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Name: Bob Mullaly (On Leave)
Position: Professor
Office:
Faculty of Social Work
University of Manitoba
Room 521, Tier Building
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Fax: (204) 474-7594
E-mail:mullalyr@ms.umanitoba.ca
Education:
PhD., University of Toronto
M.S.W., Dalhousie University
B.A., University of New Brunswick
Areas of interest, research, and teaching:
Raised in Saint John, N.B., Dr. Mullaly describes himself as a working class academic. He is the founding Director of the Department of Social Work at St. Thomas University. In l997, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to become Head of the Social Work Unit at Victoria University. And, in 2003, he assumed his present position as Dean of the Faculty of Social Work here at the University of Manitoba. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Social Work at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was a Visiting Scholar in 1987-88 at the University of Stockholm, Sweden and in 1995-96 was a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Policy at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Mullaly has an extensive record of research and scholarship. His areas of expertise are the political economy of social policy issues, social welfare and labour market issues, critical social work theory and practice, and anti-oppressive social work. He writes from a critical social theory perspective and always focuses on the plight of oppressed people as evidenced by two major books that he has written in these areas: Structural Social Work: Ideology, Theory, and Practice (1997) and Challenging Oppression: A Critical Social Work Approach (2002). Dr. Mullaly is a strong promoter of excellence in teaching and of the creation of a scholarly environment that facilitates a research culture among faculty.
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