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This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding postdoctoral researcher to join the core team of the Wellcome Trust-funded Investigator Award on ‘Sexual Violence, Medicine, and Psychiatry’ or SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters). Please find the Advert here.
Please find a call for participants below: I am writing to ask for your help in distributing the attached survey which has been designed to capture experiences of the use of ‘chemical restraints’ (including prescribed medicines, vaccines and other illicit drugs) in the context of domestic abuse. The University of Bristol, with Women’s Aid, have …
Network Member, Vikoria Beran (University of Sussex) is conducting virtual interviews with gender-based violence (GBV) researchers who live and work in different contexts globally. She is inviting anyone to take part based on their professional experience as a GBV researcher, as well as their personal experience of being a survivor of GBV. This research is part …
Network member Nadia Wager (University of Huddersfield) is conducting an anonymous online survey exploring the experiences or researchers who study issues related to gender-based violence. Nadia is doing this in her role as Director of the Centre for Researching gender-based violence globally and have recognised the need to develop policies and practices that will maintain …
Camille Stengel (University of Greenwich) and June Brawner (Justice Studio) presented the preliminary findings of their research at the 19th November 2020 COVID and VAWG webinar. The report is now published, and Camille and June have reflected on the research in a recent blog post. They also created a short animated video summarising the research, …
We wanted to invite you to the first dissemination event for the DASC (Domestic Abuse Safeguarding during Covid-19) research project which is a UK- based research study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), as part of UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to Covid-19 (ES/V015745/1). The seminar will present the preliminary findings …
Welsh Women’s Aid is a federation of specialist violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence services in Wales. We have had an enquiry from one of our member services about research that explores patterns of sexual violence reporting, reasons for increase in referrals to sexual violence services and approaches that services could use to …
The recording (along with links) of the first VAWGRN webinar of 2021 – Holding Things in Tension while Researching Violence Against Woman and Girls – is now available from the resources page of our website.
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 …
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 …