PhD Program

Doctoral faculty are studying:

• BIPOC well-being, social work pedagogy and transformative social work practices
• Child maltreatment and child well-being
• Children of immigrant families and social adjustment
• Community food security and community-based research
• Culturally competent policy, practice, and research
• Educational disparities
• Environmental and climate justice
• Financial capabilities and assets for all
• Geographic Information Systems
• Global sex work
• Grandparents raising grandchildren
• Gun violence prevention
• Healing professional well-being
• Health disparities
• Health service use for individuals with complex and chronic illness
• HIV prevention
• Homelessness elimination
• Housing insecurity policy
• Human trafficking
• Immigrant and refugee well-being and inclusion
• Implementation research in child welfare and evidence-based practices
• Integrated primary care and behavioral health services
• Integrative body-mind spirit practices
• Intimate partner violence among women and college students
• Information and communication technologies used in social work practice
• Intergenerational strategies on individual and community development
• LGBTQ+populations
• Mental health disparities and inequities among diverse populations
• Mental health service systems
• Older adults and community-based interventions and services
• Policy research and advocacy
• Positive youth development and youth sport
• Poverty and anti-poverty policies and programs
• School mental health, school social work, school-family-community partnerships
• Social determinants of health and health equity
• Social isolation
• Smart decarcertation
• Strengths-based integrative family and systems treatment for at-risk children and adolescents
• Substance abuse prevention, service access, and mutual-aid based interventions
• Trauma-informed care
• Veteran trauma