Jennifer Nutton

Jennifer Nutton, MSW, PhD candidate, is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria. Her scholarship, social work practice, and teaching pedagogy are rooted in relationality; meaning that she is a human being in an interdependent relationship with other people, all living things including the land and past and future generations, and with knowledge.​ Her areas of interest and knowledge specialization include: child welfare practice and policy, decolonizing social work practice, social work field education, community-based participatory research, child and youth trauma, relational and decolonial pedagogies. ​Jennifer Nutton has worked with child welfare systems in Canada and the United States since 2005, and has engaged in community-based social justice work in the UK and the United States.