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
Application for 2012-2013 Admission
The School is now accepting applications for admission to the 2012-2013 BSW, MSW and Ph.D. programs.
Deadlines of accepting applications of different programs are:
1. BSW: February 1, 2012
2. Foundation MSW: January 1, 2012
3. Advanced MSW: February 1, 2012
4. Ph.D. in Social Work: January 10, 2012.
Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact the School’s Admission Clerk, Marjorie Paukner at marjorie.paukner@ubc.ca, or Program Advisor, Christine Graham at christine.graham@ubc.ca.
UBC Prof leads new eight-month program to empower people with intellectual disabilites...more
Join Dr. Jane Fowler, Griffith University, Australia as she gives a talk on "Mentoring at Work". Sponsored by the UBC School of Social Work and the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship. Register here...
We are pleased to welcome James Struthers as the guest speaker at The 5th Annual Richard B. Splane Public Social Policy Lecture, held on Monday, November 21, 2011, at 5:30 p.m. at the Liu Institute for Global Issues.
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.
