Christopher Lively, St. Francis Xavier University

Research

evidence-based policing RCMP arrestee data domestic violence gender mass casualty commission investigative decision-making

Latest funding

Imagined Portraits of Mount Hope Asylum Patients, 1860-1900
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$20,000
A Field Study of RCMP Processing of Domestic Violence Cases in a Rural Community Detachment
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$24,191

All 2 grants and awards

Imagined Portraits of Mount Hope Asylum Patients, 1860-1900

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Watt, Margo

Keywords: Mount Hope Asylum; mental health; 19th century; moral treatment era; gender; archival research; narrative portraiture

$20,000

A Field Study of RCMP Processing of Domestic Violence Cases in a Rural Community Detachment

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Lively, Christopher J.

Keywords: evidence-based policing; RCMP; arrestee data; domestic violence; gender; mass casualty commission; investigative decision-making

$24,191

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: evidence-based policing Dear Professor Lively, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on evidence-based policing connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "A Field Study of RCMP Processing of Domestic Violence Cases in a Rural Community Detachment" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]