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Making Sense of a Global Pandemic: Relationship Violence and Working Together Towards a Violence Free Society - 2nd Edition

Chapter 26: Structural Relationship Violence

Carson contributed research, written objectives, and database editing in the publishing of A Kwantlen Polytechnic University Open Education Resource Textbook available on Pressbooks, called Making Sense of a Global Pandemic: Relationship Violence and Working Together Towards a Violence Free Society where he authored Chapter 26 “Structural Relationship Violence” on the Medical and Prison Industrial Complexes. He also updated the supporting citations for all chapters with more recent research and studies, focusing on ensuring there are proper open access links available for each. For this project he worked under the Founder of NEVR (Network to Eliminate Violence in Relationships), former Nursing Instructor at KPU, and Adjunct Faculty for the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Department at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Balbir Gurm. As well as the Co-Founder of Youth 4 A Change, professor and Chair of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Department at SFU, and the Vice President of the Surrey Pride Society, Dr. Jennifer Marchbank. The Book Launch was held on November 19, 2024, at the KPU Newton Campus.

AUTHOR PROFILE

With experience in research, writing, databases, exhibitions, and archival procedures, Carson Adams (he/him/his) is working towards a Masters of Library and Information Studies and a Masters of Archival Studies while he undergoes a Bachelors of Journalism with a Minor in Geography from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He is also finishing a Diploma of Fine Arts partially completed at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

An emphasis is placed on 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC advocacy, food security, and environmental issues in his work. This is reflected in his lived experience of structural, family, and gender based violence, as well as work at the Central Okanagan Food Bank, Surrey Urban Farmers Market, ECU Library + Archives, and the Open Education Resource Grant program at KPU.

Carson is the recipient of the Kelowna Pride Society Youth Award 2022, BC Achievement Scholarship 2022, KPU Pride Advocacy Award 2024, and the Katie Warfield Memorial Award in Communication Studies 2024. Carson will continue writing for The Runner student newspaper at KPU, and advocating against injustice.

Network to Eliminate Violence in Relationships (NEVR), Surrey, BCNEVR addresses the pandemic of relationship violence including domestic and gender violence, child and senior abuse, policy and more.

NEVR 2nd Edition Project Team – Making Sense of a Global Pandemic – 2nd EditionThis book provides a critical understanding of relationship violence. It is used at KPU in the BSN program, at Douglas College in Early Childhood program, Gender and Sexuality Studies at SFU and Criminology at KPU and SFU. It has chapters on the NEVR Model used for collaboration, on violence against all genders, in the workplace, in post-secondary institutions and a chapter on burnout.

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