PHD GRADUATES, CANDIDATES & STUDENTS

JENNIFER ANANDA

Publication

Paceley, M. S., Ananda, J., Thomas, M. M. C., Hiegert, D., & Davis, T. (2021). “I have nowhere to go”: A multiple-case study of transgender and gender diverse youth, their families, and healthcare experiences. [Special issue on Health and Healthcare for Transgender and Gender Diverse Communities]. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17), 9219. https:// www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/17/9219

Linda Banda

Publication

Banda, L, & Carlson, J. (accepted). Malawi’s marriage law and constitutional amendment: Analysis of policy solutions to increase girls’ rights. The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare.

Presentations

Diaz, A., Kepple, N., Holmes, C., Banda, L., Carlson, J., & Akin, B. A., (2022, January 14). Attitudes held by child welfare and domestic violence stakeholders regarding domestic violence survivors and people who use violence. [Electronic poster]. 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Carlson, J., Diaz, A, Kepple, N., Banda, L., Wright, K. & Carr., K [Added - In person presenter] (2022, January 14). The implementation of an anti-racist practice in research teams: process and pollination. [Roundtable]. 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Project

Kansas Strong for Children and Families (Graduate Research Assistant)

Publications

Clark, S. L., & Jen, S. (2022). “Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion. Qualitative Social Work. https://doi. org/10.1177/14733250211070795

Wright, K., Akin, B.A., Byers, K., McCall, S., Alford, D., Parker, A., Clark, S.L., Shaw-Woody, N., Kline, M., Brown, N. Hill, E., Davis-Mays, S., Parham, W., & Rush, R. (2022). Using institutional analysis to examine the systemic sources of racial disproportionality and disparity: A case example. Child Welfare, 100(2), 99-136.

Presentations

Akin, B. A., Byers, K., Alford, D., Brown, A., Clark, S.L., Dunkerley, S., McArthur, V., McCall, S.E., Naemi Jimenez, P., Toplikar, J., & Wright, K. (2021, July 27-29). A multi-level, collaborative approach to strengthening a child welfare system. [Virtual]. 22nd Annual Conference, National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Thriving Children & Families: Prevention with Purpose. Washington, DC .

Akin, B. A., Byers, K., Clark, S. L., Dunkerley, S., Wright, K. C., & McCall, S. (2021, November 7). Child welfare professionals’ orientation toward child saving versus family focus. Council on Social Work Education 67th Annual Program Meeting, Leading Critical Conversations: Racial, Economic & Environmental Justice, Orlando, FL. (Refereed).

Akin, B. A., Clark, S. L., Byers, K., McCall, S., Gomez, H., & Paceley, M.S. (2022, January). “That’s nothing if we never let you say how it feels to be already drenched:” Identifying key themes for supporting youth in foster care through poetic inquiry. 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice, Washington, DC. (Refereed).

Clark, S. L. & Akin, B. A. (2022, April 3-5). There is no such thing as an independent scholar: Autoethnographic reflections of a doctoral candidate’s and chair’s experiences in doctoral education. ResilienceCon 2022, Nashville, TN. (Virtual Conference).

Clark, S. L., Byers, K., Akin, B. A., Dunkerley, S., Wright, K. C., & McArthur, V. (2022, January). Investigating the relationship between child welfare professionals’ well-being and application of casework skills in practice. 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice, Washington, DC. (Refereed).

Clark, S. L., Byers, K., Akin, B. A., Dunkerley, S., Wright, K. C., McArthur, V., & Carr, K. (2022, January). Organizational responses to child welfare professionals: Do they predict secondary traumatic stress, burnout, compassion satisfaction and self-care among front line workers and supervisors? 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice, Washington, DC. (Refereed).

Clark, S. L., McCall, S., Akin, B. A., Byers, K., Brown, A., Alford, D., Toplikar, J. & Wright, K. C. (2021, November 5). “Pause, listen, act”: Reimagining supports and systems impacting youth in foster Care. Council on Social Work Education 67th Annual Program Meeting, Leading Critical Conversations: Racial, Economic & Environmental Justice, Orlando, FL.

Paceley, M.S., Akin, B. A., Clark, S. L., Byers, K., & McCall, S. (2022, January). “Youth are not something to check off your to do list”: Poetic inquiry into the symbols youth and other stakeholders use to reimagine supports for youth in foster care. [Poster Presentation]. 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice, Washington, DC. (Refereed).

Wright, K. C., Akin, B. A., Byers, K., & McCall, S. (2021, November 6). Courts, communities, and accountability: Executing genuine community-based research. Council on Social Work Education 67th Annual Program Meeting, Leading Critical Conversations: Racial, Economic & Environmental Justice, Orlando, FL. (Refereed).

Product

Clark, S. L., Palmer, A. N., Akin, B. A., Dunkerley, S., & Brook, J. (2021). Increasing placement stability through screening and interviewing in children’s trauma symptoms. University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. https://socwel.ku.edu/sites/socwel/ files/2022-03/ResearchBrief-ShelbyClark.pdf

Award

Dean Kondrat Outstanding PhD Student Award

April Diaz

Publication

Paceley, M. S., Goffnett, J., Diaz, A. L., Kattari, S. K., Navarro, J., & Greenwood, E. (2021). “I Didn’t Come Here to Make Trouble”: Resistance strategies utilized by transgender and gender diverse youth in the midwestern U.S. Youth, 1(1), 29–46. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth1010005

Presentations

Diaz, A., Kepple, N., Holmes, C., Banda, L., Carlson, J., & Akin, B. A., (2022, January 14). Attitudes held by child welfare and domestic violence stakeholders regarding domestic violence survivors and people who use violence. [Electronic poster]. 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Carlson, J., Diaz, A, Kepple, N., Banda, L., Wright, K. & Carr., K [Added - In person presenter] (2022, January 14). The implementation of an anti-racist practice in research teams: process and pollination. [Roundtable]. 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.