If you are interested in doing any of the department courses that require application and supervision, please consult the list below to determine which SDS faculty member you would be interested in working with. You will need to connect with that person before applying to confirm if they can act as your supervising professor for the particular term(s) you are planning to take the course(s).
Questions? E-mail sds@uwaterloo.ca
Robert Case
Social welfare policy, community development, community organization, social movements, and activism
Hsiao d'Ailly
Community-based research, educational psychology, cognition and instruction, motivation, cross-cultural psychology, immigrant adaptation
Craig Fortier
Settler colonialism; social movements, abolitionist and decolonizing social work; popular culture and radical change; trans-disciplinary social justice pedagogy; urban memorialization; accounting history; Indigenous & settler relationships, colonization/decolonization; Indigenous theory; migrant justice movements; nationalism and sovereignty; queer, trans*, and non-binary participation in sport; and baseball history
Meg Gibson
LGBTQ communities and sexuality studies; Disability studies; Parenting and families; Critical social work practice; Feminist research methods; History and philosophy of healthcare and social services
Chris Hiller
Settler colonialism; Indigenous-settler relations; education towards decolonization; critical pedagogy; alliance building and allyship; social movements; anti-colonial activism; conflict transformation and peacebuilding; qualitative research methods; narrative; anti-oppressive and anti-colonial social work
Christine Logel
Sexual consent, sexuality in older adulthood, sexual satisfaction, transitions to postsecondary education, relationships between AI and humans, social belonging, growth mindset, neurodiversity
Denise Marigold
Close relationships; social support; attachment; self-esteem; positive psychology.
Crystena Parker-Shandal
Restorative justice in education, transformative justice, antiracist education, critical literacy, equity and inclusion, immigrants and refugees, K-12 schools; youth leadership; social justice; peacebuilding and dialogue.
Sharon Roberts
Transition to adulthood; identity resolution; anthropomorphic identities (furry fandom, furries); youth.
Arshi Shaikh-Grande
Spiritual wellbeing, diversity of worldviews, structural violence of colonization, coloniality, patriarchy and capitalism (neoliberalism), Hindu mythology and relevance to contemporary life, poetic knowledge (episteme) in the Indian subcontinent