Sarah Todd
Full Professor
| Degrees: | MSW (McMaster); Ed.D. (OISE) |
| 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
Sewell, K. M., Gheorghe, R. M., Dare, B., Patel, S. B., Morris, B., O’Hara, G., … Todd, S. (2024). Barriers to advocacy for recovery and wellbeing: a mixed methods study of challenges faced by mental health hospital social workers in Ontario, Canada. Social Work in Mental Health, 23(3), 233–253. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2024.2417694
2025 Van Vliet, L., Tarshis, S., Occhiuto, K., Todd, S., Gheorghe, R., & Grassau, P. Doing Research Differently: Fostering Relational Ethics in ResearchTeams. Affilia, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099251326943
2025 Sewell, K. M., Gheorghe, R. M., Dare, B., Patel, S. B., Morris, B., O’Hara, G., … Todd, S. Social work advocacy in mental health clinical practice: a mixed methods study of professional practices and competencies. Social Work in Mental Health, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2025.2479467
2024 Tarshis, S., Occhiuto, K., Sewell, K., Gheorge, R., & Todd, S. Social Work and Supervision: A Simulation -based Research Study Exploring Uncertainty. The Clinical Supervisor. 44 (1) 193-214 https://doi.org/10.1080/07325223.2024.2430522
2024 Occhiuto, K., Tarshis, S., Todd, S., Gheorghe, R. (2024). Reflecting on reflection in clinical social work: Unsettling a key social work strategy. The British Journal of Social Work, 54(6), 2642-2660 https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae052
2024 Sewell, K., Occhiuto, K., Tarshis, S., Kalmanovitch, A., Todd, S. Simulation in social work education: a qualitative study of standardized client experiences. Social Work education: The International Journal, 43(6), 1516-1533 https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2023.2194318
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
2023 Asakura, K., Occhiuto, K., Tarshis, S., Gheorghe, R. M., & Todd, S. Guidelines for using simulations in qualitative research on social work practice competencies. Families in Society, 105(4), 743-759 https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894231210897
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.
Edited Books
2020 Todd, S. & Savard, S. eds. Canadian Perspective on Community Development. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
2020 Todd, S. & Drolet, J. eds. Major Research Work in Social Work: Community Practice and Social Development. Singapore: Springer Publishing.
2017 Todd, S. & Lee, B. eds. A Casebook of Community Practice: Problems and Strategies, 2nd Edition. Don Mills: CommonAct Press.
Chapters in Edited Books
2023 Todd, S. Fostering Justice in Learning Relationships among Social Work Students Social Justice Pedagogies: Multidisciplinary Practices and Approaches. University of Toronto Press. Katarina Sark (Ed)
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 Todd, S. & Occhiuto, K. Feminist Theories. In in Kristin Bolton, Christopher Hall and Peter Lehmann’s (Eds), Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice: A Generalist-Eclectic Approach, 4th Edition. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
2020 Lahaie, C., Todd, S. & Kalmanovitch, A (co-author). Feminist Community Organizing. In S. Todd and S. Savard’s (Eds.) Canadian Perspectives on Community Development. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 183-208 (25 pages).
2020 Occhiuto, K. & Todd, S. (co-author) Critical Community Practice with Youth. In S. Todd and S. Savard (Eds.) Canadian Perspectives on Community Development. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 321 – 343 (22 pages).
2020 Todd, S., Savard, S. (co-author) Conclusions: The Canadian Context of Community Work. In S. Todd and S. Savard (Eds.) Canadian Perspectives on Community Development. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 345 -349 (4 pages).
2020 Todd, S. & Savard, S. Introduction. In Todd and S. Savard (Eds.) Canadian Perspectives on Community Development. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1-18 (18 pages).
2020 Todd, S. & Drolet, J. The Role of Community Practices and Social Development in the Field of Social Work. Singapore: Palgrave Publishing, 3-16 (13 pages).
2020 Drolet, J. & Todd, S. Community Practices and Social Development: Themes and Expectations. Singapore: Palgrave Publishing, 457 – 472 (15 pages).
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).
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
- Canadian Association of Social Work Education
- Canadian Association of Social Workers