Faculty Listing
Erin Beckwell, BSW, MSW, RSW
Field Education Coordinator
Clinical Instructor
Office: Saskatoon Campus, The Concourse Building, Room 111.8
E-mail: erin.beckwell@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 664-7383
Fax: (306) 664-7131
Darlene Chalmers, BEd, BSW, MSW, PhD, RSW
Associate Professor
Associate Dean - Undergraduate
Office: Saskatoon Campus, The Concourse Building, Room 111.10
E-mail: darlene.chalmers@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 664-7379
Fax: (306) 664-7131
Doug Durst, BA, MSW, PhD
Professor
Office: Education Building, Room 471
E-mail: doug.durst@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4577
Fax: (306) 585-4872
Research interests
First Nations self-government, social integration of marginalized Canadians.
Andrew Eaton, BSW, MSW, PhD, RSW
Assistant Professor
Office: Saskatoon Campus, The Concourse Building, Room 111.4
E-mail: andrew.eaton@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 664-7371
Fax: (306) 664-7131
Research interests
Community-Based Participatory Research; HIV/AIDS & Other STBBIs; Aging & the Lifecourse; Sexuality; Relationships
Jacqueline Fields, BSW, MBA, PhD, RSW
Lecturer
Office: Saskatoon Campus, The Concourse Building, Room 111.14
E-mail: jacqueline.fields@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 664-7385
Fax: (306) 664-7131
Kara Fletcher, BA, MSW, PhD, RSW
Associate Professor
Associate Dean - Research & Graduate Program (6-month term); Director - Social Work Research Centre
Office: Saskatoon Campus, The Concourse Building, Room 111.6
E-mail: kara.fletcher@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 664-7380
Fax: (306) 664-7131
Amanda Gebhard, BA, BEd, MEd, PhD
Assistant Professor
Office: Education Building, Room 460
E-mail: amanda.gebhard@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4572
Research interests
Amanda is a qualitative researcher. Her research interests are in racism and whiteness in the helping professions, youth violence and bullying, subject-making and colonialism, the school-to-prison pipeline, critical pedagogy, and language and power. Amanda employs critical discourse analysis and anchors her research in anti-oppressive, feminist, and poststructural theories.
Donalda Halabuza, BA, BSW, MSW, PhD, RSW
Instructor
Office: Education Building, Room 449
E-mail: donalda.halabuza@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 337-2538
Fax: (306) 585-4872
Research interests
include the areas of family and individual resilience in a number of contexts such as family violence, separation and divorce, immigration and with children living in high risk situations. Other equally important interests include research in the area of custody and access and the use of qualitative methods.
Bonnie Jeffery, BSW, MSW, PhD
Professor
Researcher, Saskatchewan Population Health & Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU)
Office: Prince Albert
E-mail: bonnie.jeffery@uregina.ca
Phone: Currently working off-campus
Research interests
Income security and poverty; health policy; women and health; distance education issues in social work education; social policy issues for women and northern communities; quantitative and qualitative research design in the human services; Aboriginal health.
Jennifer Ma, BA, MSW, PhD, RSW
Assistant Professor
Office: Education Building, Room 450
E-mail: jennifer.ma2@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4549
Fax: (306) 585-4872
Research interests
Transnationalism, migration, and diaspora; forcibly displaced populations; racialized communities; solidarity among Black, Indigenous, and racialized people; anti-colonial, anti-racist, and liberatory approaches to social work research and practice; nature-based approaches to healing; child welfare decision-making and systemic discrimination; critical approaches to quantitative research
Lise Milne, MSW, RSW, PhD
Assistant Professor
Office: Saskatoon Campus, The Concourse Building, Room 111.7
E-mail: lise.milne@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 664-7336
Fax: (306) 664-7131
Research interests
Lise’s research interests include child and adolescent trauma, the neurobiological impacts of trauma, resilience-, trauma-, and violence-informed practices within child welfare organizations, responses to children exposed to intimate partner violence, Canadian child welfare data, knowledge mobilization for child-serving organizations in the context of COVID-19, program implementation evaluation.
Festus Moasun, BA, M.Phil., PhD
Assistant Professor
Office: Saskatoon Campus, The Concourse Building, Room 111.31
E-mail: festus.moasun@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 664-7378
Fax: (306) 664-7131
Research interests
include (dis)Ability, mental health, decoloniality and politics of knowledge creation, immigrants and globally displaced populations, personhood, and the intersectionality of culture, oppression, and marginalization.
Nuelle Novik, BA, BSW, MSW, PhD, RSW
Associate Professor
Office: Education Building, Room 472
E-mail: nuelle.novik@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4573
Fax: (306) 585-4872
Research interests
Aging; Rural and Remote Social Work and Health Care; Mental Health; Death and Dying; Palliative Care; Social Work Counselling and Therapy; Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice; Community Engagement and Community-Based Research.
Gabriela Novotna, BA, MSW, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Dean - Research & Graduate Program (on sabbatical)
Office: Education Building, Room 461
E-mail: gabriela.novotna@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4237
Fax: (306) 585-4872
Research interests
Substance use and misuse; Concurrent disorders; Gambling; Harm reduction; Implementation science; Knowledge translation; Institutional theory
Fritz Pino, MSW, PhD
Assistant Professor
Office: Education Building, Room 448
E-mail: fritz.pino@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 337-2986
Fax: (306) 585-4872
Research interests
Queer and trans philosophies and theories; racialized LGBTQ immigrant communities; intersections of aging, sexuality, and spirituality; transnational feminist epistemologies; decolonial approaches to social work research; migration, diaspora, and international social work practice.
Cathy Rocke, MSW, PhD
Dean
Office: Education Building, Room 444.1
E-mail: sw.dean@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4037
Fax: (306) 585-5691
Miguel Sanchez, BA, BA Hons, MSW, PhD
Associate Professor
Office: Education Building, Room 467
E-mail: miguel.sanchez@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4848
Fax: (306) 585-4872
Research interests
Social policy; child poverty; traumatized populations, family violence, minorities, and international social work education.
Takhmina Shokirova, BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Office: Saskatoon Campus, The Concourse Building, Room 111.34
E-mail: takhmina.shokirova@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 664-7375
Fax: (306) 664-7131
Research interests
Takhmina’s research interests are connected to the topics of migration and forced displacement, child welfare, violence against women, gender equity, international social work, and imprisonment. Takhmina situates her research in transnational feminism, intersectionality, anti-oppressive, and post-structural theoretical approaches.
Raven Sinclair, BA, CISW, BISW, MSW, PhD
Professor
Office: Saskatoon Campus, The Concourse Building, Room 111.9
E-mail: raven.sinclair@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 664-7372
Fax: (306) 664-7131
Research interests
Indigenous child welfare, transracial adoption, the Sixties Scoop, Indigenous research methodologies and research ethics, communication theory, settler colonialism and biopolitics, intergenerational trauma and trauma interventions.
Michele Sorensen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Office: Education Building, Room 469
E-mail: michele.sorensen@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4588
Fax: (306) 585-4872
Research interests
social work alongside Indigenous populations; field experience in social work; new materialism; aesthetic experiences; gender and sexualities