Susan S. Manning
Contact:
Professor
PhD, University of Denver
Craig Hall, Room 475
Telephone: 303-871-2865
E-mail: Susan.Manning@du.edu
Areas of interest:
- leadership and community practice
- empowerment outcomes
- serious and persistent psychiatric disability
- professional ethics and leadership
- Native Peoples social work practice
Prof. Susan Manning's research and scholarship focus on two areas: professional ethics, particularly as applied to leaders, administrators and managers, and empowerment outcomes and interventions for people with serious psychiatric disability.
At the University of Denver, she is a member of the Carl Williams Institute for Ethics and Values and a founding member of the Center for Civic Ethics. Her publications include the book Ethical Leadership in Human Services: A Multi-Dimensional Approach.
At GSSW, Prof. Manning teaches courses on community practice, leadership theories and practice, and ethics. She is co-convener of the Leadership for Community and Organizational Practice track and teaches qualitative research methods in the school's PhD program. She is currently working on the Native Peoples Curriculum Project.
"Social workers are all leaders at heart. Our work must reflect a commitment to informing society about the hidden experiences of oppressed groups and to directing our collective power toward the common good."
