Christine Streeter
PhD Student
| Degrees: | MSW, International and Community Development Specialization (University of Calgary), BSW (King’s University College at Western University) |
| Email: | christinestreeter@cmail.carleton.ca |
| Office: | 627 Dunton Tower |
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About Me:
As a social work PhD Candidate with a specialization in political economy, I am involved in research that explores gender, work and labour, and am committed to improving insecure working conditions for care workers in the social work and social services work sector.
I am currently completing a literature review on labour force strategies in Ontarios long-term care sector. My most recent work includes a report on safety for LGBTQ2+ Older Adults and Workers in Public Services in 2020, published by CUPE and Egale, which can be found here. I have also been involved in ethnographic site studies involving unpaid work in long-term care, as well as identifying and comparing promising practices to support older adults when imagining age-friendly cities.
I share my PhD journey and support other graduate students through a blog called Scholar Culture.
My Research:
My dissertation compares conditions of work and care in the non-profit and social service sector pre-pandemic and during COVID-19 and asks:
How have NPSS sector workers’ experiences and conditions of work been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic-related policies and practices in 2020-21?
And what does this mean for the vulnerable populations they serve?
Research Interests:
Work and Labour; Paid and Unpaid Work; Gender and Work; LGBTQI2S Workers Safety; Feminist Political Economy; Care Work; Community-Academic Research Partnerships; Social Change; Knowledge Mobilization; Research in Social Work; Social Work Education.
Committee Members:
Dr. Susan Braedley (Thesis Supervisor, Social Work, Carleton University)
Dr. Sarah Todd (Social Work, Carleton University
Dr. Celia Haig-Brown (Faculty of Education, York University)