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Description: About Charlene Y. Senn I hold a Canada Research Chair in Sexual Violence and am a Professor in the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program within the Department of Psychology. I am cross-appointed to Women's and Gender Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies. My research centres on male violence against women with a…
I am on sabbatical July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
I hold a Canada Research Chair in Sexual Violence and am a Professor in the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program within the Department of Psychology . I am cross-appointed in Women’s and Gender Studies . My research centres on male violence against women with a focus on sexual violence and campus interventions.
Over more than 10 years, I developed and evaluated a sexual assault resistance education program (EAAA) for first year University women. The efficacy of this intervention was demonstrated in a CIHR-funded randomized controlled trial (2011-2015) in which the one-year incidence of completed rape was reduced by almost 50% in women who took the intervention compared to those in the control group. In another CIHR-funded study (2016-2021), we recently confirmed the effectiveness of the EAAA program (now known as
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