Lawrence Deane

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Studies (Economics, Anthropology, Social Work) - University of Manitoba,  2004
  • Master of Social Work - University of Manitoba, 1988
  • Bachelor of Social Work - University of Manitoba, 1987
     

Positions held

  • 2018 - Present - Senior Scholar – University of Manitoba
  • 2011- 2018 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
  • 2008-2011 - Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Research - Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
  • 2007-2008 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
  • 2002-2007 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
  • 1995-2002 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
  • 1991-1994 - Instructor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
     

Publications

Selected publications:

Refereed Books: 
Comack, Elizabeth, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette, Jim Silver,.  (2013)  Indians Wear Red: Resistance, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Street Gangs.”  Halifax: Fernwood.

Deane, Lawrence  2006  Under One Roof: Community Economic Development and Housing in the Inner City.  Black Point: Fernwood

Refereed Book Chapters:
Deane, Lawrence  2023  “Kinew and Payuk: Leadership in Urban Indigenous Housing” in Shauna MacKinnon, and Kathy Mallet (eds.) Indigenous Resistance and Institutional Development in Winnipeg: 1950 – 2022.  Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing.

Comack, Elizabeth, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette, and Jim Silver. 2015  “‘You Really Have to Look at Poverty’: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs.” In C. Brooks and B. Schissel (Eds.), Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Criminology (3rd edition). Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.

Deane, Lawrence  2011  “Sustainable Livelihoods: Strategies and Power to Improve Lives” in International Social Development and Social Work, Tuula Heinonen and Julie Drolet eds.

Heinonen, Tuula, Jiao Yang, Lawrence Deane, Maria Cheung.  2009  “Social Work in Rural China: advancing women’s health and well being in the village.”  in Paul Bywaters, Eileen Mcleod, and Lindsey Napier eds.  Social Work and Global Health Inequalities: Practice and Policy Developments.  Bristol: The Policy Press.

Deane, Lawrence and Sherry Sullivan,  2008  “Aboriginal Students and the Digital Divide: Non-Formal Learning in the Inner City”  Doing Community Economic Development.  Black Point, Fernwood.  

Refereed Articles:
Deane, Lawrence “Will there be Civil Society in the Xi Jin Ping Era?” Made in China Journal Volume 6, Issue 1, Jan–Apr 2021

Deane, Lawrence, with Cassandra Szabo  2020  “Nisichawayasihk: A Future Net-Zero First Nation?”  Winnipeg: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Deane, Lawrence, Jenna Glass, Inez Vistrcil-Spence, Javier Mignone.  2018 "Live-In Family Enhancement (LIFE): A comprehensive program for healing and family reunification." First Peoples Child & Family Review 13(1).  

Deane, Lawrence, Eladia Smoke,  2010  “Designing Affordable Housing with Cree, Anishinabe, and Metis People”  Canadian Journal of Urban Research Volume 19, Issue 1, Summer.

Bracken, Denis, Lawrence Deane, and Larry Morrissette.  (2009)  “Desistance & Social Marginalization: The Case of Canadian Aboriginal Offenders”.  Theoretical Criminology: Special Edition. February, 2009

Deane, Lawrence, Denis Bracken, and Larry Morrissette.  (2007)  Desistance within an Urban Aboriginal Gang.  The Probation Journal V54 (2): 127-143.  

Skelton, Ian, Cheryl Selig, Lawrence Deane.  (2006)  “Social Housing, Neighbourhood Revitalization and Community Economic Development”.  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Monograph).

Deane, Lawrence, Larry Morrissette, Jason Bousquet, and Samantha Bruyere.  (2004)  “Explorations in Urban Aboriginal Neighbourhood Development.”  Canadian Journal of Native Studies  -  XXIV, 2 (2004):227-253.  

Deane, Lawrence.  (2003)  “North End Housing Project: A Comprehensive Approach to Community Renewal”  Canadian Review of Social Policy.  Fall/Winter 2003 Number 52 pp 123-128.

Publications (Non-Refereed):
Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrisette, Silver, Jim,   2009  “If You Want to Change Violence in the ‘Hood, You Have to Change the ‘Hood: Report to the Minister of Justice on Gangs and Gang Violence”  Winnipeg: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.  

Deane, Lawrence, and Greg Selinger.  (1997)  “Can We Afford the Welfare State? Neoconservative Myths of the 1990s.”  Child and Family Services Research Group, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba.  Study Series No. 03749.  

Deane, Lawrence, and Cheryl Martin.  “Contemporary Canadian Social Welfare Policy: A Course Manual”  Undergraduate Course in Social Welfare Policy.  

Deane, Lawrence.  “Community and Organizational Theory in Aboriginal Cultural Context: A Course Manual”  Undergraduate Course for Aboriginal Focus Program, University of Manitoba.