Susan Silver is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Ryerson University. Silver earned her BA and MSW from the University of Toronto and her PhD in Social Work from Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia. From 1998 to 2003, she was the Director of the School of Social Work and, from 2009 to 2011, was the Program Director for the MSW program. Her teaching interests include Social Work Research, Program Evaluation, Social Welfare Policy and Critical Social Work Practice. She has conducted a number of research studies exploring issues of access and inclusion in relation to health care, employment and income security. She has a strong commitment to community-university research collaborations and has completed a national study to develop an evaluation framework for family support programs.