Denov is a Trudeau Foundation Fellow and a Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
[1] In this role, she travelled to Sierra Leone to partner with a local NGO interviewing former child soldiers as part of a research project on the long-term effects of the war.
[2] During her time in Sierra Leone, she employed a community-based participatory research method called PhotoVoice which allows the former child soldiers to document their daily lives using cameras.
[2] The results of her study found that children who were born to mothers abducted and raped by members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) felt that wartime was better than peacetime.
[6] Following her fellowship, Denov was named a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists for "opening up new lines of inquiry and drawing international attention to war-affected children.