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Tracy Smith-Carrier
She/Her
Professor
Tracy Smith-Carrier is a (full) professor and the Canada Research Chair in Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the School of Humanitarian Studies at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. Dr. Smith-Carrier’s program of research, grounded in a rights-based framework, touches upon many different fields in the social policy arena including access to income and food security, social assistance receipt, health equity, basic income, and climate justice. She is an adjunct research professor at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University, chair of the National Strategic Planning Committee for a Basic Income Guarantee, and editor of the Taylor & Francis journal Critical Policy Studies.
Publications/Papers
Smith-Carrier, Tracy, and Jacqueline On. 2023. “Ambitious for Change? A Critical Appraisal of the Canadian Indicator Framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.” Journal of Human Rights Practice 15 (1): 204–31.
Smith-Carrier, Tracy, and Kathleen Manion. “Bringing it all together: Leveraging social movements and the courts to advance substantive human rights and climate justice.” Human Rights Review 23.4 (2022): 551-574.
Smith-Carrier, Tracy. 2021. “‘The (Charitable) Pantry Is Bare’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Christmas Food Hamper Programs in Canada.” Critical Policy Studies 15 (1): 90–106.,
Smith-Carrier, Tracy. 2020. “Charity Isn’t Just, or Always Charitable: Exploring Charitable and Justice Models of Social Support.” Journal of Human Rights and Social Work 5 (3): 157–63.
Smith-Carrier, T., Montgomery, P., Mossey, S., Shute, T., Forchuk, C., & Rudnick, A. (2020). Erosion of social support for disabled people in Ontario: An appraisal of the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) using a human rights framework. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(1), 1-30.
Smith-Carrier, T., Ross, K., Kirkham, J., & Decker Pierce, B. (2017). ‘Food is a right… nobody should be starving on our streets’: perceptions of food bank usage in a mid-sized city in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 9(1), 29-49.
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