{"id":6184,"date":"2015-05-12T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadianstudies\/?post_type=cu-people&p=6184"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:34:44","slug":"morris-marika","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadianstudies\/people\/morris-marika\/","title":{"rendered":"Marika Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Professional website:<\/td>\nhttps:\/\/marika-morris-consulting.org\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Academic website:<\/td>\nhttps:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Marika-Morris<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LinkedIn:<\/td>\nhttps:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marika-morris-7b6ba66b\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a research, evaluation and training consultant (www.marika-morris-consulting.org<\/a>). I work mainly on issues of gender equity, health and Indigenous rights, and my clients include Inuit organizations, not-for-profit organizations, government departments, businesses, labour unions, and the United Nations Development Programme. Our projects range from researching Inuit smoking cessation needs and initiatives for the Canadian Cancer Society, to evaluating provincial and national projects for the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, to creating training videos for women\u2019s shelter workers in Nunavut, Yukon and NWT. I also do GBA+ (applying intersectional feminist analysis) to policies and programs for not-for-profit organizations and government departments and agencies. I have been pleased and proud to work on projects with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Tungasuvvingat Inuit, and Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada.<\/p>\n

I am not Indigenous, so if you are looking for a First Nations, M\u00e9tis or Inuk academic to speak on your panel or comment in the media, please keep looking among my colleagues. My father was Greek from Egypt, having emigrated to Canada in the late 1950s, and my mother was a francophone settler from rural Qu\u00e9bec (Gasp\u00e9sie).<\/p>\n

As an Adjunct Research Professor, I participate in collaborations with professors, institutes and students at Carleton University. An example includes a partnership between the Carleton University Centre for Women in Politics and Public Leadership, Gender Equality Measurement Project and the Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work. Carleton Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Dr. Pauline Rankin and I conducted research with women executives in the federal public service to examine whether having women in leadership positions makes any difference. This led to the publication of Women\u2019s Leadership Matters: The Impact of Women\u2019s Leadership in the Canadian Public Service<\/em>. I was invited to speak at the United Nations about this research at an event co-sponsored by Canada, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. This research continues to be accessed by people around the world.<\/p>\n

My life and scholarship has taken interesting twists and turns, as I went back to complete a Ph.D. only after many years doing public policy and community-based research. I bring this applied experience to my scholarship.<\/p>\n

Prior to earning a Ph.D., I was Research Coordinator for the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) for five years. CRIAW is a not-for-profit organization which bridges the gap between academic and community research through building partnerships and translating academic research into a form communities and individuals can use for positive social change. I was the coordinating researcher on two multi-site community-university research projects, which involved significant partnership building, for example with the Downtown Eastside Women\u2019s Centre in Vancouver, the Calgary Immigrant Women\u2019s Association and the Centre for Disability Studies in Winnipeg. At CRIAW, I also led or co-led workshops across Canada on how community organizations could do participatory action research to meet their needs. In consultation and collaboration, I also developed a series of factsheets on topics such as violence against women and girls, women and poverty, immigrant and refugee women, and how race and gender interact, and wrote Using Intersectional Feminist Frameworks in Research<\/em>. My postdoctoral research, funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), was a participatory action research partnership with Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada.<\/p>\n

I have experience working as a federal public servant and remain a member of Statistics Canada\u2019s Advisory Committee on Social Conditions. I co-founded, with Kristyn French, the Applied Sociology Research Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA). As author of\u00a0Participatory Action Research: Becoming a Research for Social Change<\/em>, I have been invited to do many guest lectures about methodology. I am also invited to speak internationally about topics related to gender, diversity, inclusion, violence prevention, resilience and health.<\/p>\n

In my research, I recognize the complexity and interconnectedness between policy, economy and society at all levels. Much good research already exists but is not being utilized or even believed. Research needs to be communicated effectively to the public and the people who can use it. Where copyright allows, I make my publications available on the following site, which is also kept up to date more frequently than this page:\u00a0https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Marika-Morris\/research<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n