Cristina Araujo Brinkerhoff, a doctoral candidate at Boston University School of Social Work, joined a large group of workers’ rights advocates at the Massachusetts State House last week to submit testimony opposing a ballot initiative that Brinkerhoff calls anti-worker and anti-consumer. The ballot initiative (H4.375/H.4376) attempts to regulate and define the contract-based relationship between app-based gig […]
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, […]
There is an overwhelming shortage of professionals specializing in youth mental health. In December 2020, the US Surgeon General published an advisory on the mental health crisis facing youth today. The question remains: how do we address the growing youth mental health crisis? In a Chicago Tribune op-ed, Tony Liu cited PhD Candidate Daniel Do’s […]
The Boston Globe highlighted a recent study by PhD Candidate Megan Smith and Associate Professor Thomas Byrne revealing Rhode Island’s inconsistent and troublesome qualifications process for subsidized housing that exceeds what federal mandates require. In addition, the study revealed frustrations with attaining public records from housing developments. While this study considered Rhode Island independently, it […]
