Nicole Lamb Ives is a Professor and Director of the School of Social Work at 涩里番. Dr. Ives鈥� research areas include refugee and immigrant issues, particularly refugee resettlement, refugee sponsorship, refugee family reunification, Indigenous social work education and Indigenous social and educational policies. Research projects include a study of Syrian refugee long-term integration outcomes; an exploration of a recreational setting as a vehicle to support belonging for refugee children; gathering Indigenous youth perspectives on post-secondary education using a storytelling exchange; access to justice for humanitarian immigration applicants in Quebec; understanding collaboration between refugee settlement organizations and early childhood education programs; understanding collaboration between migrant settlement organizations and housing agencies; exploring Inuit conceptualizations of parent/family engagement in secondary school in Nunavik; and discovering experiences of newcomer women in Canada across the homelessness spectrum. Dr Ives co-developed modes of delivery of undergraduate social work education in Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee.
At the undergraduate level, Dr. Ives teaches Indigenous Field Studies, History and Philosophy of Social Work, and Policy and Practice with Refugees. She has taught Qualitative Research Methods and Migration and Social Work at the graduate level. She teaches and is also a founding instructor of Indigenous Field Studies, open to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Ives is a founding member of Indigenous Access 涩里番, a program that supports Indigenous students in the School of Social Work and the broader university. She is the faculty liaison to the local World University Service of Canada committee at 涩里番 that sponsors refugee students. She has published articles on Indigenous social work education, Indigenous social policy, and refugee resettlement. She has presented her research on refugee and Indigenous issues both nationally and internationally.
颁痴:听
Nicole Ives CV
搁别蝉别补谤肠丑听
Membership in Research Networks
2023 鈥� Present Children & Adolescent Research Environment
Ilisimatusarfik/Gr酶nlands Universitet/University of Greenland
2020 - Present Institute Nordique du Quebec (INQ)
2019 - Present Institut universitaire FRQSC, SHERPA: Sant茅, intervention sociale et immigration: des transformations globales aux adaptations locales
2018 - Present Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health
2016 - Present Children & Youth Refugee Research Network (Dalhousie University)
2011 - Present University of the Arctic, Social Work Thematic Network
Canada representative (2023 - Present)
2007 - Present Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF), 涩里番
Peer-reviewed journal articles
*Alqawasma, H., Rabiau, M. A., & Ives, N. (2025). Understanding the experience of belonging of newly arrived Palestinian and Syrian refugee children in a recreational setting. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108, 102267.
*Alqawasma, H., & Ives, N. (2025). WUSC refugee students: The meaning of their experience. 涩里番 Journal of Refugee and Migration Studies/La Revue des 脡tudes sur les R茅fugi茅s et la Migration de 涩里番, 3, 12-31.
Qasim, K., Oda, A., Massijeh, M., Al Mhamied, A., Ives, N., Khalaf, M., Sherrell, K., Manual, T., Hanley, J. & Hynie, M. (2025). Types and processes of accessing social networks and supports in Syrian refugees across Canada. Canadian Studies, 98.
Hynie, M., Oda, A., Calaresu, M., Kuo, B.C.H., Ives, N., Jaimes, A., Bokore, N., Beukeboom, C., Ahmad, F., Arya, N., Samuel, R., Farooqui, S., Palmer-Dyer, J.-L., & McKenzie, K. (2023). Access to virtual mental healthcare and support for refugee and immigrant groups: A scoping review. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.
Ives, N., & Gabriel, W. (2022). Walking the decolonization talk: Reckoning with the past, wrestling with the present and reimaging the future of social work education in Nunavik. American Review of Canadian Studies, 52, 3, 310-326.
- Part of ARCS, vol. 52, no. 3, Social Services, Supports, and Well-being in Arctic Canada and Beyond, awarded Best Special Issue Award (2023) by Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), an international organization of 450 editors of scholarly journals in all disciplines, affiliated with MLA.
Ives, N., Oda, A., Bridekirk, J., Hynie, M., McGrath, S., Mohammad, R., Awwad, M., Sherrell, K., Khalaf, M., & Diaz, M. (2022). Syrian refugees鈥� participation in language classes: Motivators and barriers. Refuge, 38, 2, 1-20.
Hynie, M., Jaimes, A., Oda, A., Rivest-Beauregard, M., Perez Gonzalez, L., Ives, N., Ahmad, F., Kuo, B.C.H., Arya, N., Bokore, N., & McKenzie, K. (2022). Assessing virtual mental health access for refugees during COVID-19 using the Levesque Client-Centered Framework: What have we learned and how will we plan for the future? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 5001.
*Nutton, J., Lucero, N. M., & Ives, N. (2020). Relationality as a response to challenges of participatory action research in Indigenous contexts: Reflections from the field. Educational Action Research, 28, 1, 100-111. DOI:10.1080/09650792.2019.1699132
叠辞辞办蝉听
Ives, N., Denov, M., & Sussman, T. (Forthcoming). Introduction to social work in Canada: Histories, contexts, and practices, 3rd edition. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Ives, N., Denov, M., & Sussman, T. (2020). Introduction to social work in Canada: Histories, contexts, and practices, 2nd edition. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Book Chapters
Ives, N., Hanley, J., Cleveland, J., & Salamanca Cardona, M. (2025). The importance of language Skills and francization to asylum seekers in Quebec: A holistic integration understanding. In Valerie Preston, John Shields and Tara Bedard (Eds.), Resilience and Integrating International Migrants in Cities in Canada (pp. x-x). 涩里番-Queen鈥檚 University Press.
Smith, M. E., Phillips, M. K., Lamb Ives, N., Horne, K., & Partridge, P. (2024). Living research: Youth voices from the First Peoples Post-Secondary Storytelling Exchange. In Natasha Blanchet-Cohen & V茅ronique Picard (Eds.), Les jeunesses autochtones au Qu茅bec: d茅colonisation, fiert茅 et engagement. University of Laval Press.
Oda, A., Al Mhamied, A., Al-Saadi, R., Arya, N., Awwad, M. Hajjar, O., Hanley J., Hynie, M., Ives, N., Jamil, R. F., Khalaf, M., Khayr, R., Kuo, B. C. H., Massijeh, M., Mohammad, R., & Sherrell K. (2021). Ethical challenges of conducting longitudinal community-based research with refugees: Reflections from peer researchers. In Katarzyna Grabska and Christina Clark-Kazak (Eds.), Documenting displacement: Questioning methodological boundaries in forced migration research (Volume 7, pp. 29-55). Montreal: 涩里番-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series).
颁辞苍迟补肠迟:听
nicole.ives [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
听
听
听
听
听
听
听