Centre for Global Women’s Studies, NUI Galway, Public Lecture: Professor Cris M. Sullivan

The Centre for Global Women’s Studies

is delighted to invite you to a public lecture to mark

International Women’s Day 2015:

A Collaborative, Community-based Study to Define and Measure:

Empowering Practice and “Empowered” Outcomes

Cris M. Sullivan, Ph.D.

Professor, Ecological/Community Psychology

Director, Research Consortium on Gender-based Violence

Michigan State University

Date/Time: Monday 9 March, 4pm

Venue: THB1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway

Refreshments will be served

The goal of empowerment-based programs is to help clients increase their personal, interpersonal, and political power. This talk describes a collaborative partnership with a domestic violence shelter program interested in evaluating how well they were integrating the empowerment model into day-to-day service provision and whether their approach to empowerment-based service delivery was contributing to the intended “empowered outcomes” for the women with whom they work. I will describe how we jointly defined empowerment within this setting, how the empowerment-based practices and intended empowered outcomes were measured, and how the study findings impacted the work of the advocates.

For more information see:

http://www.nuigalway.ie/womens_studies/

http://www.internationalwomensday.com

or email Gillian Browne, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie