Équipes de recherche

Women, violence and vulnerability contexts (CURA)
The main goal of this team is to study diverse issues associated to violence against women as well as the social responses that are brought up. The team members are presently studying women living in different violence vulnerability contexts: migration and multicultural context (refugee, immigrant, women victim of trafficking, etc.); high risk environment context (prostitution, girls in street gang); autonomy limitation context (woman experiencing functional physical limitation, elder women in autonomy loss context, etc.); specific life stage context (teenager dating, elder couples, etc.); and native women’s life condition contexts.


Karine Bates, Marie Beaulieu, Ginette Berteau, Sirma Bilge, Marie-Pierre Bousquet, Renée Brassard, Marie-Marthe Cousineau, Linda Davies, Julie Desrosiers, Myriam Dubé, Mylène Fernet, Sonia Gauthier, Elizabeth Harper, Martine Hébert, Mylène Jaccoud, Julia Krane, Marie Lacroix, Louise Langevin, Francine Lavoie, Ginette Lazure, Lyse Montminy, Lina Noël, Sylvie Normandeau, Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez, Maryse Rinfret-Raynor, Lourdès del Barrio Rodríguez


Children and teenagers, violence and prevention
The team’s work covers diverse aspects of violence: children and teenagers exposed to domestic violence; co-occurrence of domestic violence, child maltreatment and violence in teenager dating relationships. The researchers are also interested in parenthood in domestic violence context, violence prevention, as well as on the intersectorial cooperation associated to child’s and adolescents’ exposure to domestic violence.


Ginette Berteau, Chantal Bourassa, Linda Davies, Myriam Dubé, Mylène Fernet, Andrée Fortin, Louise Hamelin Brabant, Martine Hébert, Julia Krane, Chantal Lavergne, Francine Lavoie, Geneviève Lessard, Suzanne Léveillée, Sylvie Normandeau, France Paradis, Sylvie Parent


Masculinities and Society
This team’s program is entitled “Masculine Realities: Understanding and Intervening”. More specifically, its members focus on fatherhood, violence, health and cultural diversity. The team wants to contribute to knowledge advancement on these four realities and on the associated social & health social practices.


Renée Brassard, Normand Brodeur, Thomas Brown, Jean-Martin Deslauriers, Annie Devault, Janie Houle *, Christine Hudon *, Suzanne Léveillée, Jocelyn Lindsay, Éric Pilote *, Daniel Reinharz, Gilles Rondeau, Jean-François Roussel, Valérie Roy, Gilles Tremblay, Pierre Turcotte


The following themes are transversely addressed by all the teams :

  • Evaluation and associated factors with successful social responses to different types of violence against women (criminal and civil justice system, help services, prevention, etc.).


  • Anthropological and sociological dimensions of violence. Analyse how laws and social policies may generate and maintain women and children in a vulnerability state toward violence and restrain their access to justice and psychosocial services.