Welcome to the UBC School of Social Work!
As we enter our ninth decade of preparing students for professional social work practice, the School continues to emphasize critical, transformative knowledge. We invite you to build your knowledge and skills on our foundational values of social justice and a caring society. Founded in 1929, we are the oldest social work education program in British Columbia and the third oldest in Canada...More
CBC National Profiles Unique Initiative for People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families (February 14th, 2010).
The Canadian Inclusive Lives Learning Initiative (cilli), is promoted as “a one of a kind learning program for people with intellectual disabilities and their families. The program is made to teach, support and inspire people to build their own skills and vision for having and inclusive life. It is based on the ideas of human rights, inclusion and innovation.” The program was developed by the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship based at the University of British Columbia under the leadership of the Centre Director, Tim Stainton (who is also a CACL Director), and in partnership with Arlene Zuckernick of Newport Bay consulting. The CBC National TV story on cilli can be found at
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/The_National/1233408557/ID=2196378435
Congratulations to Ricardo Chaparro-Pacheco.
(UBC School of Social Work) for receiving the Graduate Global Leadership Fellowship (GGLF)
through the inaugural 2011-2012 competition supporting PhD Students at UBC.
Ricardo Chaparro-Pacheco is a PhD Student in the School of Social Work and a Liu Scholar at UBC. His research interests are related to human rights, psychosocial dimensions of armed conflicts, and community strategies for social reconstruction. His current research explores the historical memory work and transitional justice mechanisms with victims of socio-political violence in Colombia from a psychosocial approach. He has conducted qualitative participatory research with internally displaced population, as well as with Afro-Colombian and indigenous/aboriginal people.
Ricardo holds a MA on Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity and Culture, and a BA Honour Graduate in Social Work from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. In this same University he has been a lecturer in the graduate diploma on Peacebuilding Strategies and Do No Harm Approach Approaches; and since 2006 he has been a Senior Researcher of the Program University Initiatives for Peace and Coexistence -PIUPC-. Betweeen 2009 and 2010 he worked with the Colombian Commission of Historical Memory documenting the massacre of Bojaya (Choco, Colombia). Between 2006 and 2008, Ricardo did an internship on child protection and family services at Leake and Watts Services, Inc., in New York state.
PhD Supervisor: Dr. Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, School of Social Work - Liu Institute for Global Issues.
Louise Arbour: Truth to Power A Dialogue with Stephen Toope.
April 19th, 2012. 3:30-5:00pm Frederic Wood Theatre. UBC.
UBC Prof leads new eight-month program to empower people with intellectual disabilites...more
Nanisiniq: Arviat History Project. Dr. Frank Tester's latest Research Project involving Arviat. Fourth year sociology student April Dutheil presented on the Nanisiniq Arviat History Project at the URC held at Fudan University in Shanghai. Latest News Here with Link to Tyee Article.
Neskonlith Indian Band Administrator. Senior Social Work Officer for Air Command. Senior Advisor on Aboriginal Affairs to University of British Columbia President. Researcher. Teacher. Social Worker. These are only some of the incarnations of Richard Vedan. < Full Article Here >
Congratulations to our first PhD graduate Janet Douglas! Her Thesis was “An Evaluation of the Safety and Well-Being of Children Living in Marijuana Grow Operations”. The UBC School of Social Work wishes her all the best in her future career.
Inuit youth travel to UBC in search of their history
Six young Inuit from Nunavut Territory have travelled some 2,400 km to the University of British Columbia to re-examine the history of their communities.
Many of their Elders were subjects of Farley Mowat’s well-known books, People of the Deer and The Desperate People, which documented famines that devastated many Inuit communities in the 1940s and 1950s.
From Aug. 13-23, the students will be exploring UBC’s more than 11,000 historical documents related to the eastern Arctic. Led by Frank Tester, a professor at UBC’s School of Social Work and an Arctic historian, the collection is the largest of its kind in the world.
