1. Home
  2. Research and Training
  3. Research Areas and Funding

Research Areas and Funding

Learn more about the variety and depth of the research and training conducted at the Mandel School.

GCSW Sustaining Sponsor Logo

The school is also proud to be a  of the Grand Challenges for Social Work. 

Research

Social work areas of expertise 

  • Adoption
  • Aging and health
  • Alcohol & other drug abuse
  • Behavioral health
  • Child welfare 
  • Community-based research and practice
  • Criminal justice
  • Disparities in health care
  • Family violence
  • Geriatrics
  • Global social welfare
  • Health care
  • Housing inequities
  • Implicit bias
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Juvenile justice
  • Neighborhoods
  • Nonprofit management
  • Opioids
  • Poverty
  • Prevention
  • Racial and social justice
  • Sexual and gender minority youth
  • Social work education
  • Training in, and use of, evidence-based research and practice
  • Trauma
  • Violence against women

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mandel School researchers have continued to conduct research aimed at understanding the impact of the pandemic on the communities they work with and serve.

External sponsors

FY2024</