John Graham


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  • Professor, School of Social Work, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada

Biography

Professor John Graham has an MSW from University of Toronto (1989), an MA from Queen’s University in Canada (1990), and a Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Toronto (1996). He is Professor of Social Work and former Director of the School of Social Work at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. Prior to coming to UBC, he was Director of the School of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University, and before that was at The University of Calgary for 17 years where he held a 10-year research chair as Murray Fraser Professor, and served successively as MSW International Concentration Program Coordinator and PhD Program Coordinator. Further details are at Striving to meet the demands of a changing society.

Education

Ph.D. in Social Work , Un
RSW

Research

Dr. Graham has held over $8 million in research funding, has published over 120 journal articles, 51 book chapters, and is completing his tenth book. He has published on international development (with a particular focus on Bedouin-Arab communities in the Middle East),  social policy, diversity and social work, spirituality and social work, multicultural social work, and employee well being/ subjective well being (happiness) in and out of the workplace. He is currently working on homelessness reduction research, in relation to the Journey Home initiative, Kelowna, British Columbia. His writing was recognized among the top 50 most frequently cited for his discipline in the English speaking world, 2000-2009. A longstanding mentor to junior faculty and to graduate students, Graham has sat on over 100 graduate student committees at the masters and doctoral levels, and in 2014 received a teaching award for graduate student mentoring. Graham heads the Kelowna Homelessness Research Collaborative, an interdisciplinary team of community based researchers which currently has over $1 million in funding and is greatly involved in tier one publishing, positive social impacts, student training, and community engagement. In 2022,  he was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare