Research

UTCSW PhD students Chesney Ward and Kenyette Garrett recently attended a Race, Research, and Justice training offered by Vanderbilt as part of their Early Career Professional Learning Series. The training was held virtually on four Saturdays and covered topics such as teaching, mentoring, grant writing, philanthropy, writing and publishing across genres, and wellness and mindfulness.…

UTCSW PhD Students Kenyette Garrett and Chesney Ward were awarded the 2024 Initiative for Cross-Institutional Student Collaboration grant for the project entitled Count on Me: An exploration of the factors that shape perceptions of social support among Black women in social work research doctoral programs. They were recognized at the GADE Annual Reception at the…

UTCSW Assistant Professor Jennifer First is participating on the team that received two federal grants totaling $4.3 million, which will give tree lovers hoping to expand Knoxville’s canopy – especially in neighborhoods needing it the most – something to celebrate. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was awarded $2.6 million to increase tree canopy coverage, reduce…

The Joint Task Force on Children’s Justice and Child Sexual Abuse (JTF), a multi-disciplinary group of child welfare professionals, develop a plan and implement recommendations for improving the prevention, investigation, prosecution, judicial handling, and treatment of cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation, and other forms of severe child abuse and neglect. JTF Impact Child…

Director of Field Education and Professor of Practice Kim Crane Mallory discusses a marked increase in employment-based field placements (EBPs) which has made a big difference for Social Work students. Over 30 percent of all field students have a paid internship this year, a number which has nearly doubled from last year. What do you…

Dr. Jennifer First and colleagues were recently awarded a federal grant of over $350,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Center’s Weather Program Office for their research titled, While you were sleeping: Improving warning reception and response to nocturnal rapid-onset hazards in the Southeast. The Southeast region experiences a high proportion of rapid-onset hazards (e.g.,…

Tennessee Child Support Employment and Parenting Program (TCSEPP) The UT Social Work Office of Research and Public Service (SWORPS) specializes in program evaluation, applied research, software development & systems engineering, and staff training & development. They have the capacity to help design, implement, and/or evaluate projects of any scale. As a center within the College of…

The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recently announced that Deidre Ford received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. Ford worked to complete a project at the Tshwane Leadership Foundation that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefitting participants, institutions, and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety…