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Funded Research and Field Development Activities
Research Activities, 1978-1992
Co-principal investigator with Pat Staton, Developing Educational Resources on Sexual Harassment for Secondary Schools. $54,000. Grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, transfer grant, 1991-1992.

Principal Investigator, Do Female Victims of Wife Assault Develop Post-traumatic Stress Reactions? $1,422. OISE small-scale grant, 1990-1991.

Principal Investigator, Validation Study for "Delusional Dominating Personality Disorder." $3,100. OISE small-scale, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant. Fall, 1989 - Spring, 1990.

Principal Investigator, Investigation of the Scientific Basis and Clinical Usefulness of DSM Criteria and Cutoff Points. $3,100. OISE small-scale, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant. Fall, 1989 - Spring, 1990.

Principal Investigator, Is Psychotherapy More Than the Purchase of Friendship? $1,849. Small-scale grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Summer, 1989-1990.

Principal Investigator, Critical Review of Recent Research on "Self-Defeating Personality Disorder": Project Summary. $1,504 small-scale grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1988-1989.

Co-principal Investigator with Pat Staton, Parent Tutoring of Learning Disabled Children. $20,500 grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, transfer grant, 1987-1988.

Co-principal Investigator with Pat Staton, Teaching the Scientific Study of Sex and Gender. $28,000 grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, transfer grant, 1987-1988.

Principal Investigator, Sexism and Other Demeaning Views of Patients in Current Psychiatry. $2,035 small-scale grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1987-1988.

Principal Investigator, Parental Perceptions of Learning Disabilities: Issues in Assessment and Professional Guidance. $2,035 small-scale grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1986-1987.

Principal Investigator, Perceptions of the Appropriateness of Psychotropic Drug Use for Females and Males Project. $900 small-scale grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1984-1985.

Principal Investigator, Toronto Multi-agency Child Abuse Project, which received:
--Two-year, $70,750 research grant from The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation (Toronto), 1979-1981.
--One-year, $25,000 research grant from The Laidlaw Foundation, 1982-1983.
--Small-scale, $1,000 research grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1982-1983.
Principal Investigator, Juvenile Female Prostitution as a Gender-consistent Response to Early Deprivation. Funded by $750 research grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1981.

Principal Investigator, Attitudes Toward Victims and Abusers in Family Violence. Funded by $400 small-scale research grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1983-1984.

Curriculum Development Grants
Head of Project: Curriculum Unit for Grade-School Instruction in Research Methods in the Study of Sex-Role Research. Funded by $3,098 small-scale grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1985-1986.

Head of Project: Teaching Early Grade-School Children About Learning Disabilities. Funded by $4,000 Special Fund Grant from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1983-1984.

Conference Grants
Coordinator, First Canadian Women's Studies Conference: "Women, Power, and Consciousness", October 30-November 1, 198l, which received:
--$6,000 grant from Secretary of State
--$4,000 grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Education Grant
Project Director, Production of “What To Do In a Sexual Harassment Emergency” poster (available in both English and French). Funded by $1500 Ontario Women’s Directorate grant.

Arts Grants
The Flora Family Foundation grant to produce videotape of “The Test,” a drama about the death penalty. $10,000. 2001-2002.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Grant to produce free, public performances of “Call Me Crazy” in various Rhode Island locations, followed by discussions with the audience. $2200. 1999.

Other Public Education, Community, Research, and Field Development Activities

Media
Several hundred appearances on various radio and television programs to discuss psychological research and social and political issues, including Donahue, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo, Sally Jessie Raphael, Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, Hour Magazine, Canada A.M., Speaking Out.

Guest for regular psychology segments on CBC-TV national show McLean At Large, 1981-82.
Hundreds of newspaper interviews.

Professional, Community, and Scholarly Activities
Lay Member, Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Hearings Committee, 2000-03.
Member, Rhode Island Coalition for Affirmative Action (includes work on 1999 Conference
Committee), 1998-99.

Member, Conference Committee, Association for Women in Psychology’s 1999 Conference,
1998-99.

Member, Advisory Council, Resources for Independent Thinking, 1998-1999.

Member, founding group and Board, Toronto’s girl- and woman-centered Linden School, 1992- 95. Board Member Emerita as of 2002.

Member, Community Advisory Board, Women and Body Image Program, Regional Women's Health Centre, Women's College Hospital, 1992-93.

Consultant to Simcoe Legal Services Clinic for Criminal Injuries Compensation Manual, 1992.

Expert witness testimony in courts, in the Law Society of Upper Canada for Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, and for the Ontario Board of Examiners in Psychology.

Consultant on application of recent feminist research on education of females to the operation of St. Clement's School. Toronto, 1991-92.

Panelist for film, "Half the Kingdom" shown by Jewish Student Council. Toronto, January 21, 1990.

Invited participant, consultation on Seaboyer/Gayme (rape law) case, Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, Toronto, 1989.

Co-author of modifications of Canadian Psychological Association's Guidelines for Therapy and Counselling with Women for use by consumers of these services, 1984-1989.

Consultant to Parents' Caucus for Fair Education, 1984-1986.

Coordinator of collection of anecdotal material on sexual harassment in psychologists' and psychology students' workplaces, on behalf of Canadian Psychological Association's Section on Women and Psychology for the C.P.A. Committee on the Status of Women, 1983.

Consultant to Pickering, Ontario, Recreation Department in their efforts to develop a program for learning disabled children, 1982-1983.

Member, Advisory Board for Ministry of Labour Women's Bureau publication on sexist bias in vocational counselling, 1983.

Consultant to Ontario Medical Association's Committee on the Delivery of Health Care Services to Children, 198l.

Consultant to Ontario Educational Communications Authority for television films about socialization and about moral development (Parents' Academy series), 1979.

Supervision of various Temporary Registrants for Ontario Board of Examiners in Psychology, 1977-1993.

Member, Applied Psychology Department's Bill 82 study group, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1982.

Member, Applied Psychology Department's Course Evaluation Committee, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1982.

Numerous lectures to University of Toronto Medical students and staff on children's learning and attention problems, 1979-1993.

Proposal Reviewer, First International Conference on Judaism, Feminism and Psychology. Seattle, 1992.

Grant Proposal Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Reviewer of manuscripts, American Psychologist ; Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health; Canadian Journal of Education/Revue Canadienne de l'Education; Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne; Child Development; Curriculum Inquiry; International Journal of Women's Studies; International Review of Research in Mental Retardation; Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology; Memory and Cognition; Psychology of Women Quarterly; Sex Roles: A Journal of Research; Psychology of Women Quarterly; and Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

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