Category: Social Work Education
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Respectful commenting is a prerequisite for reconciliation.
Last week Nicole Peters started a petition on change.org to discuss the appropriateness of paying for parking at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) for Secwempec students. The fourth-year TRU social work student was inspired by the October 2019 announcement of the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) to grant free tuition to local Indigenous students and…
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The Joy of Directed Studies
Last academic year I had an honour to work with Rayell Sellars-Sarnowski on SOCW 4900 Directed Studies Course: Developing Professional Self-Identity in Social Work. TRU School of Social Work and Human Service provides a unique opportunity to students to select a topic and design the course that can strengthen their research and expand their knowledge…
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Mitacs Globalink Research Internships Summer 2020 at Thompson Rivers University
The Mitacs Globalink Research Internship is a competitive initiative for international undergraduates from Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Mexico, Tunisia, United Kingdom, and Ukraine. From May to October of each year, top-ranked applicants participate in a 12-week research internship under the supervision of Canadian university faculty members in a variety of…
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TRU School of Social Work and Human Service students will share their research at the Congress 2019 in Vancouver.
Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov May 26, 2019 Six TRU School of Social Work and Human Service Students are invited to share their research with the National Social Work Community at Congress 2019 in UBC Vancouver on June 3-6. Everyday TRU social work students will have an opportunity to share their knowledge. On Monday, June 3rd TRU…
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International Social Work Conference in Dublin: TRU is represented on both student and faculty levels!
Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development held in Royal Dublin Society, in Dublin, Ireland from 4th to 8th July, 2018. It is the largest and the most recognized international social work conference where up to 2,500 practitioners, researchers and educators from around the world join together to explore the latest developments…
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TRU had the highest social work student representation at the 2018 CASWE Conference in Regina.
This year TRU School of Social Work and Human Services set a new record for bringing 8 social work students to share their research and interact with other students across Canada at the Canadian Association for Social Work Education Conference (CASWE). Usually, Schools of Social Work across Canada send up to 2 students to represent…
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Contemporary Social Policy Concerns in Canada: Social Work Responses.
Contemporary Social Policy Concerns in Canada: Social Work Responses. Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov Saima Farooqi Rayell Sellars-Sarnowski Faculty of Education and Social Work Thompson Rivers University Recently I had the honour to present with my social policy students at the British Columbia Political Studies Conference in Thompson Rivers University. I had an extremely successful…