Tara La Rose

Tara La Rose is an Associate Professor at the McMaster University School of Social Work and the Principal Investigator for Understanding Social Work Leadership in Canada (USWLC). Her research interests focus on professional identity and work-life, and the use of digital media as a space for critical reflexivity in social work. Tara’s scholarship focuses on considering digital literacy for social workers and the community-at-large, practices of digital storytelling, and the use of social media for professional debate and critique. Her research has also included qualitative studies into issues of unpaid caregiving, patient and provider experiences, LGBTQ+ health care, grief and mental health professionals on ACT teams, and client self-advocacy. She currently supervises Masters’ level and doctoral level thesis research and is involved in several community-based research projects.