Research Centers and Affiliate Research Programs
Social Work Office of Research and Public Service
The Social Work Office of Research and Public Service (SWORPS) provides needs assessment, program evaluation, technical assistance, research services, software application design and deployment, and other resources to human service agencies, to the professional human service practitioners that these agencies employ, and to the social work community at large.
Center for Behavioral Health Research
The Center for Behavioral Health Research (CBHR) investigators have been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the William T. Grant Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and other private foundations and donors.
Center for Veterinary Social Work
The Center for Veterinary Social Work (CVSW) is an interdisciplinary and interprofessional service-oriented, educationally-focused, and research-inspired space dedicated to achieving excellence in skillfully working across professional silos to attend to the welfare of all species within all systems from micro to macro.
Center for Guaranteed Income Research
A collaboration between the UTCSW and the University of Pennsylvania, The Center for Guaranteed Income Research (CGIR) is an applied research center specializing in cash-transfer research, evaluation, pilot design, and narrative change. The center provides mixed-methods expertise in designing and executing empirical guaranteed income studies that work alongside the existing safety net. CGIR’s team, headed by its founding directors, Dr. Stacia West and Dr. Amy Castro, led the design and research for the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), and currently serve as the centralized research partners for Mayors for a Guaranteed Income (MGI).
Program for Pet Health Equity
The Program for Pet Health Equity (PPHE) exists to improve access to veterinary care for pets and their families not adequately served by the current system. PPHE promotes and facilitates national collaborations and public policy development, to remove barriers to veterinary care.
Interdisciplinary Collaborations
The UTCSW’s faculty research extends far outside the walls of our locations in Stokely Management Center in Knoxville and Polk Avenue in Nashville. Faculty have been working on partnerships with researchers from around the University of Tennessee, other organizations within the state, and numerous universities nationwide and beyond.
The collaborations broaden and deepen research, allowing the best of what the college has to offer alongside the best from outside the institution. If there is truly strength in numbers, the UTCSW is primed for great things.
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