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.
This month, the MMFC is in conversation with Dr. Brandon Sparks. Dr. Sparks is a leading expert on incels (involuntary celibates) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New Brunswick. His research focuses on the intersection of deviant behaviour and interpersonal relationships.
In this episode, Dr. Sparks tells Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (Director the of MMFC) about the pathways to iceldom. He provides a compassionate approach to understanding the experiences of incels while considering their mental & social health and the male loneliness epidemic.
The Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research acknowledges that it carries out its work on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Peskotomuhkati peoples. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which these nations first signed with the British Crown in 1726. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources, but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
We pay respect to the elders, past and present, and descendants of this land. We honour the knowledge keepers and seek their guidance as we strive to develop closer relationships with the Indigenous people in New Brunswick.
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