Nancy Shore, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.P.H.
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My desire to pursue a MSW solidified after working abroad in Central America. Given my interest in maternal and child health, I went to the University of Washington for my MSW and MPH. After working in the field for about four years at a Head Start program, I became increasingly interested in research and policy and returned to the University of Washington for a doctoral degree in social welfare.
I joined UNE’s social work faculty in 2004. My primary teaching areas include HBSE, Research and Grant-Writing. In 2007 I returned to Seattle and began teaching online. I strongly believe in the potential for online learning to be a dynamic and highly interactive means of delving into course material. This however requires that students and instructors are actively involved in the discussion threads, pushing each other to further our thinking on the course content and what it means to be a social worker.
In addition to teaching, I truly enjoy research. In 2007 I reconnected with Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) and began serving as a senior consultant. Most of my research focuses upon ethics of community engagement, culturally responsive research practices and educational disparities.
In partnership with CCPH and five community-based organizations, NIEHS awarded us a two-year grant to better understand how community groups and partnerships determine whether and how research occurs within their own communities. We received a second grant from the Greenwall Foundation to translate our findings into policy recommendations aimed at revising the Belmont Report (1979) and federal regulations guiding the protection of human participants in research. Building off this work, we received funding from NIMHD to convene community groups interested in developing or strengthening their research review process.
Other CCPH partnership work, funded by a PCORI community engagement award, entailed engaging diverse communities in listening sessions and community forums to enhance culturally responsive research practices. During my 2019-2020 sabbatical, I supported the work of the Racial Equity Coalition formed to address educational disparities in King County. This in part entailed conducting participatory research to understand the development and impact of the coalition.