Grant A. Brown received his DPhil in philosophy from Oxford University in 1997. He taught ethics and political philosophy at the University of Lethbridge from 1990 to 1999. In 2001, he obtained his LL.B. from the University of Alberta, and is currently practicing law in Edmonton. He has published many articles in the academic and popular presses on "gender issues," including employment equity and domestic violence. Of particular interest to RADAR users is his “Gender as a Factor in the Response of the Law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners,” Sexuality & Culture, Vol. 8, Nos. 3-4 (Transaction Periodicals, 2004), pp. 3-139. 

Don Dutton received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto in 1970. After receiving training as a group therapist at Cold Mountain Institute, he co-founded the Assaultive Husbands Project in 1979, a court mandated treatment program for men convicted of wife assault. He has published over 100 papers and four books, including the Domestic Assault of Women (1995), The Batterer: A Psychological Profile (1995),  The Abusive Personality (2006), Rethinking Domestic Violence (2006) and Transformations to Evil (2007)). The Batterer has been translated into French, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese and Polish. Don Dutton has frequently served as an expert witness in civil trials involving intimate abuse and in criminal trials involving family violence. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Peter K. Jensen, LL.B., BCL, B.Sc. - Mr. Jensen, age 55, is married with five children. He acquired his Bachelor of Science and Law degrees at McGill University (with a dual degree in common and civil law).  His science degree is in the field of biology with bias towards medical studies.  During his science degree he conducted diabetes research at the Dr. John Dupre research facility at the Royal Victoria Hospital (Montreal) and was director of a community medical clinic for three years.  In 1981 he commenced the practice of law in the corporate and securities fields in British Columbia.  In 1987 he co-founded Devlin Jensen, now one of the senior corporate and securities firms in Vancouver.  Mr. Jensen has a wide range of legal counseling experience internationally and has a depth of experience in trans-border transactions for Canadian companies wishing to become US reporting and trading issuers (conducted in conjunction with a network of US professional advisors) and US corporations wishing to become Canadian reporting and trading issuers, either through RTO’s or IPO’s.  Mr. Jensen also has significant experience in conducting legal affairs for clients in the Orient, Europe, and Latin America.  In the course of these representations, a wide range of professional contacts have been established to the service of clients in these areas.  Mr. Jensen has an understanding of the particular nature of the challenges facing corporate management as he has been and is a director of a number of private and publicly traded companies, has been a board member of companies with capitalization in the hundreds of millions and assisted in the raising of capital in ranges of up to one hundred million dollars, in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Hong Kong. 

Edward Kruk received his BA and MSW degrees from the University of Toronto in the 1970's and later went on to complete his Ph.D. in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh in 1989. He has worked in the field of child and family policy and practice with the Metro and Catholic Childrens's Aid Societies in Toronto, the Metro Toronto Separate School Board, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, and Catholic Family Services in Calgary.  He has also practiced as a family mediator for the past 15 years. He has published numerous papers and books, including Divorce and Disengagement (1993), and Mediation and conflict resoluition in Social Work and the Human Services (1997).  He is currently Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of British Columbia, and the father of two boys, Liam, 11, and Stephan, 23. 

Andrew Irvine (B.A. (Hon.), M.A., Ph.D.) is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at UBC. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Sydney, he has either held academic posts or been a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, Simon Fraser University, the University of Pittsburgh and Stanford University. Active in both local and national community organizations, Dr Irvine serves on several advisory boards and on the boards of directors of several charitable organizations. He is a Canadian Commonwealth Fellow, a Killam Fellow, a past President of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, and a member of the Board of Governors of the University of British Columbia.  

Tonia L. Nicholls  obtained a Ph.D. with a specialization in Law and Forensic Psychology from Simon Fraser University in 2002. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research funded her three-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia and the BC Institute Against Family Violence. Currently, she is Senior Research Fellow at the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Simon Fraser University. Her scholarly work has earned her “Brain Star” awards from the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health, and Addictions (Canadian Institutes of Health Research), the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution by a Graduate Student, and the Canadian Psychological Association President’s New Researcher Award.  

Marlene Moretti, PhD, Moretti is a full professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University and past director of the Clinical Psychology Program and the Clinical Psychology Centre. She currently leads a multisite Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Emerging Team Grant on gender and aggression and has publish ed extensively in the fields of developmental psychopathology, social-clinical psychology, and intervention. Moretti has served as a member on several government committees working to promote the use of evidence based intervention. She is a coauthor of the book, Girls and Aggression: Contributing Factors and Intervention Principles (Kluwer-Plenum, 2004), and co-wrote the chapter Parental Attachment and the Self from a Systemic Perspective, included in Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory (Guildford, 2003).  She has focused her research on the importance of parent-child attachment as a determinant of health development. She is particularly interested in the transition to adolescence and the development of self-regulatory competence. Her work spans from identification of risk and protective factors to the development and evaluation of innovative programs to promote well-being in youth at high-risk. Dr. Moretti can be reached at:&nb sp; moretti@sfu.ca. 

Mariel Davison (BA PSych) graduated University of Waterloo, worked in IT for major accounting firm in Toronto as an SAP Consultant (Systems Application in Business Data Processing) Volunteered extensively in my community, currently pursuing a career of the heart grooming dogs to American Kennel Club Standards at two local animal hospitals. Most important function, mother to Sarah attending Police College, and pet parent to my little Yorkie Marshall and my Maltese Minou. Mariel had the experience of challenging the prevailing ideology at the shelter in Waterloo and taking the dispute to the Ontario AG. As a result she was dismissed from the shelter, investigated by the Ontario Government and her student loan recalled. She has, in effect, a special knowledge of how the system works. 

Paul Millar has a B.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo in Civil Engineering and a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Calgary in Sociology.  He has published  articles on issues related to family law such as custody and child support.  His Ph.D. work involved an investigation into the effect of law on Canadian children and the "best interest of the child" legal standard. 

Brian K. Jenkins received his Masters of Mathematics (Applied Mathematics) from the University of Waterloo in 1978. He attained his Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries in 1981, and his Fellowship in the Canadian Institute of Actuaries in 1982, and has worked and continues to be employed in the insurance and pension consulting fields. He is one of the directors of the non-profit corporation Fathers Are Capable Too: Parenting Association ("FACT"), that provides front-line support for parents and children, and advocates for both the active involvement of both parents in their children's lives and for formal equality for all Canadians. He is associated with a number of similar international groups such as the Childrens Rights Council. FACT has presented to numerous governmental and private groups, and was been one of the participants in the Coroner's Inquest in the Hadley murder-suicide. Mr. Jenkins has researched and presented on numerous issues with respect to violence, domestic violence, violence, parental involvement and the impact on children. 

Kim Bartholomew obtained her doctorate in Personality Psychology from Stanford University in 1989.  After a year of postdoctoral studies at the University of British Columbia, she joined the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University.  She has spent the last sixteen years conducting research and teaching in the field of close relationships.  Her research has examined attachment processes in adult intimate relationships, relationship abuse, and same-sex relationships.  Her current research interests focus on norms related to partner abuse, the relationship context in which partner abuse develops, and abuse in male same-sex relationships. 

Ferrel Christensen has a BA and ABD in physics, also an MA and PhD in philosophy of science, the latter from Indiana University in 1971. He taught at the University of Alberta until he took early retirement in 1996; during those years he taught courses in logic and ethics as well as in philosophy of science. Since retiring he has continued individual studies and related activism in issues involving gender equality, with a special interest in injustices surrounding abuse in the family and false accusations of abuse in the family.