The Knowledge Exchange: A Partnership-in-Action Podcast

Dr. Barbara Lee
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Exploring the multi-faceted applications and influences of research, The Knowledge Exchange: A Partnership-in-Action Podcast highlights community-university partnerships. With social work and allied health scholars across British Columbia and their community partners, join us as we delve into what it means to practice community engagement and knowledge exchange and mobilization.   Website: https://blogs.ubc.ca/swkx/ Photo by Sandra Filipe on Unsplash

  1. Rahi Care: Supporting Punjabi and South Asian Communities

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    Rahi Care: Supporting Punjabi and South Asian Communities

    In this episode, we’re joined by Gary Thandi and Dr. Nitasha Puri. Gary is a social worker with over twenty years of experience in social services and counselling, and he is the Executive Director of Moving Forward Family Services, a non-profit counselling organization. Dr. Puri is a family physician with training in addiction medicine. She works with Fraser Health, and she is also a Clinical Associate Professor in UBC’s Department of Family Practice. Their conversation centers on their decade-long partnership and the Rahi Care Program (RCP), a community co-created initiative supporting Punjabi and South Asian communities impacted by substance use. You’ll hear how they bring social work, primary care, and community organizations into the same room to reduce barriers; how the program is designed with community members; and how they find a way to make support happen in real life for individuals and families.

    44 min

  2. 2025-12-15

    Seeing the Whole Person: What Students Learn When Patients Become Mentors

    This episode features Mandy Young, parent of a medically and behaviourally complex child and a long-time partner with the University of British Columbia’s Patient and Community Partnership for Education (PCPE). Mandy has volunteered for over a decade in the Interprofessional Health Mentors Program, both as a Health Mentor for health care students and as a Community Engagement Coordinator. Joining her is Lelainia Lloyd, a rare disease and disability advocate with 13 years of experience as a Health Mentor. Also with us is Pooja Kadakia, now a first-year internal medicine resident in Winnipeg, who joined the program as a student mentee three years ago. Together, they reflect on how the Health Mentors Program fosters interprofessional learning, reshapes students’ professional perspectives, and improves the way that healthcare providers can interact in the system with their patients and with their colleagues.

    37 min
  3. Evidence-Informed Mental Health Social Work: Insights from the 2025 Inspiring Social Worker of the Year with Brandon Wong, MSW

    2025-11-24

    Evidence-Informed Mental Health Social Work: Insights from the 2025 Inspiring Social Worker of the Year with Brandon Wong, MSW

    In this episode, the 2025 Inspiring Social Worker of the Year Award Winner, Brandon Wong, joins the podcast. Brandon Wong, a mental health social worker within the Vancouver Coastal Health authority, practicing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He reflects on his journey from a health sciences background in Australia to frontline social work in complex mental health and substance use settings. He shares what drew him to social work practice, why social workers are essential within interdisciplinary mental health teams, and his experience and insights of engaging in evidence-informed practice and knowledge exchange within healthcare. He further reflects on what it meant to be named inspiring Social Worker of the Year and co-authoring an award-winning article in the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity and Social Work. Brandon’s insights help foster a greater understanding of how social work research can be used to inform best practice, both currently and in the future.

    28 min
  4. Season 2 Kick-Off

    2025-10-30

    Season 2 Kick-Off

    Dr. Barbara Lee, Host, welcomes us back to The Knowledge Exchange: A Partnership-in-Action Podcast for a second season! This upcoming season will expand beyond our UBC community to bring you inspiring stories from across the province. We have an exciting line-up of partnerships who will share their projects and shine a light on how communities and researchers are co-creating knowledge to advance equity, improve services, and drive meaningful change. Stay tuned!

    1 min
  5. Season 1 Wrap-Up

    2025-06-02 · CONTENU BONI

    Season 1 Wrap-Up

    Dr. Barbara Lee, Host, celebrates and concludes the first season of The Knowledge Exchange: A Partnership-in-Action Podcast. Over 12 episodes, this season has discussed inspiring community-engaged research, knowledge mobilization, and collaborative partnerships in the University of British Columbia’s School of Social Work. Dr. Lee also announces Season 2 of the podcast which will highlight community-engaged research beyond UBC and across the province of British Columbia. 👀 Thank you for your support and see you in September 2025!

    2 min

  6. 2025-05-12

    Eloping: Autism & Community-Driven Research

    In this episode, Nicole Corrado, Sandra Nakata, Tina Wilson and Meg Gibson discuss their community-led research project that explores autistic people's perspectives and experiences of elopement, which is when autistic individuals depart suddenly from supervised settings and relationships without permission or notice. Rooted in lived experience and informed by a participatory action research approach, the project explores the potential that partnership offers in transforming current practices of policing autistic people's behaviours and encouraging belonging through understanding. Together, the team shares how the project emerged from community needs, reflects on the harms of epistemic injustice, and explores how rethinking social norms can better support autistic individuals' safety and autonomy. The conversation invites listeners into insights into the experiences of elopement and shares hopes for the future of their community research partnership.

    40 min
  7. Yarning about Yarning – Knowledge Mobilization in an International Decolonizing Dialogue

    2025-04-28

    Yarning about Yarning – Knowledge Mobilization in an International Decolonizing Dialogue

    Dr. Donna Baines, Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Social Work, and Dr. Bindi Bennett, Professorial Research Fellow at Federation University discuss yarning, the Indigenous practice of preserving the oral cultures of storytelling. Reflecting on their international grant, Emancipatory Dialogue, with academics and non-academics across Canada, Australia and Taiwan, Dr. Baines and Dr. Bennett talk about yarning with Indigenous-led organizations in the project and the facilitation of a decolonizing dialogue between Western anti-oppressive and Indigenous approaches. Their conversation together produces learning about conducting research that respects cultural values and teachings, and emphasize the co-creation and co-ownership.

    30 min
  8. With Residents in Mind: Partnership-Driven Research for Supportive Housing Practices

    2025-04-14

    With Residents in Mind: Partnership-Driven Research for Supportive Housing Practices

    This episode features Dr. Christiana Bratiotis, Dr. Sheila Woody, and Jana Sasaki. Dr. Christiana Brotiotis is Associate Professor in the UBC School of Social Work. Her research focuses on hoarding treatment and intervention, particularly in the contexts of affordable and community-based housing. Dr. Sheila Woody is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding. Her research interests are on hoarding disorder, with an emphasis on understanding its behaviours in order to improve treatments and interventions. Jana Sasaki is the Director of Operations for Vancouver Region at Lookout Housing and Health Society, Jana has significantly contributed to Lookout’s harm reduction approach to decluttering in housing through the creation of Assisting Reduction in Cluttering and Hoarding (also known as ARCH) team. Coming together, Jana and Drs. Bratiotis and Woody discuss their multidisciplinary collaboration and the development of the Home Environment Assessment Tool for Hoarding (HEATH). Their conversation highlights the importance of knowledge exchanges which advances the practice and scholarship on hoarding and decluttering.

    39 min
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Exploring the multi-faceted applications and influences of research, The Knowledge Exchange: A Partnership-in-Action Podcast highlights community-university partnerships. With social work and allied health scholars across British Columbia and their community partners, join us as we delve into what it means to practice community engagement and knowledge exchange and mobilization.   Website: https://blogs.ubc.ca/swkx/ Photo by Sandra Filipe on Unsplash

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