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Jennifer Root
Ph.D. student (University of Toronto)M.S.W. (University of Minnesota)
B.S.W. (University of Western Ontario, King’s University College)
Jennifer has worked extensively with women and children who experience or have been exposed to woman abuse and family violence. She has spent over 12 years working as a program coordinator within women’s advocacy organizations, shelters, and other community-based agencies serving women. She has also worked as a frontline child protection worker, a women’s advocate, and a group facilitator for perpetrators of abuse and for women who experience intimate partner violence. More recently, her work has been focused on community-based research partnerships exploring women’s experience of intimate partner violence. She is involved in several research projects examining the impact of violence and trauma on women’s parenting, the service needs of women in transition, and a program evaluation related to the impact of targeted intervention with children exposed to woman abuse.
Jennifer’s area of interests include gender-based violence against women and girls, women’s experience of and response to intimate partner violence, feminist social work practice, social work education and scholarship within the violence against women field, and standardized measurement of women’s resistance to violence. Her doctoral research explores help-seeking processes among women who experience intimate partner violence, with a particular focus on the intersection of love and abuse in violent intimate partnerships, and fear-based decision making.