Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

I am a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. I have a long history of working in close partnership with community agencies and groups including domestic violence programs and domestic violence coordinating councils. Across the United States, I provide training to domestic violence programs in the Community Advocacy Model, an empirically supported, survivor-centered, strengths-based, community-based intervention. My research program has four major thrusts: a) to examine systems change processes in the response to social issues (namely, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and juvenile delinquency) and the role of collaborative settings in facilitating such change; b) to explore the experiences of individuals as they navigate complex systems (formal systems such as criminal justice, human service, health care, as well as informal systems such as faith-based settings, sororities, and social networks); c) to investigate the effectiveness of social interventions that aim to alter the contexts of individuals' lives to promote health and well-being; and d) to examine the gendered nature and context of intimate partner violence. See http://www.psychology.illinois.edu/people/allenne for more information and a list of published papers and my full curriculum vitae.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Campus Sexual Assault, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault), Vicarious Trauma

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Action research, Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Ethnography, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial, Training and/or technical assistance

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Action research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Ethnography, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Training and/or technical assistance