Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research (MMFC)

• Sep-Dec 2020: Project manager of Environmental Scan of “Equality-Seeking” Organizations in Atlantic Canada (ESESO ATL) for Women and Gender Equality (WAGE), formerly Status of Women, Canada.
• Dec 2018-Jan 2019: Project design. In collaboration with NB Women’s Equality Branch. Application for (federal) Status of Women capacity-building funding for project Building Partnerships and Fostering Capacity for Research on Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in New Brunswick.

Sexual Violence New Brunswick (formerly Fredericton Sexual Assault Centre) (SVNB)

• Aug 2019-Mar 2024: Evaluation of Maintain: Trauma-informed Principles for Trauma Exposed Workplaces project.
• Mar-Apr 2020: Develop performance measurement framework for Navigating Systems: Working Together to Support Survivors of Sexual Assault project.
• Jan 2019: Evaluation design. Project Implementation Plan for (federal) Status of Women-funded project Trauma Stewardship: A Critical Component in Trauma Informed Supports to Survivors. (Funding approved).
• Apr 2017-Mar 2020: Evaluator. Process and short-term outcomes of the Making Connections: An Integrated Care Model for Victims of Sexual Crimes pilot (Jan 2018-Aug 2019), the Improving Women’s Access to Justice through Institutional Change program (Jan 2018-Mar 2020) and the Enhancing the Criminal Justice Response to Sexual Violence in New Brunswick (Jan 2018-Mar 2020) projects.

Learnsphere (website)

• Jul-Aug 2020: Evaluation of Supply Chain 123 program, data collection, analysis and write-up for company’s final report to Office of Literacy and Essential Skills, Human Resources and Skills Development, Canada.

New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council (NBAPC)

• Oct 2019-Apr 2020: Congress of Aboriginal Peoples-Canada Political Accord Implementation project design, data analysis and reporting for membership needs assessment and community resource mapping.
• Sep 2019-Jan 2020: Design workplan, conduct gap analysis, and write 10-year Basic Organizational Capacity funding proposal for Canada-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.
• Jan-Mar 2019: Note-taker at meetings in each of the zones with Council members and staff. Co-write the final report with facilitator Dr. Jula Hughes for the federal government’s Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and First Nation Citizenship.
• Oct 2017-Mar 2019: Project coordinator. Develop and follow project workplan for Building Partnership and Protocols in a Relationship Agreement Toward Improving Socio-Economic Outcomes for Off-Reserve Aboriginal People. Consult with members, develop relationship agreement, and build supporting resource catalogue for negotiations between Council, provincial and federal governments.
• Sep 2016-Mar 2017: Project Coordinator. Research the housing and support service needs of urban Aboriginal seniors, and develop a culturally appropriate framework of recommendations.

Fredericton Legal Advice Clinic (FLAC)

• Sep 2019-Jan 2020: Evaluation of Youth Access to Justice Clinic and Outreach Program pilot program developed by Fredericton Legal Advice Clinic and New Brunswick Office of the Child Youth Advocate.

First Nations Innovation and First Mile Connectivity Consortium

• Dec 2017-Feb 2018: Produced print and electronic formats of a book celebrating the people and accomplishments of both SSHRC-funded First Nations Innovation and Firstmile projects led by Dr. Susan O’Donnell, Sociology, UNB, with partners Atlantic Canada’s First Nation Helpdesk / Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey, the First Nations Education Council, and Keewaytinook Okimakanak.
• Aug 2017-Mar 2018: Research Assistant. Various projects researching network and information technology use by Canadian First Nations communities. Transcription; tracked research dissemination; organized online videoconference and submitted requests for information.

Department of Public Safety, Government of New Brunswick

• Feb 2017-Sep 2018: Evaluator. Process of pilot for the Coordinated Community Response Model to High Risk/High Danger Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence in New Brunswick.

Populus Global Solutions, Fredericton, New Brunswick (website)

• Jan-Jun 2016: Usability analyst working with Dr. Julie Maitland. Research and implement protocols and processes for measuring adoption levels and effectiveness of the functional components of an electronic health record system.

New Brunswick Community College (NBCC).

• Dec 2015-Mar 2016: Grant-writing with Dr. William McIver Jr., Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Research Chair at the Mobile First Technology Initiative. Research revenue sources, assemble and edit funding proposals for various projects.

Wellness Project Department of Social Development New Brunswick Government

• Sep-Dec 2015: Researcher. Review of obesity and tobacco-use prevention policies for evidence of impact.

Survey of Services for Canadian STI/Sexual Health Clinics, Psychology, UNB

• Apr-Sep 2015: Researcher. First national survey of sexual health clinical services provided by Canadian STI/Sexual Health Clinics, led by Dr. Lucia O’Sullivan and Dr. Jo Ann Majerovich, MD. Built contact database; co-designed and administered English survey; supervised undergraduate conducting French survey; data cleaning.

While completing my graduate work, I was fortunate to work with a number of terrific people in various capacities on a wide range of research projects. I had the good fortune to work for many years with the late Dr. Vanda Rideout, Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). From 2013 until Dr. Rideout’s death in early 2016, I was project coordinator and a research associate on the “Measuring high-tech digital skilled workers in New Brunswick’s Information and Communication Technology Sector” project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). In that project, which examined the nature and quality of employment in the New Brunswick information technology sector, I managed project logistics and communications, contributed to instrument design, ran the research pilot, conducted data collection and analysis, and made presentations about our preliminary findings. In the past, I played similar roles in Dr. Rideout’s Community Intermediaries Research Project (2004-2006), which examined the uses of communication technology in the health sector, and the Information Society Inequalities in Atlantic Canada study (2002-2003), which looked at digital divides.In early 2013, I assisted Dr. Jacki Low from Sociology at UNB on her research into Alternative Level Care Patients, a study designed to ascertain the home support needs of seniors in New Brunswick. From June 2011 to July 2013, I supported Jennifer Philips, Project Manager of the Maritime Early Literacy Team with project logistics, data collection and coordinating the Advisory Committee. Funding for this project, which was designed to evaluate early literacy projects in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, came from the Canadian Institute of Health Research.

I was first hired as a Research Assistant in the e-Government group at the National Research Council, Institute of Information Technologies (NRC-IIT) in the summer of 2003. I was rehired on a succession of contracts from 2006 to 2011 as part of the People-Centred Technologies Group, during which I worked on a variety of research projects with various research officers. In that time I conducted literature reviews, organized research schedules, participated in data collection and analysis, was lead and contributing author and editor on publications, presentations, reports and funding proposals.

In addition to research, I have organized and run aspects of different conferences. As local arrangements coordinator, I was able to provide support for the Program Chairs and organize pre-conference events at the NRC-IIT as part of CONGRESS 2011. I also maintained communications, reviewed papers and was responsible for all local arrangements and events for the 2008 International Symposium on Technology and Society held at the NRC-IIT and UNB. In 2007-2008, I provided organizational and logistical support to the co-chairs of the Qualitatives conference, which was held at UNB and Saint Thomas University (STU). For the 2006 International Conference on e-Commerce, I coordinated registration, conference materials, social activities and the volunteer schedule.