Events

CRSP is devoted to discussing research practices and experiences, sharing research findings, and cultivating relationships with multiple, diverse audiences. We host a range of events such as presentations, round tables, workshops, and conferences that provide opportunities for the exchange and co-creation of knowledge among presenters and attendees. While some events are directed toward scholarly audiences, others are primarily oriented to those working outside academia.

A core objective at CRSP is to put actionable information and knowledge into the hands of practitioners, policy makers, and advocates for social change. To achieve this, CRSP hosts community-focused research workshops, symposia, and roundtables. For example, CRSP members have hosted events to exchange knowledge with representatives from various social services, non-profit organizations, police services, and members of the local Brantford community.

We have two recurring talk series: Stories from the Field and Exploring Communication Holistically and Generating Engagement (Exchange). In our Stories from the Field series researchers discuss experiences collecting data in diverse contexts. This series aims to take audiences behind the scenes so they can hear about some of the challenges and dilemmas that may be encountered in field work and, of equal importance, how these are addressed. Our Exchange series focuses on how research findings can be shared across a range of media (e.g., podcasts, blogs, graphic novels, art). The Centre also regularly hosts a series of research oriented events.

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Public Lectures

Lecture Description: This lecture will provide critical examination of the history of the field of prevention of violent extremism from a social work perspective and elaborate on the consequences on minority and racialized communities. We will also examine the role played by mental health field, in positively influencing Canadian away from a securitization perspective, but also the risks of mental health becoming an instrument of power and oppression. The talk will also analyse the impact of the internet as catalyzer of extremism and end by exploring some promising avenues for the future.

About the Speakers:
Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at UQAM university in Montreal and has several research, clinical and community based national and international affiliations. She is the director of the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence funded by PS Canada and a UNESCO co-chair in Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence. She currently sits as the Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee of the Global Internet Forum for Countering Terrorism. She is a member of the RCMP Management Advisory Board and was a member of the expert advisory group on online safety at the ministry of Canadian Heritage. She is a researcher and senior clinical consultant for the SHERPA subteam Research and Action on Radicalisation and Social Suffering at the CIUSSS Center in Montreal.

Dr. David Yuzva Clement is an adjunct research professor and contract lecturer in the School of Social Work, Carleton University (Canada), associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (Netherlands), co-founder of the inter-faith peace initiative Bonn (Germany), and research advisor at the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence (Canada). David’s research focuses on examining the nexus between social work and preventing and countering violent extremism, advancing knowledge on children, youth, and families who are affected by violent extremism and extremist ideologies, as well as the interplay between community organizing, civic education, and democracy.

This public lecture is being offered in a hybrid format, with both in-person and virtual attendance options.

In-Person Location: Research and Academic Centre West (RCW) 202, Wilfrid Laurier University, 150 Dalhousie St, Brantford, ON N3T 2J4.

Hybrid Location: Zoom (link to be sent to registrants approximately one week before the lecture date).

Please note: Registration for the in-person event is limited to 120 participants. A wait list will be created once capacity is reached.

This public lecture is funded by the City of Brantford.

Lecture Description: On June 14th, 2022 the Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network (WNHHN) and the National Indigenous Feminist Housing Working Group made history. The two organizations submitted the first human rights claims to the newly established Federal Housing Advocate, who is mandated to review systemic housing issues identified by communities and hold the Government of Canada accountable for addressing them. The claims explain why housing and homelessness is a gendered issue, and why homelessness is a national crisis for women and gender-diverse people. The claims are rooted in upholding national and international human rights obligations that assert that housing rights are human rights, and that Indigenous rights are human rights. Further, the Homeless on Homelands claim identifies how colonial policies and mechanisms have already displaced Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people from their land, community, and culture. In this lecture, Dr. Kaitlin Schwan, Executive Director of the WNHHN and Marie McGregor Pitawanakwat, Co-Chair of the National Indigenous Housing Network will provide an overview of the two claims and offer a path towards realizing the right to housing in Canada.

About the Speakers:

Marie McGregor Pitawanakwat is an Anishinaabe Kwe from Doganing, Wikwemikong, on Manitoulin Island, in Northeastern Ontario. She currently serves as a Co-Chair of the National Indigenous Feminist Housing Working Group and as Co-Chair of the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network. Marie's missions are to share information and knowledge about secure Indigenous land tenure; and to develop training programs for Indigenous women and gender diverse people to build our own homes.

Dr. Kaitlin Schwan is Executive Director of the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network and a Senior Researcher at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. She teaches social policy at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work, where she is appointed Assistant Professor, Status Only. She is the former Senior Researcher for the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing and Director of Research for The Shift. Dr. Schwan’s research focuses on homelessness prevention and human rights, particularly for women and youth. She uses research to build bridges between evidence, advocacy, policy, and lived expertise to advance housing justice.

In-Person Location: Research and Academic Centre West (RCW) 202, Wilfrid Laurier University, 150 Dalhousie St, Brantford, ON N3T 2J4.

Hybrid Location: Zoom (link to be sent to registrants approximately two days before the lecture date).

Presented by: Brantford's Women Faculty Colleague, in conjunction with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Centre for Research on Security Practices.
Funded by: Brantford Women's Faculty Colleague and the Wilfrid Laurier University Senior Executive Officer.

Lecture Headhsot photo of Dr. Valerie Steeves

Description: Networked technologies pose new challenges to privacy and security, not least for young people who often use them for school, work and play. Adults often rely on surveillance to protect young people from harm in this new environment, but 20 years of research consistently demonstrates that there is a significant gap between the problems adults think youth face online and the actual issues they are asking us to help them with. Most notably, they are deeply concerned about the constant surveillance they face – from parents, educators and corporations – and the ways in which the commercialization of online spaces privileges extreme content and outrage. In this lecture, Valerie Steeves provides an overview of young people’s concerns and suggests ways that we, as concerned adults, can advocate for policies that will better protect their privacy and security.

Presented by: Dr. Valerie Steeves, Professor, Criminology, University of Ottawa

About the Instructor: Valerie Steeves is a Full Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her main area of research focuses on the impact of new technologies on human rights. She is the principal investigator of the eQuality Project, a partnership of researchers, educators, advocates, civil society groups, and policymakers who are interested in examining the impact of online commercial profiling on children’s identities and social relationships. In 2022, she received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Surveillance Studies Network for her major contribution to the field of surveillance studies.

Date: Wednesday November 30th, 2022 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm

In-Person Location: Research and Academic Centre West (RCW) 202, Wilfrid Laurier University, 150 Dalhousie St, Brantford, ON N3T 2J4

Hybrid Option: Zoom

Arranged and Hosted by: Centre for Research on Security Practices

Funded by: McLean Foundation and Wilfrid Laurier University

Workshops

Workshop Description: This three-hour workshop will provide resources to develop evidence-based best practice using violent extremism as a case example. We will first present the principles, methods, and advantages of systematic reviews in terms of the quality of evidence they provide. We will then present how the evidence is integrated into a Delphi process to generate evidence-based or evidence-informed practices. We will close the loop by focusing on the evaluation of practices to better inform evidence. Watch the video here.

About the Speakers:
Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at UQAM university in Montreal and has several research, clinical and community based national and international affiliations. She is the director of the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence funded by PS Canada and a UNESCO co-chair in Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence. She currently sits as the Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee of the Global Internet Forum for Countering Terrorism. She is a member of the RCMP Management Advisory Board and was a member of the expert advisory group on online safety at the ministry of Canadian Heritage. She is a researcher and senior clinical consultant for the SHERPA subteam Research and Action on Radicalisation and Social Suffering at the CIUSSS Center in Montreal.

Dr. David Yuzva Clement is an adjunct research professor and contract lecturer in the School of Social Work, Carleton University (Canada), associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (Netherlands), co-founder of the inter-faith peace initiative Bonn (Germany), and research advisor at the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence (Canada). David’s research focuses on examining the nexus between social work and preventing and countering violent extremism, advancing knowledge on children, youth, and families who are affected by violent extremism and extremist ideologies, as well as the interplay between community organizing, civic education, and democracy.

Dr. Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie is the scientific coordinator of the Canadian Practitioners Network for Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV) and an adjunct professor of Criminology at the University of Montréal. His areas of expertise are a) quantitative research, psychometry, and scientific writing, b) risk assessment of criminal recidivism, c) prevention of sexual violence, and d) prevention of violent radicalization. He has also worked as a clinician for the sex evaluation laboratory of the Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel. His current research interests include the effectiveness of prevention programs that aim to counter violent radicalization, risk assessment tools for sexual offenders, and criminal desistance.

Date and Time: Tuesday March 19th, 9 AM - Noon EST

In-Person Location: Wilfrid Laurier University, Room 105, 97 Dalhousie Street, Brantford, ON N3T 2J1

Hybrid Location: Zoom (link to be sent to registrants approximately one week before the lecture date).

Please note: Registration for the in-person event is limited to 15 participants. A wait list will be created once capacity is reached.

This public lecture is funded by the Graduate Enhancement Fund at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Workshop Description: The Vidaview Life Story Board (LSB) method is an innovative interview tool for qualitative research. The LSB introduces visual-spatial, tactile and dialogical modes that transform the interview dynamics and shift the locus of control - to see what participants are talking about and share in a transparent process of dialogue. The method uses a set of cards, markers, and notation on a playboard to create a visual representation of one’s life situation or story. Originally designed for use with war-affected children in Sri Lanka, it has since been used with diverse populations and in a wide range of research and therapeutic applications including humanitarian and conflict settings.

The workshop will provide an overview to the method, case examples, and further resources.

Instructed By: Dr. Ashley Stewart-Tufescu, Assistant Professor and Registered Social Worker, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba.

About the Instructor:
Dr. Ashley Stewart-Tufescu is an Assistant Professor and Registered Social Worker in the Faculty of Social Work. Prior to joining the Faculty in 2021, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba’s Bannatyne Campus.

While completing her doctoral studies, Dr. Stewart-Tufescu was a faculty member in the Early Childhood Education program in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Community Services at Red River College. During her graduate and post-graduate training she received a number of provincial and national research awards and fellowships including a joint Research Manitoba and Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM) Post-Doctoral Health Research Fellowship, and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. Dr. Stewart-Tufescu’s fellowship training focused on psychiatric epidemiology and childhood adversity by linking survey data to administrative health, education and justice databases. Her doctoral research examined the transportability and efficacy of a violence prevention parenting program in highly diverse country contexts characterized by conflict, trauma, environmental disaster, and resource insecurity. Both of these areas of study are on-going and inform her research endeavours.

Currently, Dr. Stewart-Tufescu’s program of research spans 19 different countries throughout Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and South East Asia including many under resourced regions. She is a co-investigator and collaborator on numerous research projects supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. As a Registered Social Worker, Dr. Stewart-Tufescu has direct practice experience in the fields of child welfare and mental health. She continues to work with local community-based organizations to support caregivers in the prevention of child maltreatment and family violence from a trauma-informed approach.

Funder: This workshop is provided free of charge thanks to funding from the Graduate Enhancement Fund.

Date: November 27th 2023, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: delivered online via Zoom.

Regisration is required to attend: please fill out this form to register.

Workshop Description: This online workshop provided an introduction to the Brokered Dialogue method, and was presented by its co-inventors, Dr. James Lavery and Dr. Janet Parsons. Brokered Dialogue was initially designed as a film-based social science research method for investigating and addressing controversy or conflict around contentious health and social issues. However, it quickly became apparent that it also has great potential as a social intervention and as a vehicle for knowledge mobilization. And through the ongoing development of Brokered Dialogue method, Janet and James are exploring this potential to serve as a catalyst for transformational social change for a wide range of important issues.

This workshop outlined Brokered Dialogue’s theoretical foundations and its key features. Janet and James also shared their early experiences and applications of the method (past), more recent refinements and lessons learned (present), as well as future development plans for the method.

Presenters: Dr. Janet Parsons and Dr. James Lavery

Speaker Bios:

Dr. Janet Parsons is a critical social scientist and qualitative methodologist with expertise in arts-based research and knowledge translation, health and social equity, health services and policy research, narrative theory, as well as patient public and community engagement. She co-invented the Brokered Dialogue method with Dr. James Lavery. Her research program operates at the intersection of the social sciences, health sciences and the arts. She is a Research Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute and the Institute of Health Policy Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto. She is also an Academic Fellow at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research, Dalla Lana School of Public Health (UofT).

Dr. James Lavery is the inaugural Conrad N. Hilton Chair in Global Health Ethics and Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory Center for Ethics. Prior to his appointment at Emory University in Atlanta, he held positions as a Research Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital and Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and he was the first bioethicist at the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. His current work focuses on stakeholder engagement, organizational learning, knowledge co-production, human centred design and fair partnership practices in global health programs. He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center.

Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (EDT) via Zoom

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