Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

This grant request is to fund the costs associated with Day One of a two-day knowledge mobilization event to showcase and critically assess the key research findings emerging from our Team Grant. We plan to hold the event in Ottawa, Ontario on September 22-23, 2014. The first day will be open to a small number of Canadian Francophone and Anglophone journalists. The purpose of this meeting is to ensure that key media figures will have increased capacity to understand the issues and be better equipped to translate available knowledge in public discourse related to regulating sex work that will be taking place in Canada. Five invited experts will join the research team to engage with the media representatives and explore the benefits and challenges associated with different legal approaches to regulating the sex industry in New Zealand, Sweden, Canada, UK, and the USA. Day Two will involve a larger symposium in which we will present significant relevant findings from our research and the invited experts will critically assess our findings and identify directions for innovative legislation for Canada that safeguards the health and safety of those involved in the Canadian sex industry. Day Two will be open to participants from the social and mainstream media, our community partners, Parliamentary, Provincial and Municipal legislators, and health and social policy-makers.