SIM Social Work Research Lab
What is Simulation-based Research?
Simulation refers to a situation where a student or a practitioner engages with a simulated “client” (i.e., actors, artificial intelligence technology) portraying a designed character and scenario similar to those encountered in practice. Simulation-based research can be categorized into the following two types:
- Research on simulation as a pedagogical approach in teaching professional practice, and
- Research that uses simulation as a methodology to research practice behaviours among students and professionals.
The Lab
The lab is designed to reflect a realistic practice environment and includes a waiting and counselling room. The furniture in these rooms is moveable to replicate a broad range of agency and institutional settings, and to accommodate work with individuals, families, and small groups. The rooms are equipped with the latest AV Technologies. The counselling room includes a large screen for interacting with AI clients, and shares a one-way mirror to the observation room/office with computer equipment and access to a variety of research software.
The lab is on the 11th floor of Dunton Tower at Carleton University.
News
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Open Access Alert—Doing Research Differently: Fostering Relational Ethics in Research Teams.
Doing Research Differently: Fostering Relational Ethics in Research Teams, is now available open access. This article reflects on how a relational ethics of care can…
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Now Available Open Access—Reflecting on Reflection in Clinical Social Work: Unsettling a Key Social Work Strategy
Reflecting on Reflection in Clinical Social Work: Unsettling a Key Social Work Strategy, is now available open access. The article was published in the British Journal of Social Work, and builds on findings from the Sim Lab’s project Knowing and Not Knowing:…
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Now Available—Uncertain Feelings, Feeling Uncertain: A Simulation-Based Study on Countertransference in Clinical Social Work
Ruxandra Gheorghe, a PhD Candidate with the School of Social Work, alongside members of the SIM Lab, recently published the article titled Uncertain Feelings, Feeling…
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New Research Funding: Holding Tension- Navigating Mastery and Non-Mastery in Social Work
The SIM Social Work Research Lab is delighted to announce that Holding Tension: Navigating Mastery and Non-Mastery in Social Work received a SSHRC Insight Grant…
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CASWE Presentations
This year CASWE-ACFTS conference will be in Ottawa from June 4th-7th! The SIM Social Work Research Lab will be there presenting on a variety of…
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Upcoming Presentation at CASWE
Come join us at Canadian Association for Social Work Education for our presentation, Lived Experience in Social Work Simulations: Educators’ Reflections on Possibilities and Tensions…