Tina Wilson

Tina Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia, located in the Faculty of Arts. Her work bridges historical, philosophical, and environmental dimensions of social work practice and education. Prior to academia, she spent 15 years in direct social work practice in Toronto’s homeless shelter systems, program evaluation, and social movement organizing.

Her research focuses on reimagining social work’s relationship with environmental concerns, challenging anthropocentric paradigms, and critically examining disciplinary narratives. Key projects include a historiography of settler Canadian social work and exploring how environmental justice intersects with anti-poverty work. She co-convenes the Social Work and the More-than-human Special Interest Group under the European Social Work Research Association.

Teaching spans undergraduate and graduate levels, emphasizing critical pedagogy and ethical practice. She supervises students engaged in historically or philosophically grounded work interrogating foundational questions in social welfare systems. Recent publications address neoliberalism’s impact on social work, temporalities of justice, and posthumanist frameworks.

Wilson’s work is methodologically pluralistic, integrating archival research, qualitative inquiry, and interdisciplinary theory. She advocates for decolonizing social work education and practice through critical engagement with material semiotics and institutional power structures.