Race, class and gender in the construction of identities, power relations in the helping process, globalization, and women and development.

Publications:

Gender and Exceptionality in North-South Research: Reflecting on Relations, Journal of Gender Studies, 13 (2), 2004: 117-127

Changes and Challenges: Preparing Social Work Students for Practicums in Today's Sub-Saharan African Context, Journal of International Social Work (forthcoming).

Self-Reflection in Critical Social Work Practice: Subjectivity and the Possibilities of Resistance, Journal of Reflective
Practice (under review).

Canada's Changing Presence in Developing Countries, Canadian Journal of Development Studies (under review).

Desire for Development: The Education of White Women as Development Workers, manuscript under provisional contract with Wilfrid Laurier University Press.


Papers Read:

"Self-Reflection in Critical Social Work Practice: Subjectivity and the Possibilities of Resistance", Reflection as a Catalyst for Change Conference, Gloucester, UK, 2004.

"Canada's Changing Presence in Developing Countries", paper, Canadian Association for Studies in International Development Conference, Winnipeg, 2004.

"Preparing Social Work Students for International Practicums:  Some Lessons and Challenges from the Development Field", paper, International Social Work Symposium, CASSW Conference, Halifax, 2003.

Jeffery, D., Wong, R.Y.L., and Heron, B.A., "Being and Doing:  The Challenges of Putting Anti-Racist Theories to Work", panel, CASSW Conference, Halifax, 2003.

"Learning from Development: Popular Education and Anti-Oppression Training for International Practicum
Preparation", workshop, CASSW Conference, Halifax, 2003.

"Gender and Development: Race, Exceptionality, and Relations of Power", paper, Canadian Critical Race Conference: Pedagogy and Practice, Vancouver, 2003.

"International Exchanges, North/South and East/West Relations:  Experiences, Considerations, Contestations", panel,
International Social Work Symposium, CASSW Conference, University of Toronto, 2002.

"Taking It to Heart: Whiteness and Claims to a Non-Racist Self", paper, era 21 (End Racism! Activism for the 21st
Century) Conference, Vancouver, 2000.

"Desire for Development: The Education of White Women as Development Workers", paper, Graduate Students Conference, Department of Sociology and Adult Education, OISE/UT, Toronto, 1999.

"Race and the Canadian Development Worker", paper, Making History, Constructing Race Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, 1998.

"I Knew I Could Do Anything: Development Work and the Construction of Female Canadian Identity", paper, Canadian
Womens Studies Association Conference, St. Johns, 1997.

"Innocence and Power in North-South Research", paper, International Studies Association Conference, Toronto, 1997.

"Innocence and Power in North-South Research", paper, National Womens Studies Association Conference, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1996.

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