Susan Preston
Associate Professor
Faculty of Community Services
School of Social Work
Toronto, Ontario
susan.preston@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 556218
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Bio/Research
Before entering academia, Dr. Susan Preston practiced social work in child protection, criminal justice systems and with homeless youth. Through critical inquiry that deconstructs neoliberalism and its influence on social work practice, policy, and education, her research examines government and ...
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Bio/Research
Before entering academia, Dr. Susan Preston practiced social work in child protection, criminal justice systems and with homeless youth. Through critical inquiry that deconstructs neoliberalism and its influence on social work practice, policy, and education, her research examines government and institutional policies and practices affecting service users, social workers and students. She examines how policies and practices are both produced by and reproduce notions of capital.
Her research includes broad scale examinations of social policy, through analysis of policy texts and processes — including child protection legislation and regulations, public participation in policy development, and how neoliberalism gets taken up but also can be resisted in social work education.
More recently, her scholarship has included working in collaboration with social workers in northern Canada, examining social work practice in the Yukon, and how those practices can inform a more authentic engagement in all forms of practice, including practice beyond northern Canada.
In her research, Dr. Preston takes a critical/interpretive stance concerned with interrogating underlying assumptions, practices of power, intersectionality, and the production and reproduction of social relations enacted through capital. Her empirical work primarily utilizes case study, institutional ethnography and discourse analysis as methodological approaches.
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Her research includes broad scale examinations of social policy, through analysis of policy texts and processes — including child protection legislation and regulations, public participation in policy development, and how neoliberalism gets taken up but also can be resisted in social work education.
More recently, her scholarship has included working in collaboration with social workers in northern Canada, examining social work practice in the Yukon, and how those practices can inform a more authentic engagement in all forms of practice, including practice beyond northern Canada.
In her research, Dr. Preston takes a critical/interpretive stance concerned with interrogating underlying assumptions, practices of power, intersectionality, and the production and reproduction of social relations enacted through capital. Her empirical work primarily utilizes case study, institutional ethnography and discourse analysis as methodological approaches.
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