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Professor
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
BIO
Amanda Grenier joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in July 2019 as the Norman and Honey Schipper Chair in Gerontological Social Work. She is also appointed to Baycrest Hospital. Previously she was a Professor in Health, Aging and Society, the Gilbrea Chair in Aging & Mental Health, and the Director of the Gilbrea Centre at McMaster University. Prior to that she was a Faculty member in the McGill School of Social Work.
Dr. Grenier is an inter-disciplinary scholar focused on aging and the life course. Her research focuses on understanding the interface of public policies, organizational practices, and older people’s lived experience, with a particular focus on aging and inequality. She has led and participated in international, national, and provincial teams on aging and care, and carried out funded research on life course transitions, social constructs of frailty, aging with a disability, home care reform, and homelessness among older people (SSHRC, ESDC, CIHR).
Amanda was the recipient of the 2018 Katz Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Interdisciplinary Age Studies (Trent); and the 2017 Hallsworth Visiting Fellow, University of Manchester, UK. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Aging Studies as well as a number of expert advisory committees on aging.
Dr. Grenier is an inter-disciplinary scholar focused on aging and the life course. Her research focuses on understanding the interface of public policies, organizational practices, and older people’s lived experience, with a particular focus on aging and inequality. She has led and participated in international, national, and provincial teams on aging and care, and carried out funded research on life course transitions, social constructs of frailty, aging with a disability, home care reform, and homelessness among older people (SSHRC, ESDC, CIHR).
Amanda was the recipient of the 2018 Katz Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Interdisciplinary Age Studies (Trent); and the 2017 Hallsworth Visiting Fellow, University of Manchester, UK. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Aging Studies as well as a number of expert advisory committees on aging.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Norman and Honey Schipper Chair in Gerontological Social WorkUniversity of Toronto and Baycrest Hospital, Canada2019 - present
- ProfessorFactor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Baycrest Hospital, Canada2019 - present
AVAILABILITY
- Industry Projects
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Membership of an advisory committee