Myriam Denov

Myriam S. Denov is a Canadian scholar and child advocate. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Children, Families, and Armed Conflict at McGill University. Denov is a Trudeau Foundation Fellow and a Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Myriam Denov
Academic background
EducationBA, Sociology and Criminology, 1993 University of Toronto, BSW, 1994,McGill University
MA, Criminology, 1996, University of Ottawa
PhD, Criminology, 2000, University of Cambridge
ThesisGender typifications and the experiences of survivors of child sexual abuse by female perpetrators: a qualitative analysis (1996)
Academic work
InstitutionsMcGill University
University of Ottawa

Early life and education

Denov completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and criminology at the University of Toronto, and her BSW at McGill University before enrolling at the University of Ottawa for her Master of Arts degree. Upon completing these degrees, she moved to the United Kingdom to attend the University of Cambridge for her PhD in Criminology.[1]

Career

Following her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Denov returned to Canada and became an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.[1] In this role, she travelled to Sierra Leone to partner with a local NGO interviewing former child soldiers as part of a research project on the long-term effects of the war.[2] During her time in Sierra Leone, she employed a community-based participatory research method called PhotoVoice which allows the former child soldiers to document their daily lives using cameras.[3]

Denov eventually joined the faculty of McGill University's School of Social Work where she was appointed a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Children, Families, and Armed Conflict to extend her research in the lived experiences of children during wartime.[4] Denov used her 2014 Trudeau Foundation Fellowship to focus on children born of wartime rape. She collaborated with two NGOs to investigate these children's lived experiences and their relationships with their families and communities.[5] As part of her fellowship, she co-developed an art-based research project involving 79 children who had been born into captivity in the LRA. The children created masks to narrate their experiences and process their traumatic memories.[2] The results of her study found that children who were born to mothers abducted and raped by members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) felt that wartime was better than peacetime. This was because they felt a greater sense of family cohesion and status within the LRA during the conflict. As well, following the conflict these children often endured stigmatization and social exclusion.[6]

Following her fellowship, Denov was named a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists for "opening up new lines of inquiry and drawing international attention to war-affected children."[7] In 2020, Denov was the recipient of a Killam Research Fellowship to focus on continuing her research investigating the perspectives, realities, and psychosocial needs of children born of war in northern Uganda.[8] She was also awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Impact Award in recognition of her research on children and families affected by war.[9] In 2022, Denov was renewed as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at McGill.[10]

Selected publications
  • Children Affected by Armed Conflict: Theory, Method, and Practice (2017)
  • Global Child: Children and Families Affected by War, Displacement & Migration (2023)
  • Introduction to Social Work in Canada: Histories, Contexts, and Practices (2022)
  • Social Work Practice with War-Affected Children (2019)
  • Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (2010)

References
  1. "MYRIAM DENOV, Ph.D. CV" (PDF). McGill University. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  2. "Masks we wear: healing, hope for child-survivors of war". McGill McMaster. November 18, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  3. Denov, Myriam; Doucet, Denise; Kamara, A. (2012). "Engaging war affected youth through photography: Photovoice with former child soldiers in Sierra Leone" (PDF). Intervention. 10 (2): 117–133. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  4. "Canada Research Chairs: October 2014 Recipients List". Government of Canada. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  5. Thurston, Meaghan (September 16, 2014). "McGill's Myriam Denov awarded prestigious Trudeau Fellowship". McGill Reporter. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  6. "When children see war as better than peace". McGill University. April 11, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  7. "Congratulations to Myriam Denov being named a Member of the College of New Scholars". McGill University. November 17, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  8. "Two McGill professors awarded prestigious Killam Research Fellowships". McGill University. May 26, 2020. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
  9. "Myriam Denov receives award for her research on children and families affected by war". McGill University. December 7, 2020. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
  10. Thurston, Meaghan (January 12, 2022). "Federal Government announces 17 Canada Research Chairs for McGill". McGill Reporter. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
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