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Dr. Strumm completed her BSW (2004) and MSW (2010) at the University of Calgary and PhD in Social Work (2022) at Carleton University. She has been a registered social worker (RSW) for over 20 years and has practiced social work in a variety of areas including health care, gender-based violence, child welfare, poverty reduction, and group and individual counselling. Dr. Strumm’s social work practice took her internationally to England, India, Jamaica and South Africa. She is passionate about student-centered and trauma-informed teaching and won two student-nominated teaching excellence awards (Carleton University-2016; University of Calgary-2018). In 2026, Dr. Strumm was awarded the UFV Teaching Excellence Award. In both 2024 and 2025, she was awarded grants through the Teaching Inquiries into Pedagogical Practices (TIPP) Fund focused on Changemaking. 

Dr. Strumm’s interests are in the following areas: feminist and anti-oppressive social work practice, women’s health, practitioner well-being, group work, trauma-informed practice and pedagogy, and community development. She is engaged in a research project on understanding the use of and engagement with trauma-informed pedagogy, which looks at trauma-informed teaching in post-secondary classrooms and institutions across B.C. In addition to this scholarly work, Dr. Strumm collaborates closely with Dr. Amea Wilbur, and they deliver regular workshops on trauma-informed pedagogy across the Lower Mainland. Lastly, Dr. Strumm has co-authored a textbook for Oxford University Press, titled Transformative Community Development (2026).

Director, UFV Centre for Justice, Equity, and Sustainable Action (JESA)

RSW, British Columbia College of Social Workers #14422

Co-founder, BC-based Trauma-Informed Educator Network

Individual member, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE)

Individual member, Canadian Association for Social Work Education (CASWE)

2026

Strumm, B., & Wilbur, A., & Sallos, E. (May 2026). Trauma-Informed and Care-Based Pedagogy in Adult Education: Synthesizing Faculty and Learner Perspectives [Research Roundtable]. Canadian Association of the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) Annual Conference, Vancouver.

Strumm, B. (April 2026). The Costs of Caring: Recognizing Compassion Fatigue in Post-Secondary Teaching. [Presentation]. UFV ConnectEd Conference, Abbotsford.

Strumm, B. (panelist). (April 2026). Changemaking in Action: Experiencing UFV TIPP Projects. UFV ConnectEd Conference, Abbotsford.

2025

Strumm, B (panelist). (May 2025). Changemaker Education in Action. [Presentation]. UFV ConnectEd Conference, Abbotsford.

Strumm, B. & Wilbur, A. (March 2025). Conversation Café – Understanding Relationality and Relationship-Building for Students. Teaching Inquiry into Pedagogical Practices fund event. UFV, Abbotsford.

Wilbur, A., Strumm, B. (February 2025). Trauma-Informed Teaching in British Columbia. [Presentation]. UFV Faculty Micro-Lectures, Abbotsford.

2024

Strumm, B., & Wilbur, A. (June 2024). Trauma-informed Pedagogy and Practice: Experiences of Educators in British Columbia [Paper presentation]. Canadian Association of Social Work Education (CASWE) Annual Conference, Montreal.

 MacPherson, S., Kelly, A., Munjee, R. M., Strumm, B., & Wilbur, A. (June 2024). Adult Education in the Promotion of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Anti-Oppressive, Trauma Informed, and Mindfulness-Based Praxes in Adult Education. [Symposium]. Canadian Association of the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) Annual Conference, Montreal.

 Strumm, B. (May 2024). Strengths-based Assessment [Micro-teaching]. ConnectEd Conference, Abbotsford.

Harding, R. & Strumm, B. (2026). Transformative Community Development. Oxford University Press.

Strumm, B., Wilbur, A. & Sawkins, T. (Fall Issue, 2023). Belonging and exclusion for newcomer women in the lower mainland. Perspectives News Magazine of the BC Association of Social Workers, 45(3), 8-9, 11.  

Strumm, B. (2023). Reflection for well-being: The reflective practice experiences of social workers employed in global development, Reflective Practice, 24(2), 238-250. DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2022.2158798

Strumm, B. (2020). Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development. Gender & Development, 28(1), 175-192. DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2020.1717173

Asakura, K., Strumm, B., Todd, S. & Varghese, R. (2019). What does social justice look like when sitting with clients? A qualitative study of teaching clinical social work from a social justice perspective. Journal of Social Work Education, 56(3), 442-455. DOI: 10.1080/10437797.2019.1656588

Strumm, B. (2019). bell hooks: The teacher, the feminist pedagogue, the film critic, the activist and most of all, the black feminist. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, [special issue], 31(1), 54-58. 

Todd, S., Barnoff, L., Moffatt, K., Panitch, M., Parada, H. & Strumm, B. (2016). A social work re-reading of students as consumers. Social Work Education: The International Journal, 36(5), 542-556. DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2016.1225712

Strumm, B. (2015). Women in Harperland: A critical look at gender inequality in Canada since 2006. Special Issue: Social Policy and Harper, Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale, 71(1), 98-110.