CPWO Research Seminar – December
Understanding and Addressing Online Harms Against Women and Girls through Research
Online spaces play a huge role in our everyday lives, offering connection, creativity, and community. Yet for many women and girls, these spaces can also bring real risks and harm. These Research Seminars open up a shared conversation about how research can help us understand these experiences and find practical ways to make digital spaces safer and more inclusive. Bringing together researchers, students, practitioners, and members of the wider community, the event is an opportunity to learn from one another, share insights, and explore how we can work collectively to create lasting change.
We are delighted to welcome Suzie Dunn to lead this Research Seminar. Further details about the talk, the speaker’s biography, and a link to book a place are provided below.
Navigating Safety in the Digital Age: Trends, Data, and Responses to Technology-facilitated Violence
This session will provide an overview of some of the trends in technology-facilitated violence, including sexual and non-sexual types of online harms. It will share recent research on this topic from the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the DIY Digital Safety Project. It will discuss some of the responses to these harms, including legal and non-legal strategies from various jurisdictions and provide resources for people experiencing this harm or working with victims/survivors of this harm.
About the Speaker
Suzie Dunn the Interim Director of the Law and Technology Institute and an assistant professor at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law. Her research centres on the intersections of equality, technology and the law. She is a research partner on a four-year SSHRC funded research project on young people’s experiences with sexual violence online, DIY Digital Safety.
