Amanda Gebhard is an Associate professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Regina. Issues of social (in)justice and inequality are at the heart of my scholarship. I am interested in producing research that forms a counter-narrative to oppressive and constraining discourses that shape us both individually and socially. I anchor my projects in critical, feminist, anti-racist, and poststructural theories. I have utilized the methodologies of autoethnography and self-study, discourse analysis, community-based research, and appreciative inquiry.

My research interests are broad and interdisciplinary, and include: language and power, race and racism in education, the school/prison pipeline, whiteness and colonialism in the helping professions, consciousness-raising with young people, and anti-oppressive approaches to addressing violence.