School of Social Work: O'Neill, Brian

Brian O'Neill

Associate Professor and Chair of Field Education

Rm. 236, 2080 West Mall

Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2

Phd., RSW, Wilfrid Laurier University

tel (604) 822-2460

fax (604) 822-8656

Brian O’Neill is an associate professor at the UBC School of Social work. He received an MSW from Carleton University in 1971 and a PhD from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1994. He joined the School in 1995, has been graduate advisor and chair of the MSW program, and currently is the chair of field education. Between 1968 and 1988, he practiced in child welfare, primarily in management roles. His teaching has focused on qualitative research methods, social service management, interprofessional practice and addressing heterosexism and homophobia in social work practice. With respect to community service, he has been active in the Canadian Association for Social Work Education, has served on the boards of various social service organizations, and is a member of the steering committee of the UBC Critical Studies in Sexuality Arts Minor. He also provides counselling at Health Initiatives for Men, a local health and social agency. His research interests concentrate on the influence of heterosexism in health and social service delivery, most recently immigrant settlement services, and on education for interprofessional healthcare practice. His most recent publication is “Enhancing social inclusion: Settlement services in relation to lesbian, gay and bisexual newcomers” in Engendering Migrant Health: Canadian Perspectives (2011, D. L. Spitzer, Ed.), co-authored with Kamala Sproule. Currently he has a chapter in press entitled “Toward inclusion of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people: Social policy changes in relation to sexual orientation” in Canadian Social Policy (5^th ed.), edited by Dr. Anne Westhues.

Current Courses

SOWK 554C Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research

SOWK 335 Fundamentals of Social Analysis for Social Work

SOWK 530A Social Services Management

IHHS 402 Interprofessional Elective in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care

Recent Publications

O'Neill, B.J., (in press). "We didn't connect at all": Experiences of a gay client. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services.

O'Neill, B.J., (in press). Heterosexism: Shaping Social Policy in relation to gay men and lesbians. A. Westhues (Ed.), Canadian Social Policy (3rd ed.). Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press.

Wyness, A., O'Neill, B., McKinnon, S., Granger, P., Goldstone, I., Martel, R., Chalmers, A., & Perchal, P. (2002). Interprofessional education: One aspect of achieving quality health and social care. In R. Rushmer, H.T.O. Davies, M. Tavakoli, , M. Malik (Eds.), Organizational Development in Health Care: Strategic Issues in Health Care Management, (pp. 60-73). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

O'Neill, B. J. (1999 ). Social work with gay, lesbian and bisexual members of racial and ethnic minority groups. In G. Lie & D. Este (Eds.), Professional social service delivery in a multicultural world (pp. 75-91). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.

O'Neill, B. J. (1998). Institutional ethnography: Studying institutions from the margins. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 25(4), 127-144.

O'Neill, B. J. (1995). Canadian social work education and same-sex sexual orientation. Canadian Social Work Review, 12(2), 159-174.

Conference Papers

Same-sex sexual orientation and social services: An international panel on the social work response to gay and lesbian issues. Coauthors: B. Isaac, J. Martin, C.A. O'Brien, G. Okamoto. Joint Conference of the International Federation of Social Workers and the International Association of Schools of Social Work, Montreal, Quebec, July, 2000. Organized by: CASSW.

Promoting equity and community as part of the process of social work education. Coauthors: R. Seebaran. Joint Conference of the International Federation of Social Workers and the International Association of Schools of Social Work , Montreal, Quebec, July, 2000. Organized by: CASSW.

Gay and lesbian issues in social work education: Perspectives of heterosexual social work students. Coauthors: T. Swan. Joint Conference of the International Federation of Social Workers and the International Association of Schools of Social Work, Montreal, Quebec, July, 2000. Organized by: CASSW.

Toward social justice: Teaching qualitative research. Coauthors: D. L. O'Connor. Joint Conference of the International Federation of Social Workers and the International Association of Schools of Social Work, Montreal, Quebec, July, 2000. Organized by: CASSW.

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