The FREDA Centre began in 1992 as one of the original five violence research centres funded by SSHRC and Heath Canada. It is housed within the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Its mandate is to facilitate and conduct collaborative participatory action research on violence against women and children, in order to raise awareness and affect relevant policy, procedure, programming and development. The Centre has worked with provincial and federal governments, such as Justice and Health, and the Office of the Representative of Children and Youth, as well as with other universities. However, it primarily collaborates with community-based organizations, such as the BC Society of Transition Houses, EVA BC, and has worked with West Coast LEAF and the Rise Women’s Legal Centre.
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RESOLVE is a prairie-based research network that co-ordinates and supports research aimed at ending violence, especially violence involving girls and women. RESOLVE is committed to supporting community-based research that leads to positive results. Our work seeks to uncover the causes of violence and map out effective strategies to prevent and alleviate that violence. With centres in Manitoba (administrative centre), Alberta, and Saskatchewan, RESOLVE creates partnerships among community agencies, government departments, and universities across the prairie provinces.
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The RAIV (Applied, Interdisciplinary Research on Intimate, Family, and Structural Violence), formerly named CRI-VIFF, was established on 1992. Actually mainly housed at Laval University, members are affiliated to six different universities in Quebec. The RAIV brings together 30 co-researchers, 20 partners from the practice fields, more than 200 graduated students and many collaborators at national and international levels. Current research priorities and programs focus on the factors associated with intimate, family, and structural violence, the links between different forms of violence perpetrated or endured in different life contexts, and the consequences for individuals, families, and society. RAIV includes also studies on the social responses to violence (community and institutional services, legal, systemic, and state responses), and this at the different levels of the intervention continuum, be they primary, secondary or tertiary prevention.
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The Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research (MMFC) was established within the Faculty of Arts in 1993, as a collaboration of efforts between the University of New Brunswick and the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation. The MMFC supports collaborative action-oriented research in Atlantic Canada through partnerships with family violence public service providers, community organizations and government. Our 2016-2021 strategic research priorities include violence against people with disabilities; risk assessment and risk assessment tools; inclusion of family violence in the curriculum and training of professionals; trafficking of women and girls in Atlantic Canada; violence against Aboriginal women and girls; violence against gender minorities; training in the justice system; and sexual violence.
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