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	Elizabeth Banister RN PhD
	Professor Centre for Youth and Society and School of Nursing University of Victoria
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• Obtained $2,584,000 in research funding as principal investigator or co-investigator over the past five years (primarily from national sources)
• Research focus: 1) understanding and preventing psychological injury to adolescent girls in terms of their dating relationships, 2) knowledge transfer mechanisms and processes in community-based research
• Developed a mentorship model of prevention for reducing risky sexual behaviour among adolescent females (is revising mentorship model to be more culturally appropriate through consultation with community partners in Aboriginal community )
• Has methodological expertise in critical ethnography and qualitative evaluation

Elizabeth Banister, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include understanding adolescent girls' dating health issues and evaluating a mentorship program used with girls to enhance their health. She is currently leading an interdisciplinary group of researchers to document knowledge transfer processes taking place within a Healthy Youth Community Alliance for Health Research project. Dr. Banister's publications include discussions of ethical, methodological, and pedagogical challenges she has encountered in her research and teaching. She is a registered nurse and registered psychologist.

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