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

You are cordially invited to attend Professor Miranda Horvath’s inaugural lecture at the University of Suffolk  “Stronger Together: Ending violence against women and girls is now a solo endeavour”   Format: Face-to-face, in person. [The lecture will be recorded but not livestreamed].  Date: Wednesday 8th June 2022 Time: 18:00 – 19:30 (with refreshments from 17:30) Location: Waterfront Building, Neptune

Established community-based interventions to prevent violence against women and girls are cost-effective and could improve population health The LSE’s article can be found by clicking this link: here. 

Dear friends and colleagues, We have an update for you concerning our joint LEX-VAWGRN (Re)-connecting on Gender-Based Violence Conference in 2022.   Continued strike action in the UK HE sector has made planning the event a challenge. It looks like strike action will clash with our proposed dates. This will potentially mean that we cannot

Since its inception the network has been committed to providing an inclusive and supportive space for all its members. The Steering Committee has been having discussions for over a year about the goals of our network, one of which is to be an inclusive space for research and collaboration. We have discussed whether the name of

I am a research assistant working with Dr Filippo Varese from the University of Manchester, on the Sexual Violence Priority Setting Partnership.I am contacting you as I hope the findings our project may be of interest to you. Since 2019, a team lead by sexual abuse survivors and professionals that work with them have been

Good afternoon,   We’re holding the following Improving Practice & Supporting Survivors in Sexual Assault Referral Centresvirtual conference that is likely to be of interest to your networks and contacts at The Violence Against Women and Girls Research Network.   Please can you share the conference details with your members and list on your website?  In

Dear Research Network Members   The Northern Ireland Executive has launched work on a Strategy on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) which it is intended will be evidence-based and co-designed. An initial Call for Views with the public has just closed and work is under way on an underpinning research strategy. We have