Noor Toraif (PhD’23) has received one of the first Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships awarded to a social work scholar. The grant supports students in their final year of work towards their dissertation. While students from social work and other disciplines have traditionally not been eligible for the award, Prof. Dan Miller, director of the BUSSW […]
A research project led by Boston University’s School of Social Work and School of Medicine is bridging the gap between health care institutions and community members by implementing a citywide youth advisory board at Boston Medical Center, BU’s teaching hospital and one of the city’s top health care institutions. The youth advisory board follows a […]
Dawn Belkin Martinez, clinical associate professor at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), and members of the BUSSW Equity & Inclusion committee have developed one of the first online courses to help people and organizations understand the compelling topic of structural and institutional racism. In its first free online course offering, The Network for […]
Noor Toraif, BUSSW doctoral candidate and research fellow at the school’s Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH), has received the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Doctoral Fellows Award – recognizing and supporting doctoral students whose proposed dissertation research reflects innovative ideas and rigorous methodologies related to social work research, […]