Director, Center for Teaching Excellence | Associate Professor, Service-Learning Coordinator
University of North Carolina Wilmington
WILMINGTON, North Carolina, United States
Jacquelyn Lee, PhD, LCSW is an associate professor in the School of Social Work and joined UNCW in 2012. Dr. Lee’s program of research includes four distinct but overlapping areas: trauma/secondary traumatic stress; pedagogical and curricular innovation; caregiving; and workforce development and wellbeing. Cross-cutting themes include: mindfulness, self-care, and self-compassion. A recipient of the 2020 Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award, Dr. Lee has been awarded over a dozen teaching grants and selected for fellowships focused on community engagement, applied learning, diversity and inclusion, interprofessional collaboration, and online learning. Having authored over twenty publications, Dr. Lee is the co-developer of the Self-Care Practices Scale published in 2019 in Social Work. She was selected for the Emerging Leaders Program through the Association of American State Colleges and Universities in 2018 as well as an Engaged Faculty Scholar through the North Carolina Chapter of Campus Compact in 2017 to advance civic engagement efforts at UNCW.
A licensed clinical social worker, Dr. Lee is trained in a variety of clinical and non-clinical mindfulness-based interventions, having learned from leaders in the field of mindfulness including Jon Kabat-Zinn, Kristin Neff, Christopher Germer, and Steven Hayes, and trainers at the Oxford University Mindfulness Centre in Oxford, England.
Dr. Lee earned her doctorate in social work in 2012 from the University of Georgia and holds graduate certificates in university teaching; alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD); and gerontology.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
7:45 AM – 8:45 AM
Friday, November 11, 2022
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM