Application Here   Mirroring sex worker campaigns (ECP; SCOTPEP; NUM), official consultations (Home Office, 2004, 2006, 2008; APPG, 2014; HASC, 2016), and wider debates, over the last two decades there has been much academic interest in the legal responses to sex work (Scoular and O’Neill, 2007; Graham, 2017; Munro and Della Giusta (eds), 2008). Much …

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Online Safety campaign CAMPAIGN EVENT: Hear from survivors, MPs and experts tomorrow   Join us from 1pm tomorrow for the launch of the VAWG Principles for the Online Safety Bill, produced with colleagues and experts from across the VAWG sector. We’ll be hearing about why the Bill must address online violence against women and girls and we …

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NEW CAMPAIGN: Include women and girls in online safety law   From EVAW: ‘Today we’ve launched a new campaign with Glitch, urging the government to include women and girls in new online safety law. The government’s “world-leading” Online Safety Bill will give social media companies and tech platforms a duty of care to their users. But in its …

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(Re)Connecting  on Gender-Based Violence  Call for PAPERs We seek papers (of around 20 mins in length + 10 mins for questions) from the frontiers of GBV scholarship, with particular attention to silenced/marginalised voices (both in terms of researchers and those whose lives we research), and on building alternative ways of addressing GBV in different contexts. …

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Weʼre raising £12,000 to support migrant/asylum/refugee women and children, victims of violence and abuse who have no recourse to public funds Cases we are supporting “Amara” was told by social services that she and her young daughter could simply live at the opposite side of the same house to her abusive husband when she reported domestic abuse. Social …

Crowdfunding for migrant/asylum/refugee women and children, victims of violence and abuse who have no recourse to public funds! Read More »

Submission deadline: 5 January 2022 All abstracts and enquiries to: k.allen3@uos.ac.uk The Domestic Abuse Research Network (DARNet) is delighted to be hosting a virtual conference on policy responses to gendered violence, which will take place on 15 March 2022. The event is supported by the Social Policy Association. Context and themes Since the (re)discovery of violence against women …

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Applications are invited for a Post Doctoral Research Assistant to work on Project Bluestone. Project Bluestone (NOTE – the operational name for this project is Operation Soteria) was created as a way of using administrative police data to identify challenges, good practice, and areas for improvement in the way that Rape and Serious Sexual Offences …

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The PhD studentships affiliated to Ps 1 & 2 of Bluestone and being running through BU are now live:   PhD Studentship – Rape myths and stereotypes in policing | Bournemouth University   PhD Studentship – Measuring harm in policing | Bournemouth University   PhD Studentship – The behavioural analysis of rape and serious sexual …

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The Women and Equalities Committee is looking for a Specialist Adviser to assist the Committee with its ongoing work on preventing violence against women and girls. The Committee is looking for an experienced Specialist Adviser who can work well within a small team and help the Committee prepare for an inquiry. The post will run …

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University of Glasgow GBV Research Forum Seminars To mark the 16 Days of Action on GBV the University of Glasgow GBV Research Forum will be hosting two online seminars.  Women’s Experiences of Victim Blame from Agencies Amy Beddows, London Metropolitan University Thursday 25th November, 1-2pm Further details and booking here  Post-Separation Economic Power and Control  Jenn Glinski, University of Glasgow Thursday …

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