPV) for all boys […]
Prof. Rupaleem Bhuyan featured on CBC Radio show, Ontario Today
Categories: Faculty, Rupaleem BhuyanFamily violence: What’s the role of the larger community?
Thursday May 14, 2015
It’s hard enough for victims to report abuse. But what if the result of coming forward is isolation from family, friends and community? Open lines with Rupaleem Bhuyan, Associate Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.
The podcast (mp3 file) begins at 6 min. 40 sec. after news and weather. Prof. Bhuyan is introduced at 17 min. 40 sec. The entire file runs 1 hr. 30 sec.
The callers illustrate many layers that victims of incest and family violence go through, in different communities.
FIFSW and the Faculty of Law are among co-sponsors of curriculum that examines forced marriage in Canada
Categories: Facultyla version française suit The topic of “forced” marriage has increasingly garnered international interest. In April […]
Dr.Shelley Craig and Dr. Barbara Muskat, OASW Inspirational Leader Award Recipients
Categories: Faculty, Shelley CraigTwo FIFSW faculty, Dr. Shelley Craig and Dr. Barbara Muskat are this years recipients of the OASW Inspirational Leaders […]