Western University has the following experts available to media throughout November for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, including several members of Western’s Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC).
Katreena Scott
Professor, Education; Academic Director, CREVAWC
Areas of expertise: Prevention of gender-based and sexual violence, domestic violence and domestic violence and the judicial system.
Andriana Berlingieri
Adjunct Professor, Research Partner, CREVAWC
Areas of expertise: Intimate partner violence, workplace and domestic violence, sexual and gender-based violence as they intersect with workplaces.
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe
Professor, Nursing; Women’s Health Research Chair in Rural Health
Areas of expertise: Support for victims of intimate partner violence, trauma- and violence-informed care, measurement of gender-based violence and equity-oriented care.
Lisa Heslop
Research Partner, CREVAWC
Areas of expertise: Justice and intimate partner violence, criminal justice, family law.
Margaret MacPherson
Research Partner, CREVAWC
Areas of expertise: Elder abuse, domestic violence.
Kaitlynn Mendes
Associate Professor, Sociology; Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender
Areas of expertise: Online violence as it intersects with domestic violence, tech-facilitated sexual violence, youth online violence.
Margarita Pinta-Perez
Community Partnership Leader, CREVAWC
Areas of expertise: Violence against women and gender-based violence against non-status refugee and immigrant individuals/communities.
Nadine Wathen
Professor, Nursing; Canada Research Chair in Mobilizing Knowledge on Gender-Based Violence
Areas of expertise: Health and social service sector response to gender-based violence, violence and trauma informed approaches to providing services to victims.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Justin Zadorsky, Media Relations Officer, Western University, 226.377.1673 (mobile), jzadorsk@uwo.ca.
