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Research
Latest papers
"There Needs to be Action at All Levels": Operationalizing an Intersectional Social Ecological Framework for Analyzing News Coverage of Intimate Partner Femicide.
Violence against women · 2026
Considering Sex/Gender-Based Violence as a Form of Hate: The Invisibility of Sex and Gender.
Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026 · first author
Tracing individual experiences to systemic challenges: the (re)production of GBV in migrant women's experiences in Canada.
Frontiers in sociology · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $97,967
Judging minds: The role of mental health evidence in sexual assault cases
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $44,006
Developing a domestic violence prevention agenda: Learning from domestic violence death reviews
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $41,593
Developing a domestic violence prevention agenda: Learning from domestic violence death reviews
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
22 publications.
"There Needs to be Action at All Levels": Operationalizing an Intersectional Social Ecological Framework for Analyzing News Coverage of Intimate Partner Femicide.
Fairbairn J, Dawson M, Boyd C
Considering Sex/Gender-Based Violence as a Form of Hate: The Invisibility of Sex and Gender.
Dawson M
Tracing individual experiences to systemic challenges: the (re)production of GBV in migrant women's experiences in Canada.
Yalcinoz-Ucan B, Tastsoglou E, Dawson M
Filicide and criminal justice outcomes: Are maternal and paternal perpetrators treated differently?
Johnson A, Dawson M
The continuum of gender-based violence experienced by migrant and refugee women in Canada: perspectives from key informants.
Sisic M, Tastsoglou E, Dawson M, Holtmann C, Wilkinson L, Falconer C
Familicide in Canada, 2010 to 2019.
Boyd C, Sutton D, Dawson M, Zecha A, Poon J, Straatman AL, Jaffe P
Domestic/Family Homicide: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence.
Truong M, Yeganeh L, Cartwright A, Ward E, Ibrahim J, Cuschieri D, Dawson M, Bugeja L
Whose Knowledge Is Under the Lens? A Contribution to the Debate Sparked by Clark and Walker's 2011 Research Ethics in Victimization Studies: Widening the Lens.
Nourpanah S, Dawson M
Domestic Violence Risk Assessment Research to Real-World Practice: The Devil Is in the Implementation.
Youngson N, Saxton M, Jaffe PG, Kielt L, Olszowy L, Dawson M, Straatman AL
Complexities of the Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence: Police Officers' Perspectives on the Challenges of Keeping Families Safe.
Saxton MD, Jaffe PG, Dawson M, Straatman AL, Olszowy L
Judging minds: The role of mental health evidence in sexual assault cases
Principal investigators: Ellialti Kose, Tugce
Developing a domestic violence prevention agenda: Learning from domestic violence death reviews
Principal investigators: Dawson, Myrna
Keywords: domestic violence; domestic homicide; death reviews; recommendations; legislation; policy; prevention
Developing a domestic violence prevention agenda: Learning from domestic violence death reviews
Principal investigators: Dawson, Myrna
Keywords: domestic violence; domestic homicide; death reviews; recommendations; legislation; policy; prevention
Representing intimate femicide in Canada: Understanding media framing of gender-related killings of women and girls, 2010-2024
Principal investigators: Fairbairn, Jordan
Keywords: news; media; intimate femicide; violence; gender; representation; feminism; framing; intersectional; action research
Representing intimate femicide in Canada: Understanding media framing of gender-related killings of women and girls, 2010-2024
Principal investigators: Fairbairn, Jordan
Keywords: news; media; intimate femicide; violence; gender; representation; feminism; framing; intersectional; action research
Coercive control, risk assessment and evidence of intimate partner violence (IPV): Police response
Principal investigators: Gill, Carmen
Keywords: police response; coercive control; intimate partner violence; criminal justice
#CallItFemicide: Measuring gender-related killings of women and girls
Principal investigators: Dawson, Myrna F.
Keywords: femicide; measurement; gender; violence; intimacy
Responding to homicide: research and data priorities
Principal investigators: Dawson, Myrna F.
Keywords: criminal justice; law; punishment; homicide; law reform; gender; intimacy; Indigenous peoples
Canadian domestic homicide prevention initiative for vulnerable populations
Keywords: domestic homicide prevention; risk assessment; risk management; safety planning; vulnerable populations; risk factors; exposure reduction framework; cross-sectoral research
Examining the importance of dynamic risk factors for predicting recidivism and promoting change among domestically violent offenders
Principal investigators: Scott, Katreena L.
Keywords: domestic violence; family violence; intervention; policing; criminal justice; public health
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Evangelia Tastsoglou and Myrna Dawson: 2 shared papers
- Evangelia Tastsoglou and Lori Wilkinson: 1 shared paper
- Evangelia Tastsoglou and Catherine Holtmann: 1 shared paper
- Lori Wilkinson and Myrna Dawson: 1 shared paper
- Lori Wilkinson and Catherine Holtmann: 1 shared paper
- Myrna Dawson and Jordan Fairbairn: 1 shared paper
- Myrna Dawson and Catherine Holtmann: 1 shared paper
- Myrna Dawson and Mavis Morton: 1 shared paper
- Violence
- Sociology
- Other studies in human society
- Social Structure
- Other
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