Faculty Member
Kristin Lambert Ashton is an assistant professor of social work in the Behavioral Sciences Department at Utah Valley University. Dr. Lambert engages in the scholarship of teaching and learning to study teaching and mentoring practices to increase the effectiveness of social work pedagogy and enhance clinical students' commitment to social justice. Before coming to UVU, she served a three-year term as a Visiting Clinical Professor in the School of Social Work at Brigham Young University, where she taught advanced clinical courses in the MSW program. Dr. Lambert's clinical practice focuses on the treatment of mental health and trauma-related disorders. She was the Residential Director at a treatment center for adolescent girls. In that role, she offered individual, family, and group treatment to clients with significant mental illness and trauma history. Dr. Lambert also worked as the Clinical Coordinator at the Utah Health and Human Rights Project, a non-profit agency serving survivors of political torture and human trafficking. She earned her Master of Social Work degree at Columbia University in New York City and her Doctorate in Social Work from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Major: Social Work
Macro Systems and Social Impact, Fall 2024
Macro Systems and Social Impact, Fall 2024
Social Work Practice with Diverse Populations, Spring 2024
Social Work Practice with Diverse Populations, Spring 2024
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is an international, non-profit organization that promotes teaching excellence in higher education. HEA is a subsidiary of UK-based Advance HE. There are more than 150,000 HEA fellows in the world. UVU is the first American institution to be accredited by the HEA to offer fellowship recognition to faculty, administrators, and staff supporting learning. Fellowships are earned through written reflection and interaction with an HEA Mentor to demonstrate how one’s teaching/supporting learning practices fulfill the dimensions of the UK Professional Standards Framework (PSF). The PSF is the heart of the Higher Education Academy fellowship recognition program. This internationally recognized articulation of the necessary actions, values, and knowledge to effective teaching/supporting learning provides the framework for peer dialogue and personal reflection of practices.
