Tracy’s program of research centers on Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, specifically through investigating robust economic, health and social systems; healthy and sustainable communities; and reducing inequalities through human rights-oriented policy and practice.
The research goals are to conduct, utilizing Community-based Participatory Action Research, mixed methods research that advances our understanding of the UN SDGs locally, nationally and globally. Local research will explore the SDGs relevancy and implementation progress at the community level, and the national and global research seeks to identify and promote evidence-informed policy solutions that might best realize the SDGs in diverse regional and state contexts.
Experience
Tracy's policy and organizational advocacy work on poverty and social welfare issues for the advancement of health, inclusion, social justice and human rights for disadvantaged groups, has led her to present to politicians, community partners, and private and public sector leaders across Canada.
A leader in innovative learning and a pioneer of universal design, her CRC role will allow her to continue to focus on learning innovations within her roles as professor, research supervisor and community advocate.
Education
2011
PhD, Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
University of Toronto
2004
Master of Social Work
Wilfrid Laurier University
1997
Bachelor of Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
1995
Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), Political Studies
Queen’s University
Publications
Smith-Carrier, T., & David, K. (forthcoming). Life stabilization and resiliency for disabled people? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy. Disability & Society.
Smith-Carrier, T., Johnson, T., Justrabo, J., & Clarke, S. (2022). Bridging out of an impoverished paradigm: A qualitative study to help us 'rethink poverty' today. Critical Social Work, 22(2). https://doi.org/10.22329/csw.v22i2.7099
Oudshoorn, A., Benjamin, T., Smith-Carrier, T., Benbow, S., Marshall, C. A., Kennedy, R., Hall, J., Caxaj, S. C., Berman, H., Befus, D. (2021). A rapid review of practices to support people experiencing homelessness during COVID-19. Housing, Care and Support. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/HCS-11-2020-0018/full/pdf?title=a-rapid-review-of-practices-to-support-people-experiencing-homelessness-during-covid-19
Smith-Carrier, T., Penner, M., Cecala, A., & Agocs, C. (2021). “It’s not just a pay gap: Quantifying the gender wage and pension gap at a post-secondary institution in Canada. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 51(2), 74-84. https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.vi0.189215
Tam, D., Smith-Carrier, T., Kwok, S-M., Kerr, D., & Wang, J. (2021). Challenges encountered by newcomers with disabilities in Canada: An illustration of the Ontario Disability Support Program. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 10(3), 119-146. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v10i3.818
Smith-Carrier, T., & On, J. (2021). Debunking myths about poverty: Social actor representation of the participants of the cancelled Ontario Basic Income Pilot project. Journal of Poverty. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2021.1957070
Comeau, J., Duncan, L., Smith, C., Smith-Carrier, T., Georgiades, K., Wang, L., & Boyle, M. (2021). The joint association of family-level inadequate housing and neighbourhood-level antisocial behaviour with child mental health problems. Child and Youth Services Review, 122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105874
Oudshoorn, A., Smith-Carrier, T., Hall, J., Forchuk, C., Caxaj, S., Befus, D., Ndayisenga, J. P., & Parsons, C. (2021). Understanding the principle of consumer choice in delivering Housing First. Housing Studies, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1912713
Smith-Carrier, T., Benbow, S., Lawlor, A., & O’Reilly, A. (2021). ‘My only solution is to work later and sleep less’: Exploring the perspectives of parenting in academia in Ontario, Canada. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, 40(8), 930-946. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-12-2020-0357
Smith-Carrier, T. (2020). Why charity isn’t just, or always charitable: Exploring charitable and justice models of social support. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 5, 157-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-020-00124-2
Smith-Carrier, T., Kerr, D., & Wang, J. (2020). The Learning, Earning and Parenting (LEAP) program two decades on: A descriptive cohort study. Social Policy and Society, 19(4), 573-584. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746420000147
Smith-Carrier, T., Montgomery, P., Mossey, S., McCauley, K., Shute, T., Forchuk, C., & Rudnick, A. (2020). Erosion of social support for disabled people in Ontario: An appraisal of the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) using a human rights framework. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(1), 1-30. https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/594/862
Smith-Carrier, T., Benbow, S., & Lawlor, A. (2020). An ‘opportunity’ for policy recycling? A critical analysis of the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy. Poverty & Public Policy, 11(4), 325-343. https://doi.org/10.1002/pop4.265
Smith-Carrier, T. (2020). The (charitable) pantry is bare: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Christmas hamper programs in Canada. Critical Policy Studies, 15(1), 90-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2020.1722190
Baker Collins, S., Smith-Carrier, T., Gazso, A., & Smith, C. (2019). Resisting the culture of poverty narrative: Perspectives of social assistance recipients. Journal of Poverty, 24(1), 72-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2019.1678551
Gazso, A., Baker Collins, S., Smith-Carrier, T., & Smith, C. (2019). The generationing of social assistance receipt and “welfare dependency” in Ontario, Canada. Social Problems, 67, 585-601. http://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spz032
Smith-Carrier, T., & Benbow, S. (2019). Engendering economic stability: Exploring a basic income for mothers in Ontario. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative: Matricentric Feminism, 10(1/2), 45-58. http://motherhoodinitiative.org/product/matricentric-feminism/
Smith-Carrier, T., Béres, L., Johnson, K., Blake, C., & Howard, J. (2019). Digging into the experiences of therapeutic gardening for people with dementia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Dementia, 20(1), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301219869121
Smith-Carrier, T., Béres, L., Johnson, K., Blake, C., & Howard, J. (2019). Digging into the experiences of therapeutic gardening for people with dementia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Dementia, 20(1), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301219869121
Montgomery, P., Wuest, A., Forchuk, C., Jeng, M., Smith-Carrier, T., & Rudnick, A. (2019). Social inclusion as freedom for persons living with mental illness. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 37(4), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2018-023
Kerr, D., Smith-Carrier, T., & Wang, J. (2019). From temporary financial assistance to longer term income support: Probing the growth in Ontario’s Disability Support Program (ODSP). Canadian Review of Social Policy, 79, 11-31. https://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40301
Smith-Carrier, T., Gazso, A., Baker Collins, S., & Smith, C. (2019). Myth or reality? Exploring intergenerational social assistance participation in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 46(1), 113-137. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol46/iss1/8
Lawlor, A., Smith-Carrier, T., & Benbow, S. (2018). Reducing delivery: The effects of program recycling, an analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Review of Social Policy, 78, 81-110. https://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40303/0
Oudshoorn, A., Forchuk, C., Hall, J., Smith-Carrier, T., & Van Berkum, A. (2018). An evaluation of a Housing First program for chronically homeless women. Journal of Social Inclusion, 9(2), 34-50. https://josi.journals.griffith.edu.au/index.php/inclusion/article/viewFile/1095/973
Smith-Carrier, T., Leacy, K., Sangster-Bouck, M., Justrabo, J., & Decker Pierce, B. (2018). Living with poverty: A simulation. Journal of Social Work, 19(5), 642-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173
Smith-Carrier, T., & Green, S. (2017). Another low road to basic income? Mapping a pragmatic model for basic income in Canada. Basic Income Studies, 12(2), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2016-0020
Kerr, D., Smith-Carrier, T., Wang, J., Kwok, S-M., & Tam, D. (2017). Population aging and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 6(4), 33-55. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v6i4.382
Smith-Carrier, T., Kerr, D., Wang, J. Kwok, S-M., & Tam, D. (2017). Vestiges of the medical model? A critical exploration into the Ontario Disability Support Program in Ontario, Canada. Disability & Society, 32(10), 1570-1591.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1359495
Smith-Carrier, T., Pham, T-N., Akhtar, S., Seddon, G., Nowaczynski, M., & Sinha, S. (2017). “It’s not just the word care, it’s the meaning of the word…(They) actually care”: Caregivers’ perceptions of home-based primary care in Toronto, Ontario. Ageing & Society, 38(10), 2019-2040. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X1700040X
Smith-Carrier, T., Ross, K., Kirkham, J., & Decker Pierce, B. (2017). “Food is a right…Nobody should be starving on our streets”: Perceptions of food bank usage in London, Ontario. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 9(1), 29-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017318766429
Smith-Carrier, T. (2017). Reproducing social conditions of poverty: A critical feminist analysis of social assistance participation in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 38(4), 498-521. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2016.1268874
Liu, B., Moore, J. E., Almaawiy, U., Chan, W. H., Khan, S., Ewusie, J., ... & MOVE ON Collaboration. (2017). Outcomes of Mobilisation of Vulnerable Elders in Ontario (MOVE ON): A multisite interrupted time series evaluation of an implementation intervention to increase patient mobilisation. Age & Ageing, 47(1), 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx128
Smith-Carrier, T., & Lawlor, A. (2016). Realizing our (neoliberal) potential? A critical discourse analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Ontario, Canada. Critical Social Policy, 37(1), 105-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018316666251
Smith-Carrier, T., Sinha, S., Nowaczynski, M., Akhtar, S., Seddon, G., & Pham, T-N. (2016). It ‘makes you feel more like a person than a patient’: Patients’ experiences receiving home-based primary care (HBPC) in Ontario, Canada. Health & Social Care in the Community, 25(2), 723-733. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12362
Smith-Carrier, T., Pham, T-N., Akhtar, S., Nowaczynski, M., Seddon, G., & Sinha, S. (2015). "A more rounded full care model": Interprofessional team members' perceptions of home-based primary care in Ontario, Canada. Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 34(3-4), 232-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621424.2015.1108892
Smith-Carrier, T., Koffler, T., Mishna, F., Gallinaro, A., Daciuk, J., & Zeger, J. (2015). Putting your mind at ease: Findings from a mindfulness training program in Toronto area schools. Journal of Children’s Services, 10(4), 376-392. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-10-2014-0046
Smith-Carrier, T, & Neysmith, S. (2014). Analyzing the interprofessional working of a home-based primary care team. Canadian Journal on Aging, 33(3), 271-284. doi:10.1186/s13012-014-0160-6
Moore, J. E., Mascarenhas, A., Marquez, C., Ummukulthum, A., Chan, W-H., D’Souza, J.,…the MOVE ON Team. (2014). Mapping barriers and intervention activities to behavior change theory for Mobilization of Vulnerable Elders in Ontario (MOVE ON), a multi-site implementation intervention in acute care hospitals. Implementation Science, 9, 160-169. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-014-0160-6
Liu, B., Almaawiy, U., Moore, J. E., Chan, W. H., Straus, S. E., & the MOVE ON Team. (2013). Evaluation of a multisite educational intervention to improve mobilization of older patients in hospital: protocol for mobilization of vulnerable elders in Ontario (MOVE ON). Implementation Science, 8(1), 76. https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-8-76
Bhuyan, R. & Smith-Carrier, T. A. (2012). The social rights of citizenship for immigrants with precarious immigration status: Is subnational citizenship possible? Citizenship Studies, 16(2), 203-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2012.667613
Smith-Carrier, T., Nowaczynski, M., Akhtar, S., Pham, T-N., & Sinha, S. (2012). Home-based primary care for older homebound adults: An innovative solution for a 21st-century challenge. Canadian Geriatrics Society Journal of CME, 2(1), 26-29.
Bhuyan, R. & Smith-Carrier, T.A. (2010). Precarious migratory status in Canada: Implications for social work and social service delivery. Canadian Social Work Journal, 12(1), 51-60. http://p2pcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Settlement-of-Newcomers-to-Canada-Fall-2010.pdf
Smith-Carrier, T. A. (2010). A LEAP forward or a LEAP back? Revelations about the Learning, Earning and Parenting (LEAP) program of Ontario Works. Social Policy & Society, 9(2), 155-166. https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474640999030
Smith-Carrier, T. (in press). Advancing income security policy using Universal Design: The case of the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) in Ontario, Canada. In S. Robinson & K. Fisher (Eds.), Elgar Handbook on Disability Policy. Elgar Publishing.
Smith-Carrier, T. (2021). The social welfare of Canadians living in poverty: Dignity for All – A human rights framework. In J. Stokes (Ed.), Social welfare in Canada: Understanding income security (4th ed.). Thompson Educational Publishing.
Smith-Carrier, T., Goulden, A., & Singh, R. (2021). Implementing universal design for learning in social work education: A strengths perspective. In F. Fovet (Ed.), Applying universal design for learning across disciplines. IGI Global.
Smith-Carrier, T., & Sethi, B. (2021). Bridging the micro-macro divide: Making policy relevant to social work students. In R. Csiernik, & S. Hillock (Eds.), Teaching in social work: Pedagogy and practice (pp. 90-120). University of Toronto Press.
Smith-Carrier, T. (2019). Universality and immigration: Differential access to social programs and societal inclusion. In D. Béland, G. Marchildon, & M. J. Prince (Eds.), Universality and social policy in Canada (pp. 155-178). University of Toronto Press.
Smith-Carrier, T, & Mitchell, J. (2015). Immigrants on social assistance in Canada: Who are they and why are they there? In D. Béland & P-M. Daigneault (Eds.), Welfare reform in Canada: Provincial social assistance in comparative perspective (pp. 305-322). University of Toronto Press.
