Sally St. George

Degrees: PhD in Human Development and Family Studies (Iowa State University), MEd in School Counselling (Western Illinois University), MSc in Teaching Education (State University of New York at Oswego), BSc in Education (State University of New York at Oswego)

Interests: Qualitative inquiry, supervision, family therapy, teaching methods in higher education.

Sally St. George came to the Faculty of Social Work via a long teaching career including teaching junior high school mathematics and reading, school counseling, and family therapy. She has a doctoral degree in Human Development and Family Studies with a specialization in marriage and family therapy.

From 1994-2000, St. George taught graduate courses in a counsellor education program at Montana State University and Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky, USA. In 2000, she began working at the University of Louisville, where she served as a co-director of the only accredited family therapy program in a School of Social Work in the United States.

In addition to her academic assignments, St. George is an active participant in organizations that are grounded in social constructionist principles and that work toward global transformation. She is a board member of the Taos Institute, an organization that joins practitioners worldwide across many disciplines to use and develop their gifts and networks toward changing social issues that we face as global citizens. St. George is also a board member for the Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work, which is dedicated to critically reflecting upon current social work practice and education.

One of St. George’s favorite “jobs” is being a co-editor of The Qualitative Report, an open-access online interdisciplinary journal which is committed to creating a learning community of writers and reviewers to present solid, interesting, and novel works of qualitative inquiry.

Through each of her professional roles, St. George sees herself as a teacher committed to assisting student practitioners become change agents in association with their clients, in their work settings, and within their communities. She works collaboratively with other faculty, students, and local practitioners to develop new ways of learning and networking and to generate fresh ideas.