Dr. Ursel completed her doctoral work and then published a book on the results, entitled Private Lives, Public Policy: 100 Years of State Intervention in the Family. She has spent most of her life’s work at the University of Manitoba and also five years with the provincial government addressing the issue of violence and abuse in our society.
In 1990 she was a founder and co-director of a research centre called Family Violence and Violence Against Women (1992 – 1997). She expanded the research centre to become RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse). She is Director of RESOLVE Manitoba. She has served on the board of Osborne House and Child and Family Services. Dr. Ursel chaired the Lavoie Implementation Committee and all 91 recommendations of that committee have been acted upon. She also served on the City of Winnipeg domestic violence working group that concluded its report in 2000.
She has been invited to speak throughout Canada, Australia and China on family violence and she is also a participant on many national research projects.
