SWRC Lunch and Learn
Upcoming
February 26, 2026 - 12 pm to 1 pm - MS Teams
Rebuilding and Finding Meaning in a Digital Era: How Online Activity Affects Women Experiencing Reproductive Loss
Jenna Corcoran will present her MSW thesis on exploring how women use online spaces following reproductive loss. Using a qualitative narrative inquiry approach, the research examined how social media and digital communities can support meaning-making, identity reconstruction, and connection during grief. The findings highlighted the complex and purposeful ways women curate online engagement, not only to challenge dominant narratives around loss, but also to reconcile co-existing identities and experiences of motherhood, grief, and resilience. More details to come...
March 19, 2026 - 12 pm to 1 pm - MS Teams
Exploring the Experiences of Substance Use Professionals in Recovery
Saskatchewan Health ResearchFoundation [SHRF] supported the study led by Gabriela Novotna, which explored lived experience of substance use and recovery among addiction counsellors in Saskatchewan. Twenty-two participants shared how burnout and stigma in small rural recovery networks often blurred personal and professional boundaries. Participants emphasized the importance of personal growth and experiential knowledge in sustaining the quality of their work; many of them considered personal and professional well-being an individual responsibility, and self-care (e.g. personal hobbies and lifestyle choices) as an antidote against a lack of organizational support, training, or acknowledgement of systemic challenges. More details to come...
Past Recordings
2025
November 27, 2025 - Click to watch recording - In search of home: Exploring addiction and recovery narratives through the lens of attachment. Presented by: Regan Toni, MSW Thesis Candidate
October 30, 2025 - Click to watch recording - Improving Pain in Saskatchewan Study: Solutions-focused storytelling to promote people-centered care: challenging stigma with chronic pain and substance use through graphic medicine. Presented by: Erin Beckwell, MSW, RSW, UofR Faculty of Social Work
March 25, 2025 - Click to watch recording - Current state of healthcare in rural Saskatchewan: is there a place for social workers? Presented By: Nuelle Novik, MSW, PhD, RSW
February 27, 2025 - Click to watch recording - Alcohol use among Saskatchewan social workers: a meeting between coping and conscience. Presented By: Erin Redekop, MSW, RSW, University of Regina
2024
Dec 12, 2024 - Click to watch recording - The impact of disasters and displacement on breastfeeding practices of displaced mothers: a call to action on baby-friendly initiatives. Presented by: Dr Shela Hirani, PhD, University of Regina
Nov 19, 2024 - Click to watch recording - Love in the age of rage: Conspiracy beliefs and Intimate Relationships. Presented By: Kara Fletcher, MSW, RSW, PhD – Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina; Carlos Rosas, MScIH, MSc - PhD Candidate in Global Health, McMaster University; Jiaxing Li, MSc - MScSLP/PhD Student, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta
Oct 15, 2024 - Click to watch recording - Cannabis Use as a Cultural Conflict: Experiences of Chinese International Students. Presented by: Kedi Zhao, PhD
May 23, 2024 - Click to watch recording - Leaders Under Pressure: Combating Burnout and Enhancing Well-Being for Leaders in Social Services Organizations. Presented by: Dan Steenburgh (MHRM- Bethesda)
Apr. 18, 2024 - Click to watch recording - Attending to the Needs of Public Safety Personnel Families and a New Knowledge Mobilization Initiative. Presented by: Dr. Nathalie Reid & Steffi Oberthier
Mar. 21, 2024 - Click to watch recording - What's collaboration got to do with it? Better responding to the complexities of child protection responses to intimate partner violence in Saskatchewan. Presented by: Dr. Milne & Ratushniak
Feb. 15, 2024 - Click to watch recording - Walking in a Good Way Alongside Refugee and Immigrant Children’s Flourishing in Complex Times. Presented by: Dr. Hang Tran
2023
Dec. 14, 2023 - SWRC Lunch and Learn: Funeral Care Professionals and Medical Assistance in Dying in Saskatchewan: An Exploratory Study. Presented by: Dr. Nuelle Novik and Dr. Janine Brown (Faculty of Nursing) (Sorry, no recording!)
Nov. 16, 2023 - Click to watch recording - Race and Emotions in Research: Methodological Reflection of a Racialized Researcher. Presented by: Fritz Pino, MSW, PhD
Oct. 26, 2023 - Click to watch recording - International Students as Labour: Experiencing the Global Imaginary. Presented by: Takhmina Shokirova, PhD from the University of Regina & Negar Valizadeh, PhD Candidate from the University of Ottawa.
Sep. 28, 2023 - Click to watch recording - Take a Walk in My Shoes: Skilled Immigrants' Experiences of Search for Professional Employment. Presented by: Marina Morgenshtern, PhD, MSW & Uzma Danish, MSW, PhD Candidate (both from Trent University)
May 16, 2023 - Click to watch recording - The Lived Experience of Parental Stress of Fathers of a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Presented by: Cody MacSorley, MSW, RSW
Mar. 16, 2023 - Click to watch recording - Sandwiched Between Best Practice and Morality Policy: Harm Reductions Pursuit for Legitimacy on a Contentious Frontier. Presented by: Rayna Fisher, MSW, RSW
2022
Dec. 6, 2022 - Click to watch recording - Cognitive Remediation Group Therapy for People Aging with HIV/AIDS. Presented by: Andrew Eaton, PhD, MSW, RSW and Jenny Hui, MEd and Marvelous Muchenje, BSW, MSc, RSW
Nov. 22, 2022 - Click to watch recording - Reimagining the Orientation of International Graduate Students. Presented by: Takhmina Shokirova, PhD and Lisa Brunner, MA, RCIC
Apr. 19, 2022 - Click to watch recording - Sexual Identity-Behaviour Discordance Among Cisgender Men in Canada. Presented by: Andrew Eaton, PhD
Mar. 1, 2022 - Click to watch recording - Plants, People & Community: Cultivating collective resistance and joy through our relationships with nature and arts-based approaches. Presented by: Jennifer Ma, PhD
Jan. 18, 2022 - Click to watch recording - Labour Migration as a Search for Power through Confirmation of Masculinity and Escape from Social Control: The Case of Tajik Migrant Workers in Russia. Presented by: Takhmina Shokirova, PhD
2021
Nov. 16, 2021 - Click to watch recording - Deconstructing the Konkomba Epistemology of Disability and Personhood: Findings from an Interpretive Phenomenological Study. Presented by: Festus Moasun, BA, M.Phil., PhD
Oct. 19, 2021 - Click to watch recording- Queering Research Methods: Implications to Decolonial Qualitative Research Practices. Presented by: Fritz Pino, MSW, PhD
Sep. 21, 2021 - Click to watch recording - A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry: Risk and Protective Factors for the Left-Behind Children in the Northern Shanxi Province, China with Gender Comparison. Presented by: LIN GE, PhD, Faculty of Education, University of Regina
Apr. 27, 2021 - Click to watch recording - Moves to “Decolonize” & “Indigenize” Higher Education: A Critical Examination of Western Canadian Universities and the Trouble with Terms. Presented by: Dr. Cathy Rocke, Dr. Michele Sorensen, and Amanda Mihalicz
Apr. 6, 2021 - Click to watch recording - How can we support group home workers to provide trauma-informed care to adolescents? A tri-provincial study. Presented by: Dr. Lise Milne
Mar. 23, 2021 - Click to watch recording - Dementia Supports in Rural Saskatchewan: Implementing a Collective Impact Approach. Presented by: Dr. Bonnie Jeffery and Dr. Nuelle Novik
Feb. 23, 2021 - Click to watch recording - An Exploratory Study of the Collaborative Divorce Process from the Perspective of Collaborative Professionals. Presented by: Erin McLeod, MSW
2020
Nov. 24, 2020 - Click to watch recording - Existing and Exacerbated Educational Inequities for Newcomer Students in COVID-19: School Settlement Workers Respond
Nov. 18, 2020 - Panel Event - Conducting Ethical Research with Vulnerable Populations
Oct. 27, 2020 - Click to watch recording - Mobilizing knowledge and resources for service providers working with vulnerable children and families in the midst of COVID-19: The Digital Connections Hub
Sep. 29, 2020 - Click to watch recording - Reflections from the VOICE Lab: Creative Community Research in Virtual Terms
Sep. 22, 2020 - Click to watch recording - Racialized Students' Accounts of Diversity and Inclusion in Their Quest of Becoming Helpers in Predominantly White Spaces