Coffee Chats with Researchers

By Coffee Chats with Researchers

Ever wanted to sit down with your favorite researcher or practitioner and chat about all the cool things they do? Well look no further than our Coffee Chat series! We’re traveling around to sit with s... more

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How many episodes does Coffee Chats with Researchers have?

The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.

Coffee Chats with Researchers episodes:

March 24, 2023 Dr. Rebecca Campbell
Catie interviews Dr. Rebecca Campbell, Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University,
who researches victim disclosure practices and help-seeking experiences. Dr. Campbell speaks
to her experience serving as Presidential Advisor, Relationship Violence & Sexual Misconduct, in
which she assisted Michigan State University administration in improving the process for
survivors on their campus in response to former doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse of patients. Dr.
Campbell and Catie discuss the importance and challenges of the role of “researchers as
activists” while Dr. Campbell shares her dedication to changing systems by impacting policy and
practice and ultimately improving the survivor experience.

Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.
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38min
March 17, 2023 Dr. April Zeoli
Catie interviews Dr. April Zeoli, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy
in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, a firearm violence researcher studying
intimate partner homicide and examining extreme-risk protection order laws and their implementation.
She and Catie discuss the challenges of accessing data and records around gun violence in intimate
partner cases as well as the ways implementation of “red flag laws” can improve to ensure gun
relinquishment occurs. And most importantly, Dr. Zeoli shares that the research indeed suggests “that
we can prevent gun violence and reduce homicide through laws that restrict dangerous people from
having guns”.
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Extreme risk protection orders in response to threats of multiple victim/mass shooting in six U.S.
states: A descriptive study
Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.
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36min
March 10, 2023 Dr. Chiara Sabina
Catie interviews Dr. Chiara Sabina, Associate Professor in the Rutgers University School of Social Work
and Associate Director of the Center for Research on Ending Violence in the Rutgers University School of Social Work. Dr. Sabina, whose work primarily focuses on the Latinx population, shares with Catie her
passion for bringing more diversity into the field of gender-based violence. The two discuss the
importance of prevention and intervention that account for the intersections of identity and reach
populations that have been historically oppressed and underserved. Dr. Sabina also discusses the
potential long-term implications of her current study with local domestic violence survivors in Quito,
Ecuador using integrative community therapy, which she describes as a culturally congruent, non-
hierarchical dialogue circle, group-based approach.
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28min
March 03, 2023 Leigh Goodmark
Catie interviews Professor Leigh Goodmark, JD, who serves as the Marjorie Cooke Professor of Law at
the University of Maryland Carey School of Law where she directs the Gender Violence Clinic. Professor
Goodmark represents criminalized survivors of domestic violence and trains students to represent
victims of violence. She and Catie discuss how the criminal and legal system can harm victims and
further the perpetration of violence. Professor Goodmark discusses how her passion to mitigate further
trauma and harm to criminalized survivors led her on a journey to identifying as an abolitionist.
The Gender Policy Report: Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: Economic, Public Health,
and Community Solutions
Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.
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33min
February 24, 2023 Dr. Kaitlin Boyle
Catie interviews Dr. Kaitlin Boyle, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal
Justice and the University of South Carolina, who uses social psychology and sociological perspectives to
study how social inequalities and power dynamics shape the socialization processes that enable
environments in which violence occurs. She and Catie discuss her approach to research as looking at
violence as both a reflection of and reinforcer of inequality and its influence on her varied research
interests, including looking at the role gender plays in mass gun violence. And finally, Dr. Boyle shares
more about the process of moving her Violence and (In)justice Lecture Series to a working group,
thereby building professional networks across the many fields addressing interpersonal violence and
encouraging interdisciplinary research collaborations.
Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.
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37min
February 17, 2023 Dr. Claire M. Renzetti
Catie interviews Dr. Claire M. Renzetti, Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Kentucky;
the Judy Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies on Violence Against Women in the Center for
Research on Violence Against Women; Editor, Violence Against Women: An International,
Interdisciplinary Journal (SAGE); Editor, Gender & Justice Series (University of California Press); Co-
Editor, Interpersonal Violence Series (Oxford University Press); and Editor, Family & Gender-Based
Violence Series (Cognella). Dr. Renzetti starts by sharing her excitement for her research of the OVW
funded evaluation of the therapeutic horticulture program at the Greenhouse 17 shelter and its
implications for improvement in self-esteem and self-efficacy for women participating in therapeutic
horticulture shelter programs. The two discuss the value of funding innovative research in the field of
violence against women and the impacts of what Dr. Renzetti calls “purposive research”, which she
defines as data collection that is making a difference and producing usable knowledge.
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38min
February 10, 2023 Dr. Anne DePrince
Catie interviews Dr. Anne DePrince, Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver and Director of
the Traumatic Stress Studies Group. Dr. DePrince also serves as Associate Vice Provost for Public Good
Strategy and Research at the University of Denver, where she supports University research
collaborations that impact community responses to violence and public problems. She and Catie discuss
the responsibility of researchers to center community in their research and how interdisciplinary
collaborations within communities can impact trauma-informed policies and services. They also discuss
the practical implications of her recently published book, Every 90 Seconds: Our Common Cause Ending
Violence Against Women, which Dr. DePrince shares “connects the ways that violence against women is
tangled up with education reform, legal reform, healthcare access, and economic inequities and makes
the case that all members of a community share a stake in working together to prevent violence”.
Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.
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34min
February 03, 2023 Dr. Lisa Fedina
Catie interviews Dr. Lisa Fedina, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of
Michigan, whose research focuses on understanding the social, economic, and health consequences of
violence experienced across the lifespan, particularly in historically oppressed and underserved
communities. Dr. Fedina shares how a person-centered approach to her research impacts survivor
outcomes by encouraging specified approaches to community response and prevention. The pair also
discuss how response systems are influenced by power and the ways structural power imbalances
contribute to the root causes of violence.
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32min
January 27, 2023 Dr. Eli Silva Martinez
Catie interviews Dr. Eli Silva-Martinez, Associate Professor at University of Puerto Rico, Río
Piedras and Co-Director of the campus organization, Siempre Vivas, which works with survivors
of intimate partner violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking at the University of
Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
Dr. Silva-Martinez shares with Catie how her work “honors the voices of women”, particularly
Latina women, from an ethnographic perspective. She and Catie discuss the importance of
amplifying the voices of Latinas and immigrants in the field of intimate partner violence and
sexual violence and how Dr. Silva-Martinez’s story shaped her work. They also discuss the
creative ways Dr. Silva-Martinez disseminates her work, which includes her experience working
with community partners to research and produce an award-winning documentary,
Desempacando.
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29min
January 20, 2023 Dr. Abha Rai
Catie interviews Dr. Abha Rai, Assistant Professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of
Social Work and Associate Director for the Center for Immigrant and Refugee Accompaniment
at the Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work. They speak about culturally-responsive
ways of connecting with immigrant communities and the importance of using or creating
culturally-responsive instruments to collect prevalence rates of domestic violence. Dr. Rai
discusses her research on in-law abuse in South Asian communities as well as the role of
bystander intervention in immigrant communities.
Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.
Development of B.R.A.K.E. the Cycle: A Culturally Responsive Bystander Intervention for South
Asian Immigrants in the United States
Systematic Review of the Psychometric Properties of Culturally Responsive Domestic Violence
Measures
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37min

FAQs about Coffee Chats with Researchers:

How many episodes does Coffee Chats with Researchers have?

The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.