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Erin Beckwell, BSW, MSW, RSW

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Lecturer

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Office: 306-664-7383
CO 111.7
Saskatoon Campus
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Research Interests

Erin is a social worker and social work educator who has spent her career working in the areas of social policy, trauma, harm reduction, and health equity. She currently works as a Lecturer with the University of Regina Faculty of Social Work, Saskatoon Campus. Her research interests include social work education, chronic pain, substance use, harm reduction, and 2SLGBTQ+ experiences with human services. Erin was also President of the Saskatchewan Association of Social Workers (2020-2022), and in 2018 was awarded the Canadian Association of Social Workers Distinguished Service Award.

  • Social work field education
  • Knowledge creation, translation, and integration
  • Decolonial approaches and centring non-dominant narratives and knowledges in social work education
  • Teaching, learning, and practice integrates anti-oppressive, anti-racist, harm reductionist, and trauma-informed principles

Part of the broader Improving Pain in Saskatchewan research program, our SHRF Innovation/SCPOR grant focusing on substance use, chronic pain, and stigma (Solutions-focused storytelling to promote people-centered care: challenging stigma with chronic pain and substance use through graphic medicine) wrapped up in 2024; final report was submitted to SHRF in March 2025. I was co-PI on this project. Research outputs continue.


Three graphic medicine stories were produced from our research findings. 
https://saskpain.ca/improving-pain-in-saskatchewan-study/


The above research was profiled in Graphic Medicine, a weekly international online blog about graphic medicine: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/new-this-week-7/ 

 

 

Publications

  • Tupper, S.M., Singh, A., Beckwell, E., Fescuic, D. & Fornssler, B. (submitted).
    Graphic medicine reflective learning activity on chronic pain beliefs among Dentistry students. Journal of Dental Education.
  • Tupper, S.M., Singh, A., Beckwell, E., Fescuic, D. (2025). Dentistry students’ perceptions of key learnings and change in chronic pain beliefs with a graphic medicine reflective learning activity. Canadian Journal of Pain.