Summary
Licensed in Nevada
Lex Owen holds a PhD in Disability Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and a Masters of Social Work degree from the Jane Addams College of Social Work (UIC). She has practiced with individuals with disabilities and their families, older adults and previously incarcerated individuals. She is passionate about developing social work students into curious problem-solvers and seeks to transmit social work values and ethics through her teaching and research. She uses qualitative and mixed methods to describe and explain how individuals, families and groups experience health and social service policies and technologies.
Areas of interest
- Families of children and youth with special health care needs
- Disability and bioethics
- Social work education
- Action research and qualitative methodologies
- Human and health services research
Courses taught at the University of Nevada, Reno
- SW 466: Disability: Health and Social Issues
- SW 421: Social Work Practice with Groups
- SW 621: Social Work Practice with Groups
- SW 630: Social Welfare History and Policy Practice
- SW 640: Elements of Evidence-Informed Practice
Publications
Education
- Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, 2019-2020
- PhD, Disability Studies, Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2018
- MSW, Community Health and Urban Development Concentration, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012
- BA, Sociology and Psychology, Gordon College (MA), 2006