By Meaghan Thurston, Office of Research and InnovationHaving spent the better part of two decades working with war-affected children and families, McGill’s Myriam Denov knows that the horrors of war often cannot be expressed through words or narrative. A full professor in the McGill School of Social Work and the Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict (Tier 1), Denov is a specialist in art-based and participatory research. “Both SSHRC and McGill have supported my initiatives to include war-affected children as core members of my research teams, designing the research, and collecting and analyzing data,” said Denov. She is the Founder of Global Child McGill, a research group that examines the migration and resettlement realities of war-affected refugees in Canada. Impact Award winners receive a medal and the Insight Award is accompanied by $50,000 in research funds.
