Congratulations to three students graduating this spring and summer with a PhD in Social Welfare. Doctoral programs are a unique, often challenging journey that deserve their own celebration. Congratulations to these soon-to-be PhD graduates! Marissa Abbott Dissertation: The Interplay Between Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences: An Exploration of Risk and Resilience The most personally significant …
In spring of 2021, and in the online environment required by COVID19, Advanced Macropractice (SW840) students advocated for change in the world by creating advocacy websites. These Action for Justice projects show the vision, connections, commitments of these social workers and represent a great range of interest and information. Each section of students voted …
Focus area: School Social Work Future job interest: Schools/School Social Work Why did you choose to the Part-Time Program? I chose the Part-Time Program so that I could work while going to school and have a greater span of time to focus on my studies instead of fitting it all in within one year, as …
Professor Emeritus Tom Corbett and Karen Bogenshneider have reworked their well received 2011 volume on Evidence Based Policymaking: Envisioning a New Era of Theory, Research, Teaching and Practice. Based on new state-level data from legislators, a rethinking of their Community Dissonance Theory for explaining the communication breakdowns between scholars and policy makers, and an extensive …
Social work PhD alum Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu’s work as a co-founder of the Institute for Collective Wellbeing was featured this week in the Wisconsin State Journal.
The Social Work Community Read for 2021-2022 will be: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Complimentary books will be available and distributed in September when classes start, and more information about this process will be available then. The book was voted on by students from …
Nearly one year ago, George Floyd was murdered in plain sight. This was by no means the first time a Black person was murdered at the hands of the police. Perhaps because this tragedy occurred in the wake of so many others, because the apparent indifference to a human life on the part of the …
The following is just a sample of the 32 students who received full-ride tuition scholarships from the school in 2020-2021. In total, the school awarded 70 scholarships in 2020-2021. An additional 29 students received tuition and stipends through the Title IV-E program. Lilian Loera It is my dream to become a social worker to help …
Meet some of the students who received full-ride tuition scholarships The UW–Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work trains some of the best social workers in the nation for the changing contexts of the world they will navigate. It’s critical that the most highly-qualified students who have a passion for social work have the ability …
Evelyn Joy Coker, a first-year PhD student was awarded a 4W Initiative Engagement Grant for Emerging Scholars for her project “Get L.I.T. (Learning Intentional Tools) Juvenile Justice Project: Development of a Gender-Responsive Curriculum and Training for Implementation.” Evelyn will adapt her self-published social-emotional learning tool Get L.I.T.: A Teen Girl’s Journal for Positive Self-Development into a …