Category: Past Events

Indigenous Root of Wellness: Restoring the Traditional Land-Human Relationship through Community Gardening In this talk, Dr. Angela McGinnis will cover land-based education with Indigenous youth. Indigenous ways of knowing and being contain an intrinsic connectedness to nature and the land. Traditionally, Indigenous peoples regarded plants and animals as our more-than-human relatives, situating them as key […]

Join us on Monday, March 25th, 2024 from 12-1pm ADT for this exciting webinar featuring Cathy Holtmann, Director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research (MMFC) and Nicole Letourneau, Scientific Director of AVA! In this webinar, we will introduce the Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA) and its partnership with the Muriel […]

The  Centre for Research & Education on Violence against Women & Children (CREVAWC) Knowledge Hub presents: Supporting Parents and Caregivers to Prevent Adolescent Dating Violence Through Texts, Peers, and Their Environments Date | Time:  Thursday March 7, 2024 | 1:00 to 1:30 pm Eastern Time (ET) Since 2019, Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence has been spearheading […]

PREVNet Upcoming Distinguished Speaker Series: We are excited to announce an upcoming 4-part Distinguished Speaker Series! The first webinar will be featuring Dr. Kaitlynn Mendes, who will be discussing technology-facilitated sexual violence. Here are the details of the first webinar:  Title: Talking to Young People About Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence Topics Covered: ·      What is technology-facilitated sexual violence?  ·     […]

Since the arrival of ChatGPT in late 2022, students and researchers have been exploring ways to ethically incorporate generative AI tools into the research lifecycle. This hands-on workshop, provided by the University of Manitoba Centre for Social Science Research and Policy, will delve into this topic, while also detailing ways that generative AI tools can […]

From politics to sports to class assignments, we come across statistics every day. This workshop, provided by the University of Manitoba Centre for Social Science Research and Policy, explores how statistics are collected and measured, and how we can make sense about what they mean. Using current, real world examples, grow your confidence when dealing […]

The 2023-2024 Partnership for Women’s Health Research (PWHR) Canada Seminar Series will explore research that is driving advances in healthcare for women, trans and non-binary people. Whether they are working at the bench to advance basic science, at the bedside, or with the broader health, social, and economic policies and systems that shape individual and […]

Join us for an AVA Webinar on Resilience featuring Dr. Caroline Piotrowski and Dr. Margherita Cameranesi! January 25, 2024 11am -12pm MST Register here This webinar will provide a brief history of the study of resilience and an overview of current key definitions of resilience. A summary of resilience traits and processes at the individual, […]

Join us for a free, live webinar featuring Dr. Sarah Merrill and Dr. Tayler Eaton who will be presenting on the topic of Biological Adaptations to Adversity: Evidence from Our Genes and Brains, drawing from the fields of epigenetics and cognitive neuroscience. More information is available in the poster below. December 12, 2023 12-1pm MST […]

“With the Guys: Building Leaders to End Domestic Violence” comes to Edmonton on Thursday, November 23 and to Calgary on Thursday, November 30. These evening events will include special guests speaking about their experiences working with ACWS to make change to end gender-based violence in their communities, sports teams, schools, workplaces, and organizations. Edmonton When: […]