Susan Strega, PhD (University of Southampton)
Susan Strega, PhD (University of Southampton), Professor
PhD (Social Work) University of Southampton, 2004
MSW (Social Work) University of Victoria, 1999
BSW (Social Work) University of Manitoba, 1976
UVic Office: HSD B324
UVic Office Phone: 250-721-8333
Fax: 250-721-6228
Email: sstrega@uvic.ca
Professional Information & Research Interests | Selected Publications | Selected Grants & Awards | Recent Courses Taught
Professional Information & Research Interests
Research Methodologies
Child Welfare
Sex work and the sexual exploitation of children and youth
Anti-oppressive practice and teaching
Books & Book Sections
- Strega, S., Krane, J., Lapierre, S., Richardson, C., & Carlton, R. (2013). Failure to protect: Moving beyond gendered responses. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
- Krane, J., Strega, S., & Carlton, R. (2013). "G-d couldn't be everywhere so he created mothers": The impossible mandate of maternal protection in child welfare (Introduction). In Strega, S., Krane, J., Lapierre, S., Richardson, C., & Carlton, R. (Eds.). Failure to protect: Moving beyond gendered responses. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
- Strega, S. & Janzen, C. (2013). Asking the Impossible of Mothers: Child Protection Systems and Intimate Partner Violence (Chapter 3). In Strega, S., Krane, J., Lapierre, S., Richardson, C. & Carlton, R. (Eds.). Failure to protect: Moving beyond gendered responses. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
- Strega, S. (2012). Whose failure to protect? Child welfare interventions when men abuse mothers. In Alaggia, R. and Vine, C. (Eds.). Cruel but not unusual: Violence in Canadian Families, 2nd Edition (pp. 337-370). Ottawa: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
- Strega, S., Brown, L., Manning, E., Walmsley, C., Dominelli, L., & Callahan, M. (2012) Fathering in child welfare. In J. Ball & K. Daly, Father involvement in Canada: Diversity, renewal and transformation (pp. 171-189). Vancouver, UBC Press.
- Walmsley, C., Brown, L., Callahan, M., Dominelli, L., & Strega, S. (2011). Fathering and child welfare. In K. Kufeldt & B. McKenzie (eds.) Child welfare: Connecting research, policy and practice (2nd Ed) (pp. 385-398). Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
- Strega, S. & Carrière, J. (Eds.). (2009). Walking this path together: Anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice in child welfare. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
- Strega, S. (2009). Anti-oppressive approaches to assessment, risk assessment and file recording. In Strega, S. & Carrière, J. (Eds.). Walking this path together: Anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice in child welfare (pp. 142-157). Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
- Strega, S. & Carrière, J. (2009). Introduction. In Strega, S. & Carrière, J. (Eds.). (2009). Walking this path together: Anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice in child welfare (pp. 14-28). Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
- Brown, L., Strega, S., Dominelli, L., Walmsley, C. & Callahan, M. (2009). Engaging fathers in child welfare practice. In Strega, S. & Carriere, J. (Eds.). Walking this path together: Anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice in child welfare (pp. 238-256). Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
- Bastien, B., Carrière, J. & Strega, S. (2009). Healing versus treatment: Substance misuse, child welfare and Indigenous families. In Strega, S. & Carriere, J. (Eds.). Walking this path together: Anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice in child welfare (pp. 231-237). Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
Journal Articles
- Strega, S., Janzen, C., Brown, L., Carriere, J., Morgan, N.J., & Thomas, R. Never innocent victims: Street sex workers in Canadian print media. (Accepted for publication, Violence against Women).
- Janzen, C., Strega, S., Brown, L., Morgan, J., Carriere, J., & Thomas, R. (2013). Nothing short of a horror show: Triggering abjection of street sex workers in Western Canadian newspapers. Hypatia 28 (1), 142-162. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01256.x/pdf
- Walmsley, C., Strega, S., Brown, L., Dominelli, L., & Callahan, M. (2009). More than a playmate, less than a co-parent: Fathers in the Canadian BSW curriculum. Canadian Social Work Review, 26(1), 73-96.
- Strega, S., Casey, L., & Rutman, D. Sex workers addressing treatment. (2009). Women's Health and Urban Life, 8(1), 42-53.
- Strega, S., Brown, L., Callahan, M., Dominelli, L. & Walmsley, C. (2009). Working with me, working at me: Fathers’ narratives of child welfare. Journal of Progressive Human Services 20, 72-91.
- Brown, L., Strega, S., Callahan, M., Dominelli, L. & Walmsley, C. (2009). Manufacturing ghost fathers: The paradox of father presence and absence in child welfare. Child and Family Social Work, 14, 25-34 (One of Top 20 CFSW downloaded articles in 2009).
- Dominelli, L., Brown, L., Callahan, M., Strega, S. & Walmsley, C. (2008). Reconfigurando a los padres: Analisis de estudios locales desde una perspectiva internacional (Reconfiguring fathers: Interrogating local studies in an international arena), Revista Trabajo Social, 74 (August), 107-116.
- Strega, S., Fleet, C., Brown, L. Dominelli, L., Callahan, M. & Walmsley, C. (2008). Connecting father absence and mother blame in child welfare policies and practices. Children and Youth Services Review 30 (7), 705-716.
- "The other side of the equation: Researching male customers of street sex workers," Susan Strega (PI), Helga Halgrimsdottir, Steven Garlick. SSHRC Insight Development Research Grant. (2013)
- "Putting it on the agenda: Health and safety priorities for street sex workers and their families," Susan Strega, Grant Holder. CIHR. (February 2012 - January 2013)
- "Someone's mother, sister, daughter: Street sex workers, their families, and transitioning out of street sex work," Susan Strega (PI), Leslie Brown, Jeannine Carriere, Robina Thomas. SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (April 2009 - March 2011)
- "Failure to protect: Moving beyond gendered responses." Susan Strega, Julia Krane, Simon Lapierre, Cathy Richardson. SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada. (2010)
- "The Motherload of blame: Failure to protect policies in Canadian child welfare law and policy." National Association of Women and the Law (Canada). (December 2009 - May 2010)
- SOCW 475 - Child Welfare Practice
- SOCW 545 - Networks and Communities
- SOCW 550 - Social Justice, Social Work and the Law
- SOCW 505 - Advanced Child Welfare Seminar
- SOCW 516 - Research Methodologies