Month: April 2021

The School of Law is delighted to announce a PhD studentship, funded as a Collaborative Studentship by the Department for the Economy (DfE) and the Department of Justice (DoJ). The successful candidate will research the topic of ‘Sexual History Evidence in Northern Ireland Trials:  Prevalence, Impact and Reform’, spending part of their time on placement …

QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST / NORTHERN IRELAND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FUNDED PhD RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP – CLOSING DEADLINE Monday 31st May 2021 at 4pm Read More »

Over the last 18 months, an important research study looking at the work of Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs) has been conducted by Middlesex University and Canterbury Christ Church University with support from LimeCulture. The study focuses on the impacts, effects, coping mechanisms and effective support systems for people working as ISVAs and ISVA Managers …

LimeCulture to Host Event to Launch New Research Findings on the Work of ISVAs – 12th May 2021 13.:00-15:00 BST Read More »

As part of a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship between Women’s Aid and the University of Bristol, Lizzie has been working with the Centre for Gender and Violence Research to analyse 36 transcripts of in-depth interviews with domestic abuse survivors. The analysis has focussed on identifying ‘gendering discourses’, namely those that strengthen and perpetuate inequality between men …

Free Webinar May 24th 2021 13:00-14:00BST – Gendered Experiences of Justice and Domestic Abuse Read More »

The University of Bristol School for Policy Studies is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Criminology to expand and complement our current excellent teaching, research and impact activities in this area. The School has an exceptional reputation for teaching, research and public engagement and the appointee will join an ambitious and collegial School that …

Job Opportunity – Senior Lecturer in Criminology – University of Bristol Read More »

Dr Jaimee Mallion (London South Bank University, UK) and Dr Erika Gebo (Suffolk University, USA) shared the following opportunity to publish. We are currently editing a special issue of the open-access Societies journal on “Collaborative Community Approaches to Address Serious Violence”. We are particularly interested in articles in which practitioners are part of the writing process. This …

Opportunity to Publish in Open-Access Societies Journal Read More »

The Homicide Abuse Learning Together (HALT) research team have published their first briefing paper based on their systematic review of the recommendations of processes for the conduct of Domestic Homicide Reviews globally as well as recommendations made for improving policy and practice responses to domestic violence and abuse. Click here to read and download the …

New Briefing Paper from The Homicide Abuse Learning Together (HALT) research team Read More »

The 2021 VAWGRN webinars will take place on the first Thursday of every month (except August), from 10.30 – 11.30am BST. Starting on Thursday 6th May 2021. The first webinar “Holding Things in Tension While Researching Violence Against Women & Girls” features an incredible panel including Fiona Vera-Gray (Durham University), Ava Kanyeredzi (University of East …

Free tickets for the first VAWGRN webinar of 2021 now available Read More »