Coffee Chats with Researchers

Coffee Chats with Researchers
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Ever wanted to sit down with your favorite researcher or practitioner and chat about all the cool things they do? Well look no further than our Coffee Chat series! We’re traveling around to sit with some coffee and take a few minutes to discuss the awesome work happening in the field of violence against women and gaps in work that still exist.

  1. 03/24/2023

    Dr. Rebecca Campbell

    Catie interviews Dr. Rebecca Campbell, Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, who researches victim disclosure practices and help-seeking experiences. Dr. Campbell speaks to her experience serving as Presidential Advisor, Relationship Violence & Sexual Misconduct, in which she assisted Michigan State University administration in improving the process for survivors on their campus in response to former doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse of patients. Dr. Campbell and Catie discuss the importance and challenges of the role of “researchers as activists” while Dr. Campbell shares her dedication to changing systems by impacting policy and practice and ultimately improving the survivor experience. Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to some listeners.

    38 min

  2. 03/17/2023

    Dr. April Zeoli

    Catie interviews Dr. April Zeoli, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, a firearm violence researcher studying intimate partner homicide and examining extreme-risk protection order laws and their implementation. She and Catie discuss the challenges of accessing data and records around gun violence in intimate partner cases as well as the ways implementation of “red flag laws” can improve to ensure gun relinquishment occurs. And most importantly, Dr. Zeoli shares that the research indeed suggests “that we can prevent gun violence and reduce homicide through laws that restrict dangerous people from having guns”. NCGVR Extreme risk protection orders in response to threats of multiple victim/mass shooting in six U.S. states: A descriptive study Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to some listeners.

    35 min

  3. 03/10/2023

    Dr. Chiara Sabina

    Catie interviews Dr. Chiara Sabina, Associate Professor in the Rutgers University School of Social Work and Associate Director of the Center for Research on Ending Violence in the Rutgers University School of Social Work. Dr. Sabina, whose work primarily focuses on the Latinx population, shares with Catie her passion for bringing more diversity into the field of gender-based violence. The two discuss the importance of prevention and intervention that account for the intersections of identity and reach populations that have been historically oppressed and underserved. Dr. Sabina also discusses the potential long-term implications of her current study with local domestic violence survivors in Quito, Ecuador using integrative community therapy, which she describes as a culturally congruent, non- hierarchical dialogue circle, group-based approach.

    27 min

  4. 03/03/2023

    Leigh Goodmark

    Catie interviews Professor Leigh Goodmark, JD, who serves as the Marjorie Cooke Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law where she directs the Gender Violence Clinic. Professor Goodmark represents criminalized survivors of domestic violence and trains students to represent victims of violence. She and Catie discuss how the criminal and legal system can harm victims and further the perpetration of violence. Professor Goodmark discusses how her passion to mitigate further trauma and harm to criminalized survivors led her on a journey to identifying as an abolitionist. The Gender Policy Report: Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: Economic, Public Health, and Community Solutions Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to some listeners.

    32 min

  5. 02/24/2023

    Dr. Kaitlin Boyle

    Catie interviews Dr. Kaitlin Boyle, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the University of South Carolina, who uses social psychology and sociological perspectives to study how social inequalities and power dynamics shape the socialization processes that enable environments in which violence occurs. She and Catie discuss her approach to research as looking at violence as both a reflection of and reinforcer of inequality and its influence on her varied research interests, including looking at the role gender plays in mass gun violence. And finally, Dr. Boyle shares more about the process of moving her Violence and (In)justice Lecture Series to a working group, thereby building professional networks across the many fields addressing interpersonal violence and encouraging interdisciplinary research collaborations. Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to some listeners.

    36 min

  6. 02/17/2023

    Dr. Claire M. Renzetti

    Catie interviews Dr. Claire M. Renzetti, Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Kentucky; the Judy Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies on Violence Against Women in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women; Editor, Violence Against Women: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal (SAGE); Editor, Gender & Justice Series (University of California Press); Co- Editor, Interpersonal Violence Series (Oxford University Press); and Editor, Family & Gender-Based Violence Series (Cognella). Dr. Renzetti starts by sharing her excitement for her research of the OVW funded evaluation of the therapeutic horticulture program at the Greenhouse 17 shelter and its implications for improvement in self-esteem and self-efficacy for women participating in therapeutic horticulture shelter programs. The two discuss the value of funding innovative research in the field of violence against women and the impacts of what Dr. Renzetti calls “purposive research”, which she defines as data collection that is making a difference and producing usable knowledge.

    37 min

  7. 02/10/2023

    Dr. Anne DePrince

    Catie interviews Dr. Anne DePrince, Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver and Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Group. Dr. DePrince also serves as Associate Vice Provost for Public Good Strategy and Research at the University of Denver, where she supports University research collaborations that impact community responses to violence and public problems. She and Catie discuss the responsibility of researchers to center community in their research and how interdisciplinary collaborations within communities can impact trauma-informed policies and services. They also discuss the practical implications of her recently published book, Every 90 Seconds: Our Common Cause Ending Violence Against Women, which Dr. DePrince shares “connects the ways that violence against women is tangled up with education reform, legal reform, healthcare access, and economic inequities and makes the case that all members of a community share a stake in working together to prevent violence”. Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to some listeners.

    33 min

  8. 02/03/2023

    Dr. Lisa Fedina

    Catie interviews Dr. Lisa Fedina, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan, whose research focuses on understanding the social, economic, and health consequences of violence experienced across the lifespan, particularly in historically oppressed and underserved communities. Dr. Fedina shares how a person-centered approach to her research impacts survivor outcomes by encouraging specified approaches to community response and prevention. The pair also discuss how response systems are influenced by power and the ways structural power imbalances contribute to the root causes of violence.

    31 min
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Ever wanted to sit down with your favorite researcher or practitioner and chat about all the cool things they do? Well look no further than our Coffee Chat series! We’re traveling around to sit with some coffee and take a few minutes to discuss the awesome work happening in the field of violence against women and gaps in work that still exist.

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    Coffee Chats with Researchers
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    23
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    Clean
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