Wansoo Park
Acting Director
Associate Professor
Office: 231, 167 Ferry Street
Windsor, ON N9A 0C5
Phone: (519) 253-3000 ext. 3069
E-mail: wansoo@uwindsor.ca
Chair, HESI-IRG
Health Equity and Social Inclusion- Interdisciplinary
Research Group (HESI-IRG) (uwindsor.ca)
Scholarly Interests/Areas of Expertise
- Acculturation stress
- Transnationalism
- Immigrants health
- Community practice
- Program evaluation
Educational Background
- PhD, University of South Carolina
- MSW, The Ohio State University
- BA, Yonsei University
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
SWRK-1170, Meeting Human Needs through Social Welfare
SWRK-1180, Meeting Human Needs through Social Work
SWRK-4160, Social Work and Intersectionality
Graduate
SWRK-8523, Challenges in Human Development
SWRK-8532, Foundations for Advanced Social Work Practice with Groups
SWRK-8547, Advanced Social work Research: Practice Evaluation
SWRK-8550, Social Work Values, Ethics and Anti-Oppressive Practice
SWRK-8570, Field Integration Seminar
SWRK-8625/LAWG-5930, Law and Social Work: Advanced Practive Research Methods and Policy Analysis
SWRK-8640, Advanced Social Work Research: Program Evaluation
SWRK-8680, Internship Seminar
PhD
02-47-731, Civic Engagement: Promoting Social Justice
Biography
WANSOO PARK is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor. She previously taught in the Social Work department at the Georgia State University. Her teaching interests include program evaluation, research methods, group work, community practice as well as international social work. Her practice background includes health promotion, program development, program evaluation, and community practice with immigrant communities. Her areas of interest are grounded in promoting civic engagement, health equity and social inclusion, and making connections between and amongst individuals, families, institutions, communities, programs, and policies in multicultural society. She is particularly interested in the area of health and mental health among immigrant and transnational families across life span.
Recent Publications
Research Contract Reports
Park, W., Ku, J., Mohanty, J., Akram, A. (2020) African-Centered Partnership Project: Building Bridges Across Difference Community Focus Group Executive Summary (English & French)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
Park, W., Ku, J. A., Akram, A. & Mohanty, J. (In Progress). Reconsidering Power and Control in Community-Based Participatory Research in a Time of Neoliberalism & Antiracism Solidarity.
Abbasi, H., & Park, W. (In Progress). School bonding among newcomer immigrant and refugee youth: A scoping review.
Ku, J., Mohanty, J., Park, W., & Riquelme, M. (In Progress). Newcomer youth resilience: Critical examination.
Luo, X., & Park, W. (2020). Development of a web-based GIS learning module for community asset mapping to enhance social service learning in social work education. International Journal of Librarianship, 5(1), 36-52.
Mohanty, J., Chokhanathan, S., & Park, W. (2019). Risk and protective factors for Korean adult international adoptees: A latent class analysis. Journal of Children and Youth Services, 101, 142-150.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
Ku, J., Mohanty, J., Park, W., Riquelme, M. (June, 2023) Youth resilience in the shadow of militarism and global pandemic. CASWE (Canadian Association for Social Work Education), York University.
Al-Saadi, R., & Park, W. (November, 2021). First generation recent Arab immigrant emerging adults’ perspectives on acculturation experiences and Canadian society’s role in fostering equitable participation. SSEA (Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood).
Research Grants
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (2024-2025). Improving Health Equity among people with limited English proficiency: Experiences of Older age Chinese with Health Care Access in the Windsor-Essex. ($24,982) PI: Wansoo Park (Co-Applicants: Jane Ku, Sungee John; Collaborator: Kathryn Edmunds). Obtained.
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (2023-2026). Faces of Racism: Everyday Racialized Encounters in Windsor. ($148,941). PI: Jane Ku (Co-Applicants: Francisca Omorodion, Vasanthi Venkatesh, Judith, Sinanga-Ohlmann, Reem Bahdi; Collaborators: Shanti Senthe, Danardo Jones, Sujith Xavier, Wansoo Park, Andrew Allen, Ken Montgomery, Clinton Beckford) Obtained.
SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019-2023). Cumulative Risk and Resilience among Newcomer Immigrant and Refugee Youth. ($62,876) PI: Jayashree Mohanty. (Co-Applicants: Jane Ku, Wansoo Park) Obtained.
Ministry of Canadian Heritage.(2019-2021). (Research Agreement through African Community of Windsor as the Lead Organization) (2019-2021). African-Centered Partnership Project: Building Bridges across Differences. ($24,600). PI: Wansoo Park. (Co-Applicants: Jane Ku, Jayashree Mohanty). Obtained.
