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Dr.Bala Nikku is an assistant professor of social work at the Thompson Rivers University. He was the founding director of Nepal School of Social work from 2005 to 2011 and held international teaching positions at Malaysia, India and Thailand until before Joining TRU in 2018. Nikku’s research focus on human mobility and displacement choices during and after disasters and pandemics. In 2016, he was awarded the international COFUND Senior Research Fellow at Trevelyan College, Durham University, UK. The Fellowship allowed Dr Nikku to collaborate with academics in the School of Applied Social Sciences and the Institute of Hazard Risk and Resilience. Nikku served on the executive boards of International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and Asian and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE).
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International Social Work
SOCW 4800
International social work (ISW) is a specialized field of social work practice that seeks to improve the social, political and material well-being of people everywhere. ISW is practiced across geopolitical borders or with in a country (global-local-global) and at all levels of social, political and economic organization. The term used since at least 1928, and scholars have devoted considerable attention to defining international social work. ISW is generally understood to encompass global social problems and policy issues, comparative social policy, international professional organizations, social work practice focused on development of human rights, or migration, especially that in international agencies. ISW is development-focused and, as such, much of international social work practice occurs at the local, state, and provincial levels within individual countries. Students will be interested in having projects that helps them to practice skills that are required to practice ISW.
International Social Work
SOCW 4800
International social work (ISW) is a specialized field of social work practice that seeks to improve the social, political and material well-being of people everywhere. ISW is practiced across geopolitical borders or with in a country (global-local-global) and at all levels of social, political and economic organization. The term used since at least 1928, and scholars have devoted considerable attention to defining international social work. ISW is generally understood to encompass global social problems and policy issues, comparative social policy, international professional organizations, social work practice focused on development of human rights, or migration, especially that in international agencies. ISW is development-focused and, as such, much of international social work practice occurs at the local, state, and provincial levels within individual countries. Students will be interested in having projects that helps them to practice skills that are required to practice ISW.