About Charlene Y. Senn
I am a Distinguished University Professor in the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program within the Department of Psychology and former Canada Research Chair in Sexual Violence (2017-2024). My research centres on male violence against women with a focus on sexual violence and campus interventions.
Over more than 10 years, I developed and evaluated a sexual assault resistance education program (EAAA) for first year University women. The efficacy of this intervention was demonstrated in a CIHR-funded randomized controlled trial (2011-2015). The one-year incidence of attempted and completed rape was reduced by 50% in women who took the intervention compared to those in the control group. In another CIHR-funded study (2016-2021), the effectiveness of the EAAA program (now known as Flip the Script with EAAA®) was confirmed when it was implemented in Canadian universities. The trial evaluating the efficacy of the sister program (adaptation) for girls in high school (14 and up) has just wrapped up. Research and development continue with adaptations for internet delivery, trans students, and in French (BÉRA).
Flip the Script with EAAA® is available for use by universities and colleges through a Train-the-Trainer model and the SARE Centre non-profit on a cost-recovery basis. See SARECentre.org for more detail.
I was the co-founder of (and researcher for) the UWindsor Bystander Initiative which embeds bystander-focused sexual assault prevention and training into the academic curriculum. I also founded the Health Research Centre for the Study of Violence against Women (now the Gender-Based Violence Research Centre) which continues to bring together feminist researchers across campus for interdisciplinary research collaborations and events.
I teach courses in research methods, the psychology of women, and applied social psychology.
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