Dr. Regine Uwibereyeho King
Affiliations
Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Work, Calgary Campus
UCalgary Research Excellence Chair in Racial Justice
Faculty of Social Work, Calgary Campus
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Office : +1 (403) 210-7596
Location
Office : MacKimmie TowerMT329
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Background
Educational Background
PhD Social Work, University of Toronto, 2011
Post-Doctoral Program Social Aetiology of Mental Illness, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and University of Toronto , 2012
M.Ed. Counselling Psychology and Community Development , University of Toronto, 2003
BEd. Educational Psychology, National University of Rwanda , 1996
Biography
Dr. Régine Uwibereyeho King is a transdisciplinary and transnational social work researcher, educator, and active community member. Her research interests include racial justice, cross-cultural mental health, social processes of healing, forgiveness and reconciliation, critical pedagogies, and African Indigenous knowledges. Dr. King is a community-based researcher, guided by anti-colonial, antiracist, and Black feminism perspectives.
As a community-based researcher, Dr. King has received prestigious funding including four tri-council grants. Her publications attracts readers from across the globe in the areas of truth and reconciliation, intergroup dialogue, healing approaches to collective trauma, anti-Black racism, refugee mental health, transnational social work, and critical pedagogies.
As an educator, Dr. King's versatile teaching has included critical courses, clinical courses, and research methods courses. Her teaching philosophy builds on the principles of Ubuntu and integrates the teaching principles of critical consciousness and transformative learning. Dr. King is also public speaker a consultant on critical mental health approaches, genocide scholarship, and peacebuilding.
Dr. King's research and scholarly work has been acknowledged through various awards, including a 5-year position as a Research Excellence Chair (University of Calgary, 2023-2028), a Team-Teaching Award by the Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning in 2022, and a Killam Emerging Research Leader Award in 2021.
Dr. King is an active member of her local and international communities. She has contributed to various academic committees and community advocacy groups that promote equity, antiracist work, peace, and healthy communities. Dr. King is a co-founding member of the Anti-Black Racism Taskforce in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary, and of Calgary African Community Collective (Calgary). She currently serves as a member of the Presidential Taskforce on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (University of Calgary), the Go Make A Difference Organization (Dominican Republic), and an honorary member of the Life Wounds Healing Association (Rwanda).
Research
Areas of Research
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| SOWK 600 | Social Justice & Theory in Advanced Social Work | Spring 2023 |
| SOWK 303 | Practice with Individuals (Virtual Learning Circles) | Winter 2023 |
| SOWK 622 | International Social Work in Canada | Winter 2023 |
| SOWK 555 | Africentric Perspectives in Social Work | Fall 2022 |
| SOWK 614.05 | Community-Based Health and Wellness Approaches I | Spring 2022 |
| SOWK 557.46 | Anti-Colonial and Anti-Racist Praxis | Summer 2021 |
Projects
This SSHRC-Partnership Development Grant project co-led with Ruth’s House, the first organization serving Black women survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). The project engages academic and community partners (informal and formal service organizations) in co-constructing knowledge that addresses and prevents GBV against Black women and girls in Alberta. The partners will collaborate to co-construct knowledge that is rooted in the lived experiences of the survivors, and the Africentric approaches of the service providers. The produced knowledge and capacity building of the community stakeholders will be an important contribution to appropriate GBV interventions and anti-racist work policies and practices in Canadian society and beyond.
This project is part of my UCalgary research excellence chair (2023-2028) and focuses on racial equity healing process engaging members of the University of Calgary (student, staff, and faculty) and community stakeholders in critical dialogues on various topics related to racial justice to develop new understandings to participants’ experiences and personal histories with this subject, work on addressing their own racial biases, and develop solidarity and new approaches to address racial inequities individually and collectively. The process will be documented to assess the impacts and inform the development of racial equity resources on and off campus. Individual transformations will contribute to the systems change.
This SSHRC-Partnership Engage project (2024) uses oral history methods to gather and preserve memories of the experiences of the survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, who immigrated to Calgary, Alberta. This joint initiative between academic researchers and Rwandan Canadian Society of Calgary (RCSC). The produced knowledge will assist RCSC fulfill its mandate to support survivors heal, educate the Canadian public about the genocide against the Tutsi and its impacts, and as fight against genocide denial and prevent future atrocities. It will also inform Canada's continued peace building efforts to stop mass violence across the globe and to inform the Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship of Canada in welcoming people fleeing genocidal movements and facilitating their successful integration into Canadian society.
This SSHRC-Partnership Insight Grant (2021-2025) seeks to develop an evaluative framework of the homegrown solutions that the government of Rwanda put in place to address the multiple issues that resulted from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, following a model rooted in the core Rwandan values. In partnership with the Rwandan Governance Board, Canadian and Rwandan researchers, this project will produce a framework to evaluate HGS programs and inform the creation of new ones. The theorization and co-generation of knowledge about HGIs in this project, will inform policies and practices for sustainable economic and social development in Rwanda. The findings will also be useful for other countries in search of best approaches to indigenize their various institutions and to the global movement of decolonization and advancement of Indigenous cultures. The findings from this project will also contribute to the advancement of theory and academic knowledge in the field of sustainable social and economic development.
Awards
- Research Excellence Chair Award , University of Calgary . 2023
- The Killam Emerging Research Leader Award , The Killam Trusts . 2021
- Team-Teaching Award , University of Calgary . 2022
- Alberta Immigrant Impact Award, The Government of Alberta. 2024
- Black People Making History in Calgary and its Surrounding Areas , Calgary Region Immigrant Employment Council. 2023
Publications
- Decolonizing social work education and practice with students and community stakeholders: A case example from University of Calgary. King, U.R., Lorenzetti, L., Halvorsen, J., Khan, M. S., & Haile, L. . Smith College Studies in Social Work, 93(2–4) . 207–229. (2023)
- Actions needed to promote health equity and the mental health of Canada's Black refugees. King, U. R., Este, D. C., Yohani, S., Duhaney, P., McFarlane, C., & Liu, J. K. K.. Ethnicity & Health, 27(7). 1518–1536. (2022)
- The true healing is healing together: Healing and rebuilding social relations in postgenocide Rwanda. King, U. R. . Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 49–60. (2019)
- Healing life wounds. Restoring community after mass violence. King, U. R., Kamuzinzi, M., & Gasibirege, S. . Tyndale Academic Press. (2022)
- The performativity of whiteness and anti-Black racism in an academic supervisory relationship. King, U.R. & Eidse, J. . Fernwood Publishing. 303-322. (2022)
- White entitlement in antiracism and anticolonialism. Halvorsen, J., King, U. R., Lorenzetti, L., Wolfleg, A., & Haile, L. . Fernwood Publishing. 227-243. (2022)
- Perceptions on truth and reconciliation: Lessons from gacaca in post-genocide Rwanda. The University of Manitoba Press. 35-65. (2020)
- King, U. R., & Maiangwa, B. . (2020)
In the News
- Reconciliation lessons in the aftermath of mass violence. University of Calgary . (2018)
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