Jennifer Hedges is an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Social Work Inner City Social Work Program. She worked in the Ontario child welfare system for many years before entering academia full-time. Her research examines how transformative learning experiences can prepare students for working in child welfare and addressing systemic challenges in this system. Hedges is committed to transformative education that is relational and rooted in critical and feminist pedagogies. Current research interests involve exploring moral courage in social work and allyship in child welfare. She is also engaged in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research, examining curriculum and learning through reading. She is the co-chair of the Prairie Child Welfare Consortium and co-chair of the International Association of Schools of Social Work Research Committee.
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