Susan Silver
Associate Professor
Faculty of Community Services
School of Social Work
Toronto, Ontario
ssilver@torontomu.ca
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Susan Silver is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work. She has an MSW from the University of Toronto and PhD from Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. Susan is the former Director of the School (1998-2003, 2017-2019/Interim) and the former Graduate Program Director for the MSW progr...
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Bio/Research
Susan Silver is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work. She has an MSW from the University of Toronto and PhD from Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. Susan is the former Director of the School (1998-2003, 2017-2019/Interim) and the former Graduate Program Director for the MSW program (2009-2011). Her areas of interest include critical approaches to quantitative and qualitative research, community-based program evaluation, critical use of interactive communication technologies in research, women’s health, precarious work, and social welfare policy. She has conducted a number of large-scale research studies, nationally and internationally, and has extensive experience evaluating community-based programs.
Her research projects include a national study to develop an evaluation framework for family support programs. Working with Family Resource Programs across Canada, this was the first study to develop evaluation indicators that are grounded in the experiences most valued by program participants. Reports are available at the project web-site. Susan also completed a national study examining the role of labour market restructuring in creating pathways towards precarity and exclusion of Canadian workers. Susan has also worked with Canadian and Dominican researchers and community organizations in the evaluation of community-based programs for child protection. She has also worked with occupational and health professionals from Brazil, in a project promoting equity and safety among industrial workers. Currently, Susan is exploring chronic illness and women’s health, as well as the critical use of virtual interactive technologies in community-based research and evaluation.
Susan is the 2019 recipient of the Janice Waddell Collegiality Award from the Faculty of Community Services. Susan is also the 2023 recipient of TMU's Alan Shepard Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award.
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Her research projects include a national study to develop an evaluation framework for family support programs. Working with Family Resource Programs across Canada, this was the first study to develop evaluation indicators that are grounded in the experiences most valued by program participants. Reports are available at the project web-site. Susan also completed a national study examining the role of labour market restructuring in creating pathways towards precarity and exclusion of Canadian workers. Susan has also worked with Canadian and Dominican researchers and community organizations in the evaluation of community-based programs for child protection. She has also worked with occupational and health professionals from Brazil, in a project promoting equity and safety among industrial workers. Currently, Susan is exploring chronic illness and women’s health, as well as the critical use of virtual interactive technologies in community-based research and evaluation.
Susan is the 2019 recipient of the Janice Waddell Collegiality Award from the Faculty of Community Services. Susan is also the 2023 recipient of TMU's Alan Shepard Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award.
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