Faculty Research Areas

With a wide range of research interests, our faculty follow their intellectual curiosity and study critical issues with colleagues throughout the university and community.

To learn more about individual faculty members, visit their biography pages.

Research Areas Grand Challenges

Grand Challenges for Social Work

Initiated by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Grand Challenges for Social Work is a groundbreaking initiative to champion social progress powered by science. It’s a call to action for all of us to work together to tackle our nation’s toughest social problems.

Below are the 14 challenges mapped to our faculty's research interests.

Ensure healthy development for all youth

Close the health gap

Build healthy relationships to end violence

Advance long and productive lives

Eradicate social isolation

End homelessness

Create social responses to a changing environment

Harness technology for social good

Promote smart decarceration

Reduce extreme economic inequality

Build financial capability and assets for all

Achieve equal opportunity and justice

Eliminate racism

Prevent gun violence