Shelly JohnsonCanada Research Chair | Faculty of Education and Social Work

Research Interests

• Ten (10) selected research projects in the past five (5) years, as PI and Co-PI.
• 2016-17. SSHRC Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network. Restorative Indigenous child welfare practices. PI. $30,000
• 2014-2018. SSHRC Insight Grant. Awakening the spirit: Revitalization of cultural practices and language in Musqueam. PI. $ 500,000
• 2014. SSHRC Connection Grant. Indigenizing Utopias Conference. University of British Columbia. Co-PI. $ 22,392
• 2013-2017. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. First Nations Court: Towards a restorative justice healing plan. PI. $ 200,000
• 2012-2018. SSHRC Partnership Grant. Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Research Network. Co-PI. $2,500,000
• 2013-14. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. UBC Vancouver. Early Career Scholar. PI. $ 20,000
• 2013. SSHRC. Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Research Network. Strategies to improve the education of urban Aboriginal youth. PI. $ 15,000
• 2013. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Indigenizing the international academy roundtable. PI. $50,000
• 2012. VPRI / SPARC. First Nations Court. PI. $ 9,987

Publications

Journal Articles

• Johnson, S. (2016). Indigenizing higher education and the Calls to Action: Awakening to personal, political, and academic responsibilities. Canadian Social Work Review, 33 (135-141).
• Johnson, S. (2015). Jordan's Principle and Indigenous children with disabilities in Canada: Jurisdiction, advocacy and research. Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 14 (3, 4).
• Johnson, S. (2015). Pandemics and urban child survival: Pulling together in the adoption canoe. First Peoples Child and Family Review, 10(1), 52-62.
• Johnson, S. (2014). Knucwente-kuc re Stsmemelt.s-kuc:Trauma-informed education for Indigenous children in foster care. Canadian Social Work Review, 31(2), 155-174.
• Johnson, S., Archibald, J., Rigney, L. & Martin, G. (2014). Editorial: Indigenizing the international academy. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 37(1), 1-8.
• Johnson, S., Te Momo, F., Clark, N., Sparrow, C., & Hapi, R. (2014). Contested context: Welcoming diverse international Indigenous colleagues to unceded Musqueam territory. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 37(1), 9-27.
• Johnson, S. (2014). Developing First Nations courts in Canada: Elders as foundational to Indigenous therapeutic jurisprudence +. Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 3(2), 1-14.
• Johnson, S. (2013). We are the ones we've been waiting for: Towards the development of an Indigenous educational advocacy organization for Indigenous children in Canada's custody. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 36(1), 126-145.
• Johnson, S. (2013). Making space for community-based practice experience and spirit in the academy: Journeying towards the making of an Indigenous academic. First Peoples Child and Family Review, 8(2), 82-90.
• Johnson, S. & Santos, A. (2013). REDressing invisibility and marking violence against Indigenous women in the Americas through art, activism and advocacy. First Peoples Child & Family Review, 7(2), 97-111.
• Johnson, S. (2012). Failing to protect and provide in the best place on earth???: Can Indigenous children in Canada be safe if their mothers aren't? Native Social Work Journal: Indigenous social work practices and theories, 8 13- 41.

Book Chapters

• Johnson, S., Definney, S., Brown, L. & Green, J. ( 2014). Siem Smuneem (Respected children): A community-based research training story. In C.Etmanski, T. Dawson and B. Hall (Eds.), Learning and teaching community based research: Linking pedagogy and practice, (pp. 93-112). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Johnson, S., Tamburro, P. & Clark, N. (2012). Indigenous field education; Protocols and practices. In J. Drolet & N. Clark (Eds.). Canadian Field Experiences and Perspectives (pp. 137-159). Toronto: Pearson Canada.
• Johnson, S. (2011). Wrap a star blanket around each one. Learning from the educational experiences of Indigenous former youth-in-care on Coast Salish territory. In K. Kufeldt & B. McKenzie (Eds.). Child welfare: Connecting research, policy and practice (pp. 339-352). Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier Press.

Conference Proceedings

• Johnson, S. & Sarra, S. (2014). International Indigenous therapeutic jurisprudence: Spirituality and elders matter. International Austronesian Conference, pp. 314-339. Council of Indigenous Peoples (Eds.), Proceedings of the Good Governance and Indigenous Development: Its Applications and Prospects Conference, University of Taipei, Taiwan.
• Johnson, S. & Sparrow, C. (2014). Wise Indigenous woman engagement practices on unceded territory: A community-university canoe revitalization project. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial International Indigenous Development Research Conference 2014 (IIDRC 2014), University of Auckland: Auckland, New Zealand. Pp 72-79.

Courses Taught

University of British Columbia (Vancouver)

• SOWK 440M Indigenizing/Decolonizing Social Work Practice. Musqueam Indian Band
• SOWK 510 First Nations Social Issues in Social Work Pracitce
• SOWK 415 Social Work Field Placement. First Nations Law Clinic
• SOWK 425 First Nations Social Issues
• SOWK 430 Directed Study: Aboriginal Child Welfare
• SOWK 415 Field Placement
• SOWK 416 Integrative Seminar
• SOWK 440 Directed Study: Critical Race Theory
• SOWK 337 Culture and Race in Social Work Practice

Courses taught at Thompson Rivers University, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, and University of Victoria

• SW311 Aboriginal Perspectives on Social Policy
• SW 304/402 Social Work Field Practice
• Socw 450 Leadership Practice in Social Service Organizations
• Socw 454 Aboriginal Decolonizing Social Work Practice
• Socw 354 Introduction to First Nations Issues and Human Services
• Socw 376 Family and Child Welfare Practice
• Socw 323 Anti-Oppressive Social Work Knowledge and Practice
• Socw 402 Protecting First Nations Children