Violence, Health and Society: VISION
Lead Research Organisation:
City St George’s, University of London
Department Name: School of Social Sciences
Abstract
Violence causes harms to health. The harms to mental health can be more long-lasting than the immediate harms to physical health and have consequences that reverberate through a person's life impacting on their functioning in society. Reducing such 'upstream' determinants of poor mental health would significantly improve the health of the population. This would reduce health inequalities since being a victim of violence is more prevalent among those who are already disadvantaged.
The Consortium would investigate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce violence and, thus, reduce health inequalities. Within the field of violence, we have special interest in domestic and sexual violence because these are significant causes of inequalities in mental health, which have been relatively neglected in the scientific and statistical evidence base. We address how to mainstream these issues across multiple sectors rather than seeing them as only of specialised concern.
Multiple institutions are relevant to preventing violence. They include not only health services, but also criminal law enforcement (most violence is a crime), civil law (e.g. domestic protection orders), specialised services (Third Sector organisations that help victim/survivors of violence), and governmental bodies concerned with law, policy and data quality. The connections between violence and ill health are complicated since they are mediated by many of these institutions. Identifying these connections would aid the development of more effective interventions while a complex systems analysis captures the adaptive behaviour between these systems.
The data needed to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions is currently weak. This is partly because each specialised academic discipline and profession has a different way of measuring violence, which makes cooperation across these differences difficult. Not only do we need harmonised core metrics for the evaluation of interventions and cross-sector cost-benefit comparisons, we also need to adapt and extend our metrics to capture newly identified forms of abuse such as that facilitated by technology. The Consortium aims to improve the measurement framework and data availability to aid the evaluation of interventions. This is premised on cooperation between academics and practitioners. The project seeks to identify profiles of persons and incidents exposed to violence and link data from multiple services and surveys. We would assist services to make their own data more useable and more available. This involves care and attention to issues of data protection and the development of bespoke agreements on data sharing that respect communities that generate data.
We would unlock the potential in multiple data sources rather than collect new data. These datasets include major national surveys such as the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, and the Crime Survey for England and Wales, and also administrative data sets from professions and practitioners, including the police, solicitors, health and specialised services. These datasets will be linked in a new integrated dataset and provide an evidence base upon which a cost-benefit framework and risk assessment tools can be developed.
With the linked data and new tools, we would assess key interventions. These are interventions at the level of institutions and systems. Our focus is the prevention of violence in the population rather than the treatment of trauma in individuals. The Consortium seeks to mainstream evidence of the significance of violence for health in policy making. We would engage with decision-makers concerned with the commissioning of services and policy makers concerned with priorities for public expenditure, as well as wider publics.
The aim is to reduce the harm to health, especially mental health, by identifying the most effective and cost-effective interventions to reduce violence in the population.
The Consortium would investigate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce violence and, thus, reduce health inequalities. Within the field of violence, we have special interest in domestic and sexual violence because these are significant causes of inequalities in mental health, which have been relatively neglected in the scientific and statistical evidence base. We address how to mainstream these issues across multiple sectors rather than seeing them as only of specialised concern.
Multiple institutions are relevant to preventing violence. They include not only health services, but also criminal law enforcement (most violence is a crime), civil law (e.g. domestic protection orders), specialised services (Third Sector organisations that help victim/survivors of violence), and governmental bodies concerned with law, policy and data quality. The connections between violence and ill health are complicated since they are mediated by many of these institutions. Identifying these connections would aid the development of more effective interventions while a complex systems analysis captures the adaptive behaviour between these systems.
The data needed to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions is currently weak. This is partly because each specialised academic discipline and profession has a different way of measuring violence, which makes cooperation across these differences difficult. Not only do we need harmonised core metrics for the evaluation of interventions and cross-sector cost-benefit comparisons, we also need to adapt and extend our metrics to capture newly identified forms of abuse such as that facilitated by technology. The Consortium aims to improve the measurement framework and data availability to aid the evaluation of interventions. This is premised on cooperation between academics and practitioners. The project seeks to identify profiles of persons and incidents exposed to violence and link data from multiple services and surveys. We would assist services to make their own data more useable and more available. This involves care and attention to issues of data protection and the development of bespoke agreements on data sharing that respect communities that generate data.
We would unlock the potential in multiple data sources rather than collect new data. These datasets include major national surveys such as the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, and the Crime Survey for England and Wales, and also administrative data sets from professions and practitioners, including the police, solicitors, health and specialised services. These datasets will be linked in a new integrated dataset and provide an evidence base upon which a cost-benefit framework and risk assessment tools can be developed.
With the linked data and new tools, we would assess key interventions. These are interventions at the level of institutions and systems. Our focus is the prevention of violence in the population rather than the treatment of trauma in individuals. The Consortium seeks to mainstream evidence of the significance of violence for health in policy making. We would engage with decision-makers concerned with the commissioning of services and policy makers concerned with priorities for public expenditure, as well as wider publics.
The aim is to reduce the harm to health, especially mental health, by identifying the most effective and cost-effective interventions to reduce violence in the population.
Technical Summary
The vision underlying the Consortium on 'Violence, Health and Society' is that improving the knowledge base on violence and using this knowledge to inform changes to policy and practice will improve population health and reduce health inequalities. It will do so by acting on 'upstream' harms to health caused by violence. Research on such interventions is developing but is held back by weak theory and weak data. Theory is weak because it is often focused on individuals rather than on the system level. We will develop systems analysis using complexity theory that allows consideration of feedback loops that generate wicked problems and perverse outcomes. We will embed questions about the significance of multiple intersecting inequalities including gender and ethnicity into the theory underpinning the systems framework. Data is weak because, collected by multiple agencies for their own purposes, it is fragmented and incommensurable. We will work with data providers to develop survey and administrative data in health, justice and specialised services and translate it into our shared measurement framework. We will curate existing datasets rather than collect new data. We will use natural language processing to turn free-text narratives into quantitative data. We will integrate data using probabilistic individual profiles, which offers a powerful new route to data linkage that avoids the dangers of identifying real people. We will interrogate our newly improved data with questions about the nature of the causal pathways connecting violence, health and society to identify promising sites of intervention. We will develop cost-benefit analysis and evaluate interventions, using findings to build the theory of change. With our partners in health, justice, specialised services and government, we will seek to embed the new measurement in practice, to enable evidence-based feedback on developments to reduce violence and thereby improve health and reduce health inequalities.
Organisations
- City St George’s, University of London (Lead Research Organisation)
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (Collaboration)
- Chatham House (Collaboration)
- Against Violence & Abuse (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- Women's Aid (Collaboration)
- MQ Mental Health Research (Collaboration)
- Leeds Beckett University (Collaboration)
- Refuge (Collaboration)
- TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (Collaboration)
- Rape Crisis (Collaboration)
- National Crime Agency (Collaboration)
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND (Collaboration)
- South London and Maudsley (SLAM) NHS Foundation Trust (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION (Collaboration)
- Home Office (Collaboration)
- AIMES Grid Services Ltd (Collaboration)
- NHS England (Collaboration)
- Queen's University Belfast (Collaboration)
- SafeLives (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network (Collaboration)
- Monash University (Collaboration)
- University of Cambridge (Collaboration)
- Akrivia Health (Collaboration)
- Swansea University (Collaboration)
- MIND (Mental Health Charity) (Collaboration)
- University of Glasgow (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (Collaboration)
- University for the Creative Arts (Collaboration)
- Public Health Wales NHS Trust (Collaboration)
- NHS DIGITAL (Collaboration)
- Southwark Council (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- University of Oxford (Collaboration)
- Trades Union Congress (TUC) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- McPin Foundation (Collaboration)
- Thames Valley Police (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- University of Southampton (Collaboration)
- Respect (Domestic Violence Prevention Service) (Collaboration)
- World Health Organization (WHO) (Collaboration)
- University of Nottingham (Collaboration)
- London Borough of Islington (Collaboration)
- Agenda Alliance (Collaboration)
- Lancashire Police Service (Collaboration)
- Goldsmiths, University of London (Collaboration)
- Public Health Wales (Project Partner)
- Natnl Centre for Domestic Violence NCDV (Project Partner)
- Lancashire Constabulary HQ (Project Partner)
Publications
Walby S
(2022)
Costing the long-term health harms of trafficking: Why a gender-neutral approach discounts the future of women.
in Frontiers in sociology
Balasundaram B
(2022)
Improving quantification of anticholinergic burden using the Anticholinergic Effect on Cognition Scale - a healthcare improvement study in a geriatric ward setting.
in Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Cook E
(2022)
Risk, responsibility, and choice in research ethics.
in The lancet. Psychiatry
Tomczak P
(2022)
Bereaved Family 'Involvement' in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose 'Satisfaction'?
in Social & Legal Studies
Jessica Lynn Corsi
(2022)
Exploring Norms and Family Laws across the Globe
Barrow-Grint Katy
(2022)
Policing Domestic Abuse: Risk, Policy, and Practice
McManus S
(2022)
Intimate partner violence, suicidality, and self-harm: a probability sample survey of the general population in England.
in The lancet. Psychiatry
Wood SK
(2022)
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Relationship with Poor Sexual Health Outcomes: Results from Four Cross-Sectional Surveys.
in International journal of environmental research and public health
Yorganci E
(2022)
Patterns of unplanned hospital admissions among people with dementia: from diagnosis to the end of life.
in Age and ageing
Chesney E
(2022)
Acceptability of cannabidiol in patients with psychosis.
in Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology
Jackson J
(2022)
Using Saturated Count Models for User-Friendly Synthesis of Large Confidential Administrative Databases
in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
Thiara, R
(2022)
'The disparity is evident': COVID-19, violence against women and support for Black and minoritised survivors
in Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Govind R
(2022)
COVID-related hospitalization, intensive care treatment, and all-cause mortality in patients with psychosis and treated with clozapine.
in European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Ford K
(2022)
Associations between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Lifetime Experience of Car Crashes and Burns: A Cross-Sectional Study.
in International journal of environmental research and public health
Eymech O
(2022)
An exploration of wellbeing in men diagnosed with prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance: a qualitative study.
in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
Gondek D
(2023)
Association of Interparental Violence and Maternal Depression With Depression Among Adolescents at the Population and Individual Level.
in JAMA network open
Vyas N
(2023)
Prognostic factors for mental wellbeing in prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
in Psycho-oncology
Judd N
(2023)
Is parental unemployment associated with increased risk of adverse childhood experiences? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
in Journal of public health (Oxford, England)
Forbes C
(2023)
A survey and stakeholder consultation of Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA) programmes in English maternity services.
in BMC pregnancy and childbirth
| Description | "Connected tech: smart or sinister?" House of Commons Committee Report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | My FLF and the larger work of my Gender and Tech Research team at UCL helped shape the policy debate around the future of connected technology. The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee have called on the UK Government to prioritise tackling tech abuse, following evidence presented by us, which highlighted how smart, Internet-connected products facilitate intimate partner violence, with most domestic abuse cases having a digital element. In the published "Connected tech: smart or sinister?" House of Commons Committee report, the UK Government is urged to tackle tech abuse by improving the criminal justice response, raising public awareness and convening industry to ensure manufacturers and distributors mitigate risks through product design. Link to oral evidence: https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/10627/pdf/ Link to written evidence: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/109388/html/ |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/41099/documents/200210/default/ |
| Description | "Cyber Check ABC" Online Perpetrator Programme |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | "The State of Stalkerware" Citation |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The cybersecurity and anti-virus provider, Kaspersky, released its latest "State of Stalkerware 2022" report. This analysis is published annually (see versions 2021 & 2020). In the past year, Kaspersky saw nearly 30,000 mobile users globally targeted by stalkerware. My UCL Gender and Tech Research Group appeared in this report, highlighting the data's importance in understanding the scope of digital violence and the global market of spyware that researchers, support organisations, and tech vendors must have on the radar. |
| URL | https://securelist.com/the-state-of-stalkerware-in-2022/108985/ |
| Description | Advice and guidance to Ministry of Justice on a research project: "Escalation in the severity of offending behaviour" |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/escalation-in-the-severity-of-offending-behaviour |
| Description | Advice provided by Professor Brian Francis to Royal United Services Institute on the production of "Ten years Ten threats- How Organised Crime Has Evolved over a Decade" |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | A RUSI report was produced which included some of my material. Chatham House rules were used so no acknowledgement. The expert workshops are mentioned here: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/projects/10-years-10-threats-how-organised-crime-has-evolved-over-decade#aims-and-objectives |
| URL | https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/modern-slavery-and-human-trafficking-e... |
| Description | Advisory board member for DIMES (Distress Brief Intervention) evaluation study |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.dbi.scot/news/scotcen-to-lead-new-study-of-innovative-distress-intervention/ |
| Description | Advisory committee member supporting New Zealand Ministry of Social Development team on family, domestic and sexual violence within different ethnic communities |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Australian National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Our input resulted in tech abuse now being accounted for in the Bench Book: ?https://dfvbenchbook.aija.org.au/contents. |
| URL | https://dfvbenchbook.aija.org.au/contents |
| Description | Citation by Scottish Government in evidence briefing on establishing the first domestic homicide review model in Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Awareness of issues related to effective framing, conduct and storage/utilisation of DHRs. |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/research-and-analysis/2023/05/d... |
| Description | Citation by the UNODC Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CCPCJ/CCPCJ_Sessions/CCPCJ_32/CRPs/ECN152023_CRP6_e.pdf |
| Description | Citation in House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee's report entitled 'Connected tech: smart or sinister?' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/109388/html/ |
| Description | Citation in Scottish Government Task Force to set up Domestic Homicide Review system |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/research-and-analysis/2024/03/d... |
| Description | Citation in Scottish Government Task Force to set up Domestic Homicide Review system |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/research-and-analysis/2024/03/d... |
| Description | Citation in UNODC Background Paper on Femicide Review Committees |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CCPCJ/CCPCJ_Sessions/CCPCJ_32/CRPs/ECN152023_CRP6_e.pdf |
| Description | Citation in UNODC Background Paper on Femicide Review Committees |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CCPCJ/CCPCJ_Sessions/CCPCJ_32/CRPs/ECN152023_CRP6_e.pdf |
| Description | Citation in a Swedish Crime Prevention Council report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://bra.se/download/18.1e9d2d3218c6244776c2e24/1702901344854/2023_Knivvaldets%20utveckling%20i%2... |
| Description | Cited in Home Office Policy Paper 'Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-domestic-abuse-plan/tackling-domestic-abuse-plan... |
| Description | Cited in submission to Health and Select Committee evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/124469/pdf/ |
| Description | College of Policing Violence Against Women and Girls Academic Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.college.police.uk/article/police-action-against-men-who-harm-women-girls |
| Description | Connected Tech: Smart or Sinister |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6686/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister/ |
| Description | Consultation for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) 'Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/mental-health-and-wellbeing-plan-discussion-paper-and-ca... |
| Description | Consultation on standards for ethnicity data |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/standards-for-ethnicity-data/standards-for-ethnicity-dat... |
| Description | Consultation on the Integrated Data Service of ONS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Consultation on the Redesign of the Crime Survey for England and Wales, Consultation questionnaire |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://consultations.ons.gov.uk/external-affairs/crime-consultation/ |
| Description | Domestic Abuse - Serious violence duty advisory board |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Dr Barbosa has specifically advised on using agent-based modelling to understand the impact of DA in housing outcomes and on sources of data available for analyses. |
| Description | Domestic homicide review legislation consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://lawpoliticsandsociology.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/domestic-homicide-review-legislation-con... |
| Description | Education and Training Foundation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Follow up requests to work with individual education professionals |
| Description | Engagement as part of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) Expert Advisory Group (EAG) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Question alignment and methodological alignment with other surveys, such as the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) has improved coherence in the sector. VISION has learned from the excellent practice of Natsal researchers on considering the best ways to ask about gender, sex and sexuality, and good models of lived experience engagement. |
| Description | Engagement as part of the Work Works Centre for Wellbeing Advisory Panel |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Engagement with the Centre has led to mutual benefits in terms of shifted and aligned focus that has increased the WWC's engagement with fear and safety, and helping VISION to articulate positively framed policy and local authority level needs. |
| URL | https://whatworkswellbeing.org/people/ |
| Description | Engagement in the Centre for Women's Justice Femicide Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The working group involves extensive sharing in knowledge around practice and alligning on approach to responding to consultations and campaigns. |
| Description | Feedback on IETF draft document on digital considerations of intimate partner violence |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-hrpc-ipvc-00.html |
| Description | Home Office consultation - Controlling or Coercive behaviour Statutory Guidance |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/controlling-or-coercive-behaviour-statutory-guidance |
| Description | Impacting National Police Strategy (STRA) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Our efforts to ensure tech abuse had a place within the STRA included our team hosting the incredibly successful VAWG Roundtable in October 2022 for the National Police Chief's Council (NPCC). Throughout the day, experts throughout VAWG research and services emphasised the risks posed by Tech Abuse to the NPCC. It is incredible to see that this hard work has influenced the National Police Strategy across the UK through the STRA publication. Since it's publication, police chiefs across the UK have to follow the STRA so that each service can better equip itself to stop these crimes. |
| URL | https://www.vkpp.org.uk/publications/publications-and-reports/reports/strategic-threat-and-risk-asse... |
| Description | MHRA consideration of oxybutinin OTC |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Improvement in safe prescribing. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mhra-maintains-prescription-only-status-of-aquiette-25mg-tablets-... |
| Description | MOPAC: London VAWG Prevention Survey |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Member of SVRI's Advisory Group for the TFGBV research setting process |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | SVRI are working with UNFPA, UN Women and organisations like the WHO. Their work on tech abuse will impact funding distribution in this space and the measurement of tech abuse moving forward. |
| URL | https://www.svri.org/ |
| Description | National Consultation on Family Migration |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Orbits |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | We consulted on the development of "?Orbits: a global field guide to advance intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed interventions to technology-facilitated gender-based violence" by the support organisation and charity Chayn. |
| URL | https://chayn.notion.site/Orbits-a-global-field-guide-to-advance-intersectional-survivor-centred-and... |
| Description | Policy response to the Consultation on a Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) in Northern Ireland |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/computer-science/sites/computer_science/files/ni_evawg_consultation_-_ucl_qub.... |
| Description | Presentation at Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) Network Training Session |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Discussed training, clinical supervision, and implications for statutory guidance development in relation to domestic violence-related suicide. This is going to be fed back to AAFDA and the DHR Network to consider how further guidance and reosources can be provided to DHR Chairs and panel members. |
| Description | Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://petras-iot.org/petraspublications/?tsr=The+UK+Code+of+Practice+for+Consumer+IoT+Cybersecurit... |
| Description | Professor Brian Francis - Domestic abuse and international football competitions involving the England team |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.shoutoutuk.org/2024/06/27/give-abuse-the-red-card-how-the-euros-cause-a-spike-in-domesti... |
| Description | Provided training to analyst of MoJ Police National Computer/DfE linked data |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.adruk.org/fileadmin/uploads/adruk/Documents/Policy_Briefings/Policy-briefing-Katie-Hunte... |
| Description | Psychosocial assessment following self-harm : Flag for UK NHS Trusts on November 8th 2022 Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Psychosocial-assessment-guide-2022-WEB.pd... |
| Description | Records of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) analysis undertaken for the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | In relation to Covid and social distancing: "There is some limited evidence that sport watching can increase levels of domestic abuse. One study found that domestic violence reports to police increase by 38% following football matches in which England lost. However, data is limited and it is difficult to predict the interplay with the social distancing policy." |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/61a4cc6c8fa8f5037b09c675/30_May_2020_PSED.pdf |
| Description | Submission to UK Parliament Inquiry call for evidence into costs of human trafficking |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3048/ |
| Description | Submission to UK Parliament Inquiry on Men's Health |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7858/mens-health/ |
| Description | Submission to UN Call for evidence on violence, abuse and neglect in older people |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2023/report-violence-abuse-and-neglect-older-persons#:~:tex... |
| Description | Submission to Welsh Government Consultation on Elder Abuse |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.wales/draft-action-plan-end-abuse-and-neglect-older-people-wales |
| Description | Submission to the Equality and Human Right Commission's statutory review |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-statutory-review |
| Description | Submission to the NI Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy - 2023 - 2030 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/consultations/domestic-and-sexual-abuse-strategy-2023-2030 |
| Description | Submission to the Sudlow Review (Unifying Health Data in the UK) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Submission to the UK Parliament consultation on escalation of violence against women and girls |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7838/the-escalation-of-violence-against-women-and-girls/news/1... |
| Description | Submissions to the UK Child Abuse Prevalence Survey Development |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Submitted written evidence to the Criminal Justice Bill Consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmpublic/CriminalJustice/memo/CJB56.htm |
| Description | Submitted written evidence to the Ofcom Illegal Harms Consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.onlinesafetyact.net/uploads/Illegal-Harms-Consultation-Response---UCL-Gender-and-Tech---... |
| Description | Tech Abuse mentioned in National Police Chief's Council's national threat assessment of crimes posing the most danger to women and girls |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Improved awareness and confidence in addressing techabuse in context of domestic violence. |
| Description | The new National Suicide Prevention Strategy will include people who use and experience violence as priority groups |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | New priority and attention now being brought to ask about experience of violence, in particular when someone presents to healthcare settings (primary care, ED) in suicidal distress. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-strategy-for-england-2023-to-2028/suic... |
| Description | Training delivered to SafeLives Changemakers peer action researchers |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The training was with young people and focused on new experiences of recruitment, co-analysis and co-production of outputs with young people with lived experience of teenage abusive relationships. |
| URL | http://vision.city.ac.uk/lived-experience-across-vision/ |
| Description | U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women cites VISION work on suicide and domestic abuse |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.safeta.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IPVMFEProtocol.pdf |
| Description | UK Parliament Select Committee Publications on June 8th 2023 :Home Affairs Committee into Human Trafficking |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/121642/pdf/ |
| Description | UNFPA TFGBV Evaluation Framework |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | Written consultation (Cook and colleagues) influenced the VKPP Domestic Homicide Review team's response to the Home Office DHR consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://lawpoliticsandsociology.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/domestic-homicide-review-legislation-con... |
| Description | Written evidence submitted to Women and Equalities committee on responding to escalating violence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/125084/pdf/ |
| Description | Written evidence submitted to Women and Equalities committee on rising cost of living |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/126340/pdf/ |
| Description | 'Hidden troubles': Exploring suicide risk and suicide prevention with Gypsy and Traveller communities (Gene Feder, Co-I) |
| Amount | £199,973 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2024 |
| End | 03/2026 |
| Description | A primary care system-level training and support programme for the secondary prevention of domestic violence and abuse: a multicentre cluster randomised trial with economic and process evaluation |
| Amount | £1,996,829 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR 153778 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 05/2027 |
| Description | An analysis of sex/gender related motives and indicators in Domestic Homicide Reviews (Lizzie Cook PI) |
| Amount | £12,306 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 1146818 |
| Organisation | City, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 01/2025 |
| Description | Breaking the Silence: An online animated campaign for domestic violence awareness in Iran (Ladan Hashemi, PI) |
| Amount | £8,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | City, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Domestic abuse and its employment consequences (Niels Blom PI) |
| Amount | £12,274 (GBP) |
| Organisation | City, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre - small projects fund |
| Amount | £44,900 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Expanding a Trauma Informed Integrated Clinical Pathway for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Young People across North East London |
| Amount | £647,848 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | G-002610 |
| Organisation | Barts Charity |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | Exploring best practice principles for co-analysis in academic and lived experience collaborations - (Annie Bunce PI) |
| Amount | £5,971 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ID 1152568 |
| Organisation | City, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Global Health Research Group on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children (Gene Feder, Co-I) |
| Amount | £2,999,249 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 12/2028 |
| Description | HESG Intership: PHRIST CCA evaluation |
| Amount | £4,195 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Health Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2024 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme |
| Amount | £382,203 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR163699 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 06/2026 |
| Description | Lambeth Health Determinants Research and Evaluation Network (Lambeth HEART) |
| Amount | £5,106,832 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR151065 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | Non-intimate femicide |
| Amount | £9,381 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | SRG2223\231309 |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | PBRF Grants Round 2022 - Impact of intimate partner violence on chronic health conditions |
| Amount | $4,000 (NZD) |
| Organisation | University of Auckland |
| Department | Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | PHIRST Cost Consequence Evaluation - Violence Reduction Research |
| Amount | £35,634 (GBP) |
| Organisation | London South Bank University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Participatory Research Fund |
| Amount | £5,818 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 867618 |
| Organisation | City, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Policy Support Fund |
| Amount | £11,971 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 48204IV |
| Organisation | City, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | SPRITE+ Sandpit on Digital Vulnerabilities - First RespondXR: Digital vulnerability of immersive training for first responders |
| Amount | £29,672 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for cases of technology-enabled domestic violence and abuse (Tech Abuse) |
| Amount | £96,736 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 10/2022 |
| Description | The eLIXIR (early LIFe data Cross-Linkage in Research) Cohort. |
| Amount | £1,486,392 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/X009742/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2028 |
| Description | The role of victim support services integrated within domestic abuse perpetrator programmes (Gene Feder, Co-I) |
| Amount | £349,527 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2023 |
| End | 04/2025 |
| Description | UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship |
| Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/W009692/1 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 10/2026 |
| Description | Unrestricted Gift |
| Amount | $80,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 09/2024 |
| Description | • Developing a Social Determinants framework to support INSPIRE implementation |
| Amount | $81,687 (USD) |
| Organisation | World Health Organization (WHO) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Start | |
| Title | Enhanced natural language processing algorithm for ascertaining violence from mental healthcare text records |
| Description | Natural language processing algorithms developed on the Maudsley CRIS platform for use on mental healthcare records text include an updated 'Version 2' suite of algorithms for ascertaining violence victimisation and perpetration, with improved ascertainment of violence victimisation vs. perpetration, setting (e.g., domestic), temporality, and nature (physical, sexual, emotional, financial). This work was enabled through funding from the VISION consortium. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This has only just been developed but is being actively deployed in analyses. |
| URL | https://www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/clinical-record-interactive-search-cris/cris-natural-l... |
| Title | Risk of Bias - assessment tool |
| Description | A key objective of the VISION Ethnicity and Migration thread is to critically address biases that affect data and measurement regarding marginalised groups and offer ways to assess and minimise the effects of these biases. This key output is a useable tool intended to mitigate the risk of reproducing or introducing bias in research when using secondary data. The tool development worked closely with survey and administrative datasets but can be applied to any adoption of secondary data. This tool is aimed to be used by anyone adopting secondary data in research including, but not limited to, academics, policy makers, think tanks, specialist services, and independent researchers. The tool comprises 3 parts. Part 1 guides researchers through critical considerations when adopting secondary datasets for analysis. Part 2 initiates a reflective process that researchers can apply when analysing data to ensure internally held biases are acknowledged and considered. Part 3 suggests key guiding questions to best mitigate bias during and after the publication of research findings. Parts 2 and 3 can be applied to any empirical project. The tool guides researchers to assess the risk of bias within the data, to mitigate the risk of producing bias at the stage of data analysis, and to mitigate the risk of producing bias or unintended negative consequence in data reporting. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Just launched, website pending and impact will be monitored. |
| Title | Code for Merging Waves of the Crime Survey of England and Wales and the British Crime Survey, 1982-2020 |
| Description | This code merges multiple years of Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) and/or the British Crime Survey (BCS). The purpose of these code is to help researchers to quickly and easily combine multiple survey sweeps of the CSEW and BCS. By combining multiple survey sweeps, people are able to look at, for instance, trends in violence. Furthermore, using such a combined file enables you to look at specific offences, population groups, or consequences, that do not have a high enough frequency if you would use only a single year. This is a Stata do file, access to Stata is therefore required, as is access to all the BCS and CSEW that you want to merge. In specifying the code, you can decide which files you want to merge. Namely, which years of the Crime Surveys you want to merge and if you want the bolt-on datasets that provide uncapped codes, the adolescent and young adult panels, and/or if you want to use the 'non-white' panel. This code does not harmonize variables that are different between years. All original data resources are available via Related Resources. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Currently 15 downloads by users (on 15-9-2023). Impact should increase substantially after it has been included in the Crime Survey for England and Wales User Guide and the newsletter. |
| URL | https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/856494/ |
| Title | Integrated dataset- Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data from 2001 to 2020 integrated with Rape Crisis England and Wales (RCEW) data from three Rape Crisis Centres (RCCs) |
| Description | Integrated dataset- Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data from 2001 to 2020 integrated with Rape Crisis England and Wales (RCEW) data from three Rape Crisis Centres (RCCs) in a region in eastern England. Dataset includes respondents (CSEW) or service users (RCEW) who have reported being a victim-survivor of rape (including attempted) or another form sexual violence and abuse (which included indecent assault and wounding with sexual motive). Sample of 1,232 incidents from 1,111 individuals in the CSEW, and 6,102 referral cases from 5,333 individuals in RCEW (including individuals who have accessed the service more than once). Harmonised variables in the dataset: type of sexual violence experienced, relationship to the perpetrator, health impact, employment status, housing tenure, number of dependants, relationship status, ethnicity, age and gender. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Use in published output of value to the specialist services sector. |
| URL | https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2024/03/15/2024.03.13.24304238.full.pdf |
| Title | Merged Rape Crisis England and Wales (RCEW) dataset- administrative data from three Rape Crisis Centres (RCCs) |
| Description | Merged Rape Crisis England and Wales (RCEW) dataset- administrative data from three Rape Crisis Centres (RCCs) in a region in eastern England cleaned such that string variables are numerical, and data collected via multiple separate spreadsheets is merged into one Stata dataset. Includes key sociodemographic variables, plus new variables derived to measure referral outcome, type of abuse and support needs. Dataset contains a total of 12,396 referrals or self-referrals to RCEW, relating to 10,704 individuals. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Used in publications of value to the specialist domestic and sexual violence services sector. |
| URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10538712.2024.2341183 |
| Title | Merged Women's Aid Federation of England (WAFE) dataset |
| Description | Merged Women's Aid Federation of England (WAFE) dataset- administrative data from WAFE's national case management and outcomes management system, On Track, cleaned such that string variables are numerical, and data collected via multiple separate spreadsheets is merged into one Stata dataset. Dataset includes data recorded in On Track between 1st April 2016 and 31st March 2023, which is 577,386 observations for 378,394 victim-survivors. There is information on demographics, alleged perpetrators, adult service records (including service type), the nature of the abuse, support needs identified, referrals made and service exits. New variables derived for service length in days and reason for case closure. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Used in publications of value to the specialist domestic and sexual violence services sector. |
| Description | Advisory Board Member for Chatham House "Gender and Cybersecurity" Research Project |
| Organisation | Chatham House |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I am an Advisory Board Member for the Chatham House "Gender and Cybersecurity" Research Project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | I advise on what relevant stakeholders to engage with, the content and drafting of written outputs and broader analytical directions of the project. |
| Impact | Yes, this is an interdisciplinary project involving global stakeholders from governments, the private sector, and civil society. So far, the outcomes have been restricted to meetings. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Agenda Alliance for Women and Girls |
| Organisation | Agenda Alliance |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | VISION and Agenda work together on a range of issues. Last year we co-produced a report on the socioeconomic context and risk factors as part of the multiple adversity faced by some young women, including violence and fear of violence. This year, the collaboration has focused on raising awareness of the links between IPV and suicide and the recommendations to address this. VISION's contribution to this included producing analysis for and co-producing the writing of an accessible practitioner and public facing report (published Feb 2023), and VISION's contribution to promoting that, including with The Guardian newspaper and linked blogs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agenda convened an extensive consultation process to develop the report's recommendations. The co-produced report was drafted by Agenda, is published on their website, and has been promoted extensively in traditional news outlets, media like The Big Issue, and extensively on social media. |
| Impact | Often overlooked: Young women, poverty, and self-harm. (2022) London, UK: Agenda. Underexamined and Underreported: Suicidality and intimate partner violence: Connecting two major public health domains A briefing by Agenda Alliance with the VISION Consortium (2023) |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Breaking the Silence: An Online Animated Campaign for Gender-Based Violence Aware-ness in Iran |
| Organisation | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION researcher Ladan Hashemi (LH) coordinated the partnership across multiple teams, including academic partners, the animation team, and advisory groups, ensuring clear communication and timely delivery of animations. The academic team (Hashemi, McManus, Aghtaie, and Torbati) provided expert knowledge on gender-based violence, drawing from their academic expertise and recent research, particularly their newly published article on the nature and manifestation of GBV in Iran, ensuring that the animations were evidence-based. LH prepared and circulated a lay summary of findings from the Iran online survey, collecting feedback to inform the project. Led by LH, the academic team played a key role in script development, translating complex social issues like coercive control and economic abuse into engaging, accessible formats. They collaborated closely with advisory groups to incorporate culturally specific insights, ensuring the animations resonated with audiences in Iran and internationally. Additionally, our team, especially our social media advisor, is pivotal in strategising the launch of the online campaign, maximising outreach and impact through social media and partnerships. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Fatemeh Hosseini Shakib and her animation team made significant contributions to visual storytelling and animation production. They collaborated closely with the academic team to translate complex themes such as coercive control, economic abuse, digital abuse, and the role of active bystanders into engaging, culturally sensitive animations. Fatemeh led the animation production in Iran, ensuring cultural authenticity and accessibility for Farsi-speaking audiences. Dr Nadia Aghtaie (University of Bristol), Dr Fatima Babakhani, and Dr Atlas Torbati (Goldsmiths, University of London) offered their academic expertise in gender-based violence, which was instrumental in shaping the educational content and narrative framework of the animations, aligning them with contemporary research on domestic abuse. Dr Fatima Babakhani and her team, as leaders in domestic violence services in Iran, offered practical insights on addressing sensitive topics like coercive control and economic abuse, ensuring the narrative was culturally appropriate for Iranian communities. IKWRO managers and Farsi-speaking counsellors contributed vital cultural and community insights, ensuring the content was relevant to ethnic minority women, particularly from the MENA region, facing gender-based violence in the UK. Dorreh Khatibi (Bauer Media Group & PhD candidate) provided guidance on dissemination strategies and public engagement, ensuring the animations are impactful across digital platforms. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multidisciplinary, involving: Four academics (LH, SM, NA, AT) with expertise in gender-based violence, combining their knowledge in gender studies, media, and domestic violence to shape the content and approach. A team of five animators specialising in visual storytelling to create engaging and impactful content. Two advisory groups providing cultural and community-specific insights: Fatima Babakhani, manager and founder of domestic violence (DV) specialist services in Iran, along with her team. IKWRO Managers and a team of Farsi-speaking counsellors based in London, contributing with their expertise on cultural nuances. A social media advisor assisting in amplifying the reach and impact of the campaign. Outputs: Two animations completed: One on coercive control and the other on economic abuse. Two additional animations currently in development: one focusing on digital abuse and the other on the role of active bystanders. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Breaking the Silence: An Online Animated Campaign for Gender-Based Violence Aware-ness in Iran |
| Organisation | Leeds Beckett University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION researcher Ladan Hashemi (LH) coordinated the partnership across multiple teams, including academic partners, the animation team, and advisory groups, ensuring clear communication and timely delivery of animations. The academic team (Hashemi, McManus, Aghtaie, and Torbati) provided expert knowledge on gender-based violence, drawing from their academic expertise and recent research, particularly their newly published article on the nature and manifestation of GBV in Iran, ensuring that the animations were evidence-based. LH prepared and circulated a lay summary of findings from the Iran online survey, collecting feedback to inform the project. Led by LH, the academic team played a key role in script development, translating complex social issues like coercive control and economic abuse into engaging, accessible formats. They collaborated closely with advisory groups to incorporate culturally specific insights, ensuring the animations resonated with audiences in Iran and internationally. Additionally, our team, especially our social media advisor, is pivotal in strategising the launch of the online campaign, maximising outreach and impact through social media and partnerships. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Fatemeh Hosseini Shakib and her animation team made significant contributions to visual storytelling and animation production. They collaborated closely with the academic team to translate complex themes such as coercive control, economic abuse, digital abuse, and the role of active bystanders into engaging, culturally sensitive animations. Fatemeh led the animation production in Iran, ensuring cultural authenticity and accessibility for Farsi-speaking audiences. Dr Nadia Aghtaie (University of Bristol), Dr Fatima Babakhani, and Dr Atlas Torbati (Goldsmiths, University of London) offered their academic expertise in gender-based violence, which was instrumental in shaping the educational content and narrative framework of the animations, aligning them with contemporary research on domestic abuse. Dr Fatima Babakhani and her team, as leaders in domestic violence services in Iran, offered practical insights on addressing sensitive topics like coercive control and economic abuse, ensuring the narrative was culturally appropriate for Iranian communities. IKWRO managers and Farsi-speaking counsellors contributed vital cultural and community insights, ensuring the content was relevant to ethnic minority women, particularly from the MENA region, facing gender-based violence in the UK. Dorreh Khatibi (Bauer Media Group & PhD candidate) provided guidance on dissemination strategies and public engagement, ensuring the animations are impactful across digital platforms. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multidisciplinary, involving: Four academics (LH, SM, NA, AT) with expertise in gender-based violence, combining their knowledge in gender studies, media, and domestic violence to shape the content and approach. A team of five animators specialising in visual storytelling to create engaging and impactful content. Two advisory groups providing cultural and community-specific insights: Fatima Babakhani, manager and founder of domestic violence (DV) specialist services in Iran, along with her team. IKWRO Managers and a team of Farsi-speaking counsellors based in London, contributing with their expertise on cultural nuances. A social media advisor assisting in amplifying the reach and impact of the campaign. Outputs: Two animations completed: One on coercive control and the other on economic abuse. Two additional animations currently in development: one focusing on digital abuse and the other on the role of active bystanders. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Breaking the Silence: An Online Animated Campaign for Gender-Based Violence Aware-ness in Iran |
| Organisation | University for the Creative Arts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION researcher Ladan Hashemi (LH) coordinated the partnership across multiple teams, including academic partners, the animation team, and advisory groups, ensuring clear communication and timely delivery of animations. The academic team (Hashemi, McManus, Aghtaie, and Torbati) provided expert knowledge on gender-based violence, drawing from their academic expertise and recent research, particularly their newly published article on the nature and manifestation of GBV in Iran, ensuring that the animations were evidence-based. LH prepared and circulated a lay summary of findings from the Iran online survey, collecting feedback to inform the project. Led by LH, the academic team played a key role in script development, translating complex social issues like coercive control and economic abuse into engaging, accessible formats. They collaborated closely with advisory groups to incorporate culturally specific insights, ensuring the animations resonated with audiences in Iran and internationally. Additionally, our team, especially our social media advisor, is pivotal in strategising the launch of the online campaign, maximising outreach and impact through social media and partnerships. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Fatemeh Hosseini Shakib and her animation team made significant contributions to visual storytelling and animation production. They collaborated closely with the academic team to translate complex themes such as coercive control, economic abuse, digital abuse, and the role of active bystanders into engaging, culturally sensitive animations. Fatemeh led the animation production in Iran, ensuring cultural authenticity and accessibility for Farsi-speaking audiences. Dr Nadia Aghtaie (University of Bristol), Dr Fatima Babakhani, and Dr Atlas Torbati (Goldsmiths, University of London) offered their academic expertise in gender-based violence, which was instrumental in shaping the educational content and narrative framework of the animations, aligning them with contemporary research on domestic abuse. Dr Fatima Babakhani and her team, as leaders in domestic violence services in Iran, offered practical insights on addressing sensitive topics like coercive control and economic abuse, ensuring the narrative was culturally appropriate for Iranian communities. IKWRO managers and Farsi-speaking counsellors contributed vital cultural and community insights, ensuring the content was relevant to ethnic minority women, particularly from the MENA region, facing gender-based violence in the UK. Dorreh Khatibi (Bauer Media Group & PhD candidate) provided guidance on dissemination strategies and public engagement, ensuring the animations are impactful across digital platforms. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multidisciplinary, involving: Four academics (LH, SM, NA, AT) with expertise in gender-based violence, combining their knowledge in gender studies, media, and domestic violence to shape the content and approach. A team of five animators specialising in visual storytelling to create engaging and impactful content. Two advisory groups providing cultural and community-specific insights: Fatima Babakhani, manager and founder of domestic violence (DV) specialist services in Iran, along with her team. IKWRO Managers and a team of Farsi-speaking counsellors based in London, contributing with their expertise on cultural nuances. A social media advisor assisting in amplifying the reach and impact of the campaign. Outputs: Two animations completed: One on coercive control and the other on economic abuse. Two additional animations currently in development: one focusing on digital abuse and the other on the role of active bystanders. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Breaking the Silence: An Online Animated Campaign for Gender-Based Violence Aware-ness in Iran |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION researcher Ladan Hashemi (LH) coordinated the partnership across multiple teams, including academic partners, the animation team, and advisory groups, ensuring clear communication and timely delivery of animations. The academic team (Hashemi, McManus, Aghtaie, and Torbati) provided expert knowledge on gender-based violence, drawing from their academic expertise and recent research, particularly their newly published article on the nature and manifestation of GBV in Iran, ensuring that the animations were evidence-based. LH prepared and circulated a lay summary of findings from the Iran online survey, collecting feedback to inform the project. Led by LH, the academic team played a key role in script development, translating complex social issues like coercive control and economic abuse into engaging, accessible formats. They collaborated closely with advisory groups to incorporate culturally specific insights, ensuring the animations resonated with audiences in Iran and internationally. Additionally, our team, especially our social media advisor, is pivotal in strategising the launch of the online campaign, maximising outreach and impact through social media and partnerships. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Fatemeh Hosseini Shakib and her animation team made significant contributions to visual storytelling and animation production. They collaborated closely with the academic team to translate complex themes such as coercive control, economic abuse, digital abuse, and the role of active bystanders into engaging, culturally sensitive animations. Fatemeh led the animation production in Iran, ensuring cultural authenticity and accessibility for Farsi-speaking audiences. Dr Nadia Aghtaie (University of Bristol), Dr Fatima Babakhani, and Dr Atlas Torbati (Goldsmiths, University of London) offered their academic expertise in gender-based violence, which was instrumental in shaping the educational content and narrative framework of the animations, aligning them with contemporary research on domestic abuse. Dr Fatima Babakhani and her team, as leaders in domestic violence services in Iran, offered practical insights on addressing sensitive topics like coercive control and economic abuse, ensuring the narrative was culturally appropriate for Iranian communities. IKWRO managers and Farsi-speaking counsellors contributed vital cultural and community insights, ensuring the content was relevant to ethnic minority women, particularly from the MENA region, facing gender-based violence in the UK. Dorreh Khatibi (Bauer Media Group & PhD candidate) provided guidance on dissemination strategies and public engagement, ensuring the animations are impactful across digital platforms. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multidisciplinary, involving: Four academics (LH, SM, NA, AT) with expertise in gender-based violence, combining their knowledge in gender studies, media, and domestic violence to shape the content and approach. A team of five animators specialising in visual storytelling to create engaging and impactful content. Two advisory groups providing cultural and community-specific insights: Fatima Babakhani, manager and founder of domestic violence (DV) specialist services in Iran, along with her team. IKWRO Managers and a team of Farsi-speaking counsellors based in London, contributing with their expertise on cultural nuances. A social media advisor assisting in amplifying the reach and impact of the campaign. Outputs: Two animations completed: One on coercive control and the other on economic abuse. Two additional animations currently in development: one focusing on digital abuse and the other on the role of active bystanders. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Collaboration of VISION and Public Health Wales (PHW) on prevalence and distribution of violence in Wales |
| Organisation | Public Health Wales NHS Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | VISION has collaborated with Public Health Wales to produce estimates of violence and profiles of victim-survivors specifically for Wales. VISION team undertook analysis of secure Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data to produce description of victim-survivors of domestic abuse (by a partner, by another family member), stalking and sexual violence in Wales in terms of their demographic characteristics (sex, age, disability, and sexual orientation, where sample size allows). This enabled comparison of demographic characteristics of victim-survivors and non-victims. These findings contribute to the Violence Monitoring Report produced by the Wales Violence Prevention Unit. Additionally, VISION team lead on an academic paper submitted to BMJ Public Health journal, which explores temporal trends in prevalence of violence in Wales using CSEW data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | PHW team has alerted VISION to the gap in knowledge of Wales-specific profiles of victim-survivors of different forms of violence and abuse and of Wales-specific trends in violence. They have co-authored an academic paper submitted to BMJ Public Health, contributing their expertise on Wales-specific policy-context. |
| Impact | Output produced for Public Health Wales' Violence Monitoring Report. VISION's findings (unpublished), transferred to PHW: Obolenskaya, P. (2024), "Profiles of victim-survivors of violence and abuse: stalking, domestic violence/abuse and sexual violence in Wales" Submitted paper to an academic journal: Obolenskaya, P., Fadeeva, A., Barton, E., Walker, A., Snowdon, L., and McManus, S. (submitted to BMJ Public Health in Sep 2024), "Temporal trends in prevalence of violence in Wales: analysis of a national victimisation survey" |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | AIMES Grid Services Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | Akrivia Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | MQ Mental Health Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | McPin Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | Swansea University |
| Department | Swansea University Medical School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND network |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally. |
| Impact | It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Department of Health and Social Care and Office of Health Improvement and Disparities |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | Department of Health and Social Care |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Anastasia Fadeeva is a fully-funded VISION researcher, finished a one-year secondment with the DHSC. As an embedded researcher she attended internal meetings to learn about policy stakeholders' information and data needs, and worked with health service datasets such as emergency, secondary care, critical care, outpatients, and social care data stored securely in the NHS England Secure Data Environment to develop understanding of their data sources - its opportunities and limitations for measuring violence and abuse. She produced a paper on the use of the health data for measuring violence and abuse together with the collaborators from the DHSC. She is currently working on the official statistics output for the DHSC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives from OHID/DHSC attend and contribute to the VISION advisory board as members. They facilitate Anastasia's secondment, hosting and overseeing her contributions there. Representatives from OHID/DHSC reviewed the paper on the use of the health data and facilitated approvals for publication from the DHSC and NHS England. |
| Impact | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/3/147 |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Home office |
| Organisation | Home Office |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | 2023 Research Prioritisation Meeting at Home Office with various members of the crime and justice research team (including domestic abuse, drugs and alcohol, children and families) to provide an update on the VISION programme of research and exchange ideas and potential overlaps in current Home Office priorities and VISION capacities (e.g., provided access to ongoing systematic reviews, key outputs they requested). This was useful for identifying key priorities for the Home Office moving forward and for providing updates on completed work. (Home Office, London, 27 April 2023) Research scoping meeting between the socio-economic inequalities thread (Niels Blom and Vanessa Gash) with Home Office colleagues to investigate whether current HO methodologies that estimate the economic and social cost of domestic abuse might be improved. We presented preliminary work using the CSEW, which offer alternative and possibly more robust measures of unemployment risk for victims of DV as well as other forms of violence. It was agreed that we would furnish the team with a short policy report which details our alternative method. It was also agreed that key members of the HO would provide us with feedback on our report to ensure a shared understanding of both strategies for measuring the costs of DV on socio-economic outcomes. Finally, we also agreed to present our current work to interested members of the HO at an internal seminar in Spring 2024. (Home Office, London, 8th of August 2023) Numerous consultations submitted to the Home Office including: Open consultation run by the Home Office on 'Machetes and other bladed articles: proposed legislation'. Submitted with Professor Sandra Walklate arguing for the need for gendered analysis of 'knife crime' interventions. 6 June 2023. Relevant URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/machetes-and-other-bladed-articles-proposed-legislation Open consultation run by the Home Office on 'Domestic homicide review legislation'. Submitted by Dr James Rowlands, Sally McManus and Demelza Luna Reaver arguing for change in terminology and remit. 27 July 2023. Relevant URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/domestic-homicide-review-legislation-consultation Ongoing 1-1 meetings between Homicide Thread Lead (Elizabeth Cook) and the Domestic Homicide Policy Team Lead, Poppy Robinson (various, ongoing) Home Office User Research and Testing on Beta-Version of Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) Repository. Elizabeth Cook was consulted as an expert on DHRs to provide feedback on a beta version of the repository before its public launch (21 February 2023). 2024 We have been in discussions with the home office towards the genesis of a policy brief which would detail differential effects of different forms of DA/DV on socio-economic outcomes, with one aim to offer pointers towards the re-development of their costings of the effects of DV on the British Economy. This has resulted in one output, on which we obtained considerable feedback from the Home Office as to what would be of use/interest to them. Specifically we have provided them with estimates of the effects of a diverse range of forms of DA/DV (including coercive control which they do not include in their costings) |
| Collaborator Contribution | 2023 Hosted meetings; Contributions to advisory board; Launching open consultations; Launching beta testing of repository. 2024 The Home Office provided us with feedback to improve our report, and have invited us to present our work to them to further inform internal knowledge on the topic of the socio-economic impacts of IPVA and DA. |
| Impact | Cook, E.A. and Walklate, S. (2023) A written response from Dr Elizabeth Cook and Professor Sandra Walklate to the Open Consultation for the Machetes and other bladed articles: proposed legislation from the Serious Violence Unit, Home Office. 6 June. [Unpublished] Rowlands, J., Cook., McManus, S. and Luna Reaver, D. (2023) A written response from Dr James Rowlands, Dr Elizabeth Cook, Sally McManus, and Demelza Luna Reaver in response to the Home Office Domestic Homicide Review Legislation Consultation. 27 July. Available at: https://lawpoliticsandsociology.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/domestic-homicide-review-legislation-consultation-response.pdf Policy brief, as indicated above. Invitation to present an internal seminar at the Home Office (the 18th of September 2024) |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Islington Borough Council Social Care Team |
| Organisation | London Borough of Islington |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have formed the Adolescent Domestic Abuse Working Group, have hosted a conference and a roundtable with stakeholders across policy, practice and specialist services to focus on the under researched areas of abuse in teenage relationships. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team at Islington Borough Council have joined the working group, presented at the adolescent domestic abuse conference and contributed to roundtable discussions. We are in ongoing discussions about developing a large grant application with the team. |
| Impact | Adolescent Domestic Abuse Conference Adolescent Domestic Abuse report Adolescent Domestic Abuse roundtable Adolescent Domestic Abuse Working Group |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | King's Pathfinder network |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers. |
| Impact | 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | King's Pathfinder network |
| Organisation | Department for Education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers. |
| Impact | 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | King's Pathfinder network |
| Organisation | Public Health England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers. |
| Impact | 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | King's Pathfinder network |
| Organisation | South London and Maudsley (SLAM) NHS Foundation Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers. |
| Impact | 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | King's Pathfinder network |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers. |
| Impact | 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | King's Pathfinder network |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers. |
| Impact | 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | King's Pathfinder network |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers. |
| Impact | 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | King's Pathfinder network |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers. |
| Impact | 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | King's Pathfinder network |
| Organisation | University of Sussex |
| Department | Brighton and Sussex Medical School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers. |
| Impact | 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | MIND |
| Organisation | MIND (Mental Health Charity) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | VISION has provided information on the relationship between violence and abuse and poor mental health in England, to inform Mind's understanding of the needs of the people that they support and represent. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions as a member of the VISION Advisory Board. Mind and VISION are working together to promote the collection of data from minority ethnic groups, and lived experience input to, the government's main survey collecting information on mental health, violence and abuse (the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey). |
| Impact | NA. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Mental Health Policy Research Unit (MHPRU) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Mental Health Policy Research Unit (MHPRU) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION member sits on the Social Needs Project and other MHPRU project advisory boards providing advice in particular on the inclusion and scope of interventions designed to reduce exposure to interpersonal violence among people with a mental health condition. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Through attendance at meetings over the course of a year, VISION has gained from the MHPRU projects with insights on evaluations of interventions that improve their social, economic, justice, housing and other aspects of the lives of people with mental health conditions, including their safety. VISION has also gained understanding of DHSC priorities. |
| Impact | Collaborative exchange of learning in relation to interventions and systematic reviews, and of areas of policy prioritisation. This includes contribution to a systematic review of interventions currently under review. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Department | School of Medicine |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | Swansea University |
| Department | Swansea University Medical School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Medical School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Department of Psychiatry |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | Medical School Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | School of Medicine Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | School of Medicine Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Psychiatry |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | Southampton Medical School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre (MGFVPC), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Organisation | Monash University |
| Department | Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre (MGFVPC) |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION member Elizabeth Cook was a 2023 International Visiting Scholar at the MGFVPC (July 2023) where she presented her systematic review on sex/gender disaggregated homicide. During this visit she also conducted meetings with: 1) Stef Vasil regarding domestic abuse and suicide ; 2) Briohny Kennedy regarding domestic homicide against older adults; 3) Lyndal Bugeja regarding creation of a minimum dataset for domestic violence fatality reviews and the Victorian Homicide Register; 4) Eva Alisic regarding children bereaved by homicide; and 5) Samantha Bricknell from the National Homicide Monitoring Project regarding the collection of better homicide data and linkage with other homicide data systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Violence and Society Centre hosts members of the MGFVPC when visiting the UK. MGFVPC members have visited the UK on two occasions since the beginning of this partnership. |
| Impact | Cook, E. (2023) Commensurability in a global context: Methodological and ethical reflections from a systematic review on sex/gender-disaggregated homicide. 3 July. Seminar at Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Keel, C. (2023) Gendered neighbourhoods: A study of safety in areas with high levels of Domestic and Family Violence. 13 July. Seminar to the Gender Based Violence (GBV) Collective. Reeves, E. and Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2022) Exploring LGBTIQ+ victim-survivors' experiences of being listed as 'respondents' on family violence intervention orders. 21 September. Seminar at the Violence and Society Centre. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | NHS Digital |
| Organisation | NHS Digital |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | NHS Digital uses the nation's health data to drive research and transform services. VISION has contributed to NHSD through its contributions to survey design and violence question development, in particular on the design of the violence and abuse question set being used on the 2023 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NHSD are represented on the VISION Advisory Board by Cher Cartwright, Section Head overseeing health survey data collections. |
| Impact | VISION have a greater understanding of NHSD data constraints and NHSD is informed of the relevance, need and methods of violence measurement in health data collection. Outputs coauthored with VISION members include the Mental Health of Children and Young People Survey 2021, which includes recognition of parental conflict and its association with the mental health of children. The main output is the design of a revised violence and abuse question set for the 2023 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | NHS England |
| Organisation | NHS England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | VISION contributes to NHE England in multiple ways. This includes through through engagement with VISION Advisory Board member Catherine Hinwood on health services intervention design and evaluation. This also includes how NHS England uses the nation's health data to drive research and transform services. VISION has contributed to NHSE through its contributions to survey design and violence question development, in particular on the design of the violence and abuse question set being used on the 2023 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Engagement with both: -Catherine Hinwood and her team in advisory board meetings and at several VISION roundtables -Sally McManus' participation and steer of the APMS. |
| Impact | APMS 2023-4 report is forthcoming, due to publish spring 2025. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | NHSE Safeguarding Reference Group |
| Organisation | NHS England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This reference group has oversight of the NHSE's implementation of patient online access to their general practice records. I was invited to join the group because of my VISION-related expertise on coded and free text data in health care records, particularly in relation to confidentiality and coercive risks. I designed the monitoring template for practices nationally which was disseminated by the reference group and I review the monitoring data, modifying national guidance with the group. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Not applicable |
| Impact | National template for recording safeguarding issues and risks: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=kp4VA8ZyI0umSq9Q55Ctv08kRWQnMINCuBavj6rlFxdURDNVTTE5MFdWRktSMURVVDAzSkRTWk9KRi4u I drafted the template and other members of the reference group contributed and signed it off. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | National Centre for Social Research |
| Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The National Centre for Social Research, or NatCen, is key to the collection of population data on violence, health and society for government and the NHS. The VISION consortium has enabled an existing relationship to be built on and extended. In particular, VISION members have contributed to the development of survey questions on violence, bullying and related concepts for use in surveys, including in those commissioned by NHS Digital and funded by the Department of Health and Social Care. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NatCen has been open and receptive to collaboration on survey design and violence question development. |
| Impact | Module of new violence questions developed for survey going into field for national data collection in January 2023. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | National Crime Agency |
| Organisation | National Crime Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are working with the National Crime Agency and the MET to organise a roundtable on tech abuse on the 19 of October. The roundtable will inform the development of a VAWG Digital Strategy as well as a STRA. Purpose of the roundtable The roundtable is specifically designed to inform the response to technology-enabled abuse and participants have been invited based on their expertise in research, advocacy and service provision around those experiencing technology based VAWG. This roundtable is being organised by the VAWG taskforce, with the kind support and assistance of UCL, as one of a number of events to inform the development of the VAWG STRA. We will be running other events with other participants (e.g. we have a roundtable with industry being organised with Tech UK in November). What is the STRA? The VAWG Strategic Threat and Risk Assessment (STRA) is an intelligence assessment of the overall threat from VAWG. Its purpose is to inform the national and local response to VAWG offending and to benchmark trends in both the nature of offending as well as the response of police and other partners. This approach is in line with that taken to other long standing national threat areas such as Counter Terrorism and Serious & Organised Crime included in the SPR. As this is the first STRA for VAWG it will be something of a baseline. The aim is for the STRA to be regularly reviewed and updated, probably on an annual basis. Police forces have already been asked to compile problem profiles of VAWG offending in their force areas covering issues such as the profile of victims, offenders, places, education and technology in offending. To help inform this baseline as we feel that it is vital for it to reflect as broad a range of views as possible. We really want to take advantage of the expertise and insight of those attending the workshop in technology enabled abuse and offending. Without an authoritative national picture of the problem it is difficult to articulate the need for dedicated resources and accountability across police forces and partners. The STRA will be published in the spring of 2023 and a version of the STRA will be made publicly available and distributed to partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise |
| Impact | VAWG Strategic Threat and Risk Assessment (STRA) |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Office for National Statistics |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | VISION researcher Niels Blom has made the code for merging the Crime Survey for England and Wales and British Crime Survey. This code merges multiple years of Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) and/or the British Crime Survey (BCS). The purpose of these code is to help researchers to quickly and easily combine multiple survey sweeps of the CSEW and BCS. By combining multiple survey sweeps, people are able to look at, for instance, trends in violence. Furthermore, using such a combined file enables you to look at specific offences, population groups, or consequences, that do not have a high enough frequency if you would use only a single year. This is a Stata do file, access to Stata is therefore required, as is access to all the BCS and CSEW that you want to merge. In specifying the code, you can decide which files you want to merge. Namely, which years of the Crime Surveys you want to merge and if you want the bolt-on datasets that provide uncapped codes, the adolescent and young adult panels, and/or if you want to use the 'non-white' panel. This code does not harmonize variables that are different between years. All original data resources are available via Related Resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Regarding the Crime Survey merger code, Catherine Grant and Eleanor Scott-Allen have provided feedback on the code and documentation, and what should be included and in what manner. They also will in the near future include references to the merger code in the new User Guide for the Crime Surveys for England and Wales, and potentially include it in in their newsletter and at their conference. |
| Impact | See also under Research Datasets, Databases & Models: Code for Merging Waves of the Crime Survey of England and Wales and the British Crime Survey, 1982-2020 https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/856494/ Digital Object Identifier:10.5255/ukda-sn-856494 |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Participation as members of The Violence Reduction Academy Academic Oversight Group (McManus and Bellis) |
| Organisation | Against Violence & Abuse |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Sally McManus and Mark Bellis invited to be members and attend quarterly academic oversight meetings of The Violence Reduction Academy Academic Oversight Group, |
| Collaborator Contribution | Giving general advise and support, and avoid duplication and overlap with VISION, and explore scope for future collaboration. |
| Impact | Not yet. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Police |
| Organisation | Lancashire Police Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Engagement with the Lancashire Constabulary to discuss access to and set up transfer of police data to be used in VISION project. Discussion around how analysis will benefit the constabulary too. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Facilitating access to police data and knowledge around existing data. |
| Impact | Agreed access to data. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Rape Crisis |
| Organisation | Rape Crisis |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | VISION has provided Rape Crisis with links to other actors in the field, for example through their inclusion on our advisory board and at our annual conferences. We have also co-produced research jointly defined that they can use independently for policy influencing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at quarterly specialist services stakeholder group meetings/workshops: a research prioritisation update meeting on 23rd July 2024. The research prioritisation update workshop resulted in an updated co-produced plan of research outputs, with achievements made since 2022 towards previously identified priorities highlighted, and newly identified priorities going forwards added. Data provided by Rape Crisis to VISION have also been integrated with data from the CSEW, which has provided proof of concept for the approach taken to look-alike modelling. |
| Impact | Research prioritisation padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-1-3vrcftmm40yzyy2d, https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-2-alternative-j7v760v2f1eidhc Specialist services theory of change padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/specialist-services-theory-of-change-c1d3a9almubxj958 , https://padlet.com/estelacapelas/specialist-services-toc-workshop-23v1ny8ve61vom27 Preliminary adolescent domestic abuse coding framework padlet- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/preliminary-coding-framework-adolescent-domestic-abuse-u8stbd5z0jdx885z Presentation of preliminary findings from determinants of referral outcomes paper Paper, 'Determinants of referral outcomes for victim-survivors accessing specialist sexual violence and abuse support services', submitted to the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse on 20th September 2023. Bunce, Annie, Sophie Carlisle, and Estela Capelas Barbosa. "The Concept and Measurement of Interpersonal Violence in Specialist Services Data: Inconsistencies, Outcomes and the Challenges of Synthesising Evidence." Social Sciences 12.7 (2023): 366. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/7/366 Challenges of using specialist domestic and sexual violence and abuse service data to inform policy and practice on violence reduction. Journal of Gender-Based Violence (under review). Newly identified research priorities- Specialist Services Meeting https://padlet.com/edavies4_18/specialist-services-meeting-2cyzt3battwmlnp1 Research prioritisation Padlet (updated)- Exercise 1 https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-1-3vrcftmm40yzyy2d Systematic review on effectiveness of SS- currently under appeal with BMC public health Co-produced paper published in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse -Determinants of Referral Outcomes for Victim-Survivors Accessing Specialist Sexual Violence and Abus https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10538712.2024.2341183 Paper, Look-alike modelling in violence-related research: a missing data approach PLOS ONE, currently under review with PLOS ONE. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Refuge |
| Organisation | Refuge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | VISION has provided Refuge with links to other actors in the field, for example through their inclusion on our advisory board and at our annual conferences. We have also co-produced research jointly defined that they can use independently for policy influencing. Refuge is also involved in co-design in the technology facilitated abuse thread: Leonie Tanczer fed into Emma's Churchill Fellowship https://www.churchillfellowship.org/ideas-experts/fellows-directory/emma-pickering/ Ahd her input was acknowledged in the report. VISION researchers shared their Tech Abuse Measurement Excel Spreadsheet with Refuge Leonie Tanczer referred to Refuge's work when interviewed on air for BBC CrimeWatch Live https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ss27z Madeleine Janickyj referred to our collaboration at the Kaspersky Next Press Event in Athens https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/blog/kaspersky-next-2024/27804/#:~:text=Kaspersky%20NEXT%202024%20in%20Athens,education%2C%20and%20innovative%20detection%20technologies.&text=On%20June%2018%2C%202024%2C%20Athens,the%20latest%20NEXT%202024%20event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Tracy and Michaela are on the VISION Advisory Board. One or both of them have attended quarterly specialist services stakeholder group meetings/workshops: a research prioritisation workshop on 31st January 2023; a theory of change workshop on 11th April 2023; a scoping review meeting on 12th June 2023 and an adolescent domestic abuse workshop on 20th September 2023. The research prioritisation workshop resulted in a co-produced plan of research outputs over the course of the project which all partners stand to benefit from. In each quarterly meeting/workshop Refuge have provided expertise from the perspective of delivering refuge and community-based services and a national helpline. Their input has informed co-produced outputs such as the VISION specialist services theory of change for reducing violence, and a coding framework for analysing data on young people's experience of adolescent domestic abuse. They provided feedback on scoping review of outcomes used by specialist support services to measure their effectiveness and advice on subsequent systematic review of the effectiveness of specialist support services and interventions. Michaela was a discussant for one of the sessions at the VISION Annual Conference on 21st September 2023. Refuge shared data with VISION in spring 2024 (Y3Q2), which contained tech abuse information, and guaranteed to share updated data with us in September 2024 so we are working with more current information. Refuge shared VISION's call for participants which led to this paper: Douglas, H., Tanczer, L., McLachlan, F., & Harris, B. (2023). Policing Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse (TFDA): Views of Service Providers in Australia and the United Kingdom. Journal of Family Violence. Refuge's Research Lead, Michaela Bruckmayer, shared information on their measures on tech abuse and this informed the tech abuse measurement being used as part of VISION. The collaboration with Refuge is ongoing, but due to capacity issues they have had to reduce their level of engagement. |
| Impact | Trends in outcomes used to measure the effectiveness of UK-based support interventions and services targeted at adults with experience of domestic and sexual violence and abuse: A scoping review. BMJ Open (under review) How effective are UK-based support interventions and services targeted at adults who have experienced domestic and sexual violence and abuse at improving their safety and wellbeing? A systematic review protocol. Plos one (under review) Research prioritisation padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-1-3vrcftmm40yzyy2d, https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-2-alternative-j7v760v2f1eidhc Specialist services theory of change padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/specialist-services-theory-of-change-c1d3a9almubxj958 , https://padlet.com/estelacapelas/specialist-services-toc-workshop-23v1ny8ve61vom27 Preliminary adolescent domestic abuse coding framework padlet- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/preliminary-coding-framework-adolescent-domestic-abuse-u8stbd5z0jdx885z Bunce, Annie, Sophie Carlisle, and Estela Capelas Barbosa. "The Concept and Measurement of Interpersonal Violence in Specialist Services Data: Inconsistencies, Outcomes and the Challenges of Synthesising Evidence." Social Sciences 12.7 (2023): 366. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/7/366 Challenges of using specialist domestic and sexual violence and abuse service data to inform policy and practice on violence reduction. Journal of Gender-Based Violence (under review). Douglas, H., Tanczer, L., McLachlan, F., & Harris, B. (2023). Policing Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse (TFDA): Views of Service Providers in Australia and the United Kingdom. Journal of Family Violence. Leonie Tanczer will be speaking at their Tech Safety Summit in September 2024 https://refugetechsafetysummit.vfairs.com/ VISION researchers attended their Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment Strategy in Summer 2024 (Y3Q3), and were referenced Madeleine Janickyj and Leonie Tanczer co-authored a UNESCO Report on Bias in LLMs >> Van Niekerk, D., Pérez-Ortiz, M., Shawe-Taylor, J., Orlic, D., Drobnjak, I., Kay, J., Siegel, N., Evans, K., Moorosi, N., Eliassi-Rad, T., Tanczer, L., Holmes, W., Deisenroth, M. P., Straw, I., Fasli, M., Adams, R., Oliver, N., Mladenic, D., Aneja, U., & Janickyj, M. (2024). Challenging Systematic Prejudices: An Investigation Into Bias Against Women and Girls in Large Language Models. UNESCO, International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI): Ljubljana. Publication available here on the UNESCO website. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000388971 Systematic review on effectiveness of SS- currently under appeal with BMC public health |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Respect |
| Organisation | Respect (Domestic Violence Prevention Service) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | VISION has provided Respect with links to other actors in the field, for example through their inclusion on our advisory board and at our annual conferences. We have also co-produced research jointly defined that they can use independently for policy influencing. Research priorities identified by Respect representatives in a recent specialist services quarterly meeting (July 2024) will inform the research questions we seek to answer when analysing Drive data, which we are now in the process of cleaning. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Jo Todd is a VISION Advisory Board member. Ippo, Olga and Naomi attended our quarterly specialist services stakeholder group meeting/workshop on 23rd July 2024, during which we worked together to update research priorities identified in the early stages of VISION. This meeting resulted in an updated co-produced plan of research outputs with achievements made since 2022 towards previously identified priorities highlighted, and newly identified priorities going forwards added. In each quarterly meeting/workshop Respect have continued to provide expertise from the perspective of delivering support services for male victims of domestic abuse, interventions for perpetrators of domestic abuse and supporting professionals responding to young people's use of violence and abuse in family and intimate relationships. Estela and Annie also met with Ippo and Tanisha in September 2023 to discuss the Respect helpline data, and Ippo offered to share additional helpline data not systematically collected but collected for a project during Covid to inform VISION's work on barriers for perpetrators to address their behaviour. |
| Impact | Trends in outcomes used to measure the effectiveness of UK-based support interventions and services targeted at adults with experience of domestic and sexual violence and abuse: A scoping review. BMJ Open (under review) How effective are UK-based support interventions and services targeted at adults who have experienced domestic and sexual violence and abuse at improving their safety and wellbeing? A systematic review protocol. Plos one (under review) Research prioritisation padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-1-3vrcftmm40yzyy2d, https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-2-alternative-j7v760v2f1eidhc Specialist services theory of change padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/specialist-services-theory-of-change-c1d3a9almubxj958 , https://padlet.com/estelacapelas/specialist-services-toc-workshop-23v1ny8ve61vom27 Preliminary adolescent domestic abuse coding framework padlet- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/preliminary-coding-framework-adolescent-domestic-abuse-u8stbd5z0jdx885z Bunce, Annie, Sophie Carlisle, and Estela Capelas Barbosa. "The Concept and Measurement of Interpersonal Violence in Specialist Services Data: Inconsistencies, Outcomes and the Challenges of Synthesising Evidence." Social Sciences 12.7 (2023): 366. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/7/366 Challenges of using specialist domestic and sexual violence and abuse service data to inform policy and practice on violence reduction. Journal of Gender-Based Violence (under review). Newly identified research priorities - https://padlet.com/edavies4_18/specialist-services-meeting-2cyzt3battwmlnp1 Research prioritisation Padlet (updated)- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-1-3vrcftmm40yzyy2d Systematic review on effectiveness of SS - currently under appeal with BMC public health Data processing- cleaned Drive data pertaining to victim, perpetrator and CYP demographics, risks and needs. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Safelives |
| Organisation | SafeLives |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | VISION has provided SafeLives with links to other actors in the field, for example through their inclusion on our advisory board and at our annual conferences. We have also co-produced research jointly defined that they can use independently for policy influencing. Elouise, Estela and Annie went to the SafeLives offices in Bristol to meet Emma Vallis (Senior Research Analyst) on 16th November 2023. The purpose of this meeting was for Emma to provide an overview of the Drive dataset to aid the data cleaning and analysis process. The outcome was that questions about the structure and interpretation of the data were answered and we were able to begin working with the data. VISION researchers also secured a small pot of additional funding (City Participatory Research Fund, £6,000) to partner in a project with SafeLives exploring adolescent domestic abuse. SafeLives' Kristie Waller and Bethan Taylor co-facilitated a workshop on 20th March 2024 with three of SafeLives' Changemakers; participants were four young people with lived experience of domestic abuse in their teenage years. The transcript from the workshop was shared with Polina Obolenskaya and Annie Bunce, who thematically analysed the data. Bethan, Kristie and the Changemakers presented their reflections from the project at the VISION ADA conference on 18th April 2024, and their presentation is on the VISION website. One of the Changemakers, Immi Balachandran, participated in an online coding session run by Polina and Annie on 20th May 2024 to sense-check preliminary codes identified during thematic analysis and to co-develop themes. The Changemakers also provided feedback on the full list of codes and draft themes via email. Their input and feedback guided the final iteration of codes, themes and sub-themes. Polina, Annie and the Changemakers co-produced a poster outlining the project which was presented at the ENGV conference in Lithuania from 26th-28th June 2024, on which the Changemakers were named authors. This poster will be published on the SafeLives website in due course. Polina and Annie have had a conference paper entitled Too soon, too late: experience of and professional responses to intimate partner violence and abuse in teenage relationships accepted to present findings from the project at the Connect Centre conference in October 2024. SafeLives/the Changemakers will sense check the presentation ahead of the conference and be acknowledged. Polina and Annie are currently drafting a journal article for submission to the Journal of Family Violence, which SafeLives and the Changemakers will have the opportunity to provide input on and/or be named co-authors on. There will be a face-to-face seminar co-delivered by VISION researchers, SafeLives and young participant(s) to discuss the findings from the workshop. Research priorities identified by SafeLives representatives in a recent specialist services quarterly meeting (July 2024) will inform the research questions we seek to answer when analysing Drive and Insights data. Data processing of Drive data is already underway. Sally Steadman South attended the VISION ADA roundtable event on 25th June 2024, and a link to SafeLives' Your Best Friend website will be provided in the report detailing outcomes from the roundtable. The roundtable was well-attended, and VISION will be keeping SafeLives and other organisations and stakeholders involved in the ongoing conversation and any research developments in the area of ADA/. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at quarterly specialist services stakeholder group meetings/workshops: a research prioritisation workshop on 31st January 2023; a theory of change workshop on 11th April 2023; a scoping review meeting on 12th June 2023 and an adolescent domestic abuse workshop on 20th September 2023. The research prioritisation workshop resulted in a co-produced plan of research outputs over the course of the project which all partners stand to benefit from. In each quarterly meeting/workshop SafeLives have provided expertise from the perspective of delivering specialist domestic abuse services. Their input has informed co-produced outputs such as the VISION specialist services theory of change for reducing violence, and a coding framework for analysing data on young people's experience of adolescent domestic abuse. They provided feedback on scoping review of outcomes used by specialist support services to measure their effectiveness and advice on subsequent systematic review of the effectiveness of specialist support services and interventions. SafeLives have also partnered with VISION to run the adolescent domestic abuse project. Nanya attended a quarterly specialist services stakeholder group meetings/workshops; a research prioritisation update meeting on 23rd July 2024. The research prioritisation update workshop resulted in an updated co-produced plan of research outputs, with achievements made since 2022 towards previously identified priorities highlighted, and newly identified priorities going forwards added. In each quarterly meeting/workshop SafeLives have continued to provide expertise from the perspective of delivering specialist domestic abuse services. SafeLives' Kristie Waller, Bethan Taylor and three of their Changemakers co-facilitated the aforementioned workshop for the adolescent domestic abuse project, arranged for transcription and shared the transcript from the workshop with Polina Obolenskaya and Annie Bunce to be thematically analysed. Bethan, Kristie and the Changemakers presented their reflections from the project at the VISION ADA conference on 18th April 2024. One of the Changemakers, Immi Balachandran participated in an online coding session run by Polina and Annie on 20th May 2024 to sense-check preliminary codes identified during thematic analysis and to co-develop themes. Kristie observed this online coding session and provided Polina and Annie with feedback via email afterwards. The Changemakers also provided feedback on the full list of codes and draft themes via email. Their input and feedback guided the final iteration of codes, themes and sub-themes. Polina, Annie and the Changemakers co-produced a poster outlining the project which was presented at the ENGV conference in Lithuania from 26th-28th June 2024. This poster will be published on the SafeLives website in due course. Sally Steadman South attended the VISION ADA roundtable event on 25th June 2024. Emma Valllis ran a VISION/Drive data workshop at SafeLives' offices in Bristol to introduce Annie, Estela and Elouise to the data and answer any initial questions. Emma is no longer working on the Drive project so will not be VISION's single point of contact RE Drive data going forwards. Kyla is in the process of identifying and introducing a new single point of contact. In the meantime, Tamsin Savvides has responded to multiple data queries throughout August 2024 via the Drive inbox. |
| Impact | Trends in outcomes used to measure the effectiveness of UK-based support interventions and services targeted at adults with experience of domestic and sexual violence and abuse: A scoping review. BMJ Open (under review) How effective are UK-based support interventions and services targeted at adults who have experienced domestic and sexual violence and abuse at improving their safety and wellbeing? A systematic review protocol. Plos one (under review) Research prioritisation padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-1-3vrcftmm40yzyy2d, https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-2-alternative-j7v760v2f1eidhc Specialist services theory of change padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/specialist-services-theory-of-change-c1d3a9almubxj958 , https://padlet.com/estelacapelas/specialist-services-toc-workshop-23v1ny8ve61vom27 Preliminary adolescent domestic abuse coding framework padlet- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/preliminary-coding-framework-adolescent-domestic-abuse-u8stbd5z0jdx885z Participatory Research Fund and Policy Support Fund grant proposals Bunce, Annie, Sophie Carlisle, and Estela Capelas Barbosa. "The Concept and Measurement of Interpersonal Violence in Specialist Services Data: Inconsistencies, Outcomes and the Challenges of Synthesising Evidence." Social Sciences 12.7 (2023): 366. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/7/366 Challenges of using specialist domestic and sexual violence and abuse service data to inform policy and practice on violence reduction. Journal of Gender-Based Violence (under review). Newly identified research priorities - https://padlet.com/edavies4_18/specialist-services-meeting-2cyzt3battwmlnp1 Research prioritisation Padlet (updated)- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-1-3vrcftmm40yzyy2d Systematic review on effectiveness of SS- currently under appeal with BMC public health Data processing- cleaned Drive data pertaining to victim, perpetrator and CYP demographics, risks and needs. ENGV poster Upcoming Connect Centre conference paper- Too soon, too late: experience of and professional responses to intimate partner violence and abuse in teenage relationships |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Southwark Domestic Abuse and VAWG Transformation Steering Gruop |
| Organisation | Southwark Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I am a member of the domestic abuse and VAWG transformation steering group, which is responsible for: • Oversight of the development of a needs assessment for DA and VAWG services, informed by stakeholder engagement, experts by experience and statistical data. • Advising on an approach to the council's DA service recommissioning and wider system change across DA and VAWG services to improve how victim-survivors access and experience support. • Monitoring and providing challenge throughout the recommissioning of the Southwark Domestic Abuse Service so that these goals are achieved. • Championing the alignment of services and strategy with these aims. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Southwark Council chair and administer the group and will commission the domestic abuse and VAWG services including with reference to the advice provided by the group. |
| Impact | * Tender has been developed and published. * Market engagement events to inform the procurement |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Special Interest Group (SIG) 'Evidence syntheses on violence and abuse' |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION researchers, members of the Systematic Reviews strand, are the founding members of the SIG. The SIG developed from discussions at the European Conference on Domestic Violence in Reykjavik, Iceland, September 2023. We organised three meetings and contributed to discussions about plans, funding and next steps. We contributed to the grant proposal (unsuccessful). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The two UCL collaborators (listed above) contributed to the meetings and led development of the grant proposal. |
| Impact | Grant proposal submitted 30 November 2023: The Independent Social Research Foundation, Small Group Projects (unsuccessful). |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Special Interest Group (SIG) 'Evidence syntheses on violence and abuse' |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION researchers, members of the Systematic Reviews strand, are the founding members of the SIG. The SIG developed from discussions at the European Conference on Domestic Violence in Reykjavik, Iceland, September 2023. We organised three meetings and contributed to discussions about plans, funding and next steps. We contributed to the grant proposal (unsuccessful). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The two UCL collaborators (listed above) contributed to the meetings and led development of the grant proposal. |
| Impact | Grant proposal submitted 30 November 2023: The Independent Social Research Foundation, Small Group Projects (unsuccessful). |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Thames Valley Police |
| Organisation | Thames Valley Police |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have formed the Adolescent Domestic Abuse Working Group, have hosted a conference and a roundtable with stakeholders across policy, practice and specialist services to focus on the under researched areas of abuse in teenage relationships. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Katy Barrow-Grint has an academic and professional interest in adolescent domestic abuse. After writing a book on Policing Domestic Abuse with Ruth Weir (and others) they have collaborated to lead work on this under researched area. Katy Barrow-Grint and Ruth Weir are leading and progressing the adolescent domestic abuse work. Thames Valley Police have other member, including their Safeguarding lead who have joined the working group, presented at the adolescent domestic abuse conference and contributed to roundtable discussions. We are in ongoing discussions about developing a large grant application with the team. Katy Barrow-Grint will be taking up a role as Practitioner-in-Residence at the Violence and Society Centre in October 2024. |
| Impact | Adolescent Domestic Abuse Conference Adolescent Domestic Abuse report Adolescent Domestic Abuse roundtable Adolescent Domestic Abuse Working Group Book, Policing Domestic Abuse |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Trade Union partnership in data collection and analysis of their membership network. |
| Organisation | Trades Union Congress (TUC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have been in discussions with several trade unions and have obtained agreement from them to analyse their data which contains indicators on violence experienced at work. Specifically the TUC and NASUWT. The TUC has shared data with us to analyse with them, and the NASUWT have offered to share their data with us too. We have also secured agreement with the TUC to work with them to collect an updated version of their seminal questionnaire distributed to their membership of 5.5 members, which measured the effects of DA on the workplace. The agreement is the first step in the research process, the second is to secure funding to pay for our work to analyse these data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The TUC have provided us with their data and original questionnaire for re-development. The NASUWT have offered similar. The GMB has expressed interest in doing so, but we have no yet secured their formal agreement. |
| Impact | Not yet |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Transport for London |
| Organisation | Transport for London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with Transport for London (TfL) on analysing the risk/impact of staff lone working on violence on the London underground network. We have collaborated with Chris Pearson (Transport Policing & Enforcement Information Analyst) and Nicola Brady (Senior Operational Policy, Insight and Analysis Manager) from Transport for London. We have formed a working group comprising colleagues at City with a team of analysts at TfL, and have analysed data provided by TfL related to incidents of violence on the underground network and presented our findings at a TfL Workshop event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | TfL have provided data and contributed to the working group. |
| Impact | A report highlighting the initial set of preliminary findings. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | University of Liverpool |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Advisory board member Written outputs: Book contract signed: with Routledge on 'Gendering lethal violence: Weapons, place, and politics' to be co-authored with Professor Sandra Walklate (due December 2023). Special issue: Cook, E.A., Fitz-Gibbon, K. and Walklate, S. (2023) Editorial: Reimagining what counts as femicide. Current Sociology, 71(1): 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221106502 Responses to an open consultation run by the Home Office: Open consultation run by the Home Office on 'Machetes and other bladed articles: proposed legislation'. Submitted with Professor Sandra Walklate arguing for the need for gendered analysis of 'knife crime' interventions. 6 June 2023. Relevant URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/machetes-and-other-bladed-articles-proposed-legislation |
| Collaborator Contribution | Membership to the VISION Advisory Board and collaboration on a series of different publications (both published and in preparation) |
| Impact | Cook, E.A. and Walklate, S. (2023) A written response from Dr Elizabeth Cook and Professor Sandra Walklate to the Open Consultation for the Machetes and other bladed articles: proposed legislation from the Serious Violence Unit, Home Office. 6 June. [Unpublished] Cook, E.A. and Walklate, S. (in preparation) Gendering Lethal Violence: Weapons, Politics and Place. London: Routledge Cook, E.A., Fitz-Gibbon, K. and Walklate, S. (2023) Editorial: Reimagining what counts as femicide. Current Sociology, 71(1): 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221106502 |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | University of Manchester |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Ongoing collaboration in the form of co-editing a Routledge book series on violence and inequality, conference papers, and a follow-on British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant on non-intimate femicide. Co-editor partnership on a Routledge Series on Violence, Inequality and Change Signed five-year term contract as Co-Editor of Routledge Series on Violence, Inequality and Change, with Dr. Caroline Miles (University of Manchester) 15 November 2022 The purpose of this series is to provide a platform for authors (of monographs, edited collections or focus pieces) interested in violence, inequality and social change to contribute ideas in an interdisciplinary setting; To resist interdisciplinary siloes on violence in society Participation at the European Conference on Domestic Violence 2023 Submitted and presented a paper as part of a pre-organized symposium on domestic abuse and intersecting inequalities (Chair: Prof Rachel Condry, University of Oxford) Successful award of a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant on non-intimate femicide Further information is available on this in the 'Further Funding' document. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator is: - Co-editor to book series - Co-author to conference presentation - Principal Investigator on small grant |
| Impact | Cook, E. and Miles (2023) Change, intimacy, and relationships: Implications for measuring non-intimate femicide. Conference presentation. 13 September. [Unpublished] Cook, E. and Miles (2022) Violence, Inequality and Change [Book Series]. London: Routledge British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant 22-23. Award No. SRG2223\231309. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Nottingham |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Co-authorship on written output Advice on involvement of bereaved families in death investigation processes Invitation to parliamentary launch event |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lead authorship Secured impact funding for part of a larger project to improve prisoner death investigations |
| Impact | Tomczak, P. and Cook, E.A. (2023). Bereaved Family 'Involvement' in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose 'Satisfaction'? Social & Legal Studies, 32(2), pp. 294-317. doi:10.1177/09646639221100480 The findings of this collaboration formed one part of a policy report for the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) in 2023: https://www.safesoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-improving-prisoner-death-investigations-and-promoting-change-in-prisons_a-findings-and-recommendations-report.pdf |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Violence Against Women & Girls ONS project |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | I was an expert advisor to an ONS programme scoping and making more accessible national data on violence against women and girls, concordant with an objective of VISION to improve and make better use of violence data. In particular I advised on the new VAWG data landscape which is now live. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Not applicable |
| Impact | New VAWG data landscape: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/violenceagainstwomenandgirlsdatalandscape |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network (VAMHN) - LEAG |
| Organisation | Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The VISION consortium has a close and ongoing collaboration with this network, building on it and sharing several CIs. The collaboration has improved continuity and sustainability of the earlier network. Since 2023 funding, enabling co-produced research with people who have lived experience of violence. Facilitated by Oram, Cook and Innes worked with VAHMN's LEAG on two workshops relating to how LE is positioned within evidence hierarchies. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The VAMHNW has fed into VISION, and provided established relationships. Research prioritisation activities undertaken by the network have informed the direction of VISION. Facilitation and recruitment and expertise, embedding lived experience into the VISION research programme. 2024 The LEAG met to discuss how LE is positioned within evidence hierarchies, as well as how VISION can more meaningfully and ethically engage LE in research. Two workshops were organised, chaired by Oram and a LEAG member, with introductory questions posed by Cook and Innes. Discussion was then led by LEAG members. A visual illustration of these discussions was then produced, in dialogue with LEAG members to ensure the points reflected in notes and in the visual were accurate and representative of the views that members wished to give. |
| Impact | A key output from VISION member (Walby's) involvement across both the VAMHNW and VISION was The Lancet Psychiatry's Commission piece highlighting intimate partner violence as an issue for health services and wider public health, and focusing on issues of measurement: Oram, S., Fisher, H. L., Minnis, H., Seedat, S., Walby, S., Hegarty, K., ... & Howard, L. M. (2022). The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on intimate partner violence and mental health: advancing mental health services, research, and policy. The Lancet Psychiatry, 9(6), 487-524. 2024 Two workshops between VISION's 'epistemology and intersectionality' working group and VAHMN's LEAG A visual illustration produced in dialogue with the LEAG: https://www.vamhn.co.uk/vamhn-outputs.html |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Women's Aid |
| Organisation | Women's Aid |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | VISION has provided Women's Aid with links to other actors in the field, for example through their inclusion on our advisory board and at our annual conferences. We have also co-produced research jointly defined that they can use independently for policy influencing and the VISION team is engaged with policy and practice actions held and/or hosted by Women's Aid. Annie, Elouise and Estela have cleaned each of the On Track datasets provided to VISION, merged them into one larger dataset and conducted run multinomial logit models and survival analyses to explore the length of service duration and determinants of case closure and case completion; priorities identified by Women's Aid in the earlier stages of VISION. Preliminary findings have been shared with Hannah, Emma and Sarah, and adjustments made to the models in accordance with their feedback. A draft paper for publication in the Journal of Family Violence is currently underway, which will be shared with Women's Aid for feedback and any necessary edits before submission. Women's Aid collaborators will be offered the choice of acknowledgement or authorship. A second paper exploring health outcomes of victim-survivors in the On Track data is also planned, and the above process of co-production followed. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sarah Davidge from Women's Aid has attended quarterly specialist services stakeholder group meetings/workshops: a research prioritisation workshop on 31st January 2023; a theory of change workshop on 11th April 2023; a scoping review meeting on 12th June 2023 and an adolescent domestic abuse workshop on 20th September 2023. The research prioritisation workshop resulted in a co-produced plan of research outputs over the course of the project which all partners stand to benefit from. In each quarterly meeting/workshop Women's Aid have provided expertise from the perspective of delivering specialist domestic abuse support services. Their input has informed co-produced outputs such as the VISION specialist services theory of change for reducing violence, and a coding framework for analysing data on young people's experience of adolescent domestic abuse. They provided feedback on scoping review of outcomes used by specialist support services to measure their effectiveness and advice on subsequent systematic review of the effectiveness of specialist support services and interventions. Hannah Williams, Evaluation and Learning Manager, and Emma Clark, Senior Research and Evaluation Officer, attended the quarterly specialist services stakeholder group meetings/workshops; a research prioritisation update meeting on 23rd July 2024. The research prioritisation update workshop resulted in an updated co-produced plan of research outputs, with achievements made since 2022 towards previously identified priorities highlighted, and newly identified priorities going forwards added. We also discussed research questions to be answered via analysis of Drive and SafeLives data. The outcome of this workshop was an updated Padlet with revised research priorities for the remainder of VISION, including priority questions to be answered when it comes to analysing Drive and SafeLives' data. In each quarterly meeting/workshop Women's Aid have continued to provide expertise from the perspective of delivering specialist domestic abuse support services. Hannah and Emma have also attended On Track data update meetings on the 22nd November 2023 and 8th April 2024, and responded to data-related queries via email. |
| Impact | Trends in outcomes used to measure the effectiveness of UK-based support interventions and services targeted at adults with experience of domestic and sexual violence and abuse: A scoping review. BMJ Open (under review) How effective are UK-based support interventions and services targeted at adults who have experienced domestic and sexual violence and abuse at improving their safety and wellbeing? A systematic review protocol. Plos one (under review) Research prioritisation padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-1-3vrcftmm40yzyy2d, https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-2-alternative-j7v760v2f1eidhc Specialist services theory of change padlets- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/specialist-services-theory-of-change-c1d3a9almubxj958 , https://padlet.com/estelacapelas/specialist-services-toc-workshop-23v1ny8ve61vom27 Preliminary adolescent domestic abuse coding framework padlet- https://padlet.com/anniebunce/preliminary-coding-framework-adolescent-domestic-abuse-u8stbd5z0jdx885z Bunce, Annie, Sophie Carlisle, and Estela Capelas Barbosa. "The Concept and Measurement of Interpersonal Violence in Specialist Services Data: Inconsistencies, Outcomes and the Challenges of Synthesising Evidence." Social Sciences 12.7 (2023): 366. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/7/366 Challenges of using specialist domestic and sexual violence and abuse service data to inform policy and practice on violence reduction. Journal of Gender-Based Violence (under review). Newly identified research priorities - Specialist Services Meeting https://padlet.com/edavies4_18/specialist-services-meeting-2cyzt3battwmlnp1 Research prioritisation Padlet (updated)- Exercise 1 https://padlet.com/anniebunce/exercise-1-3vrcftmm40yzyy2d Systematic review on effectiveness of SS- currently under appeal with BMC public health Women's Aid On Track merged dataset. Preliminary findings from statistical analysis of merged dataset. Draft paper entitled Service duration and determinants of case closure and case completion for victim-survivors accessing specialist domestic abuse support services, to be submitted to the Journal of Family Violence. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | World Health Organisation |
| Organisation | World Health Organization (WHO) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Co-development, delivery and maintenance of Violence Info - a global resource for violence prevention with the WHO Co-production of Tackling Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), State of the Art and Options for Action (2023) |
| Collaborator Contribution | On going on different violence related programmes since 2008 with different outcomes and collaborative programmes each year |
| Impact | Violence Info web site https://apps.who.int/violence-info/ Tackling Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), State of the Art and Options for Action (2023) https://phwwhocc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-01-state-of-the-art-report-eng.pdf |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | "Digitale Gewalt" (Digital Violence) Network Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented our UCL research at the German "Digitale Gewalt" (Digital Violence) network meeting, which is an informal network of domestic violence and abuse charities and refuges in Germany interested in tackling tech abuse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | "Pulling the Strings" Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed for this podcast and our UCL research on tech abuse has been featured in the new "Pulling the Strings: Conversations About Coercive Control" podcast by the UKRI Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network (VAMHN). See Episode #2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/show/5BAtMJazQFFLPnKU2Ruuod |
| Description | 'Producing evidence syntheses on violence and abuse: reflections on the disciplinary variations and practicalities': London Evidence Syntheses and Research Use Seminars: EPPI Centre (at UCL) and the Centre for Evaluation LSHTM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | VISION researchers Lewis, Cook, Carlisle, and Corsi were invited to present their programme of work on systematic review at the 'London Evidence Syntheses and Research Use Seminars' which are jointly organised by EPPI Centre and The Centre for Evaluation at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The aim of the seminars is to encourage discussion and debate on challenges and innovations in evidence syntheses. The seminar was attended by approximately 50 people in-person and online. There was an active discussion at the end of the panel, including further requests for information and suggestions as to further contacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/reflections-on-producing-evidence-syntheses-on-violence-and-abuse/ |
| Description | 10th International Festival of Public Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An 1.5 hour workshop on VISION research findings, with a research prioritisation activities that involved digital data collection from workshop attendees. This prioritisation exercise has informed the proposed workplans for various threads of Consortium work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.festivalofpublichealth.co.uk/aboutthefestival/ |
| Description | 2024 Annual Conference of the European Network on Gender and Violence with European Institute for Gender Equality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Multiple VISION symposia and sessions were run at the European Network, with high level European policy engagement. VISION will host the networkj's annual conference in 2026. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://eige.europa.eu/newsroom/events/2024-annual-conference-european-network-gender-and-violence |
| Description | A novel PPIE group to inform healthcare natural language processing strategy and output |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Around 15 patients and carers have been recruited for ongoing oversight of natural language processing developments using mental healthcare records data held at the Maudsley CRIS resource. Having received three training sessions, quarterly review meetings are planned going forward. As far as we are aware, this is the first such dedicated group established, but we will look to develop/support wider networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | A presentation on how to get started in an academic career |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation for the London Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists on 'how to do research' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | A presentation on mind and body in ageing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at a symposium to mark the completion of the AGECAP multi-disciplinary ageing research collaboration at the University of Gothenburg. Attended by a mixed public/professional audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | A presentation on physical health in dementia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two presentations given to mental health Trusts on physical health outcomes in dementia and memory service models |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | A presentation on the DATAMIND hub for mental health data science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation to the annual Alleviate conference on pain research, outlining the DATAMIND hub and its activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | A presentation on violence and mental health data science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation and chairing of a symposium at the Edinburgh Prevention Congress on violence and mental health data science developed via the VISION Consortium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Attended seminar on "Beyond prevalence: how to adapt and optimize GBV measurement for scale up" run by Johns Hopkins University Center for Global Women's Health and Gender Equity, the Newcomb Institute, EMERGE (Evidence-based Measures of Empowerment for Research on Gender Equality), Kenyatta University and International Center for Reproductive Health Kenya (ICHR-K) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attended seminar where there were different presentations on how they are measuring gender-based violence and how we can optimise this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | BBC One's Crimewatch Live (Episode 7, Series 18) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed and featured our research on BBC One's Crimewatch Live (Episode 7, Series 18) this Tuesday, 10 October 2023; |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rbj5 |
| Description | Blog post on VISION website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I published a blog post on the Violence, Health and Society (VISION) website entitled "Tech-facilitated abuse and the 'new normal'". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/tech-facilitated-abuse-and-the-new-normal/ |
| Description | Book launch of 'Policing Domestic Abuse' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Book launch for 'Policing Domestic Abuse', a collaborative book between two senior police officers and two academics. The event was to introduce and publicise the book. In attendance was the National Police Chiefs Council Lead for domestic abuse, Domestic Abuse Commissioner, senior police officers from 6 forces, colleagues from Home Office, Department for Levelling up, College of Policing, third sector organisations and academics from 6 universities. The event enabled networking between police, government, third sector and academics. Raising the profile of VISION and importance of collaboration between academics and practitioners. Raising the profile of the book which could have an impact on police practice and improve their response to domestic abuse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2022/11/improving-police-responses-to-domestic-abuse |
| Description | Chair at SAFESOC 'Learning across death investigations' event (Lizzie Cook) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cook attended a day event on 'Learning across death investigations', run by SAFESOC as a dissemination and network building event. The event was attended about approximately 20 people, including representatives from coroners' courts, researchers, safeguarding boards, local government and academics. At the event, we discussed the potential for holding a further event in 2025 to consolidate these discussions and also to build a larger grant application to Nuffield next year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Citation in Islington Tribune |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was cited in the Islington Tribune to discuss when everyday tech is weaponised against women. In the news item, I call for greater awareness of the technologies we all rely on daily. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/when-our-everyday-tech-is-weaponised-against-women |
| Description | Conference presentation (Connect Centre) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given as part of the Connect Centre* conference. Around 150 people attended the conference and around 50 attended the session I gave this talk in. I discussed some research I conducted on regional police data and the audience were extremely interested in the value of this data and my research Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference presentation at Behavioral and Social Sciences in Security BASS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Approx. 120 people attended a talk I gave at a conference at University of St. Andrews at the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Security (BASS) conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://crestresearch.ac.uk/bass24/ |
| Description | Cosmopolitan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Leonie Tanczer was interviewed for this Cosmopolitan article on the rise of Apple AirTag tracking. An AirTags is a coin-sized wireless Bluetooth product that can be attached to items like keys, wallets, or a bag, for a person to track their personal possessions if they get lost. These systems have been shown to be misused in cases of stalking and domestic violence. ?https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a39660324/air-tag-stalking/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a39660324/air-tag-stalking/ |
| Description | Cranstoun Social Justice Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Launched the Safe Spaces Wheel for Black and Racialised Leaders, which sparked conversations about safe spaces, and exploratory collaborative opportunities with national organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://hopetraining.co.uk/safe-spaces-wheel/ |
| Description | Developing a Framework For Measuring Gender in Homicide Defences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I made a presentation on my framework for measuring gender in homicide defences to an audience of researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and post graduate students. This sparked discussion, reflections, and requests for additional similar research from policy makers and fellow researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Discussion with the Kent and Medway Suicide Prevention Team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with the Suicide Prevention Team in Kent and Medway addressing links and available data on suicide and domestic abuse, and new Real Time Suicide Surveillance System. Led to a publication in Lancet Psychiatry identifying the links between intimate partner violence and suicidality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Domestic Abuse Event, Foundations, What Works for Children and Families, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Evaluating systemic change through complexity-informed evaluations and critical systems thinking: limits and possibilities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) Statutory Guidance Expert Roundtable (Lizzie Cook) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cook collaborated with James Rowlands (Durham University), supported by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner's (DAC) Office to organise and host an expert roundtable event to discuss the Home Office consultation on the newly drafted Domestic Homicide Review statutory guidance. The event was attended by 45 representatives from key stakeholders from national and local government, police, and third sector. The event focused on building participatory dialogue and to promote engagement with the consultation process so that more organisations were prompted to submit their views. We provided a summary of proceedings to organisations so that they could write their own consultation submissions. From evaluations of the event, we can show that a number of organisations reported a change in their views and indicated that the event would inform their own organisational response to the consultation. Our published consultation response was also cited/acknowledged by two organisations (The Drive Partnership and AAFDA). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/consultation-response-to-revised-statutory-guidance-for-conduct-of-do... |
| Description | Engaged with the "Technology-Facilitated Violence Against Women: Towards Common Methodologies for Measurement" event, organised by UN Women in partnership with UNFPA, WHO and the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-based Online Harassment and Abuse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Engaged with users at event discussing TFGBV measurement, it included introductions to the why we need to measure TFGBV, and an overview of current methods and data. There was also a panel and a q&a on why we need to measure TFGBV, and the progress being made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Engaged with users at Refuge's launch for their Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment Strategy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Engaged with other relevant user at Refuge's Tech and Economic abuse strategy launch. With this we heard their new strategy and broke into groups to discuss our expectations for the strategy, how we think we can help with this strategy/how we envision our partnership with Refuge with this strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Engagement activities with ministers and parliamentarians |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | VISION members are engaging directly and informally with ministers of parliament and thier supporting staff, for example Ruth Weir recently met with Yvette Cooper's political advisor to discuss VISION work on adolescent domestic abuse. We briefed Natasha Collett on the work we are doing and invited her to join the Adolescent Domestic Abuse Working Group. We have kept in touch to keep Natasha up to speed with the progress on the work. Book Policing Domestic Abuse was also shared with the office. This is one example of a series of related contacts across the consortium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Engagement in IEEE Standard Development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I am a voting member of the IEEE Social Implications of Technology Standards Committee's "Recommended Practice for Principles for Design and Operation Addressing Technology-Facilitated Inter-personal Control" (P2987), which aims to design a technical standard against tech abuse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/2987/10620/ |
| Description | Eurocrim Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | European Society of Criminology Conference, presentation on violence and abuse among older people using results from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://eurocrim.secure-platform.com/spain2022/ |
| Description | Gender Based Violence Research Collective Forums |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The collective is composed of academics who research violence and its impact on multiple fronts, it was formed on its first meeting. It presents current work to other relevant groups, proposes collective responses to policy and practice and fosters new collaborations for future research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Gender and Tech Monthly Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Since 2018, I run a monthly newsletter on the topic of tech abuse which as of March 2024 has more than 1100 international subscribers. I use the newsletter as a tool to keep interested audiences up-to-date with our research progress, any latest developments in the space of technology-facilitated abuse and the Internet of Things, as well as training and support opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024 |
| URL | https://us15.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=5fc63c9cf03878c3ab01efd9c&id=2fd178402e |
| Description | Global Suicide Research Symposium Presentation to the global Suicide Research Symposium, April 19th 2024 on Intimate partner violence and suicidality: A survey of England's general population https://www.suicideresearchsymposium.com/ (Sally McManus, Lizzie Cook) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Global Suicide Research Symposium - Presentation to the global Suicide Research Symposium, April 19th 2024 on Intimate partner violence and suicidality: A survey of England's general population https://www.suicideresearchsymposium.com/ (Sally McManus, Lizzie Cook) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.suicideresearchsymposium.com/ |
| Description | Global Symposium on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I got invited and presented at the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) second Global Symposium on Technology-facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV), co-convened by the Australian eSafety Commissioner, which was an online 3-day event that attracted over 1000 international attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/hashtag/TFGBVSymposium24?src=hashtag_click |
| Description | Input Mag |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Tech Abuse Thread featured in a news story about the risks ?of data gathering about periods and fertility for Input Magazine; ?https://www.inputmag.com/culture/period-tracking-apps-abortion-privacy-roe-v-wade |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.inputmag.com/culture/period-tracking-apps-abortion-privacy-roe-v-wade |
| Description | Interview and Quote in Forbes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed and have featured quotes on my contribution to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee Report "Connected Tech: Smart of Sinister" (https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/378/culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/198637/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister-cms-committee-publishes-government-response-to-report/) in Forbes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/08/07/uk-warns-of-stalking-risks-from-connected-dev... |
| Description | Interview and Quote in Sky News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed and have featured quotes on my contribution to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee Report "Connected Tech: Smart of Sinister" (https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/378/culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/198637/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister-cms-committee-publishes-government-response-to-report/) in Sky News. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://news.sky.com/story/chilling-surge-in-use-of-smart-speakers-and-baby-monitors-to-carry-out-do... |
| Description | Interview for BBC News Article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed and our research cited in a BBC News article entitled "Controversial clothes hook spy cameras for sale on Amazon". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67652317 |
| Description | Invited contribution at Prisoner Death Investigations: Improving Safety in Prisons and Societies? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to around 200 attendees at the 'Prisoner Death Investigations: Improving Safety in Prisons and Societies?' Symposium, based on a publication in Social and Legal Studies. Audience was a mix of prison governors, academics, policymakers, Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, and Coroners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited contribution to Action On Armed Violence (AOAV) Roundtable on Knife Crime |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited contribution to AOAV Roundtable on Knife Crime - providing a gendered analysis of weapon use, carrying, and symbolism. Attended by third sector and academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://aoav.org.uk/2022/knife-crime-in-london-a-summary-of-an-experts-round-table/ |
| Description | Invited contribution to Data Bites - Justice Special. Organised by Institute for Government and Nuffield Foundation. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give a 'Data Bites' talk at an event organised by the Institute for Government and Nuffield Foundation. The event focused on how to make better use of data and evidence in government. The talk later informed a report published by the Institute for Government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/data-bites-42-getting-things-done-data-government |
| Description | Invited contribution to Public Policy Exchange 'Combatting Knife Crime in the UK' Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited contribution to a webinar organised by Public Policy Exchange on 'Combatting Knife Crime in the UK' to examine government policy on reducing knife-related violence. Audience was a mix of practitioners, police, third sector, and academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/event.php?eventUID=NJ19-PPE |
| Description | Invited contribution to expert round table by JusticeLab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited contribution to expert round table on amplifying victims' voices by improving the collection and use of data in the justice system. This expert roundtable informed a report and evidence briefing developed by JusticeLab. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://justicelab.org.uk/resource/expert-stakeholder-workshop-amplifying-victims-voices/ |
| Description | Invited presentation at a panel organised by Public Policy Exchange on 'Combatting Knife Crime in the UK: Tough on Knife Crime, Tough on the Causes of Knife Crime' (Lizzie Cook) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cook was invited to present previously published research (with Walklate) on a gender analysis of knife crime. This was organised by the Public Policy Exchange, and included presentations by Prof. Lawrence Sherman, Prof. Kevin Browne, Sammy Odoi, Nathaniel Levy, and Bruce Houlder, Dr. Sue Roberts. Cook subsequently wrote a blog on this for the VISION website, available via the URL below. She has received several media requests regarding knife crime since this presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/a-gender-analysis-of-knife-crime/ |
| Description | Invited presentation to the Health - Standing Together Against Abuse Conference (Sally McManus) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Major practitioner-focused conference on health and Domestic Abuse. Presented on: Early insights from the VISION consortium Measuring violence to reduce its impact - Standing Together, 29th November 2023 Sally McManus |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE EVENT WITH THE HOME OFFICE CRIME AND JUSTICE RESEARCH TEAM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | THIS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE EVENT WAS ARRANGED BY KIM CULLEN ON BEHALF OF THE CRIME AND JUSTICE STRAND (POLINA OBOLENSKAYA, RUTH WEIR, ELIZABETH COOK ATTENDED; LEONIE TANCZER WAS UNAVAILABLE BUT SLIDES WERE PROVIDED; SALLY MCMANUS ATTENDED AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR). THIS MEETING OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY TO UPDATE THE HOME OFFICE CRIME AND JUSTICE RESEARCH TEAM ON COMPLETED AND ONGOING WORK WITHIN VISION. IT ALSO ACTED AS A RESEARCH PRIORITISATION EXERCISE FOR THE NEXT STAGE OF VISION. APPROX 15 HOME OFFICE STAFF ATTENDED. FURTHER INFORMATION WAS REQUESTED ON PARTICULAR OUTPUTS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Lecture delivered at the University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | VISION member Vanessa Gash delivered a guest lecture in French, as part of the LIVES research programme which has research centres at both the University of Lausanne and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. The lecture was open to colleagues in both research centres, University staff and students, alongside interested members of the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Led Policy 101 masterclass with UCL Computer Science and UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Led a masterclass event on Policy, working with the lead of the Policy Impact Unit. Included intro to policy and how to engage with it, the reflections in relation to the Gender & Tech team, and also what professional support is available. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Major international, cross-sectoral conference on Adolescent Domestic Abuse organised and hosted by VISION (Ruth Weir) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 161 practitioners, policy makers, specialist services and academics attended the conference, which had a full day programme including two VISION presentations and also with speakers from Thames Valley Police, The Metropolitan Police, Islington Borough Council, Connect Centre, Durham University, SafeLives, Women's Aid, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Loughborough University, Refuge, Blanquerna, Barcelona, Spain and The European Network for Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence, Berlin, Germany and Lambeth Health Inequalities Research and Evaluation Network. Other bodies represented include: Metropolitan Police Thames Valley Police South West London and St. George's Mental Health Trust Camden Government Your Sanctuary SafeLives Cambridge Government Lewisham Government Oxford Health - NHS Soundproof Box Youth Realities Lambeth Government London Borough of Barnet |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/april/adolescent-domestic-abuse |
| Description | Media coverage highlighting connection between intimate partner violence and suicidality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Co-produced briefing with Agenda resulted in widely shared coverage in The Guardian, Big Issue, and other outlets, including positive and engaged Twitter shares in the hundreds. Press release: https://www.agendaalliance.org/news/new-figures-reveal-link-between-suicidal-thoughts-and-domestic-abuse/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/22/women-who-suffer-domestic-abuse-three-times-as-likel... |
| Description | Media coverage of book, 'Policing Domestic Abuse' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | City press release, BBC and ITV local news coverage, feature in SPGA research highlights, local press (Thames Valley area) and Twitter coverage (at least 13,000 on one post). Outcomes include increased awareness of VISION and pathway to potential impact in changing police practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2022/11/improving-police-responses-to-domestic-abuse |
| Description | Mental health in the workplace: how employers should respond to domestic violence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | VISION member Sally McManus presented at a Westminster Insight event on Supporting Women's Health in the Workplace on 20 March 2024. Sally used a life-course approach to understanding women's mental health and wellbeing at work, including the impact of the psychosocial working environment, bullying and harassment at work, and what support and signposting employers can offer in relation to domestic violence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/mental-health-in-the-workplace-how-employers-should-respond-to-domest... |
| Description | Mental health service responses to violence: VISION symposia at the European Psychiatric Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An aim of the VISION programme is to examine the nature and extent of contact that people with experience of violence have with various health and justice services. Findings on mental health services were presented in a series of symposia at the European Psychiatric Association's Section on Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry this year. The first brought together six studies on experiences of violence and adversity and implications for mental health service use. These included King's College London's Anjuli Kaul presenting on Sexual Violence in Mental Health Service Users and Sian Oram on Mental Health Treatment Experiences of Minoritised Sexual Violence Survivors, with further contributions from Emma Soneson (Oxford), Maryam Ghasemi (Auckland), and Ladan Hashemi and Sally McManus (both City St George's). A second symposium highlighted the value of the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey to violence research, with Sally McManus presenting on Threatening or Obscene Messages from a Partner and Mental Health, Self-harm and Suicidality. Finally, a third symposium featuring VISION researchers Angus Roberts, Rob Stewart and others and highlighted how natural language processing can be used with information collected in mental health settings. Sharon Sondh (South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) presented on classifying experiences of violence in mental healthcare records. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/mental-health-service-responses-to-violence-vision-symposia-at-the-eu... |
| Description | National Network - Domestic Abuse against Older People |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | VISION contributing to teh establishment of a new national network collaborating to address domestic abuse agaionst older people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | National Stalking and Harassment (SPOC) Virtual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Tech Abuse Thread presented our research at the National Stalking and Harassment (SPOC) Virtual Conference organised by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) on the 2nd of February; |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Office for Statistics Regulation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Full day workshop organised by VISION bringing together expert practitioners from the Office for Statistics Regulation and VISION members working on the Crime Survey for England and Wales - extensive and detailed exchanges about conceptual and measurement issues, data requirements, quality standards, and mechanisms of data access and reporting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | PARTICIPATION IN JUSTICE LAB EXPERT STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP AND LAUNCH EVENT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | INVITED CONTRIBUTION TO AN EXPERT STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP HOSTED AND ORGANIZED BY THE JUSTICELAB/LEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION. ATTENDED BY APPROX. 30 EXPERTS TO DISCUSS CHALLENGES OF COLLECTING, USING AND SHARING VICTIMS' DATA (INC. SUZY LAMPLUGH TRUST, VICTIM SUPPORT, ACADEMICS, SAFE LIVES, BARNARDOS, AGE UK, THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY) A BRIEFING NOTE WAS DRAFTED BY JUSTICELAB FOLLOWING THIS WORKSHOP AND SHARED IN ADVANCE OF THE NEXT READING OF THE VICTIMS AND PRISONERS BILL |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://justicelab.org.uk/resource/expert-stakeholder-workshop-amplifying-victims-voices/ |
| Description | Paper presentation at the British International Studies Association Annual Conference. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Around 50 academics, postgraduate students, and other interested stakeholders attended a panel on 'Migration, Citizenship and Trajectories of Knowledge.' This was part of a large academic conference held in Glasgow, Scotland, with international attendees primarily from Europe and North America. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bisanet.org/page/2023AC |
| Description | Participated in the 2023 VISION Consortium Annual Conference "Responding to Violence Across the Life Course" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I participated in the 2023 VISION Consortium Annual Conference, "Responding to Violence Across the Life Course"; |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/vision-annual-conference/ |
| Description | Participated in workshop on LLMs in Social Science Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I attended a week-long workshop at the University of Oxford talking about how we can use LLMs for Social Science research. This involved having lectures from industry professionals, research talks from other academics in the social sciences, and working on various group projects applying LLMs to the chosen topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://llmsforsocialscience.net/ |
| Description | Participation at the House of Commons Women & Equalities Committee - expert roundtable on International Obligations & Violence Against Women and Girls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Knowledge Exchange Unit, UK Parliament: Women and Equalities discussing the scrutiny carried out by the Committee on aspects of policy regarding Violence against Women and Girls, and priorities to scrutinise regarding the UK's international obligations in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participation at the International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress 2023, Melbourne, Australia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | VISION MEMBER ELIZABETH COOK ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED A PANEL ON DURKHEIM, VIOLENCE AND SOCIETY AS PART OF THE 'VIOLENCE AND SOCIETY' ISA THEMATIC WORKING GROUP (CO-ORDINATED BY DAWSON AND WALBY) ALSO ATTENDED SEVERAL SESSIONS ON VIOLENCE AND SOCIETY, AS WELL AS INDIGENOUS SOCIOLOGY, GLOBAL INEQUALITIES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participation in Expert Roundtable on 'User-friendly Justice', Labour Party Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invitation and participation in Expert Roundtable on 'User-friendly Justice' at the Labour Party Conference 2022, Liverpool. Roundtable organised by Fabian Society and Legal Education Foundation. Other participants included Emily Thornberry (Labour MP), Lord Ponsoby (Peer), Dr Natalie Byrom (Director of the Legal Education Foundation), and members of the Institute for Government, Centre for Public Data, judges, and academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Participation in Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Community of Practice and their advisory group for the TFGBV research setting process |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | VISION members have joined the SVRI community of practice and their advisory group for the TFGBV research setting process. Have joined multiple meetings with members of SVRI and other researchers within the field of TFGBV. Been part of discussions with these groups and have been able to share our research aims including our Delphi study which is working towards a consensus of the definition of tech abuse. We continue to be apart of their discussions and share our own work with the group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participation in conference: How can we prevent gender-based violence? A 10-year vision' in Leeds, March 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Annie, Polina and Estela attended the 'How can we prevent gender-based violence? A 10-year vision' conference in Leeds 19-10 March 2024, convened by two other violence research centres based at UCLAN and Durham and funded by the British Academy. The purpose was primarily to network with academics, practitioners, policy makers and victim-survivors attending and to participate in a roundtable discussion to produce a manifesto to prevent gender-based violence. An outcome was the manifesto, which the conference conveners circulated widely after the conference and will be sharing with policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/5188/How_can_we_Prevent_Gender-based_Violence_28.pdf#:... |
| Description | Participation in the Centre for Women's Justice, Femicide Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cook and/or McManus regularly attend the Centre for Women's Justice Femicide Working Group (invite only). The working group is attended by around 10-15 people, including representatives from third sector organisations, campaigners, legal experts and solicitors. The working group provides updates on changes in law, calls for evidence and involvement from colleagues, as well as a network of support. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| Description | Participation in the Domestic Abuse Duty Evaluation Advisory Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | VISION member Estela Barbosa has actively been involved in the DA Duty Evaluation advisory board, particularly providing support to the team conducting the evaluation on quantitative analyses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participation in the Institute for Government/Nuffield Foundation 'DATA BITES SERIES' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | VISION MEMBER ELIZABETH COOK RECEIVED AN INVITATION TO SPEAK AS PART OF THE DATA BITES SERIES - JUSTICE SPECIAL ON 17 MAY 2023. ATTENDED BY APPROX 40 PEOPLE IN PERSON. THE EVENT WAS ALSO LIVE-STREAMED. IN ADDITION, THE YOUTUBE VIDEO HAS 449+ VIEWS ONLINE. THE EVENT IS AIMED AT ENGAGING DIFFERENT PARTS OF GOVERNMENT AND THOSE THAT USE DATA AND EVIDENCE TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS IN GOVERNMENT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/data-bites-42-getting-things-done-data-government |
| Description | Plenary Presentation at World Safety 2024 WHO conference on Injury and Violence Prevention (Mark Bellis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Plenary Presentation at World Safety 2024 WHO conference on Injury and Violence Prevention - September 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.worldsafety2024.com/state-of-the-art-speakers-panellists |
| Description | Podcast on 'Policing Domestic Abuse' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Ruth Weir and Professor Jackie Turton (University of Essex) in conversation with Jules Pretty on domestic abuse and violence in the home. What works and why? What has changed in recent years? What are the prospects for the future? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2023/07/06/policing-domestic-abuse-louder-than-words-podcast |
| Description | Podcast on Policing Domestic Abuse book |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A podcast about the book, Policing Domestic Abuse. Aimed at raising awareness about the book and about domestic abuse in general. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/policing-domestic-abuse/id1564697059?i=1000619509954 |
| Description | Presentation and Chairing of the UKDS 2023 Health Studies User Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fadeeva A. presented and S McManus chaired sessions at the UKDS Health Studies User Conference in London, attended by 120 people working in health data collection and/or analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/health-studies-user-conference-2023/ |
| Description | Presentation and panel participation in Hourglass' webinar "Who's counting? Data collection and the abuse of older people" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | through ongoing collaborations between VISION and Hourglass, with quarterly meetings and Hourglass presenting to the VISION annual conference, Hourglass invited VISION to present as part of their webinar and camapign: Presentation and panel participation in Hourglass' webinar "Who's counting? Data collection and the abuse of older people" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASt73Wxh7E&t=830s |
| Description | Presentation at Conference: International Studies Association Annual Convention/ Research: Experiences of Violence associated with Insecure Migration Status: A qualitative systematic review. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Around 50 academics, postgraduate students, and other interested stakeholders attended a panel on 'Migration and Violence', during which this research was presented. This was part of a large academic conference (approx. 6000 participants) in Montreal Canada, with global academics attending from 5 continents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2023 |
| Description | Presentation at European Conferences of Domestic Violence (ECDV) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I presented the findings of our Delphi study at the European Conferences of Domestic Violence (ECDV). My research group had several abstracts on tech abuse accepted at the conference, and I coordinated more than 5 panels on the topic at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ecdv.hi.is/ |
| Description | Presentation at IBM's Tech for Justice Seminar series. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a presentation as part of IBM's "Tech for Racial and Social Justice" speaker series during which I shared outcomes of our research on tech abuse and proposed activities and measures IBM could implement to tackle the problem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at Oxford Internet Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I presented our research on the "boundary questions" that tech abuse creates and provided an overview of the current research landscape at an Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Seminar in May 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/technology-facilitated-abuse-tech-abuse-in-the-context-o... |
| Description | Presentation at the "IoT Coercive Control and Domestic Abuse Online Conference" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a presentation at the "IoT Coercive Control and Domestic Abuse Online Conference"; |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://aspidacmg.wixsite.com/iot-conference |
| Description | Presentation at the 19th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour (ESSSB19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation as part of an organized thematic panel on domestic violence and suicide to an audience of clinicians, academics, third sector, professionals and healthcare providers (approx 40 people). Based on a published article on intimate partner violence and suicidality in the Lancet Psychiatry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://esssb19.org/ |
| Description | Presentation at the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Findings on the prevalence of violence experiences in older adults (60 and over) in comparison with the younger population (16-59), risk factors associated with recent exposure to violence (last 12 months) in older adults, associations between violence and mental health in older adults; all analyses were done using data from APMS 2014. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.britishgerontology.org/events-and-courses/bsg-annual-conference |
| Description | Presentation at the European Conference on Domestic Violence (2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Organised a panel on conducting evidence synthesis in the context of domestic violence and abuse at the European Conference on Domestic Violence 2023 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The talk was given to around 50-60 academics plus practitioners, commissioners, and third sector workers. The talk led to further collaboration (a grant proposal) with one particular audience member. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ecdv.hi.is/ |
| Description | Presentation at the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a presentation on our tech abuse research and suggested potential avenues the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Digital Consumer Protection Group could take to tackle tech abuse nationally. The presentation resulted in the establishment of a dedicated working group on the topic that I am now also part of. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at the Vienna NGO Committee on the Family, UN Headquarters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | VISION member Vanessa Gash delivered a talk on my work on gender inequalities in outcome, to the Vienna NGO Committee on the Family, UN Headquarters, Vienna Austria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://viennafamilycommittee.org |
| Description | Presentation at the Work, Employment and Society Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We have been asked to deliver a paper at the Work, Employment and Society Conference, the conference is run with the assistance of the British Sociological Association, alongside the 4* impact journal, of the same name. The conference is international in reach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-work-employment-and-society-conference-2023/prog... |
| Description | Presentation on the 16th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference (EDI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academics, postgraduate students, and other interested stakeholders attended a pre-arranged panel on "Intersection of Violence, Gender, and Disability" (Organized by Ladan Hashemi and Sally McManus and chaired by Ladan Hashemi and Polina Obolenskaya ). This was part of a large academic conference held in City, University of London, with international attendees from around the world. Presentation: Disability and Intimate Partner Violence in England: Gender Stratified Analyses of a Probability Sample Survey (LADAN HASHEMI) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.edi-conference.org/ |
| Description | Presentation on workplace violence policy to European Consortium for Sociological Research Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blom, N. and Gash, V. (2024) "The effects of intimate partner violence and abuse on job loss and time off work.", Presentation at the European Consortium for Sociological Research Conference, sept 12th -14th , University of Barcelona, UPF. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to the Domestic Homicide Community of Practice, Ireland (Lizzie Cook) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cook presented on her systematic review of the global prevalence of intimate partner homicide as part of a two-day symposium organised by the International Domestic Homicide Community of Practice in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It was attended by approximately 40 people, mostly in-person. Attendees included policy makers (e.g., from the Scottish Government Taskforce on DHRs), police, third sector, and academics. She has discussed co-hosting the next CoP event in 2025. She also made contact with a member of the Single Unified Safeguarding Review system who was invited to speak at the VISION annual conference and collaborated as part of a policy briefing on cross-statutory review system learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentations at Conference: Perpetrators of Violence Against Women: Developments in Research, Policy and Practice. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Academics, postgraduate students, and other interested stakeholders attended a pre-arranged panel on "Gender patterns in perpetration of violence against women " (Organized by Ladan Hashemi). This was part of a large academic conference held in City, University of London, with national and international attendees. Presentations: Gender Patterns in the Use of Physical Violence Against a Violent Partner (Ladan Hashemi) Differentiating risk factors of repeat perpetration of domestic abuse by gender and relationship type (Ruth Weir) Gendered violence, gendered law: the links between gender bias in homicide defences and male violence against women ( Jessica Lynn Corsi) High-risk of homicide: Technology-facilitated intimate-partner violence perpetration within Domestic Homicide Reviews in England (Demelza Luna Reaver) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentations at the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Multiple presentations in a VISION organised panel and one in a different panel Pre-arranged panel on Dissecting violence and abuse in England and Wales: empirical investigations of inequalities (Organized and chaired by POLINA OBOLENSKAYA) The rise, fall and stall of violence in England and Wales: how have risks of violence changed for different groups? (POLINA OBOLENSKAYA) Inequality Dimensions of Violence: Mapping Relations and Experiences of Violence at the Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity and Migrant-Status (HANNAH MANZUR) Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among migrants and non-migrants in England: Gender Stratified Analyses of a Probability Sample Survey (LADAN HASHEMI) Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among migrants and non-migrants in England: Gender Stratified Analyses of a Probability Sample Survey (NIELS BLOM) Measurement and Technology in Domestic Abuse (Chaired by LESLIE HUMPHREYS) Reducing domestic abuse by improving the measurement and analysis of data on domestic abuse (LESLIE HUMPHREYS) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/esc/esc23/ |
| Description | Presentations at the European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NUMEROUS SYMPOSIA AND PRESENTATIONS ON VISION-RELATED ACTIVITIES AND OUTPUTS. INCLUDING: Producing evidence syntheses on violence and abuse: reflections on the disciplinary variations and practicalities (PRE-ORGANIZED VISION SYMPOSIUM CHAIRED BY NATALIA LEWIS) Evidence syntheses in a global context: a systematic review of sex/gender disaggregated homicide (ELIZABETH COOK) Challenges for evidence synthesis that includes analysis of legal records: a systematic review on the gendered dimensions of criminal law homicide defences (JESSICA CORSI) Evidence synthesis in the context of UK domestic and sexual violence services: involving professional stakeholders (SOPHIE CARLISLE) Challenges of conducting interdisciplinary systematic reviews: understanding the use of computational methods in intimate partner violence research (LILLY NEUBAUER) Text analytics in the Violence, Health and Society (VISION) consortium: practical challenges and research opportunities (PRE-ORGANIZED VISION SYMPOSIUM CHAIRED BY ROBERT STEWART) Extracting information on domestic abuse from police crime reports: potential and limitations (LESLIE HUMPHREYS) Development of an application to extract and categorize mentions of domestic violence from mental healthcare records (Angus Roberts) Automatic Identification of Reports of Psychologically Abusive Behaviours in Online Forums (LILLY NEUBAUER & LEONIE TANCZER) Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse: Advancements in Its Definition, Scholarship and Response (PRE-ORGANIZED VISION SYMPOSIUM CHAIRED BY LEONIE TANCZER) What is technology-facilitated abuse? How to measure and conceptualise a growing research field (LEONIE TANCZER) Intersectional inequalities and hidden dimensions of domestic homicide (PRE-ORGANIZED SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZED RACHEL CONDRY) Change, intimacy, and relationships: Implications for measuring non-intimate femicide (ELIZABETH COOK) Understanding Police Identification of Risk and How Risk Level Impacts Police Decision-Making and Victim Experience (PRE-ORGANIZED SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZED LUCY TRAFFORD) Using geographically weighted regression to explore neighbourhood-level predictors of domestic abuse (DA) in England and Wales (RUTH WEIR) Health Responses 2 Differentiating intimate partner violence by perpetrator relationship type. Types of crimes committed and consequences for victims' health and wellbeing. (NIELS BLOM) Researching DVA II Costing the mental health harms of sexual and physical violence in adulthood: a prevalence-based analysis in England (SALLY MCMANUS) FOCUSINGON PERPETRATORS 1 The Harms of Violence are Unevenly Distributed: How does the harm caused to victims of violence vary by relationship to the perpetrator? (ELOUISE DAVIES) UNDERSTANDINGHELP-SEEKING Barriers to disclosure of domestic violence among Black and Minority Ethnic and Migrant Women: Findings from a UK national victimisation survey (HANNAH MANZUR & ANNIE BUNCE) UNDERSTANDINGDVATHROUGH AN INTERSECTIONAL LENS II What supports and jeopardises Black and minoritised survivor's healing journeys to recover mental wellbeing (RAVI THIARA) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentations at the European Network on Gender and Violence Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Academics, postgraduate students, and other interested stakeholders attended The European Network on Gender and Violence (ENGV) annual conference held in Wolverhampton, England. ENGV is an interdisciplinary network of over 500 researchers, mostly based in Europe. Presentations: - Disability and Intimate Partner Violence in England: Gender Stratified Analyses of a Probability Sample Survey (LADAN HASHEMI) -Bordering gendered violence: Inequalities in violence trends at the intersection of gender, migrant-status and ethnicity during the UK's austerity and hostile environment regimes (HANNAH MANZUR) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentations to and chairing of Health Survey Users Conference 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cook and Bunce presented findings from two papers using APMS data to showcase how survey data from the UK Data Service can be used to generate evidence on violence. Approximately 50 people were present at the panel including a mixture of academics and representatives from data bodies, government departments, and data users. McManus curated and chaired the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/health-studies-user-conference-2024/ |
| Description | Presented on panel on Deepfakes and Disinformation at Kaspersky NEXT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Attended Kaspersky's Europe press event, spoke on a panel about deepfakes and disinformation, gave interviews with journalists relating to this and our work. Resulted in 1 news article so far. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presenting at European Public Health Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Chairing a session on violence across life course, presenting on violence impacts in later life. The session was attended by around 25-30 people including academics from different countries and institutions, health professionals, charity sector, journal and book editors. After the session, Lancet Public Health journal editor approached and expressed an interest in developing a special edition on violence across life course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Privacy International's Technology Pill Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed for the digital rights charity Privacy International's Technology Pill Podcast which ran a dedicated episode on "tech assisted abuse". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://privacyinternational.org/video/5103/tech-assisted-abuse-how-smart-devices-can-facilitate-abu... |
| Description | RESEARCH VISIT TO THE MONASH GENDER AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTRE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | VISION MEMBER ELIZABETH COOK VISITED THE MGFVPC AS AN INTERNATIONAL VISITING SCHOLAR IN JUNE 2023 FOLLOWING THE ISA WORLD CONGRESS 2023. INVITATION EXTENDED BY PROF KATE FITZ-GIBBON (MEMBER OF ADVISORY BOARD). Seminar presentation to MGFVPC on the systematic review thread Several meetings with Prof Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Monash University) Meeting with Prof Eva Alisic (University of Melbourne) regarding children bereaved by domestic homicide Meeting with Dr Lyndal Bugeja (Monash University) regarding data linkage and domestic violence fatality reviews (further collaboration planned) Meeting with National Homicide Monitoring Project (NHMP) and the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) regarding homicide data and the collective of data on motive (further information on systematic review requested) Meeting with Briohny Kennedy regarding methodological challenges with evidence synthesis on homicide (further collaboration planned) Connected with Claire Ferguson regarding misidentification of homicide cases as suicide Connected with Freya Blackrock regarding femicide and domestic violence fatality reviews (further communication and collaboration planned) Meeting with Stef Vasil regarding epistemology, suicide and data quality in systematic reviews (further collaboration planned) ELIZABETH COOK INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE A PAPER TO A SPECIAL ISSUE ON CONTEXTUAL GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY AND VIOLENCE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REVIEW CONSULTING PODCAST - SEASON 3, EPISODE 3: HOW TO PLACE THE FAMILY AT THE CENTRE OF THE REVIEW IN 2023 WITH JAMES ROWLANDS AND DR ELIZABETH COOK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | AN INVITED CONTRIBUTION TO THE SAFEGUARDING AND DOMESTIC ABUSE PODCAST HOSTED BY REVIEW CONSULTING. RUN AS A LIVE WEBINAR WITH Q&A. ATTENDED BY DHR CHAIRS, COMMISSIONERS, AND OTHER REVIEW PRACTITIONERS (E.G., SAFEGUARDING REVIEWS). RECORDED, UPLOADED ON REVIEWING CONSULTING WEBSITE. AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON SPOTIFY. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.reviewconsulting.co.uk/podcast-episode-3-3/ |
| Description | Research symposium on violence data science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and chairing at a European Congress on Domestic Violence (ECDV) symposium, focusing on natural language processing and related developments via the VISION consortium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Response to Query from Channel 4 News on Domestic abuse and international football competitions involving England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Email from Channel 4 asking for details of our research and details of other research on the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Sex, Gender and Sexuality Health Research Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaborative engagement over 12 months with ESRC Network comprising UK and Taiwan health researchers interested in the measurement of sex, gender and sexuality in policy and service improvement health research. Networks were developed, an initial seminar held, and a conference attended by 50 participants engaged in research in these areas, including in relation to violence, abuse and discrimination and their links with health and health services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/tushrn |
| Description | Society for Social Medicine and Population Health Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Society for Social Medicine and Population Health Annual Conference focuses on public health and population health sciences. It covered a range of topics including epidemiology, medical and health needs of the society, prevention of disease, and health inequalities. Prevention of health impacts of violence and reducing inequalities are among the main areas of interest for the VISION Consortium, and the presented results were of interest to a range of academics and public health professi |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=94790&eventID=247&trace... |
| Description | Speaker at University of Suffolk Gender Based Violence conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | VISION member Ruth Weir invited to speak about predictors of harm of domestic abuse for Black, Asian and Minoritised Communities at Gender Based Violence Conference with over 100 attendees from police, policy makers and practitioners and academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Speaking to ONS about CSEW |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This online workshop involved the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) workstrand (VISION) and the data owners of the CSEW - the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The meeting was to raise awareness of VISION's empirical work on the Crime Survey for England and Wales among the data owners with a potential of influencing the practices of their work in the future. This is an ongoing collaboration (some of the ONS colleagues also attended our VISION annual conference, for example), and it is yet too early to see any impact on their practice or reporting of violence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Specialist services thread quarterly stakeholder group meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | VISION members Annie Bunce and Estela Barbosa run quarterly meetings/workshops with our specialist services stakeholder group, which is made up of representatives from each of the third sector partner organisations on VISION. The meetings alternate between being held on Teams and in person. The core stakeholder group are invited to all meetings, and additional attendees (including further stakeholders from partner organisations and VISION colleagues from other threads) are invited depending on the specific purpose of each meeting/workshop and whose interests it appeals to, therefore the audience is usually between 5-10 stakeholders. The general purpose of these meetings is to maintain and strengthen our engagement and working relationship with our stakeholders, and to discuss and develop co-produced research outputs. A research prioritisation online workshop held on 31st January 2023. The purpose was to familiarise group members with one another; to reiterate the aims of VISION overall, the specialist services thread more specifically, and the importance of co-production within it; and to complete an interactive research prioritisation exercise using the Padlet platform. The meeting culminated in the creation of two co-produced Padlets- one demonstrating the ranked importance of both previously planned and newly suggested VISION research outputs for each organisation, and another setting out these research outputs on a timeline and indicating opportunities for incorporating lived experience. These Padlets were shared amongst the group and are being used to inform the development of research outputs going forwards. An in-person theory of change building workshop was later held in April 2023, which is detailed on a separate from as it was part of the theory of change working group as well as the specialist services thread. We also ran a workshop with the purpose of presenting the findings from our scoping review of outcomes used to measure the effectiveness of support interventions, and gathering thoughts and feedback from stakeholders. We discussed how findings from the scoping review have informed our approach to the systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions. We conducted an outcome prioritisation task to gather suggestions from stakeholders regarding outcomes to include in this second review. We then presented preliminary findings from the systematic review, which prompted in-depth discussion around, for example, disaggregating the findings further to make them more useful for service providers and how to frame our findings such that they drive research and work in this area forwards. This discussion culminated in some action points for AB and SC (systematic reviews), which have shaped ongoing work on the systematic review. More recently we ran an in-person workshop to introduce and brainstorm our small project on adolescent domestic abuse, who we have partnered with SafeLives to deliver. The purpose of this workshop was to introduce our stakeholders from the other organisations to the adolescent domestic abuse project in terms of its aims and methods, to discuss/brainstorm our approach to analysing the data by co-producing a coding framework, and to discuss other work going on within the group around adolescent domestic abuse and potential future partnership work on this topic. This culminated in a co-produced coding framework/ideas for analysis and several suggestions for future work in this area- add to after workshop. In 2021 and 2022 meetings were held to discuss how this group would work, discuss the ToR, we used the group to inform our search strategy for a systematic review. Additionally, this group has discussed some of VISION's outputs and publications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | Specialist services thread theory of change development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | VISION members Estela Barbosa and Annie Bunce ran an in-person theory of change (ToC) stakeholders' workshop at VASC, facilitated by Joelle Mac, with representatives from the specialist services stakeholder group on 11th April 2023. All six specialist organisations providing data to VISION were represented at the workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to recap the different threads that make up the VISION project, explain the overarching ToC, provide a rationale for developing strand-level theories of change, and begin co-producing the ToC for the specialist services thread. Having already co-produced the planned outputs for our thread with our stakeholders at our research prioritisation workshop in January 2023 and grouped them into themes, we split the workshop into three interactive sessions where we used post-it notes and our specialist services ToC template (https://padlet.com/anniebunce/specialist-services-theory-of-change-c1d3a9almubxj958) to brainstorm: (1) mechanisms for change, (2) outcomes and (3) barriers. The workshop culminated in a stack of post-it notes with stakeholder suggestions on mechanisms, outcomes and barriers, which ECB and AB used to create a draft ToC using Padlet (https://padlet.com/estelacapelas/specialist-services-toc-workshop-23v1ny8ve61vom27), which stakeholders had an opportunity to review and amend/provide feedback on. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Spoke at roundtable on "Empowerment and Ethics at the Edge: the Benefits and Risks of Edge Technologies" at the Foundation for Science and Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Three talks were given with differing perspectives on AI and the ethics of emerging technologies. There was also two different q&a sessions as part of this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/empowerment-ethics-at-the-edge-the-benefits-risks-of-edge-technologies-t... |
| Description | The Good Robot |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Our research on tech abuse featured in "The Good Robot" podcast by the University of Cambridge: ???Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-good-robot/id1570237963?i=1000549641880 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vBsHDtclyE5gxsl3OjZBT?si=2b5d0f941da4491d Website transcript: https://thegoodrobotpodcast.wixsite.com/the-good-robot/post/making-technology-safer-with-leonie-tanczer |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://thegoodrobotpodcast.wixsite.com/the-good-robot/post/making-technology-safer-with-leonie-tanc... |
| Description | UK Data Service Health Surveys Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chaired online conference for the UKDS with the purpose of promoting access to and analysis of UK health survey data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/health-studies-user-conference-2022/ |
| Description | User testing the Home Office beta version of the Domestic Homicide Review Repository |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | VISION MEMBER ELIZABETH COOK WAS INVITED TO USER TEST THE HOME OFFICE BETA VERSION OF THE DOMESTIC HOMICIDE REVIEW REPOSITORY. THIS WAS APPROX 1.5 HOURS. THE USER TESTING TEAM ASKED QUESTIONS REGARDING HOW TO LOCATE SPECIFIC DHRS, CHALLENGES IN DOING SO, THE NEED FOR A REPOSITORY, AND THEN TESTED THE REPOSITORY BY SETTING ME SPECIFIC EXERCISES TO CHECK THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BETA REPOSITORY. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | VISION Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 100 PROFESSIONALS, POLICY MAKERS AND ACADEMICS FROM ACROSS THE UK INTERESTED IN RESPONSES TO VIOLENCE - FROM ACROSS HEALTH, CRIME, SPECIALIST AND OTHER SECTORS. PRESENTATIONS COVERED VISION OUTPUTS AND ATTENDEES PROVIDED CRITICAL CHALLENGE AND PRIORITISATION. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/vision-annual-conference/ |
| Description | VISION Blog post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Published a blog on the VISION website talking about a week-long workshop I attended focusing on the use of Large Language Models in Social Science Research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/discovering-the-potential-of-large-language-models-in-social-science-... |
| Description | VISION Roundtable on learning across statutory review systems (Lizzie Cook) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cook collaborated with James Rowlands (Durham University) to organise an expert roundtable on building dialogue across statutory review systems in England and Wales. The panel included Frank Mullane (CEO of AAFDA), Prof. Jonathan Dickens, Dr Bethan Davies, Sumanta Roy (Head of Research at Imkaan), and Prof. Michael Preston-Shoot. The panel session included a participatory element by using breakout discussions with the audience to discuss challenges in learning across statutory reviews and utilising their findings. The event culminated in a co-authored policy briefing that is now published and available via the URL below. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://city.figshare.com/articles/report/Learning_across_statutory_review_practices_Origins_ambitio... |
| Description | VISION Roundtable to improve the evidence base of children experiencing domestic abuse with Specialist services, funders, commissioners, government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1 February 2024: VISION Roundtable to improve the evidence base of children experiencing domestic abuse with Specialist services, funders, commissioners, government, including: Refuge For Baby's Sake Henry Smith Charity Foundations Comic Relief SafeLives Domestic Abuse Commissioner's Office Northumberland City Council Imkaan Women's Aid Home Office |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | VISION annual conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Effective violence prevention requires different sectors to work together. Employers, justice, social and healthcare services, and providers of specialist services all have a role to play. While sharing many goals, there are differences in the populations they engage with, the definitions they use, and the outcomes they prioritise and measure. Many joined VISION for a day of talks and discussions on how we can better bridge the siloes in violence-related research, policy and practice. Keynote speakers, Dr Claudia Garcia-Moreno (World Health Organisation) and Professor Katrin Hohl (City, University of London) considered the changes needed for effective violence prevention from the perspectives of health and justice. Sessions on the programme included new interdisciplinary research from the VISION consortium and its partners on: - Preventing violence against older people: what needs to change in research and policy; - Learning across statutory review practices: origins, ambitions and future directions; and - Responding to Experiences and Expressions of Interpersonal Violence in the workplace Registration was free. It was an in person conference only. Slides were shared, Held 11 June 2024: VISION Annual Conference 2024:- bridged silos and sectors, bringing VISION research to a wide and practitioner/polymaker audience. Use of participatory approaches. Examples of attendees organisations: World Health Organisation (Keynote Speaker, Claudia Moreno Garcia) Advance Charity Dept of Health and Social Care SafeLives Refuge Domestic Abuse Commissioner's Office NHS Drive Partnership Hourglass Home Office Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/vision-annual-conference/ |
| Description | VISION website - public facing blogs, updates and communication channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The VISION website provides summaries of VISION-related publications and findings, links to register for VISION-organised events like our annual conference, details of the forthcoming Small Projects Fund, and information about our multiple lived experience collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/ |
| Description | Women in Prison roundtable discussion on 'Meeting the mental health needs of women in contact with the criminal justice system' (Annie Bunce) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Annie Bunce participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by Women in Prison (May 2024) to discuss meeting the mental health needs of women in contact with the criminal justice system. Some of the issues and potential solutions raised formed the basis of recommendations in a briefing paper produced by Women in Prison and to be launched later in the year, which Annie's name and organisation is on as a contributor. A further outcome of this engagement activity was that Annie met with one of the speakers, Rachel Ozanne, Director of Programmes and Partnerships for Women in Prison, to discuss potential future research collaboration, which Rachel was enthusiastic about and agreed to stay in touch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshop: Race, Migration and Trajectories of Knowledge at the 10th European Workshops in International Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop co-organised with an academic from Newcastle University (Terri Teo). 16 researchers presented research and discussed work in progress. Plans made for collaborations and publications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2023/ |
| Description | Workshop: Specialised Domestic Violence services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Three representatives from different third sector organisations attended a workshop at City, University of London, to discuss progress so far on a systematic review and to update on changes made since written feedback, which lead to changes being made to the systematic review protocol. It also lead to discussions around future involvement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | panel presentation at the Hourglass Conference 2024: Towards A Safer Ageing Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | From the Hourglass materials: Hourglass Conference 2024: Towards A Safer Ageing Society In a world with an increasingly ageing population, the visibility of older people in discussions about tackling violence and abuse remains disproportionately low. Hourglass is committed to changing this. This year's conference, focusing on how the UK heads Towards a Safer Ageing Society, will feature top level launches, policy announcements and expert keynote speakers from the four nations of the UK. With a General Election looming in 2024, there is an urgency for all political parties to adopt policies that support safer ageing. Therefore, both government and opposition ministers will deliver keynotes as the charity unveils its own manifesto for change, articulating critical policy requests specific to each of the four nations within the UK. Hourglass will also introduce its Safer Ageing Index for England. This follows the successful publication of similar indexes for Northern Ireland, Wales, and Greater London. These indexes serve as vital tools, assessing the safety of various local areas for the ageing population and pinpointing regions where investment and support is most needed. Along with innovative panels, round tables and speeches, the conference will also commemorate the 30th anniversary of Hourglass' founding. This milestone presents a significant opportunity to reflect on the charity's journey and the broader societal progress made since its inception. While honouring its past, Hourglass is equally focused on the future, striving tirelessly towards a society where safer ageing is a reality for all. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://wearehourglass.org/hourglass-conference-2024 |