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In 2007, Carmen Gill, the Director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton was awarded a $2.1 million grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), to establish the Canadian observatory, a network promoting and coordinating multidisciplinary research from across Canada on intimate partner violence and the justice system. This grant was one of seven Strategic Knowledge Clusters funded by SSHRC.
The Canadian Observatory is comprised of academics from thirteen universities across Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus counselling centres, family services and housing, foundations, and government departments. This partnership will allow the Canadian Observatory to compare community and justice responses to intimate partner violence in various jurisdictions across Canada and abroad.
