Lise Milne is a Ph.D. student at McGill University, the recipient of a Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) scholarship award. For the past 3 years she has worked at the McGill University Centre for Research on Children and Families as a project manager for a knowledge mobilization initiative, Evidence-Based Management in Child Welfare. She is also the coordinator of the Child Welfare Research Portal, a website designed to provide child welfare professionals, researchers, and the general public with a single point of access to Canadian child welfare research. Lise completed her Masters Degree at McGill University, where her thesis focused on identifying adolescent victims of child sexual abuse in residential child protection care. She received both a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and a Bachelor of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. Lise has 13 years of experience in child welfare in both Manitoba and Quebec as a child protection worker, supervisor and trainer. She has been a member, chairperson, and consultant of specialized groups on child sexual abuse and is presently a research assistant for a clinical integration group on sexual abuse at Batshaw Youth and Family Centres, where she also provides specialized training to staff. For her doctoral research, she plans to continue exploring the trauma-related symptoms and treatment interventions for young victims of sexual abuse.
Lise will be teaching a Masters level course on Youth Justice in Canada in the winter of 2012.
Contact Information
McGill University, School of Social Work
3506 University St.
Montreal, PQ, H3A 2A7
tel #: 514 398-4864
fax #: 514 398-4760
e-mail: lise [dot] milne [at] mcgill [dot] ca