JOHN GRAHAM
- Professor
- Calgary Faculty & Staff
- Homelessness
- International Social Work
- Research Methods
- Social Policy
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
Profile
Dr. John Graham is a Professor of Social Work and between 2003 and 2013 was the Murray Fraser Professor of Community Economic Development, an internally competitive research chair within the university. He is also a longstanding mentor to junior faculty and to graduate students, and is in high demand as a PhD supervisor. His coauthored book on Canadian social policy is the discipline's leading seller, and his writing was recently recognized as being among the top 50 most frequently cited for his discipline in the English speaking world, 2000-2009.
Graham has held over $4 million in research funding, has published over 100 journal articles, 51 book chapters, and is completing his ninth book. He has supervised or has sat on over 100 graduate student committees, works extensively with PhD and MSW students as a thesis and dissertation supervisor, publishes with several funded interdisciplinary teams of scholars, and employs numerous students as research assistants.
Research and Scholarly Activity
Dr. Graham has published extensively in international development (with a particular focus on Bedouin-Arab communities in the Middle East), Canadian social policy, social welfare history, spirituality and social work, multicultural social work, qualitative research, and homelessness.His current interests concentrate on employee well being, and in particularly,subjective well being (happiness) in and out of the workplace.
Education
- PhD in Social Work (University of Toronto)
- MSW (University of Toronto)
- MA in Canadian History (Queen's University)
- BA in Modern History (Trinity College, University of Toronto)
Professional and Community Associations
Graham is founding co-organizer of the Canadian Society for Spirituality and Social Work and co-organized at the University of Calgary The Fifth North American Conference on Spirituality and Social Work, 2010. He also co-organized the Second Canadian Conference on Homelessness, held at the University of Calgary in 2009.
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