Project: Centers for the Integral Attention of Children in Dominican Republic (CIANIs) and Local Community Organizations for Child Protection (LCOCP)įunded by: Network of European Foundations: Children and Violence Evaluation Challenge Fund Project: Urban Community Hubs as Services and as Community Places: The Case of the Ontario Early Years Centersįunded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council,, CURA Letter of Intent Project: A Family Support Model of Early Childhood Learning and Care: Development of an Evaluation Framework for Family Resource Programsįunded by: Human Resources Development Canada Project: Involuntary Job Loss: Understanding the Post-Displacement Experienceįunded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard Research Grant Susan is the 2019 recipient of the Janice Waddell Collegiality Award from the Faculty of Community Services. Currently, Susan is exploring chronic illness and women’s health, as well as the critical use of virtual interactive technologies in community-based research and evaluation. She has also worked with occupational and health professionals from Brazil, in a project promoting equity and safety among industrial workers. Susan has also worked with Canadian and Dominican researchers and community organizations in the evaluation of community-based programs for child protection.
Susan also completed a national study examining the role of labour market restructuring in creating pathways towards precarity and exclusion of Canadian workers. Reports are available at the project web-site. Working with Family Resource Programs across Canada, this was the first study to develop evaluation indicators that are grounded in the experiences most valued by program participants. Her research projects include a national study to develop an evaluation framework for family support programs. She has conducted a number of large-scale research studies, nationally and internationally, and has extensive experience evaluating community-based programs. Her areas of interest include critical approaches to quantitative and qualitative research, community-based program evaluation, critical use of interactive communication technologies in research, women’s health, precarious work, and social welfare policy. Susan is the former Director of the School (1998-2003, 2017-2019/Interim) and the former Graduate Program Director for the MSW program (2009-2011). She has an MSW from the University of Toronto and PhD from Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. Susan Silver is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work.
0 kommentar(er)
