2014-2015 Value: $11,000

Established in 1952, to honour the first CFUW President (1919-1923), and awarded to a woman who has completed at least one calendar year in a full-time doctoral program and is enrolled in full-time studies in Canada or abroad at the time of application.

2013-2014 Winner: PRISCILLA FERRAZZI

B.A., 1987, Trent University
L.L.B., 1991, Queen's University
L.L.M., 2007, Queen's University
Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Study (Law and Health Sciences), 2010-2014, Queen's University

Priscilla’s research uses law and health science to explore the feasibility of creating specialized mental health criminal court programs that divert offenders with mental illness from the justice system to community treatment in remote Arctic communities affected by scarce resources, geographic isolation, and Inuit cultural considerations. This research straddles the traditional boundaries between legal and health science scholarship to combine contemporary approaches to mental illness rehabilitation and legal theories of therapeutic justice. Integral to this research is the incorporation of Inuit concepts of “mental wellness,” resilience and wrong-doing in the context of northern health and criminal justice.

To learn more about this research, visit www.NunavutMentalHealthCourts.wordpress.com