Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
This webpage is a centralized hub for resources related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from organizations across British Columbia, as well as key national and international research. We will continue to update this webpage as further resources become available.
Gender in Canada: A Companion Workbook
This workbook is designed fo first or second-year sociology of gender or gender studies courses, focusing on the Canadian context. It is divided into five topics – Theory and Concepts, Institutions, Work, Family and Intimate Relationships, and Bodies and Health – which mirror the content of a course in sociology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, SOCI 2240: Gender in Canada.
Doing a literature review: Community organizations and nonprofits
This guide draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to explain the process of conducting a literature review.
Responding to Critical Incidents of Sexual Violence at Post-Secondary Institutions
This workbook introduces a model for responding to critical incidents of sexual violence and offers a model for how to address harm, reduce risk, and work toward positive outcomes for people affected by sexual violence in the campus community.
BC Gender Equality Report Card 2021/2022
The 2021/2022 Gender Equality Report Card assesses BC’s progress in advancing gender equality in economic security and access to healthcare.
We Are Resilient: An MMIW True Crime Podcast
We are Resilient is a true crime podcast dedicated entirely to telling the stories of Missing & Murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) from the lens of three Indigenous women.
Take Action Against Toxic Hush
Online hate – especially against women and gender-diverse people with intersectional identities – threatens the equity, diversity and inclusion gains we’ve made. This action kit was created as a part of Informed Opinions’ Toxic Hush campaign, an urgent response to the silencing of voices that are already chronically under-represented in public conversations.
Survivor-Centered Research: Guidelines, Principles, & Resources
This toolkit presents a set of guidelines for researching the institutional and personal harms caused by sexual violence. We began developing this toolkit as a way for our research team to think through and reflect on the ethics and practices of survivor-centered research.
Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence in Response to the Extreme Intoxication Defence
This brief identifies how the extreme intoxication defence has been used in the past, explores the implications of the defence for survivors of sexual violence, and shares best practices for talking to survivors about the defence.