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Research
Latest papers
Developing Community Co-designed Scenario-Based Training for Police Mental Health Crisis Response: a Relational Policing Approach to De-escalation.
Journal of police and criminal psychology · 2022
Latest funding
- $65,509
Practices of Knowing: Research-Creation Beyond Academia
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $125,000
An Adaptive Virtual Reality De-escalation Training System for Canada's First Responders
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $50,000
COVID-19 and the Efficacy of Using Virtual Reality Scenarios to Safely Train Police in Mental Health Crisis Response_x000d_
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
Developing Community Co-designed Scenario-Based Training for Police Mental Health Crisis Response: a Relational Policing Approach to De-escalation.
Lavoie JAA, Alvarez N, Kandil Y
Practices of Knowing: Research-Creation Beyond Academia
Principal investigators: Gauntlett, David J.
Keywords: Creativity; Research-creation; Artists; Research impact; Qualitative methodologies
An Adaptive Virtual Reality De-escalation Training System for Canada's First Responders
Principal investigators: Khan, Naimul
Keywords: de-escalation training; crisis response; physiological signal processing; stress assessment; artificial intelligence; mental health; VR simuation
COVID-19 and the Efficacy of Using Virtual Reality Scenarios to Safely Train Police in Mental Health Crisis Response_x000d_
Principal investigators: Khan, Naimul
Hemispheric Encounters: Developing transborder research-creation practices
Keywords: hemispheric performance; the Americas; embodied practice; research-creation; performance studies; activist an political performance; transborder collaborative methods; ecologies; mobilities; oralities; archives; migration; human rights; Indigenous; latinx
Hemispheric Encounters: Developing transborder research-creation practices
Keywords: hemispheric performance; the Americas; embodied practice; research-creation; performance studies; activist an political performance; transborder collaborative methods; ecologies; mobilities; oralities; archives; migration; human rights; Indigenous; latinx
Scenario training to improve interactions between police and individuals in mental crisis: impacts and efficacy
Principal investigators: Alvarez, Natalie I.
Keywords: scenario training; forum theatre; police education; consumer-survivor; mental crisis; de-stigmatization; de-escalation
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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