CFICE’s Violence Against Women Hub
Community Co-Lead
Senator Kim Pate, Past ED,
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
Academic Co-lead
Diana Majury, Professor of Law
Carleton University
Led by a Steering Committee of key activist scholars (both community and academic), the Violence Against Women (VAW) hub funds collaborative demonstration projects that seek to combat violence against women locally and nationally.
Through these demonstration projects, the VAW hub determines the best models of practice in community-academic partnerships
One major goal of the VAW hub is to help create Canadian-wide community-campus partnerships to work towards better legal and public policies related to violence against women in Canada.
The VAW hub works from the position that:
- VAW is a large-scale, deeply rooted systemic social problem;
- Addressing VAW requires a new approach as VAW incidents continue to remain high; and
- Partnered research can create better public understanding of the complexities of violence against women
The VAW hub Steering Committee includes:
Kim Pate, CAEFS
Diana Majury, Carleton University
Diane Matte, CLES
Lee Lakeman, CASAC
Sunny Marriner, Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre (ORCC)
Leighann Burns, Harmony House and Action Research Change
Charlene Senn, University of Windsor
Barbara MacQuarrie, University of Western Ontario
Gail Gallagher, NWAC
Bonnie Brayton, DAWN
Laurie S. Alphonse, DAWN
Holly Johnson, University of Ottawa
Check out the VAW Hub’s Partners.
See the VAW Hub’s Bibliography.
Violence Against Women News, Resources, and Research
Check out the VAW Hub’s news, resources, and research below.