York women’s basketball has a proud legacy, shaped by athletes who have left a distinctive mark on the team. This season, that legacy has been carried forward by a team that includes all-star player, Kiara Leveridge, a soon‑to‑be graduate of the Social Work program in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). Known […]
Kinnon Ross MacKinnon, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work, was featured in two recent articles in The New York Times. The first announced a $2 million dollar malpractice verdict that awarded a 22-year-old woman damages for receiving a gender-affirming double mastectomy when she was a 16 year old transgender boy, later detransitioning. […]
Soma Chatterjee, a professor in the School of Social work, has published a new book that she will be discussing at a series of upcoming events. Her book, Skills to Build the Nation: Immigrant Labour Market and Canadian Nationalism (University of Toronto Press, 2025), explores how ideas of skill and training shaped immigrant integration practices in […]
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies welcomes 10 new full-time, permanent members this fall.
Four professors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) have been awarded funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), receiving Connection Grants and Partnership Engage Grants. Jake Pyne from the School of Social Work received $23,498 in funding for his project No for now: Building educator capacity to simultaneously […]
Assistant professor Kinnon R. MacKinnon has written an opinion piece for The New York Times  that examines the Trump administration’s campaign against transgender rights. The administration has been highlighting many stories about transgender people who have regretted transitioning, after cancelling $800 million in grant funding for LGBTQ research. MacKinnon shares findings from his research team’s […]
A research team in the School of Social Work, led by assistant professor Kinnon Ross MacKinnon, has developed a new protocol to identify and remove fraudulent responses from web-based surveys. The team noticed suspicious responses while recruiting for a research study on detransition experiences among LGBTQ2S+ people in Canada and the U.S. They started to apply a new […]
In the quiet paddocks of her 22.5-acre farm, Lyndsey McKeown offers a therapeutic experience that is deeply personal and grounded in nature.
In the fall of 2023, School of Social Work professor Soma Chatterjee embarked on a fascinating journey with the undergraduate students from the course Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees. Exploring the complex landscapes of global migration through readings and other media, the students sought to understand the deeper reasons behind why people move and […]
¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ's School of Social Work is thrilled to announce the release of two exciting new books: "Critical Social Work Praxis" and "Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences." These publications, crafted by the school's talented scholars, delve into the essential connection between social work theory and practice and the […]