Julie Drolet

Julie Drolet, PhD, is Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary’s Central and Northern Alberta Region in Edmonton. She is the Project Director of the Transforming the Field Education Landscape (TFEL) project. She was the Principal Investigator of the study In the Aftermath of the 2016 Alberta Wildfire: Experiences of Social Work Practitioners and Human Service Professionals in Long-term Disaster Recovery funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Her research and teaching interests include international social work and social development, disaster recovery, climate change, environmental justice and sustainability, field education, social protection, and immigrant settlement and integration. She has many years of social work practice, policy, and research experience in Canada and in Africa, and has published widely. She leads an international social work research program to advance knowledge in the fields of social work and social development. She is a registered social worker with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) and co-founder of the Social Work and Disaster (SWAD) Network.