Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Amar Ghelani
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Website
Email: amar.ghelani@utoronto.ca
Andrew McKenzie
PhD Student
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 647-956-5826
Mobile: 647-770-2729
Website
Email: Andrew.mckenzie@mail.utoronto.ca
Carmen Logie
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Global health
- HIV
- Monkeypox stigma
- Refugee and displaced persons
- Sexual health and rights
- Stigma and discrimination
Office: 416-946-3365
Website
Email: carmen.logie@utoronto.ca
Charmaine Williams
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-racism
- equity and health
- HIV prevention
- LGBTQ
- Mental health
- social work practice
- women’s health
Office: 4169783255
Website
Email: charmaine.williams@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
David Brennan
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Childhood sexual abuse and its subsequent health effects among men
- Community-based research
- Eating disorders and body image among men
- Gay and bisexual men
- Health and mental health for LGBT people
- Health disparities for LGBT people
- HIV prevention for gay and bisexual men
- HIV/AIDS
- HPV vaccination for boys
- Information and communications technology and health
- LGBTQAI+ issues
- LGBTQIA+ health
- LGBTQIA+ human rights
- LGBTQIA+ mental health
- Mental and sexual health of gay and bisexual men
- Psychosocial, cultural and behavioural determinants of health
- Sexual and gender minority health
- Sexual health
Office: 416-978-3273
Website
Email: david.brennan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Burnes
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Ageism
- Elder abuse
- Elder financial exploitation
- Elder mistreatment
- Resident-to-resident aggression in nursing homes or long-term care settings
Office: 416-978-5718
Website
Email: david.burnes@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Hulchanski
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Community development
- Divided cities
- Gentrification
- Homelessness
- Housing
- Housing discrimination
- Human right to adequate housing
- Income inequality
- Neighbourhoods
- Private rental sector
- Social policy
- Subsidized housing
Office: 416-978-1973
Mobile: 416-509-5806
Website
Email: david.hulchanski@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Esme Fuller-Thomson
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- adverse childhood experience
- attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)
- chronic health conditions
- Gerontology
- grandparents and raising grandchildren
- Immigrant and refugee health
- Long-term health consequences of childhood abuse
- Mental health
- Social determinants of health
- Socioeconomic gradient in disability rates
Office: 416-978-3269
Home: 416-760-8176
Mobile: 416-209-3231
Website
Email: esme.fuller.thomson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Faye Mishna
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- bullying and cyber bullying
- clinical practice
- cyber aggression in universities
- information communication technologies in therapy
- sexting and non-consensual image sharing among youth
Office: (416) 978-1385
Mobile: 416-910-1385
Website
Email: f.mishna@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Izumi Sakamoto
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-Asian racism, Asian Canadian identities & model minority myth
- Anti-oppressive practice (AOP) and intersectionality
- Community-based, participatory, arts-based research
- Critical consciousness and social work pedagogy
- Critical international social work
- Critical tacit knowledge
- Homelessness and diversity
- Immigrants and refugees
- Integration and cultural adaptation of immigrants
- Japanese Canadian identities, arts, activism & communities
- Skilled immigrants and employment barriers
- “Canadian experience” (immigrant employment discrimination)
Office: 416-946-8224
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: izumi.sakamoto@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ka Tat Tsang
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Culture
- Development of social work in China
- Ethnicity
- identity
- Immigration and settlement issues
- Learning interpersonal and social skills
- Mental health
- Psychotherapy and counseling
- Sexuality
Office: 416-978-5817
Languages: Chinese, English
Website
Email: k.tsang@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Kyle Ganson
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Adolescents and young adults
- Eating disorders and body image
- Muscle dysmorphia
- Muscle-building behaviors (i.e., anabolic-androgenic steroid use, dietary supplement use)
Office: 416-978-6394
Website
Email: kyle.ganson@utoronto.ca
Michael Saini
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Access to justice
- child custody
- Child welfare
- Children and the courts
- Divorce
- Family law
- High conflict families
- separation and divorce
Office: 416-946-5027
Mobile: 416-420-0097
Website
Email: michael.saini@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Micheal Shier
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Equity and Inclusion
- Homelessness
- Labour market
- Nonprofit organizations and the voluntary sector
- Occupational health
- Organizational culture and leadership
- Partnerships
- Social enterprise
- Social financing strategies
- Social innovation and social entrepreneurship
- Social policy and innovation
Office: 416-946-8607
Website
Email: m.shier@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Peter Newman
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Community engagement
- COVID-19
- evidence-making interventions
- Gay and lesbian youth (bullying and stigma)
- Gay men and other men who have sex with men
- Global health
- HIV
- HIV risk & prevention
- LGBTQ+ health & human rights
- New HIV prevention technologies
- Social determinants of health
- vaccine hesitancy (HPV
Office: 416-946-8611
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: p.newman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Rupaleem Bhuyan
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- anti-oppressive practice and community organizing
- community-based, participatory research
- feminist intersectionality
- gender-based violence and migration
- Immigration and refugee policy
- Precarious migration
- undocumented and precarious immigration status
Office: 416-910-8205
Website
Email: r.bhuyan@utoronto.ca
Stephanie Begun
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Arts-Informed and Participatory Research
- Human-Centered Design
- Reproductive Justice
- social network analysis
- Youth Homelessness
- Youth-Led Research and Social Change
Office: N/A
Website
Email: stephanie.begun@utoronto.ca
Tanya L. Sharpe
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 946-0218
Website
Email: tanya.sharpe@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Tin D. Vo
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- 2SLGBTQIA+ communities
- Discrimination and exclusion
- Inclusion/belonging/mattering
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Postsecondary students
Office: 14169785570
Languages: English,Vietnamese
Website
Email: tin.vo@utoronto.ca