Tara La Rose
she/her/they
Contact Information
- 905 525 9140 ext.23785
- larost1@mcmaster.ca
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Overview
Tara La Rose is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McMaster University and the Chair of the McMaster Research Ethics Board. Her research focuses on the use of digital media in social work, emphasizing professional critique, critical reflexivity and knowledge sharing. Her aging research includes working on the Rediscovering Social Work Leaders project, which aims to preserve the experiences of retired social workers by digitizing and establishing an online archive of video-based oral histories created in 1983/84. Tara has also published articles about older adult mental health care in partnership with Dr. Albina Veltman. Her work engages multimodal discourse analysis, narrative analysis and discourse analysis within critical perspectives such as post-structuralism, post-colonialism, feminist and queer theories.
Affiliations
- Associate Professor
- Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University
- Associate Professor, Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences
Education
- MSW Maritime School of Social Work, Dalhousie University
- PhD, University of Toronto
