Dr. Dana Radatz Receives Grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Dr. Dana L. Radatz, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Niagara University, was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant for the project "Understanding, defining, and assessing coercive control to prevent IPV: Outreach to identify knowledge gaps and research needs."

With her colleagues, Dr. N. Zoe Hilton, professor at the University of Toronto and Research Chair in Forensic Mental Health at the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care; Dr. Kevin Nunes, professor and director of the Aggressive Cognitions and Behaviour Research Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University; and Elke Ham, research psychometrist at Waypoint, Dr. Radatz will coordinate a series of webinars by leading scholars on intimate partner coercive control behaviors from around the world for practitioners and researchers centered on coercive control. They will also host a networking event designed to bring together numerous researchers to discuss and identify research needs and gaps for future research to address surrounding coercive control within intimate partner relationships. The webinars, which will be open to the public, will take place in September and October, and the networking event will take place at Niagara University's Vaughan, Ontario, campus, in late October. Dr. Natalie Snow, an assistant professor of criminal justice administration based in Vaughan, will be among the scholars in attendance at the networking event.

Dr. Radatz joined the Niagara University faculty in 2015. Her research interests include intimate partner violence treatment programs, evidence-based practices, gender and crime, violence prevention and programming evaluation, and a wide range of victimizations. Dr. Radatz has secured more than $1 million in external and internal grant funds and actively works to leverage collaborations among scholars and community partners to do so. She has published in numerous academic and practitioner outlets, such as Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Crime & Delinquency, and Criminal Justice & Behavior.

Dr. Radatz is an award-winning and nationally recognized scholar, often celebrated for her drive to be community engaged and active in helping to translate research into action. Most recently, she received the 2023 American Society of Criminology's Division of Feminist Criminology's "Community Engaged Scholar Award," and the University of Nebraska at Omaha's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice awarded her the "Alumni Achievement Award" in 2022.

She received her doctorate in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and her undergraduate and master's degrees from Eastern Michigan University.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council is the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports research and research training in the humanities and social sciences. Through its programs and partnerships, SSHRC strategically supports world-leading initiatives that reflect a commitment to ensuring a better future for Canada and the world.