May 2022

Final Report: Bullying and harassment in the music industry. Please find the report by clicking this link: https://vawgnetwork.mdx.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/BaHMI-final-report18.pdf 

Are you an academic, professional researcher, or student?   Would you like the opportunity to share your research directly with thought leaders, policy makers, and practitioners who work with people subjected to abuse, violence, or trauma?   The first VictimFocus Conference will be held in London over two days, 13-14 September 2022 and we are

 UKPRP is conducting a major review of evidence on whether services and interventions provided to victims of domestic and/or sexual violence and abuse improve safety, wellbeing and empowerment of victim/survivors.  Many high-quality evaluations never get published in academic journals, so are reaching out to organisations like yours. We’re interested in any services or interventions provided

DARNet Dialogues are starting! Click here to reserve your space for ‘Femonationalism’ and policy-making against public sexual harassment.    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/femonationalism-and-policy-making-against-public-sexual-harassment-tickets-336429528777 

Connect Centre Conference 2022: Effective Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Harm and Abuse   We are pleased to enclose a Call for Abstracts for our forthcoming Connect Centre Conference taking place on 5th October 2022, at Preston Marriott Hotel, Preston, UK.     Please find the call for papers document by clicking this link: https://vawgnetwork.mdx.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Call-for-papers-CC-conference_26.04.2270.docx 

Join us for the first in a series of webinars designed to spark conversations between research, policy and practice. Coordinated by the Domestic Abuse Research Network (DARNet).  ‘Femonationalism’ & policy-making against public sexual harassment in Britain and France: pre-empting or fuelling racism? When: 12-1pm, Tuesday 24th May 2022  Where: Online via Teams Charlène Calderaro (Visiting Researcher at Goldsmiths,

The University of Suffolk and the South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL) are researching women’s experiences of online abuse and harassment, including online abuse experienced in the context of abusive or harassing offline relationships. We’re asking women who live in the UK and who are 18 years or older to fill out our short survey (it should take

Registration for this year’s annual Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER) Conference is now free of charge.     PIER22 is an online event held on 14 and 15 June 2022. This important event brings together national leads in areas including violence against women and girls, the voice of the victim and multi-agency safeguarding arrangements.

  Join the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, School for Policy Studies, UoB at their conference on 23 June 2022, where they present and discuss  new research findings about the emerging form of Coercive Control used by abusers in intimate relationships.  The research is part of work they have been doing for the Oak Foundation