School of Social Work 75th Anniversary: Emerging Scholars Panel
January 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
| Location: | 2220-2224-2228 Richcraft Hall |
Please join the School of Social Work for an Emerging Scholars panel to celebrate our 75th anniversary. Three PhD candidates in the School will share their dissertation research findings and light refreshments will be provided.
Panelists
Kendal David is a PhD Candidate at Carleton’s School of Social Work. She studies, teaches, and writes about poverty, disability justice, and critical social work. You can find her ideas in zines, academic journals, op-ed columns, and policy magazines. Kendal’s current PhD research examines disparities in Ontario’s Disability Support Program for people living in residential care institutions like group homes and long-term care. Kendal is a member of the Basic Income Youth Collective where she organizes with young people across the country to fight for better income support policies. You can read more about Kendal, her past work, and her current research at www.kendaldavid.ca.
Ruxandra M. Gheorghe (Ruxi), MA, MSW, is a social worker and doctoral candidate at Carleton University’s School of Social Work in Ottawa, Canada. Her current research is concerned with articulations of toxic masculinity, countertransference, and empathy in direct therapeutic practice. She is particularly interested in researching how the social work field intersects with the incel community and adjacent communities in the manosphere.
Margaret Janse van Rensburg (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the School of Social Work at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) and a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. Her research and practice focus on enhancing Autistic individual and community wellbeing, and her teaching fosters inclusion and support of diverse backgrounds and identities. As a neurodivergent scholar and practitioner, Margaret brings her lived experience to infuse a neuroinclusive perspective into her research, teaching, practice, and service. Her doctoral dissertation, guided by ecosystems theory, examines practitioner perspectives on Autistic adult mental health, in collaboration with the Ottawa Adult Autism Initiative. She will present findings, displaying barriers to Autistic adult mental health at macrosystem, mezzosystem, and microsystem levels, and how practitioners and professionals attempted to redress these barriers to enhance Autistic adult mental health.