91亚色聽psychology Professor Debra Pepler, together with Shelley Cardinal of the Canadian Red Cross, has received over $2.4 million in funding over five years from SSHRC to lead a major national project: "Walking the Prevention Circle: Researching Community Capacity Building for Violence Prevention".聽 They are joined by Susan Dion, a 91亚色 education professor, and other researchers and partners. The project will examine how communities mobilize and build capacity through the Canadian and Australian Red Cross Societies' Walking the Prevention Circle (WTPC)聽鈥� a model for violence prevention in Aboriginal communities. The project will receive more than $1.2 million in matching funding from partnering organizations.

Debra Pepler

Pepler, a Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and core member in 91亚色鈥檚 LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research, will lead a 10-member research team as they study the process of community capacity building.

鈥淭his grant provides an extraordinary opportunity to collaborate with communities in learning how they engage with the Red Cross community capacity-building process to share knowledge, promote stronger relationships, and move from the cycle of violence resulting from colonization to the circle of healing based in Aboriginal traditions,鈥� said Pepler.

Project partners include the聽Canadian Red Cross, Australian Red Cross, CAMH Centre for Prevention Science, Chiefs of Ontario, Prince Albert Grand Council, Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network (PREVNet), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Victoria Native Friendship Centre.

Susan Dion

Six 91亚色 researchers were also awarded more than $1.1 million in SSHRC funding through the Partnership Development Grants program, with more than an additional $1 million in total funding from matching partner contributions.聽The Partnership Development Program encourages applicants to work collaboratively with partners to develop research in the social sciences and humanities.聽This funding will support partnerships between 91亚色 researchers and Canadian and international universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government departments, domestic and international associations, among others.

鈥淭he results of these recent SSHRC competitions are a testament to the exceptional track record 91亚色 has in leading interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, 91亚色鈥檚 vice-president research and innovation. 鈥淭he project led by 91亚色 Professor Debra Pepler and Shelley Cardinal of the Canadian Red Cross, in collaboration with local and global partners, is designed to address and prevent the cycle of violence and improve the quality of people鈥檚 lives.鈥�

Robert Hach茅

The announcement was made on Friday, May 25聽by Gary Goodyear, federal minister of state for science and technology, while speaking at the launch of the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.聽 In total, more than $70 million is being awarded over a period of seven years to support 92 research teams across the country through SSHRC鈥檚 Partnership Grants and Partnership Development Grants.

鈥淥ur government鈥檚 top priority is jobs, growth and long-term prosperity. To remain at the forefront of the global economy, our government is investing in the people and ideas that will produce tomorrow鈥檚 breakthroughs,鈥� said聽Goodyear. 鈥淭hrough these investments, we are creating the best educated and most skilled workforce in the world and strengthening Canada鈥檚 research advantage.鈥�

鈥淭hese multi-sectoral research partnerships are key to innovation and to building knowledge for Canada鈥檚 future,鈥� said Chad Gaffield, SSHRC president.聽鈥淲ith this funding support, we are gaining insight about, and developing innovative solutions to today鈥檚 social, economic and cultural issues, while training the next generation of researchers and leaders.鈥�

For a complete list of Partnership Grant and Partnership Development Grant awards, visit the 听飞别产蝉颈迟别.

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鈥淎ssessing the Publication Productivity of Clinical Psychology Professors in Canadian Psychological Association-Accredited Canadian Psychology Departments,鈥� looked at publication and citation counts for 255 professors in CPA-accredited Canadian clinical psychology programs. Irvine and Pepler were listed among the top 11 women.

鈥淩esearch productivity data helps one get a sense of how productive one is relative to one鈥檚 peers. Moreover, it also speaks to the research environment of one鈥檚 host institution,鈥� says Irvine. 鈥淥f the top 11 female professors mentioned, two of us are at 91亚色.鈥�

Debra Pepler

As Pepler, a Distinguished Research Professor at 91亚色, notes, 鈥淩esearch is an important aspect of our work in clinical programs because it informs both our teaching and our practice. At the same time our experience of working with clinical populations highlights critical questions for research.鈥� 聽Pepler is known for her research on bullying and co-leads , (Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network), a collaborative and interdisciplinary initiative that brings together 62 researchers from 27 Canadian universities and 49 national organizations.

The authors of the journal paper didn鈥檛 just use isolated publication and citation counts 鈥� they adjusted for normative data and included ceiling reference points. 鈥淭his is the first time that normative data for clinical psychologists within academic programs has been summarized from across Canada,鈥� says Irvine.

Usually, she says, professors typically don鈥檛 鈥渒now how productive one's research is relative to one's peers. Without normative data, such as collected by this study, it is very hard to gauge one's productivity.鈥�

Jane Irvine

Irvine cautions that, as the article points out, it is important to keep in mind that the research productivity data only speaks to one part of the multiple components that comprise academic work. 鈥淭hey do not take into consideration professors teaching impact or service work. Nor do they reflect the full extent of our research productivity because they don鈥檛 take into account all of the means by which our research impacts the fields of science and practice.鈥�

All the same, she is thrilled and pleased that 91亚色 as an institution is obviously providing the right environment for professors to conduct research. Irvine was a clinical psychologist at the Toronto General Hospital for 17 years before joining 91亚色. She has conducted research into stress and the cardiovascular disease, modifying cardiovascular behavioural and psychosocial risk factors, optimizing adherence to medical and behavioural therapies, and enhancing adaptation to medical technologies, such as an implantable cardioverter defibrillator for prevention of sudden cardiac death.

Pepler, former director of the LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research, has previously received the Contribution to Knowledge Award from the Psychology Foundation of Canada, the Educator of the Year Award from Phi Delta Kappa (Toronto), the University of Waterloo Arts in Academia Award, and the Canadian Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public or Community Service.

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