PhD Faculty & Research Areas
Associate Professor/Lecturer
Research Interests:
Alzheimer’s Disease, Progressive Neurologic Disease, Aging, Health, Rural Health Care
Professor
joanna.schaefer@socwk.utah.edu
Research Interests:
Attachment, Treatment Outcomes, Wilderness Therapy, Residential Treatment
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Health Disparities, Substance Abuse/Addiction, Cancer Prevention, Quantitative Research, Ecological Momentary Assessment
Associate Professor; Associate Director, IPE
Research Interests:
Social Determinants of Health; Health and Social Services; Environments and Aging; Homelessness; Substance Use and Dependence; Mental Health; Qualitative Research Methods; Community-based Participatory Research; Life Course Perspective; Social Construction of Knowledge; Culture of Medicine; Knowledge Translation
Professor; Associate Dean for Academic Afairs
Research Interests:
Disadvantaged Children and Families with an Emphasis on Fathers, Social Work Education, Substance Use Disorder Counselor Education and Training, Social Welfare Policy, Macro Social Work Practice
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Gerontology, Intergenerational Relationships, Social Isolation and Loneliness, Minority Aging Issues, and End-of-Life Care
Research Professor; Associate Vice President for Research Integrity & Compliance; Associate Dean for Research
Research Interests:
Women’s Health, Global Health, Breast Cancer, Research Ethics
Associate Professor; Director, MSW Program
Research Interests:
Gender-based Violence, Human Trafficking, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Social Policy, Global Social Work
Associate Professor; Director, PhD Program
Research Interests:
Intersection of Multi-system Youth, Mental Illness, and Mental Health Services; Long Term Effects of Child Maltreatment; Family Dynamics and Juvenile Justice System Involvement; Latent Variable Modeling; Analysis of Big Data; Research and Evaluation; Statistics; Psychopathology; Child Welfare; Social Welfare Policy
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Wellbeing of Youth Experiencing Homelessness & Intersecting Marginalization; Third Places (Community Settings); Permanent Supportive Housing; Mutual Aid & Peer Support; Place-based Work; Qualitative, Participatory, & Arts-based Research Methods
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Early Childhood Trauma; Child Maltreatment Prevention; Early Care and Education, Attachment; Trauma-informed Care; Social Work Practice
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Motivational Interviewing, Meta-analyses, Parent Training
Research Assistant Professor; Director, Social Research Institute
Research Interests:
Trauma-Informed Systems in Child Welfare, Cross-section of Supervisory Support, Transfer of Learning, and Implementation Science Drivers, Child Welfare Training Curricula, Evidence-based Practice in Child Welfare, Professional and Organizational Competence of Child Welfare Agencies
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Women's Health; Substance Use; Environmental Justice; Technology
Associate Professor; Belle S. Spafford Endowed Chair
Research Interests:
Prenatal Drug Exposure; Trauma; Maternal Mental Health; Child Development; Adolescence Substance Use
Associate Professor
allison.oconnor@socwk.utah.edu
Research Interests:
Domestic/dating and sexual violence; violence prevention; bystander interventions; men and masculinities; sexual and reproductive health and rights; evaluation research
Professor; Dean
Research Interests:
Suicide Intervention and Prevention, Mental Health, Psychometrics, Advanced Statistical Analyses
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
The Child Welfare System; Child Maltreatment Prevention; Intersection of Neglect and Poverty; Mental Illness and Service Utilization
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Decolonial Thought; Community-based Research; Culturally Tailored Interventions; Black, Indigenous and Queer Communities; Substance Use; Intimate Partner Violence
Associate Professor; Director, Utah Criminal Justice Center
Research Interests:
Criminological Behavior, Correctional Philosophy and Rehabilitation, Justice-Involved Women and Girls, Correctional Risk/Need/Strength Assessment, Gender- and Trauma-Responsive Policy and Practice
Associate Professor; Director, Online Programs
Research Interests:
Social Welfare Policy, Asset Based Welfare, Financial Capability and Inclusion, Financial Factors in Intimate Partner Violence, Digital Divide, Mixed Research Methods
Research Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Utah Criminal Justice Center
Research Interests:
Correctional Rehabilitation and Programming, Reentry, Offender Pathways and Desistance, Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice, Qualitative Research Methods
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Promotion of Health Equity for Persons with Mental Illness, Using Qualitative Methods, Social Network Analysis, and Mixed Methods to Study the Development and Implementation of Integrated Behavioral Health Care, Peer Mental Health Providers, and Trauma-informed Communities
Meghan Takahashi
Research Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Social Research Institute
Research Interests:
Biostatistical methods, Child welfare, Disproportionality in Child Welfare, Machine learning, Program Evaluation, Suicide Intervention and Prevention, Qualitative Research Methods
Professor; Associate Provost for Strategic Academic Initiatives
Research Interests:
African American Adolescent Development, Diversity in Cultural Competence, Black Studies, School Social Work Practice
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Substance Use and Addiction; Mental and Behavioral Health; Trauma and Minority Stress; Resilience and Strengths-Based Methodologies; Harm Reduction Approaches; Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy; Mixed-Methods and Advanced Quantitative Research