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Janki Shankar, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Janki Shankar is a professor of social work at the University of Calgary. She joined academia after 17 years of clinical experience as a social worker and therapist, primarily in mental health and specialized vocational rehabilitation settings for people with severe disability in Sydney, Australia. She has also worked in West Africa and India. Dr. Shankar’s research focuses on the challenges to integration and well-being arising from stigma, discrimination, and racism experienced by immigrants and families, immigrant students, and people with disabilities arising from mental illness and brain injury. Her current research is on occupational safety, health, and well-being of immigrant and Canadian-born workers in precarious employment settings, prevention of family violence, and Children’s services intervention in immigrant families. Dr. Shankar has received several research awards as a principal investigator and has been a coinvestigator/collaborator in many research projects. Her research has been funded by tri-council grants, namely Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), and other major funding bodies like Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Policy Wise, Alberta Health, and Department of Labor, Government of Alberta. Dr.Shankar is one of the few social work academics in Canada to receive tri-council funding for leading the research on occupational safety and well-being of new Canadians. Dr. Shankar’s scholarship includes over a hundred refereed presentations, international conferences, and journal publications. Besides research, Dr. Shankar has extensive teaching and higher degree student supervision experience. She teaches a wide range of courses in Diversity, Oppression and Social Justice, Cross-Cultural Violence, Advanced Practice in Mental Health, Aged Care and Social Policy, Research, and Critical Social Policy. Decolonizing pedagogies, critical race, and post-colonial theories strongly influence her teaching philosophy and practices.

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