Awards and Grants : Community Research Grants

Community Research Grants

Through the generous support of the Scotiabank, the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children is able to offer funding for community research grants. We are looking to fund research and action projects that explicitly aim to contribute to the understanding, documentation, analysis, and prevention of the social problem of violence against women and children. Research projects funded by the Scotiabank community grants program must include a gender analysis of relevant issues. We are particularly interested in projects based on research partnerships.We strongly encourage applications that link theory and practice, and that clearly spell out the practical and policy implications of the proposed projects.


Three research grants up to $5,000 each will be awarded annually to community organizations or to individuals who are supported by one or more community organizations. Proposals for research that will evaluate or develop the current work of organizations engaged in anti-violence work will be considered.

Eligibility for a Scotiabank Community Research Grant

These grants are open to individuals and organizations in the London Region (including surrounding Counties). We particularly welcome academic and community collaborations.

Criteria:

  1. The Centre prioritizes local initiatives
  2. Applicants must have an ongoing relationship with the Centre
  3. The project needs to align with the Centre’s strategic priorities

Proposals from individuals must be accompanied by a letter of endorsement from a community agency indicating:

  1. Knowledge of your experience in this area and of your research project
  2. The significance of your proposed research and its applicability.

In some cases the, the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children may act as the sponsoring agency for a research project undertaken by individual researcher(s).

 

Application Process

Applications for a Scotiabank Community Research Grant are due in the spring, by no later than April 30th.  Applications are reviewed by the Centre's Community Director and must be approved by the Centres Research Group.

Application Form

Application for Scotiabank Community Grants

 

Submissions

Please mail or e-mail submissions to the Communty Director care of:

Anna-Lee Straatman
Manager
Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children
1137 Western Road, Room 1118
Faculty of Education Building
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario Canada N6G 1G7
Phone: (519) 661-4040
Fax: (519) 850-2464

Further Information

If you have any questions about the Scotiabank Community Research Grants Program, please call the Centre at (519) 661-4040.

 

Examples of Past Projects Funded
  • Access to Woman Abuse Services by Arabic-Speaking Women in London: Background Investigation and Proposal Development (Mohammed Baobaid)
  • ShelterNet: On-Line Counselling for Abused Women (Women's Community House)
  • Phase III of a Community-Based Accountability Assessment of the Changing Ways Program
  • Background Research to Develop a Study on Woman Abuse, Pet Ownership, and Safety-Seeking Strategies (Mal Evans)
  • An Examination of the Effectiveness of Restraining Orders (Margaret Buist)
  • Developing a treatment and prevention program for aggressive adolescent women (Anne Cummings and Alan Leschied, Faculty of Education, UWO)
  • The effects of childhood maltreatment and trauma on the patent-child relationship (Vicky Veitch Wolfe, London Health Sciences Centre)
  • Evaluation of a violence prevention program (Thames Valley District School Board)
  • Examination of the issues that surround a woman's ability to remain out of an abusive relationship (Kim Horrill, Faculty of Nursing, UWO)
  • Evaluation of the London and Middlesex Domestic Violence Court
    (Domestic Violence Court Advisory Committee of London & Middlesex)
  • Caring Dads: A Program to help Abusive Fathers learn to value their Children (Katreena Scott, OISE/O of T)
  • Woman Abuse Group Manual for Women in Hostels or Drop in Programs
    (Margo Kennedy, Woman Abuse Support Program, Hamilton)
  • The Colour of Fear: Adult Survivors of Incest, Women of Colour (Smita Vir Tyagi)
  • Grey County Court Tracking Project (The Women's Centre, Grey Bruce Inc.)
  • A narrative study of immigrant women and refugee women who have experienced violence in the context of war (Sexual Assault Centre London)
  • Evaluation of groups for children who have witnessed violence (London Family Court Clinic)