MMFC: In Conversation
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MMFC: In Conversation was started with the goal of creating tangible and accessible outcomes for research dissemination, while encouraging more community conversations around family and gender-based violence.
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The podcast centers around topics like the impacts of domestic/intimate partner violence, community engagement in the fight against violence, and research dissemination, with episodes such as the pilot discussing the effects of COVID-19 on New Brunswick's D/IPV sector and the experiences of support staff in transition homes.
In Conversation is a podcast hosted and produced by the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research at the University of New Brunswick. Together with our guests we discuss gender-based violence in Atlantic Canada with researchers, front-line workers, and the wider community.
Welcome to season 3 of In Conversation! In this episode, the MMFC is In Conversation with Dr. Mary Aspinall. Dr. Mary Aspinall is an Assistant Professor in the Departmentof Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University and a research fellow at the MMFC. Mary’s research concentrates on intimate partner violence (IPV),coercive control, specialized courts, and community-based intervention programs.
In their conversation, Dr. Aspinall tells Dr.Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (Director of the MMFC) about how her experiences as a front-line worker in victim services has informed her research. Together they discuss specialized domestic violence courts and intervention programs for those who have used violence in their relationship. Dr. Aspinall tells Stefanie about her research on intervention programs in New Brunswick and the importance of intervention for perpetrators that is trauma and violence informed.
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