Michelle Coghlan is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada. She was a Research Assistant on this study exploring perceptions of and responses to intimate partner violence among young Canadian-born and immigrant women.

Jennifer Connolly (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Clinical Developmental Psychology at York University and is also the Director of the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution. Her research examines social development in adolescence and especially romantic development. She also studies dating violence and youth at risk. Current research examines media influences on dating violence, cross-national study of dating violence in Italy and Canada, relationship dissolution and dating violence and evaluation of a high school dating violence prevention program.

Wendy Craig (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University. Her research examines the risk and protective factors associated with bullying and victimization in family, peer, individual, school and social relationships. She also works on aggression in females in romantic relationships, dating violence and young girls with behaviour problems. She recently won an Investigator Award from the Canadian Institute of Health Research. She has published widely in the areas of bullying and victimization, peer processes, sexual harassment and aggression in girls and edited and coauthored books as well as numerous book chapters and articles, including a Report for the World Health Organization.

Ilene Hyman (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto and a Research Associate at the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement. Her expertise is in the areas of immigration and health, women’s health and cross-cultural issues in health care. She has most recently been involved in several research studies examining intimate partner violence in newcomer communities including studies of prevalence, risk factors and help-seeking behaviour.

Depeng Jiang (Ph.D.) is a Research Associate at York University and statistical consultant at the Toronto Child Development Institute. His research interests include data analyses and statistical issues in behaviour science and quantitative methodology and experiment design.

Jennifer Lamb is a research assistant with the Canadian Initiative for the Prevention of Bullying and the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution. She is currently a medical student at the University of Toronto.

Robin Mason (Ph.D.) is a Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Women’s Health and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her expertise is in community based participatory research and the health effects of intimate partner violence (IPV), the experience of IPV in minority cultural communities and how to effectively train and educate health care professionals to these issues. She was a Principal Investigator on this study exploring perceptions of and responses to intimate partner violence among young women.

Debra Pepler (Ph.D.) is Professor of Psychology at York University, a Senior Associate Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children and holds a Senior Research Fellowship from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation. She co-leads the Canadian Initiative for the Prevention of Bullying, funded by the National Crime Prevention Strategy. She edited a recent book on international bullying prevention programs and has consulted with the OECD on school violence. Her clinical work is in the area of children’s aggression and children in families at risk. She works on the Earlscourt Girls Connection for aggressive girls and their families and Breaking the Cycle for substance using women and their young children. She holds several research grants.

Vappu Tyyskä (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. Her research and publication are in the area of gender relations, sociology of youth and intergenerational relations, including those in immigrant communities. She has conducted research on youth-parent relations in the Iranian and Sri Lankan Tamil communities in Toronto. She has participated in team research on the needs of newcomer immigrant children. She is currently starting a research project on family violence in selected immigrant communities and a team research project on immigrant women’s English language acquisition and proficiency. the CIHR NET Grant project entitled ‘Preventing Violence in the Lives of Girls and Women’.

Janice Waddell (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor at Ryerson University, Associate Director of the School of Nursing, Co-Investigator of the Ryerson University, Faculty of Community Services, Nursing Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children and a Senior Associate with Donner & Wheeler Career Planning and Development Consultants. Her clinical practice expertise is in the areas of adolescent and child mental health. Clinical practice research activity focuses on Aggressive Girls’ Health. She is a Collaborator with the CIHR NET Grant project entitled ‘Preventing Violence in the Lives of Girls and Women’.

Lari Warren-Jeanpiere (Ph.D.) is a medical sociologist whose research interests include African American mother/daughter communication, women’s health and race, class and gender. She is a Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at the Wayne State University School of Medicine
where she conducts health disparity research.

Fiona Whittington-Walsh is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at York University and teaches at Ryerson University’s Department of Sociology. She works on community-academic research partnerships as well as everyday experiences of women and young girls with facial/physical differences. Her current research is examining cosmetic surgery and the production of beauty consumption.

The Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal is generously funded by the Wellesley Central Health Corporation and is permanently housed at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto. The founder and the first general editor is Aysan Sev'er, University of Toronto.