This workshop involves participants in bringing to life trauma-informed practice in research on gender-based violence. It will go over trauma-informed principles as relevant to research including examples focused on theoretical writing, interviewing, surveys, and vicarious trauma. Participants will receive practical strategies and lessons learned, as well as having the opportunity to apply their knowledge to provided case studies.
Learning Objectives
By attending this workshop, participants will enhance their ability to:
- Understand how trauma-informed principles can be used in research.
- Identify concrete ways to use trauma-informed principles in their own research.
Speaker Biography: Dianne Lalonde is a Research and Knowledge Mobilization Specialist with the Learning Network – a knowledge mobilization initiative on ending gender-based violence (GBV) by enhancing the capacity of the GBV sector. She conducts research in collaboration with partners and community members on the spectrum of GBV and especially focuses on technology-facilitated violence, coercive control, trauma-informed approaches, and legal advocacy. To share her research, Dianne engages with diverse forms of knowledge mobilization including bilingual and accessible webinars, comics, conceptual maps, and social media campaigns. She is also a PhD Candidate (ABD) in Political Science at Western University. Her dissertation is entitled “Cultural Appropriation: How Meanings are Taken, Distorted, and Destroyed.”
This event is free and open to the public. Register online via Zoom.
