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Sherron Wilkes, DSW (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor/ BSW Program Director
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Dr. Sherron Wilkes received her Doctor of Social Work (DSW) degree in Organizational Leadership on December 9, 2022 from the University of Alabama School of Social Work (UA SSW). Dr. Wilkes is the BSW Program Director at UA SSW and serves in many leadership roles. She has a zeal for student engagement and retention, leadership, and macro social work practice just to name a few. She has assisted college students with organizing both campus and community service-learning projects, thus empowering students to develop their own leadership skills and affect change.

Dr. Wilkes’s research focuses on “A Qualitative Inquiry into the Use of a Virtual Platform during a Crisis to Boost Social Work Competencies.” Noontime Knowledge virtual learning series were started in response to COVID and the resulting restrictions on in-person continuing education. Dr. Wilkes envisioned and implemented Noontime Knowledge in August 2020 as part of a study on the benefits, challenges, and experiences of a virtual learning series. The growing popularity of the series has allowed its continuation to the present day. Noontime Knowledge is offered as a monthly continuing education series, where each month, current topics are addressed that are relevant to the social work profession. Its virtual format allows anyone with an internet connection to register and attend these sessions for continuing education units at no cost. Noontime Knowledge has become one of the School’s premier continuing education offerings and made a significant impact, particularly for social work practitioners who needed continuing education units during the global pandemic.

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