Eva Grabinski
PhD Candidate
- PhD Candidate (ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´), MA (Queen’s), BAH (Queen’s)
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Education
DPPE Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation, ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University
MA Master of Arts, Sociology, Queen’s University
BAH Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Sociology, Queen’s University
Research Interests
Research area: Impacts of digital technologies on social and health services.
Research focus: Impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on social work practice and education.
Theoretical interests: Critical posthumanism and socio-materialism.
Related interests: Science and technology studies (STS) and human-computer interaction studies (HCI).
Dissertation topic: AI notetaking scribes and the reconfiguring of clinical social work practice – ethical, ontological, and epistemological considerations.
Teaching Interests
Beginning in Fall 2026, I welcome opportunities to guest lecture on:
- Artificial intelligence (AI) in social work practice and education.
- Critical posthumanism and new materialism for social work theorizing.
Selected Publications
Banks, S., Bertotti, T. F., Carvalho, M. I., Cuenca, M., Forlenza, D., Gemara, N., Gillet, F., Grabinski, E., Groothoff, R., Reimer, E., & Segal, M. (2026). Re-imagining Social Work Ethics: Variations on a Theme. Ethics and Social Welfare, 1–13.
Grabinski, E. K., & Sewell, K. M. (2026). Mapping Current and Emergent Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Clinical Supervision: An Analytical Approach and Model for Social Work Research. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 1–29.
Sewell, K. M., Grabinski, E., Rousseau, J., & Asakura, K. (2026). Engaging for supervision outcomes: Perspectives from Ontario human service supervisors. The Clinical Supervisor, 1–23.Â
Selected Conferences
Grabinski, E. (2026, April 15). Shifting from humanist to post-humanist thinking for theorizing emergent entanglements of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with social work [More-than-human SIG presentation, ECSWR 2026]. ECSWR 2026, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Grabinski, E., & Sewell, K. (2026, June 6). From social work education to practice with artificial intelligence (AI): Critical AI literacy to prepare students for the emergent technological environment [Conference presentation]. CASWE 2026, Ottawa, Canada.
Morris, B., Grabinski, E., Godden, L., & Andison, C. (2026, June 5). A capacity-building initiative for critical AI literacy in social work education: Exploring the needs and contributions of contract instructors [Conference presentation]. CASWE 2026, Ottawa: Canada.
Rousseau, J., & Grabinski, E. (2026, April 17). When clients bring ChatGPT to clinical practice: Weighty matters in mental health services for disordered eating [Conference presentation]. ECSWR 2026, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Academic Service
Special Issue Editor for a special issue on Social work and artificial intelligence: Socio-technological entanglements across knowledge, ethical, and relational domains in the Journal of Technology in Human Services.