Sarah Todd
Full Professor (on leave Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025)
| Degrees: | MSW (McMaster); Ed.D. (OISE) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x XXXX |
| Email: | SarahTodd@cunet.carleton.ca |
| Office: | 516 Dunton Tower |
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Courses Taught:
- Community Development and Social Change
- Social Work with Communities and Organizations
- Practice Skills in Social Work
- Advanced Theory of Social Work Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups and Communities
- Critical Pedagogy
Research Interests/ Current Research Projects:
- Professionalization of social work
- Social Work Education
- Community work practice
- Whiteness
- Post-structuralism and Postmodernism theories
Research Projects
Knowing and Non-Knowing: Navigating Uncertainty in Social Work Practice. This project takes place in the SIM Social Work Research Lab Carleton School of Social Work. The study is a collaboration between Sarah Todd, Sarah Tarshis, Kenta Asakura, Katherine Occhiuoto and Pam Grassau. This team of researchers are investigating how students, new practitioners and experienced practitioners navigate uncertainty in their practice. The study uses innovative simulation methods to investigate the strategies practitioners use at different stages of their careers to navigate interpersonal and situational uncertainty in practice. This project aims to expand positivist notions of competencies so that they can include those aspects of clinical practice that have been shown to be of great value but are difficult to observe and measure. The research is funded by a Carleton SSHRC Explorer Grant. The lab is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund.
Publications:
Articles in Refereed Journals
2023 Sewell, K., Occhiuto, K., Tarshis, S., Kamanovitch, A., Todd, S. Simulation in social work education: a qualitative study of standardized client experiences. Social Work education: The International Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2023.2194318
2022 Morris, B. Todd, S. & Kalmanovitch, A. When the Going Gets Tough: Case Studies of Challenge and Innovation in Canadian Field Education. Routledge handbook of Field Education in Social Work. Abigndon & New Dehli: Routledge.
2021 Occhiuto, K., Todd, S., Wilson, T. &’ Garrod, J. Z. Toward Greater Transparency Regarding Cross-Sector Partnerships for Technology Development. ANSERJ, 12,2, 89-103.
2021 Todd, S., Occhiuto, K., Asakura, K. & Grassau, P. Navigating Uncertainty in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Pilot Simulation-Based Study. Clinical Social Work Journal, 49, 286-297 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-021-00800-4
2020 Asakura, K., Occhiuto, K., Todd, S., Leithead, C., & Clapperton, R. A call to action on Artificial Intelligence and social work education: Lessons learned from a simulation project using Natural Language Processing. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 40, 5, 501-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2020.1813234
2020 Wilson, T., Occhiuto, K., Todd, S. & Garrod, J.Z. (co-author). Social Workers as Double Agents: Critical Inquiry, Social Work Education and the Youth Questions. Social Work Education: The International Journal, 39, 1, 85-96.
2019 Asakura, K., Strumm, B., Todd, S., & Varghese, R. (co-author). What does social justice look like when sitting with clients?: A qualitative study of teaching clinical social work practice from a social justice perspective. Journal of Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2019.1656588
2019 Todd, S., Asakura, K., Morris, B., Eagle, B. & Park, G. (lead author). Responding to student mental health concerns in social work education: Towards developing a heuristic blueprint. Social Work Education: The International Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2018.1563591
2018 Moffatt, K., Todd, S., Barnoff, L., Pyne, J., Panitch, M., Parada, H., McLeod, S., Hunter Young, N. (co-author) Worry about professional education: Emotions and affect in the context of neoliberal change in postsecondary education. Emotion, Space and Society.
2017 Barnoff, L., Moffatt, K., Todd, S., Panitch, M., & Parada, H. (co-author). Academic Leadership in the Context of Neoliberalism: The Practice of Social Work Directors. Canadian Social Work Review,34, 1, 5-21.
2016 Todd, S., Kuzmarov, B., Sucharov, M., Douglas, S., Schwartz, K. (lead author). Teaching Subjectively: Interdisciplinary Insights. Canadian Journal for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning. (30 pages).
2016 Moffatt, K., Panitch, M., Parada, H., Todd, S., Barnoff, L., Aslett, J. (co-author). The discourse of innovation in educational reform: The Case of the Strategic Mandate Agreements in Ontario Canada Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 38, 4 (co-author) (22 pages).
2015 Todd, S., Barnoff, L., Moffatt, K., Panitch, M., Parada, H., Mucina, M., Williams, D. (lead author). Performativity Culture in Universities: Social Work Fabrications. British Journal of Social Work, 45, 2, 527-548 (21 pages). This article was chosen as Editor’s Choice.
2012 Sundar, P., Todd, S., Danseco, E., Cunning, S. & Prakash, S. (co-author). Toward a culturally-responsive Approach to Child and Youth Mental Health Practice: Integrating the Perspectives of Service Users. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 1, 31, 1-15 (15 pages).
2012 Todd, S. (sole author). Practicing in the uncertain: Reworking Standardized Clients as Improv Theatre. Social Work Education, 31, 3, 302-315 (13 pages).
2011 Todd, S. (sole author). “That power and privilege thing”: Securing Whiteness in Community Work. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 22, 2, 117-134 (27 pages).
2009 Cain, R. & Todd, S. (co-author). HIV/AIDS and the Changing Treatment Context. Qualitative Social Work, 8, 2, 249-265 (16 pages).
2008 Sundar, P. & Todd, S. (co-author). Opening the Space between Innocent and Oppressive Ways of Knowing: Challenges and Opportunities in Doing Research with Diverse Communities, Currents, 7, 1, 1-15 (15 pages).
2008 Cain, R. & Todd, S. (co-author) Managing Funding Constraints in Frontline HIV/AIDS Social Services in Canada. Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services. 7, 3, pp. 265-287 (23 pages).
2007 Todd, S. & Burns, A. (lead author). Post-Structural Possibilities: Beyond Structural Practice in Child Protection. Canadian Social Work Review, 24, 1, pp. 23-38. (15 pages).
2007 Todd, S. & Coholic, D. (lead author). Christian Fundamentalism and Anti-Oppressive Social Work Pedagogy, Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 27, 3-4. (23 pages).
Chapters in Edited Books
2016 Todd, S. (sole author). Community Practice and Ethics. In Richard Hugman and Jan Carter, eds., Rethinking Values and Ethics in Social Work. London, UK: Palgrave-MacMillan (22 pages).
2016 Todd, S. (sole author). Feminist Therapy. In Nick Coady and Peter Lehmann, eds., Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice: A Generalist-Eclectic Approach, 3rd Edition. Springer Publishing Company, 357-372 (invited contribution) (36 pages).
2015 Todd, S. & Coholic, D. (lead author) Christian fundamentalism and AOP pedagogy: Rethinking the inclusion of fundamentalist beliefs within the queer-positive classroom. In O’Neil, B., Mule, N. & Swan, T., eds., LGBTQ People and Social Work: Intersectional Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 277-296 (invited contribution).
2012 Todd, S. (sole author). The Ties that bind and unwind: spirituality in the secular social work classroom. In Janet Groen and John Graham, eds., Spirituality in Education & Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Wilfrid Laurier Press, 121-140 (19 pages).
2009 Todd, S. (sole author). Mobilizing Communities for Social Change: Integrating Mindfulness and Passionate Politics. In Steve Hick, ed., Mindfulness and Social Work. Chicago: Lyceum Books, 171-187 (17 pages).
2007 Todd, S. (sole author). Feminist Community Organizing: The Spectre of the Sacred and the Secular. In John Coates, John Graham, Barbara Sartzentruber and Brian Ouellette, eds., Spirituality and Social Work: Selected Canadian Readings. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 161-174 (13 pages)(reprint of 2004 article).
2006 Todd, S. & Lundy, C. (lead author). Framing Woman Abuse: A Structural Perspective. In Ramona Alaggia and Cathy Vine, eds., Cruel but not Unusual: Violence in Canadian Families, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press327-369 (42 pages).
2005 Todd, S. (sole author). Unfinished Fictions: Becoming and Unbecoming Feminist Community Organizers. In Jan Fook, Steve Hick and John Pozzuto, eds., Critical Approaches in Social Work. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 139-154 (15 pages).
Major Encyclopedia or Dictionary Articles
2015 Todd, S (sole author). Social justice and social action: Organizing for change. In L. Dominelli (ed.) Social Work Subsection. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition. London: Elsevier. (Invited contribution)(14 pages).
Non-refereed Book Chapters
2016 Todd, S. (sole author). Social Work and Sexual and Gender Diversity: Celebrating Human Diversity. In Steve Hick & Jackie Stokes, eds. Social Work Practice In Canada: An Introduction, 4th edition, 298 –325. Toronto: Thompson Educational Press (27 pages).
2010 Todd, S. & Wiebe, M. (lead author). Social Work with Groups and Communities. In Steve Hick, ed., Social Work in Canada: An Introduction, 3rd edition. Toronto: Thompson Publishing, 112-128 (16 pages).
2010 Todd, S. (sole author). Social Work Practice: Sexual and Gender Diversity. In Steve Hick, ed., Social Work Practice in Canada: An Introduction 3rd edition. Toronto: Thompson Educational Press, 292-308 (16 pages).
2005 Todd, S. (sole author). Social Work Practice: Sexual and Gender Diversity. In Steve Hick, ed., Social Work Practice in Canada: An Introduction. Toronto: Thompson Educational Press, 273-295 (22 pages).
Affiliations/Positions Held:
- Canadian Association of Social Work Education
- Canadian Association of Social Workers
- Advisory Board Member, Safe People Project, Pinecrest Queensway Community Health Centre
- 2007- 2014 Editorial Board Member, Canadian Social Work Review, (anglophone editor 2009-2014)
- 2004-2014, Member of Executive Board, Studies in Political Economy Journal
