Campus: Norman
Email: chie.noyoricorbett@ou.edu
Education:
PhD, University of Texas at Arlington
MSSW, University of Texas at Arlington
BSBA in Business Marketing, Suffolk University
Dr. Noyori-Corbett is the Associate Director of Research at the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma.
The HIRG team leader, Dr. Noyori-Corbett started working with refugee populations 18 years ago as a social worker in Dallas, Texas, where she was a program coordinator for refugee youth programs. With her strong network in the refugee community and her community-based participatory research with Myanmar women refugees in TX, she has received several grants at OU, including two Junior Faculty Fellowships, and Humanities Forum Fellowships. Most of her works are related to people who were displaced globally, including immigrants, refugees, and human trafficking victims. Her works contributed to significant implications for better practices and policies to assist globally-displaced populations.
Dr. Noyori-Corbett is the founder of OU’s Humanitarian Innovation Research Group (HIRG) which is to bring awareness to refugee integration issues in the United States. The HIRG is an affiliate of OU’s Institute for Community and Society Transformation (https://www.ou.edu/icast).
With the members of the HIRG, Dr. Noyori-Corbett received a prestigious federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to investigate refugee services in public libraries (https://www.ou.edu/research-norman/news-events/2022/ou-researchers-received-two-grants-from-the-institute-of-museum-and-library-services).
Publications
Dr. Noyori-Corbett has an extensive publication record, mainly as first author of articles published by higher impact rate journals such as Advances in Social Work, International Social Work, Families in Society, and Journal of Community Practice.
Expert in Research and Practice with Refugees with Global Network
Dr. Noyori-Corbett received certificates from the Refugee Studies Center and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at University of Oxford, England. She worked at Oxford with scholars and practitioners from all over the world to understand the critical issues around displaced populations. The knowledge she gained has been fully utilized in the development of HIRG with its transdisciplinary faculty members at OU, as she realized the importance of a holistic approach in helping solve hardships forced upon immigrants.
Connecting Refugee Research and Teaching
Dr. Noyori-Corbett worked with the US State Department both in 2017 and 2019 for the projects titled “Diplomacy Lab”. She designed and initiated the first-time research-based class in which MSW students could apply research skills they obtained as a pre-requisite for a large-scale research project. For the inaugural class held in the fall of 2017, she developed an elective class titled: “Refugee Resettlement and Social Work” for MSW students. She was able to receive funding for this class for students. In 2019, she was awarded the Diplomacy Lab again and designed the course titled “VAW: Victim-Centered Approach” for MSW students. Students successfully developed a strategic plan and an educational toolkit to submit to the U.S. Embassy in Thailand to be used in workshops for the Royal Thai Police Department.
