Social Work Graduate Student Collective
The Social Work Graduate Student Collective is a great opportunity to become actively involved in your campus community as representatives of the student voice and as advocates for change in our development and learning. As a collective we aim to meet monthly to share reports and updates, develop new initiatives and conferences, and provide support for important causes. As the Social Work Graduate Student Collective, we have opportunities to have genuine discussions regarding matters that are most important to us as students of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences. Members of the SOWK GSC also participate in various university and departmental committees to ensure our collective voices are heard.
Our objectives include:
- Represent the collective interests and promotes the general welfare of graduate students of social work at Carleton University.
- Promote and maintain communication between the graduate students and other student associations, the School of Social Work, the university administration, and the larger community.
- Aid individual graduate students with specific problems related to the university community.
- Act to stimulate social, intellectual, and political contact among graduate students.
The SOWK GSC is recruiting graduate students in Social Work for the following roles in the School’s Governance. Please send your resume and statement of interest (approx. 200-300 words) to sowkgsc@gmail.com ASAP. Position Descriptions
- School of Social Work’s Departmental Board: Attend 2-3 meetings per semester and act as a voting member on behalf of the graduate students in the School of Social Work.
- SOWK GSC Events Coordinator: Coordinate social events for graduate students in social work
2024-2025 Co-Chairs
- Alina Wong (she/her) 2nd Year of Two Year MSW Program
- Annalise Clark (she/her) 1st Year of Two Year MSW Program
Committee Representatives
- Black History Committee in Social Work
- Hana Kandar (she/her) Advanced Year MSW Program
- Carleton’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) Delegate
- Kofi Sakyi (he/him) 1st Year of Two Year MSW Program
- School of Social Work Departmental Board (Meeting dates: Oct 16, Nov 27, Feb 5, March 26 10-11:30 am. Representatives are also members of FPGA Faculty Board
- Graeme Halfyard (he/they)1st Year of Two Year MSW Program
- Field Education Committee in Social Work (Meeting Dates: Oct 9 & Feb 12 9:15-11:15 am)
- Josh Wilson (he/him) 1st Year of Two Year MSW Program
- Sabrina Nutchey (she/her) 2nd Year of Two Year MSW Program
- Graduate Programs Committee in Social Work (Meeting Dates: Sept 25, Oct 30, Jan 22, & Mar 5 from 9-11 am)
- Samantha Kerr (she/her) 2nd Year of Two Year MSW Program
Martha Njoku Year 2 PhD student
- Samantha Kerr (she/her) 2nd Year of Two Year MSW Program
- Relational Resurgence Committee in Social Work (2-3 meetings per semester, and assist with event planning and organizing)
- Shailyn Harris (she/her) 1st Year of Two Year MSW Program
- Social Justice Committee in Social Work
- Hannah MacLellan (she/her) 1st Year of Two Year MSW Program
Learning & Development Coordinator
- Jake Dunlop (he/him) 2nd Year of Two Year MSW Program
Contact the Social Work Graduate Students’ Collective using sowkgsc@gmail.com