Megan Smith
Doctoral Candidate, School of Social Work, Boston University
Boston University
Megan Smith is a social worker who has worked with the homeless community in Rhode Island for 14 years. For the last seven years, she has been part of the House of Hope CDC’s outreach program, working with adults experiencing street homelessness. She has taught at the Rhode Island College School of Social Work and the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research interests emerge from her outreach work and include the criminalization of homelessness and poverty, affordable housing policy, issues of healthcare access, and models for community-based interdisciplinary education.
Areas of Expertise
- Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR
- Focus Groups
- Interviews
- Mixed Methods
- Qualitative Methods
- Quantitative Methods
- Secondary Data Analysis
- Survey Methods and Questionnaires
Methodology
- Advocate
- Policy Expert
- Researcher
- Affiliates
- Inaugural - Graduate Student