Tracy Smith-Carrier

Connelly, D., Prentice, K., Smith-Carrier, T., Butler, E., Calver, J., Garnett, A., & Snobelen, N. (2024). Resilience in home and community care registered practical nurses: A scoping review. Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 16, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621424.2024.2349526

Smith-Carrier, T., & Van Tuyl, R. (2024). The merits and pitfalls of Participatory Action Research: Navigating tokenism and inclusion with lived experience members. International Review of Public Policy, 6(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.4000/11whj

Boullosa, R. d-F., Paul, R., & Smith-Carrier, T. (2024). Editorial: Fifteen years of Critical Policy Studies: Achievements, challenges, and the tensions of growth. Critical Policy Studies, 18(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2024.2307423

Smith-Carrier, T., Forget, E., Power, E., & Halpenny, C. (2024). ‘Covering all the (welfare) basics: Reforms for a just society built on a basic income’: A critical policy analysis of the report of the BC Expert Panel on Basic Income. Journal of Poverty & Social Justice. https://doi.org/10.1332/17598273Y2024D000000016

Connelly, D. M., Guitar, N. A., Garnett, A., Smith-Carrier, T., Prentice, K., Calver, J., Pearson, D., Sinha, S., & Snobelen, N. (2024). A leave might not be a bad thing: Registered Practical Nurses working in home care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Home Health Care Management & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/10848223241232408

Smith-Carrier, T., & Van Tuyl, R. (2024). Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals a valuable platform for advancing a basic income? A critical historical studies account. Basic Income Studies. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2022-0026

Goulden, A., Singh, R., & Smith-Carrier, T. (2023). Incorporating universal instructional design in social work education: A teaching note. Journal of Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2023.2260873

Collins, J., Babenko-Mould, Y., Jackson, K. T., Smith-Carrier, T. (2023). Understanding the health and well-being of women with Multiple Sclerosis. Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 55(4), 131-135. https://doi.org/10.1097/JNN.0000000000000714

Boullosa, R. d-F., Paul, R., & Smith-Carrier, T. (2023). Editorial: Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies. Critical Policy Studies, 17(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2184707

Smith-Carrier, T., & MacArthur, J. (2023). The state of eco-social work training in Canada: Transformative practice for climate constrained futures. International Social Work, 67(4), 905-921. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728231196366

Smith-Carrier, T. (2023). Advancing income security policy using Universal Design: The case of the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) in Ontario, Canada. In S. Robinson, & K. Fisher (Eds.), Elgar Handbook on Disability Policy (pp. 789-803). Elgar Publishing. 

Connelly, D. M., Snobelen, N., Garnett, A., Guitar, N. A., Flores-Sandoval, C. M., Sinha, S., Calver, J., Pearson, D., & Smith-Carrier, T. (2023). Report on fraying resilience among the Ontario Registered Practical Nurse workforce in long-term care homes during COVID-19. Nursing Open, 10(7), 4359–4372. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1678

Marshall, C., Gewurtz, R., Holmes, J., Phillips, B., Aryobi, S., Smith-Carrier, T., & Barbic, S. (2023). Meaningful activity, psychosocial well-being, and living in low-income during the first year of Covid-19: A longitudinal study. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 90(2), 136-151. https://doi.org/10.1177/00084174231160950

Smith-Carrier, T., & On, J. (2023). Ambitious for change? A critical appraisal of the Canadian Indicator Framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 15(1), 204-231. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huac049

Connelly, D. M., Snobelen, N., Garnett, A., Guitar, N. A., Sinha, S., Calver, J., Pearson, D., & Smith-Carrier, T. (2022). Resilience among Ontario Registered Practical Nurses in long-term care homes during COVID-19: A grounded theory study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 78(12), 4221-4235. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15453

Smith-Carrier, & Manion, K. (2022). Bringing it all together: Leveraging social movements and the courts to advance substantive human rights and climate justice. Human Rights Review, 23, 551-574. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-022-00674-0

Herbert, L., Comeau, J., Smith, C., Smith-Carrier, T., Saxby, C., & Botelho, N. (2022). Child maltreatment and adult economic outcomes: A systematic review. Children and Youth Services Review, 144, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106711

Easton, C., Marshall, C., Oudshoorn, A., Forchuk, C., & Smith-Carrier, T. (2022). The experiences of food insecurity during and following homelessness: A systematic review and meta-aggregation. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(6), e3384-e3405. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13939

Smith-Carrier, T., Hall, J., Belanger, L., Hyman, I., Oudshoorn, A., B., J., & Lindstrom, A. (2022). A WISH to be housed: Exploring the Winter Interim Solution to Homelessness (WISH) temporary accommodation model in London, Canada. Community Mental Health Journal, 59(2), 307-324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-022-01009-6

Smith-Carrier, T., & David, K. (2022). Life stabilization and resiliency for disabled people? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy. Disability & Society, 38(10), 1779–1804. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022.2042200

Smith-Carrier, T., Johnson, T., Justrabo, J., & Clarke, S. (2022). Bridging out of an impoverished paradigm: A qualitative study to help us 'rethink poverty' today. Critical Social Work, 22(2).  https://doi.org/10.22329/csw.v22i2.7099

Oudshoorn, A., Benjamin, T., Smith-Carrier, T., Benbow, S., Marshall, C. A., Kennedy, R., Hall, J., Caxaj, S. C., Berman, H., Befus, D. (2021). A rapid review of practices to support people experiencing homelessness during COVID-19. Housing, Care and Support. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/HCS-11-2020-0018/full/pdf?title=a-rapid-review-of-practices-to-support-people-experiencing-homelessness-during-covid-19

Smith-Carrier, T., Penner, M., Cecala, A., & Agocs, C. (2021). “It’s not just a pay gap: Quantifying the gender wage and pension gap at a post-secondary institution in Canada. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 51(2), 74-84. https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.vi0.189215

Tam, D., Smith-Carrier, T., Kwok, S-M., Kerr, D., & Wang, J. (2021). Challenges encountered by newcomers with disabilities in Canada: An illustration of the Ontario Disability Support Program. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 10(3), 119-146. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v10i3.818

Smith-Carrier, T., & On, J. (2021). Debunking myths about poverty: Social actor representation of the participants of the cancelled Ontario Basic Income Pilot project. Journal of Poverty. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2021.1957070

Comeau, J., Duncan, L., Smith, C., Smith-Carrier, T., Georgiades, K., Wang, L., & Boyle, M. (2021). The joint association of family-level inadequate housing and neighbourhood-level antisocial behaviour with child mental health problems. Child and Youth Services Review, 122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105874

Oudshoorn, A., Smith-Carrier, T., Hall, J., Forchuk, C., Caxaj, S., Befus, D., Ndayisenga, J. P., & Parsons, C. (2021). Understanding the principle of consumer choice in delivering Housing First. Housing Studies, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1912713

Smith-Carrier, T., Benbow, S., Lawlor, A., & O’Reilly, A. (2021). ‘My only solution is to work later and sleep less’: Exploring the perspectives of parenting in academia in Ontario, Canada. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, 40(8), 930-946. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-12-2020-0357

Smith-Carrier, T. (2020). Why charity isn’t just, or always charitable: Exploring charitable               and justice models of social support. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 5, 157-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-020-00124-2

Smith-Carrier, T., Kerr, D., & Wang, J. (2020). The Learning, Earning and Parenting (LEAP) program two decades on: A descriptive cohort study. Social Policy and Society, 19(4), 573-584. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746420000147

Smith-Carrier, T., Montgomery, P., Mossey, S., McCauley, K., Shute, T., Forchuk, C., & Rudnick, A. (2020). Erosion of social support for disabled people in Ontario: An appraisal of the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) using a human rights framework. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(1), 1-30. https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/594/862

Smith-Carrier, T., Benbow, S., & Lawlor, A. (2020). An ‘opportunity’ for policy recycling? A critical analysis of the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy. Poverty & Public Policy, 11(4), 325-343. https://doi.org/10.1002/pop4.265

Smith-Carrier, T. (2020). The (charitable) pantry is bare: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Christmas hamper programs in Canada. Critical Policy Studies, 15(1), 90-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2020.1722190

Baker Collins, S., Smith-Carrier, T., Gazso, A., & Smith, C. (2019). Resisting the culture of poverty narrative: Perspectives of social assistance recipients. Journal of Poverty, 24(1), 72-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2019.1678551

Gazso, A., Baker Collins, S., Smith-Carrier, T., & Smith, C. (2019). The generationing of social assistance receipt and “welfare dependency” in Ontario, Canada. Social Problems, 67, 585-601. http://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spz032

Smith-Carrier, T., & Benbow, S. (2019). Engendering economic stability: Exploring a basic income for mothers in Ontario. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative: Matricentric Feminism, 10(1/2), 45-58. http://motherhoodinitiative.org/product/matricentric-feminism/

Smith-Carrier, T., Béres, L., Johnson, K., Blake, C., & Howard, J. (2019). Digging into the experiences of therapeutic gardening for people with dementia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Dementia, 20(1), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301219869121

Smith-Carrier, T., Béres, L., Johnson, K., Blake, C., & Howard, J. (2019). Digging into the experiences of therapeutic gardening for people with dementia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Dementia, 20(1), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301219869121

Montgomery, P., Wuest, A., Forchuk, C., Jeng, M., Smith-Carrier, T., & Rudnick, A. (2019). Social inclusion as freedom for persons living with mental illness. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 37(4), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2018-023

Kerr, D., Smith-Carrier, T., & Wang, J. (2019). From temporary financial assistance to longer term income support: Probing the growth in Ontario’s Disability Support Program (ODSP). Canadian Review of Social Policy, 79, 11-31. https://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40301

Smith-Carrier, T., Gazso, A., Baker Collins, S., & Smith, C. (2019). Myth or reality? Exploring intergenerational social assistance participation in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 46(1), 113-137. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol46/iss1/8

Lawlor, A., Smith-Carrier, T., & Benbow, S. (2018). Reducing delivery: The effects of program recycling, an analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Review of Social Policy, 78, 81-110. https://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40303/0

Oudshoorn, A., Forchuk, C., Hall, J., Smith-Carrier, T., & Van Berkum, A. (2018). An evaluation of a Housing First program for chronically homeless women. Journal of Social Inclusion, 9(2), 34-50. https://josi.journals.griffith.edu.au/index.php/inclusion/article/viewFile/1095/973

Smith-Carrier, T., Leacy, K., Sangster-Bouck, M., Justrabo, J., & Decker Pierce, B. (2018). Living with poverty: A simulation. Journal of Social Work, 19(5), 642-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173

Smith-Carrier, T., & Green, S. (2017). Another low road to basic income? Mapping a pragmatic model for basic income in Canada. Basic Income Studies, 12(2), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2016-0020

Kerr, D., Smith-Carrier, T., Wang, J., Kwok, S-M., & Tam, D. (2017). Population aging and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 6(4), 33-55. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v6i4.382

Smith-Carrier, T., Kerr, D., Wang, J. Kwok, S-M., & Tam, D. (2017). Vestiges of the medical model? A critical exploration into the Ontario Disability Support Program in Ontario, Canada. Disability & Society, 32(10), 1570-1591.

https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1359495

Smith-Carrier, T., Pham, T-N., Akhtar, S., Seddon, G., Nowaczynski, M., & Sinha, S. (2017). “It’s not just the word care, it’s the meaning of the word…(They) actually care”: Caregivers’ perceptions of home-based primary care in Toronto, Ontario. Ageing & Society, 38(10), 2019-2040. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X1700040X

Smith-Carrier, T., Ross, K., Kirkham, J., & Decker Pierce, B. (2017). “Food is a right…Nobody should be starving on our streets”: Perceptions of food bank usage in London, Ontario. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 9(1), 29-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017318766429

Smith-Carrier, T. (2017). Reproducing social conditions of poverty: A critical feminist analysis of social assistance participation in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 38(4), 498-521. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2016.1268874

Liu, B., Moore, J. E., Almaawiy, U., Chan, W. H., Khan, S., Ewusie, J., ... & MOVE ON Collaboration. (2017). Outcomes of Mobilisation of Vulnerable Elders in Ontario (MOVE ON): A multisite interrupted time series evaluation of an implementation intervention to increase patient mobilisation. Age & Ageing, 47(1), 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx128

Smith-Carrier, T., & Lawlor, A. (2016). Realizing our (neoliberal) potential? A critical discourse analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Ontario, Canada. Critical Social Policy, 37(1), 105-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018316666251

Smith-Carrier, T., Sinha, S., Nowaczynski, M., Akhtar, S., Seddon, G., & Pham, T-N. (2016). It ‘makes you feel more like a person than a patient’: Patients’ experiences receiving home-based primary care (HBPC) in Ontario, Canada. Health & Social Care in the Community, 25(2), 723-733. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12362

Smith-Carrier, T., Pham, T-N., Akhtar, S., Nowaczynski, M., Seddon, G., & Sinha, S. (2015). "A more rounded full care model": Interprofessional team members' perceptions of home-based primary care in Ontario, Canada. Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 34(3-4), 232-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621424.2015.1108892

Smith-Carrier, T., Koffler, T., Mishna, F., Gallinaro, A., Daciuk, J., & Zeger, J. (2015). Putting your mind at ease: Findings from a mindfulness training program in Toronto area schools. Journal of Children’s Services, 10(4), 376-392. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-10-2014-0046

Smith-Carrier, T, & Neysmith, S. (2014). Analyzing the interprofessional working of a home-based primary care team. Canadian Journal on Aging, 33(3), 271-284. doi:10.1186/s13012-014-0160-6

Moore, J. E., Mascarenhas, A., Marquez, C., Ummukulthum, A., Chan, W-H., D’Souza, J.,…the MOVE ON Team. (2014). Mapping barriers and intervention activities to behavior change theory for Mobilization of Vulnerable Elders in Ontario (MOVE ON), a multi-site implementation intervention in acute care hospitals. Implementation Science, 9, 160-169. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-014-0160-6

Liu, B., Almaawiy, U., Moore, J. E., Chan, W. H., Straus, S. E., & the MOVE ON Team. (2013). Evaluation of a multisite educational intervention to improve mobilization of older patients in hospital: protocol for mobilization of vulnerable elders in Ontario (MOVE ON). Implementation Science, 8(1), 76. https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-8-76

Bhuyan, R. & Smith-Carrier, T. A. (2012). The social rights of citizenship for immigrants with precarious immigration status: Is subnational citizenship possible? Citizenship Studies, 16(2), 203-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2012.667613

Smith-Carrier, T., Nowaczynski, M., Akhtar, S., Pham, T-N., & Sinha, S. (2012). Home-based primary care for older homebound adults: An innovative solution for a 21st-century challenge. Canadian Geriatrics Society Journal of CME, 2(1), 26-29.

Bhuyan, R. & Smith-Carrier, T.A. (2010). Precarious migratory status in Canada: Implications for social work and social service delivery. Canadian Social Work Journal, 12(1), 51-60. http://p2pcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Settlement-of-Newcomers-to-Canada-Fall-2010.pdf

Smith-Carrier, T. A. (2010). A LEAP forward or a LEAP back? Revelations about the Learning, Earning and Parenting (LEAP) program of Ontario Works. Social Policy & Society, 9(2), 155-166. https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474640999030

Smith-Carrier, T. (in press). Advancing income security policy using Universal Design: The case of the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) in Ontario, Canada. In S. Robinson & K. Fisher (Eds.), Elgar Handbook on Disability Policy. Elgar Publishing.

Smith-Carrier, T. (2021). The social welfare of Canadians living in poverty: Dignity for All – A human rights framework. In J. Stokes (Ed.), Social welfare in Canada: Understanding income security (4th ed.). Thompson Educational Publishing.

Smith-Carrier, T., Goulden, A., & Singh, R. (2021). Implementing universal design for learning in social work education: A strengths perspective. In F. Fovet (Ed.), Applying universal design for learning across disciplines. IGI Global.

Smith-Carrier, T., & Sethi, B. (2021). Bridging the micro-macro divide: Making policy relevant to social work students. In R. Csiernik, & S. Hillock (Eds.), Teaching in social work: Pedagogy and practice (pp. 90-120). University of Toronto Press.

Smith-Carrier, T. (2019). Universality and immigration: Differential access to social programs and societal inclusion. In D. Béland, G. Marchildon, & M. J. Prince (Eds.), Universality and social policy in Canada (pp. 155-178). University of Toronto Press.

Smith-Carrier, T, & Mitchell, J. (2015). Immigrants on social assistance in Canada: Who are they and why are they there? In D. Béland & P-M. Daigneault (Eds.), Welfare reform in Canada: Provincial social assistance in comparative perspective (pp. 305-322). University of Toronto Press.