Assisting Research for a Project Developing Inclusive Gender Based Violence Prevention Education

The student will engage with the Principal Investigator on a project to reduce gender-based violence, particularly for 2SLGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC), and disabled youth, through educational initiatives. The project examines and develops both sexuality education and gender-based violence prevention as the foremost methods of preventing gender-based violence.

Queer Joy Project Research Assistants for Data Analysis and Knowledge Dissemination (Phase 3)

The student on this project will be part of the The Queer Joy project's exploration of what queer and trans epistemologies about consent and queer joy offer the project to end gender-based violence. This contract is for the first part of the project which will involve engagement in data collection and analysis processes and which may include: helping recruit participants, supporting the process of onboarding participants, assisting with the facilitation of data collection, and analyzing data. The goal of the project is to draw upon queer and trans epistemologies to develop more effective gender-based violence prevention education--and specifically consent education--for all youth.

Locating Survivors’ Justice Needs in Post-secondary Responses to Sexual Violence

The last decade has been a period of renewed attention to, and action on, sexual violence on post secondary campuses. Amidst the new policies, programs and responses, we argue that missing from these changes has been critical reflection, research and understanding the problem complexly. In particular, there is a focus in post secondary institutions (PSI) on being “survivor centred” in their responses but very little empirical grounding for what survivors need or want in terms of responses. This is not an easy task as survivors of sexual violence have diverse needs that shift over time and place. This project aims to get a better understanding of the complex needs of PSI survivors and to test a new method for getting at the collective needs of survivors and for empowering survivors to contribute to responses. Using a conceptual framework that understands justice to be multifaceted our main research question is: What varied justice needs do those harmed by sexual violence have, especially in relation to responses on the part of students’ post-secondary institutions? This research project involves two methods of data collection. The first phase involves in-depth, semi-structed interviews with MacEwan students who have experienced some form of sexual violence. While it is important to provide survivors the space to speak to their needs as individuals, justice is a collective, social problem. In order to get at the sociality of justice the second phase of data collection will consist of several small interactive workshops.

Data Analysis and Knowledge Dissemination RA for Gender-based Violence Prevention Project

The student on this project will be part of the The Queer Joy project's exploration of what queer and trans epistemologies about consent and queer joy offer the project to end gender-based violence. This contract is for the last part of the project which will involve engagement in data analysis and knowledge dissemination processes, which may include analyzing data and participating in knowledge dissemination including the development of academic journal articles, a public-facing report, and a public event to share study findings.