SSW Faculty Productivity Remains Very High

Faculty productivity remains very high at the Boston University School of Social Work. In the 2007-8 academic year, 20 tenured and tenure-track faculty published 5 books, 12 book chapters, 63 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 4 reviews; they also presented 53 national conference papers and 28 national invited talks, as well as 10 local and regional talks. Thus, on average, tenure-line faculty authored or co-authored an average of 4.2 publications and 4 national presentations per faculty member. SSW’s six clinical professors who focus mainly on teaching, advising, and programmatic aspects of SSW also were active in scholarship, publishing 11 articles, chapters, and book reviews and giving 3 national and 9 local and regional talks.

Grant awards totaled $2,186,051 for 7 new grants and 10 continuing grants. Training projects focused on addictions, child welfare, practice with geriatric clients, and suicide prevention. Research grants examined relapse prevention and HIV use among substance abusers, men’s health, adolescent mentoring, features of compulsive hoarding, family care initiatives, and social work in health care roles. These projects were federally funded by NIMH, NIDA, SAMHSA, Department of Defense, and ACYF and funded by foundations including Atlantic Philanthropies, Hartford Foundation, W. T. Grant Foundation, Boston Foundation, the NY Academy of Medicine, National Kidney Foundation, and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation.

The 12 principal investigators at SSW who obtained external funding for grants and contracts that supported their research and training activities included Professors Maryann Amodeo, Sally Bachman, Mary Collins, Ellen DeVoe, Scott Miyake Geron, Judith Gonyea, Lena Lundgren, Joe Merighi, Jordana Muroff, Betty Ruth, and Renee Spencer, and Dean Gail Steketee.