She worked for five years at the Northern Social Work Program in Thompson, MB. She spends a great deal of her time working with students from communities in northern Manitoba. Her research is focused on university community engagement, homelessness, violence against women, gender and women, and refugees. Dr. Bonnycastle uses Community Based Participatory Research through which she has built strong community relationships in her work in northern Manitoba, and was recently awarded Researcher of the Week by the Centre for Human Rights Research. She hopes her research will promote social change, and encourages her students to do the same.