Summary

Dr. Ratliff studies power dynamics through social ecologies that contribute to marginalization, violence, and health disparities. They pay attention to multiscalar social processes and social determinants of health, from micro-level, downstream outcomes affecting people’s lives to macro-level, upstream factors and systems. Dr. Ratliff is a critical, queer, place-based, person-centered, post-structuralist scholar, whose participatory research approaches with transgender young people and young people experiencing homelessness have centered young people as the experts of their own experiences. Dr. Ratliff uses qualitative and geospatial methodologies to better understand how power, policy, violence, and marginalization operate in the lives of marginalized and vulnerable young people. Dr. Ratliff’s teaching emphasizes trauma-responsive, social-ecological, person-centered perspectives in social w88 casino practice, supporting social w88 casino students in learning to observe and understand the complexities of how the social environment impacts the everyday lives of the people they serve.

Areas of interest

• Power, operations and theories
• Geospatial data and methodologies
• Place-based research, practice, and policy
• Violence and marginalization
• Gender, gender identity, and transgender youth experiences
• Housing, homelessness, and services for unhoused youth

Research collaborations

Co-Director, Queer Social w88 casino Lab.

Select publications

w88 casino, G. A., Harvey, T. L., Jeffcoat, N., Sarabia, R., Yang, J. O., Lightfoot, M., Adams, S., Lund, I., & Auerswald, C. L. (2023). The deployment of discretionary power in the prevention and enactment of structural violence against young w88 casino experiencing homelessness.Child Abuse & Neglect.

w88 casino, G. A., Graaf, G., & Choy-Brown, M. (2023) Orienting social w88 casino toward place-based principles: A practical guide to the use of place in social w88 casino practice. Journal of Social w88 casino.

w88 casino, G. A., Sousa, C., Graaf, G., Akesson, B., & Kemp, S. (2022) Reconsidering the role of place in w88 casino and welfare services: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and Canada. w88 casino-Ecological Practice Research. doi.org/10.1007/s42532-022-00111-z

Gómez, A.M., Hooker, N., Olip-Booth, R., Woerner, P., w88 casino, G. A. (2021) “It’s Being Compassionate, Not Making Assumptions”: Transmasculine and Nonbinary Young Adults’ Experiences of “Women’s” Healthcare Settings. Women’s w88 casino Issues.

w88 casino, G. A. (2019). Social w88 casino, place, and power: Applying heterotopian principles to the social topology of social w88 casino. w88 casino Service Review, 93(4), 640-677. doi.org/10.1086/706808

Chambers, J., & w88 casino, G. A. (2019). Structural competency in child welfare: Opportunities and applications for addressing disparities and stigma. The Journal of Sociology and w88 casino Welfare, 46(4), 26.

Selected book chapters

w88 casino, G. A., & Kelly, B.L. (2021). Strengths-Affirming Social w88 casino Practice with LGBTQ Youth. In M. P. Dentato (Ed.). Social w88 casino practice with the LGBTQ community: The intersection of history, health, mental health and policy factors. Second Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Selected podcast episodes

Place-Based Research: Why place matters. CRSP Talk podcast.
With Bree Akesson, Genevive Graaf, Susan Kemp, and Cindy Sousa
October 15, 2021. Centre for Research on Security Practices, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Education

• Ph.D., School of w88 casino Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
• MSW, Jane Addams College of Social w88 casino, University of Illinois-Chicago; Certificate in Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice with Children and Adolescents
• B.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln