For the October Monthly Lunchtime Research Seminar, we are pleased to host Bethany Backes, PhD, MSW, MPH (she/her), as our Dr. Donna Harrington Research Legacy speaker.
UMSSW Lunchtime Research Seminar Series
Hosted by the Office of the Associate Dean of Research
A Donna Harrington Research Seminar
"Community-Engaged Research Impacting Policy and Services at the Intersection of Housing and Intimate Partner Violence"
Thursday, Oct. 26
12:15 - 1:45 p.m. (Virtual)
Backes will speak about her work from two of her research projects. The focus of her work and talk will be on intimate partner violence and the connection with working with women and children, housing needs, and community-engaged research. She will talk about best practices for community-engaged research and working to co-direct research with community partners.
Backes is an associate professor in the Violence Against Women Faculty Cluster at the University of Central Florida (UCF) and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Criminal Justice and School of Social Work. She has over 20 years of combined experience in direct services and research on gender-based violence including a decade at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ)/U.S. Department of Justice where she directed research and evaluation on intimate partner violence, sexual violence, stalking, violent victimization, researcher-practitioner partnerships, and wrongful conviction. Her areas of scholarship broadly encompass research and evaluation on gender-based violence including formal and informal help-seeking trajectories, secondary and tertiary violence prevention strategies, and criminal justice and community-based interventions related to intimate partner, sexual, and stalking victimization.