Research

Michelle Greason’s research is largely concerned with structural social work, policy, aging, long-term care (LTC), ethics and ethical decision-making, as well as narrative care/engagement, and interdisciplinary work. She adopts structural, anti-oppressive/privilege, and narrative approaches. In all of her research, she focuses on practical methods of knowledge mobilization, and she values a “bottom-up” approach to research. Michelle adopts qualitative empirical methods, which engage those most directly impacted by the issue(s) being explored. Her dissertation examines ethics and ethical reasoning in LTC, and the interaction between provincial and organizational policies and ethics in everyday practice. Michelle is passionate about interdisciplinary research and has worked collaboratively with public and private sectors, as well as various other faculties, to research and publish on important areas of inquiry. 

Michelle’s current research explores: embodying structural social work in practice; structural social work mentorship; narrative care and engagement training in the helping professions, and; system navigation for older adults and their caregivers in New Brunswick. Michelle has published and presented on empirical ethics and ethical decision-making, policy and ethics, moral distress, micro-citizenship, dementia, narrative and argumentation, structural social work, and qualitative Delphi methodology.