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)
- End Violence Against Women (Collaboration)
- Against Violence & Abuse (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- Leeds Beckett University (Collaboration)
- MQ Mental Health Research (Collaboration)
- Refuge (Collaboration)
- University of Glasgow (Collaboration)
- TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (Collaboration)
- University of West London (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)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Queen Mary University of London (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Women's Budget Group (WBG) (Collaboration)
- AIMES Grid Services Ltd (Collaboration)
- Home Office (Collaboration)
- Queen's University Belfast (Collaboration)
- NHS England (Collaboration)
- Chatham House (Collaboration)
- SafeLives (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES (Collaboration)
- Akrivia Health (Collaboration)
- University of Cambridge (Collaboration)
- Swansea University (Collaboration)
- MIND (Mental Health Charity) (Collaboration)
- National Centre for Social Research (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (Collaboration)
- University for the Creative Arts (Collaboration)
- Public Health Wales NHS Trust (Collaboration)
- Southwark Council (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- University of Essex (Collaboration)
- Trades Union Congress (TUC) (Collaboration)
- University of Liverpool (Collaboration)
- NHS Digital (Collaboration)
- McPin Foundation (Collaboration)
- Thames Valley Police (Collaboration)
- University of Southampton (Collaboration)
- Respect (Domestic Violence Prevention Service) (Collaboration)
- World Health Organization (WHO) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Gloucestershire Constabulary (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- Agenda Alliance (Collaboration)
- London Borough of Islington (Collaboration)
- Warwickshire Police (Collaboration)
- Anglia Ruskin University (Collaboration)
- Rape Crisis (Collaboration)
- Women's Aid (Collaboration)
- Lancashire Police Service (Collaboration)
- Goldsmiths, University of London (Collaboration)
- Monash University (Collaboration)
- PUBLIC HEALTH WALES (Project Partner)
- Natnl Centre for Domestic Violence NCDV (Project Partner)
- Lancashire Constabulary HQ (Project Partner)
Publications
A. Cook E
(2022)
Re-imagining what counts as femicide
in Current Sociology
Adisa O
(2023)
Community mental health through a complex systems lens.
in The Lancet. Public health
Ahn-Robbins D
(2022)
Prevalence and Correlates of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Individuals With Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Bipolar Disorder.
in The Journal of clinical psychiatry
Alexander L
(2025)
Late-life affective disorders and risk of progression to dementia: retrospective cohort study of patients in secondary care.
in The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
Armitage JM
(2025)
Characteristics of children with a psychiatric disorder in 1999, 2004 and 2017: an analysis of the national child mental health surveys of England.
in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines
Ashdown-Franks G
(2023)
"Triggered by the sound of other runners": An exploration of parkrun mentions in mental health hospital records in the UK
in Mental Health and Physical Activity
Bacchus LJ
(2025)
A multi-country mixed method evaluation of the HERA (Healthcare Responding to Domestic Violence and Abuse) intervention: A comparative analysis.
in SSM - health systems
| Title | Co-produced animation capturing lived experience engagement in research |
| Description | An important aspect of VISION is how we incorporate those with Lived Experience (LE) of violence whether experiencing violence or causing it or both. We actively engage with individuals who have lived experiences of domestic and sexual violence, as well as other forms of violence, across diverse social groups and age ranges. The animation is a compelling 4-minute visual explanatory animation of what LE is, why it is important in research and how to embed it within a research project that focuses on violence and trauma using the VISION project as an example. VISION worked with members of the Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network Advisory Board to co-develop the script, provide advice along the project journey, and review drafts of the animations. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | Impact from working on the VISION LE animation project The animation was co-developed with SafeLives and VAMHN. The Advisory Board was comprised of LE members and the VISION team. Together they wrote the script, selected the creative partner to create the film, and provided advice throughout. The result is a compelling 4-minute animation of what LE is, why it is important in research and how to embed it within a research project that focuses on violence and trauma using the VISION project as an example. It was launched at the annual conference by VAMHN member and animation board member, Alicia. She told the audience this was the first project experience for her where those with LE played a significant role. They were involved from the beginning, and their opinions mattered. The project had been a meaningful experience, and she now felt empowered to ensure a more robust contribution from those with LE in future violence prevention research. Lil is a member of the creative partner hired to develop the animation. She emailed when the project was finished that she experienced domestic abuse in a prior relationship and was originally nervous to work on the animation. She wrote that being a part of the team and seeing how the LE members shaped the script and the words they used helped her heal further. She didn't realise there was a term, Lived Experience, nor that there were opportunities and networks for people with LE to share their knowledge and experience in research projects to educate the public and improve services and understanding. With VISION support, she is now member of the VAMHN community and actively seeking research projects looking for those with violence and trauma experience. |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/lived-experience-across-vision/ |
| Title | United to End Violence Against Women and Girls: An Online Animated Campaign (2024-ongoing) |
| Description | With a multidisciplinary team of academics from four UK universities, two NGOs in London and Iran, and eight artists (animators, directors, visual artists and sound designers), we developed a research-informed animated campaign on key aspects of GBV to enhance public understanding. The animations address coercive control, economic abuse, technology-facilitated abuse and safe active bystander intervention. We launched the United to End Violence Against Women and Girls campaign on 25 November 2024, reaching more than 330,000 viewers globally during the 16 Days of Activism Against GBV. The animations were initially created in Farsi and later subtitled and dubbed in English to engage the broader MENA diaspora in the UK. They have been widely distributed to UK violence-support organisations (Women's Aid, Refuge, IKWRO, Imkaan) to maximise reach and impact. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The campaign gained significant traction among social media users (in Iran and globally e.g., UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia), NGOs and women's rights activists. Key impacts include: Educational adoption - Our animated campaign has been adopted in Oxford schools for Healthy Relationships and Sexuality Education (for boys), with ongoing discussions to extend the resource to schools in London, Coventry and Essex following interest from educators. Policy and advocacy engagement - The animations were showcased at the Veracity Entrepreneurship and Trade Summit (2025, London), where UN representatives expressed interest in incorporating them into global awareness campaigns. Academic integration - Integrated into teaching at UK and international universities (Bristol, Goldsmiths, Leeds Beckett, University for the Creative Arts, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand). Visibility at major events - To be showcased at FiLiA 2025, Europe's largest grassroots feminist conference (Oct 2025), and featured in an upcoming FiLiA podcast episode discussing the research underpinning the animations and strategies for GBV prevention. Presented at major animation and public engaging conferences: - Animation as Tool for Change: Breaking the Silence. The 36th Society for Animation Studies Conference, London. July 2025. - Animating Resistance: Embodied Knowledge and Subversive Truths in Iranian Anti-Domestic Violence Campaigns. Ecstatic Truth IX, the annual symposium on animated documentary. Prague, 29th April 2025 - Breaking silence: an online animated campaign to raise awareness about violence against women and girls. All Words, All Actions, All Weathers' 2025 Exhibition and Conference (focusing on Wellbeing, Mental Health and Suicide Prevention), Derbyshire County Council, United Kingdom, 20-21 March 2025 - Standing Up, Speaking Out: Tackling Violence Against Women Together. International Women's Day Conference (focusing on global significance of gender equality and the transformative power of girls' education). Abingdon School, Oxford, United Kingdom. 5th March 2025. Four additional animations are in development on honour-based abuse, sextortion, misogynistic attitudes and teenage healthy relationships (with the honour-based abuse and sextortion animations already completed). A second global awareness raising campaign is scheduled for Nov 2025. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVy2Go5pttPErVE8AW7Mlag https://www.instagram.com/womenresearchhub/ - Women's Research Hub : In addition to the animations developed for our animated campaign, the page highlighted topics such as women's economic inequality, societal responsibility in domestic violence-related child deaths, and misogyny in media (e.g., Netflix's Adolescence, viewed 8,000 in first week). |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/united-to-end-violence-against-women-and-girls-an-online-animated-cam... |
| 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 | 2024 Global Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children (Mark Bellis) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://endviolenceagainstchildrenconference.org |
| 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 | Advising on the impact of employer interventions (O. Adisa) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Changes in employers awareness and workplace practices |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDVC0T_878 |
| 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 | Australian eSafety Commissioner's "Safety By Design" Industry Implementation Guide |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | A notable development is the release of the "Safety by Design: Technology, Gendered Violence, and Safety by Design" industry guide in September 2024. This guide provides actionable steps for technology companies to prevent and mitigate technology-facilitated gender-based violence. It covers understanding the impact of such violence, identifying perpetrators, and applying the Safety by Design principles to address these challenges effectively. The guide has been well-received, with industry stakeholders acknowledging its importance in prioritising user safety. It offers practical measures for tech companies to evaluate and enhance their safety protocols, fostering a safer online environment for users. Incorporating insights from the guide, technology companies have reported improvements in user safety metrics, such as a reduction in incidents of online harassment and a more proactive approach to addressing user concerns. These changes highlight the effectiveness of integrating comprehensive safety measures into the design and operation of online platforms. |
| URL | https://www.esafety.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-09/SafetyByDesign-technology-facilitated-gender-... |
| Description | BFF IoT Tech Abuse Training |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The IoT tech abuse training provided to bff, the federal association of rape crisis centres and women's counselling centres in Germany, has enhanced the capacity of frontline professionals to recognise, address, and mitigate technology-facilitated abuse. This training has equipped support workers with practical knowledge of emerging IoT-related threats, enabling them to offer more effective guidance to survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. The reach of this initiative extends across bff's extensive network of counselling centres, benefiting both practitioners and survivors. Initial feedback from participants indicates increased confidence in handling tech-facilitated abuse cases, demonstrating the tangible impact on practice and victim support. |
| Description | Citation and acknowledgement of contribution and peer review of UK Parliament POSTNote (R Weir) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0750/POST-PN-0750.pdf |
| 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 Scottish Government: 'Literature Review: Understanding Family Support Needs of People in Prison Custody' (E Cook) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/research-and-analysis/2025/05/l... |
| 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 Government/Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government's (MHCLG) review of outcome measurement in the context of safe accommodation. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687a5c523f4bde279ef452a6/DA_Duty_Eval_Outcomes_REA.pd... |
| 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 NSW Government Report 'Domestic Violence Death Review Team: Report 2021-2023' (E Cook) |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/noindex/2024-08/domestic-violence-death-report.pdf |
| Description | Citation in NY State Education Department Training |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.atrainceu.com/content/348-new-york-child-abuse-mandated-reporters |
| 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 Spanish Office of Science and Technology Report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.oficinac.es/sites/default/files/informes/20221114_Report%20C%20cibersecurity.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 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 | Citation in local policy document |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://bristolsafeguarding.org/media/dlhebkrr/bnssg-trauma-informed-practice-framework-2024.pdf |
| Description | Cited in DSIT Report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/672b676dfbd69e1861921c21/A_review_of_the_risks_and_ps... |
| 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 Data Access under the Digital Services Act |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13817-Delegated-Regulation... |
| 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 | Consultation response to UK-Parliament - Public Accounts Committee on homelessness |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/131442/html/ |
| Description | Contribution and feedback on the Home Office knife crime and serious violence evidence review (Elizabeth Cook) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Contribution to ONS redevelopment of CSEW domestic abuse statistics |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://consultations.ons.gov.uk/external-affairs/redevelopment-of-domestic-abuse-statistics-2024/ |
| Description | Department of Health & Social Care - Men's Health Strategy for England: call for evidence: |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/mens-health-strategy-for-england-call-for-evidence |
| 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 | EU/WHO ACEs Survey (Mark Bellis) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| 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 | European Commission - call for evidence on gender equality |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14611-Gender-Equality-Stra... |
| 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 | German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) - "Dialogue for Cybersecurity" |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.dialog-cybersicherheit.de/storage/uploads/ws24-endprodukte/2024_Ergebnisbericht_Digitale... |
| 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 | Illegal Harms Online Consultation - Written Submission |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Our consultation was cited in the latest Online VAWG Guidance by OFCOM |
| URL | https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6502e1541ed8df70549f7225/t/67616b84d943ea67d065ff8a/173443776... |
| 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 | IoT-facilitated tech abuse training for the Australian eSafety Commissioner's Office |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| 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 | Meeting with Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Future Digital Economy and Online Safety, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| 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 | OFCOM Draft VAWG Guidance |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/consultations/category-1-10-weeks/consultati... |
| 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 | PAC Inquiry on Tackling VAWG |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6502e1541ed8df70549f7225/t/67b5f72b36824e019bce086e/173997854... |
| Description | POSTNote: Digital Disengagement & Exclusion |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0725/?utm_campaign=0824-rice-routine-spotlight... |
| Description | Plenary Panel at EU Safety 2025 - Child Safety Across Settings: Protecting Children from Violence and Injuries (Mark Bellis) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://eu-safety2025.eu |
| Description | Policy citation in NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit report (Gene Feder) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/140100/pdf/ |
| 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 | Preventing violence against children - A social determinants framework for INSPIRE implementation (Mark Bellis) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/020fafd7-6186-4aaf-b84d-ee006450ffe1/content |
| 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 | Signed the Digital Violence Petition ("Forderungspapier zu Digitaler Gewalt") |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | In October 2024, over 60 civil society organisations and projects from Germany - including our research group at UCL presented a position paper to the German government. This paper addressed the urgent need for enhanced protection against digital violence, highlighting the government's lack of progress in implementing previously proposed measures. The position paper emphasises that digital violence, encompassing forms such as cyberstalking and the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, poses significant threats to individuals and society. It calls for comprehensive legislative action to address all manifestations of digital violence, aligning with international commitments like the Istanbul Convention. In response to this advocacy, the German government has initiated a draft law aimed at better supporting victims of digital violence. However, experts note that while this is a positive step, further improvements are necessary to fully address the issue. The collaborative efforts of these organisations have significantly raised awareness about digital violence in Germany, leading to policy discussions and legislative proposals. This collective action underscores the critical need for effective measures to protect individuals from digital harm. |
| URL | https://ein-team.org/forderungspapier/ |
| Description | Steering Committees of the WHO Global World Safety Conferences (Mark Bellis) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/prof-mark-bellis-invited-to-world-safety-conference-for-plenary-addre... |
| Description | Submission for the UK Parliament Select Committee |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/140076/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 | Tech Enabled Violence Against Women and Girls Roundtable hosted by Jess Phillips |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| 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 | Trauma-informed approaches in healthcare: piecemeal implementation needs UK-wide leadership, strategy and evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.bristol.ac.uk/policybristol/policy-briefings/trauma-informed-healthcare/ |
| 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 - Crime and Policing Bill: call for evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://cityuni.sharepoint.com/teams/CUoL-VASOffice/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Ftea... |
| Description | UK Parliament - Home Affairs Committee - Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Funding Inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/8944/tackling-violence-against-women-and-girls-funding/ |
| Description | UK Parliament - International Development Committee - Women, peace and security |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/8985/women-peace-and-security/publications/ |
| Description | UK Parliament - Public Accounts Committee (PAC) - Tackling Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/138306/html/ |
| Description | UK Parliament - Social Mobility Policy Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/141229/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 | UK Parliament call for evidence on Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmpublic/TerminallyIllAdults/memo/TIAB304.htm |
| Description | UK Parliament call for evidence on community cohesion |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3497/ |
| Description | UK Parliamentary Committee - Submission of Evidence: Addressing Skills Challenges in AI and NLP Amongst Analysts - Use of AI in Government |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/publications/written-eviden... |
| Description | UNFPA - A Programming Framework for TFGBV |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/A%20Framework%20for%20TFGBV%20Programming.pdf |
| Description | UNFPA TFGBV Evaluation Framework |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | UNFPA Think Piece |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.unfpa.org/publications/safe-digital-future |
| Description | WHO Global Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention (Mark Bellis) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2022/12/8/mark-bellis |
| Description | WHO Special Advisory Group on WHO European Health Equity (Mark Bellis) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.who.int/europe/teams/office-for-investment-for-health-development-(ita)/about-us |
| 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 St George's, 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 St George's, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Developing an AI-driven System for Detecting Right-Wing Extremist Misinformation on Social Media - Darren COOK (PI) |
| Amount | £9,400 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | TDA24\240176 |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2025 |
| End | 03/2026 |
| Description | Domestic abuse and its employment consequences (Niels Blom PI) |
| Amount | £12,274 (GBP) |
| Organisation | City St George's, 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 St George's, 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 | INTERFACED: Enhancing (Post-)Pandemic Interfaces of Civic Participation - Vanessa Gash |
| Amount | € 2,999,942 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101178268 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Horizon 2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 12/2027 |
| Description | Improving the Commissioning of Domestic Homicide Reviews in England and Wales - Elizabeth Cook |
| Amount | £9,888 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2024 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | Knowledge Transfer Partnership - Darren Cook |
| Amount | £242,987 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2026 |
| End | 02/2028 |
| 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 | Navigating gender equality and safety: the personal journeys of MENA diasporic women |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2025 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| 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 | Optimising community C(E)TRs through understanding the experience of people with intellectual disability and autistic people and investigating their impact on care |
| Amount | £1,631,665 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR158490 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2024 |
| End | 02/2028 |
| 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 St George's, 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 St George's, 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 | South London and Maudsley Healthtech Research Centre |
| Amount | £2,938,217 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 03/2029 |
| Description | The acceptability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Enhanced Patient Observation in reducing the risk of self-harm and suicide on psychiatric wards |
| Amount | £1,279,313 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2024 |
| End | 08/2027 |
| 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 effects of extreme heat events on mental health in vulnerable urban communities: towards evidence-based policy and practice |
| Amount | £1,680,130 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 228033/Z/23/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| End | 04/2026 |
| 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 | UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow - Anastasia Fadeeva |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Data Service |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| 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 | Victim survivor outcomes from support in safe accommodation: outcome measurement research |
| Amount | £135,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2025 |
| End | 03/2026 |
| 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 | Lifetime cost of sexual violence calculator |
| Description | Previous work on costing of violence has focused on short-term (12 months) estimates, overlooking the long-term impact of violence exposure. While some cost of domestic abuse estimates exist in peer-review and grey literature, much less attention has been given to the cost of sexual violence. Through a partnership between the VISION Consortium, Rape Crisis England and Wales (RCEW), and the Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network (VAMHN), we developed the lifetime cost of sexual violence calculator, expanding on previous VAMHN work. Supported by the Women's Budget Group (WBG), this calculator was lunched at the VISION annual conference. The calculator two aims and has four main components. The first aim is to support specialist sexual violence services in estimating the lifetime cost associated with their clients. Its second aim is to allow local authorities, commissioners, Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public estimate the cost burden of sexual violence and abuse (SVA) in their local area. The components of the calculator are: 1) a rapid review using a systematic approach identified relevant unit costs that may be attributable to child and adult SVA; 2) analysis of RCEW data and regression predictions to infer adjusted relative proportions attributable to each victim of SVA, and duration of harm where relevant; 3) Calculation by cost component, differentiating between child and adult; 4) for the local area calculator (aim 2), we used Census 2021 to define number of children (0-15) and adults (16+) in each area and applied the prevalence from the self-complete module from the CSEW for adults, and a calibrated prevalence from NSPCC youth survey. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The lifetime cost of sexual violence calculator has enabled frontline services, commissioners, and policymakers to estimate the long-term economic burden of sexual violence. It has already influenced practice (training delivered to 34 SV service managers and 80+ police and crime commissioners), attracted the attention of UK government departments (MoJ, Home Office, APCC), and stimulated international collaboration (Deakin University). Future planned impact includes a parliamentary launch (Nov 2025), integration into Home Office costing work, adaptation for domestic abuse services, and academic expansion into multiple new grant applications. |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/sexual-violence-cost-estimate/ |
| Title | Novel natural language processing algorithms to extract structured entities from health records text |
| Description | Within the last 12 months, novel algorithms have been developed and applied for reported clinical trajectories (entities improving or deteriorating), and a range of routine blood tests, as well as a measure of recorded family contact. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | These algorithms are now in active use to support novel research using the Maudsley CRIS data platform, as well as being made available for other NHS service use via the MH-TAC interface (described elsewhere). |
| 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 | VISION Artificial Intelligence (AI) project |
| Description | There are 2 components of this tool: 1) INSIGHTS - This is a computational model with codified knowledge about processes and outcomes . It contains large information sets - in this case, UK policy and strategy documents on violence prevention from across central and local government and third sector / community and voluntary organisations. It is an interactive retrieval system with supervised machine learning capabilities system that categorizes and highlights comparisons and differences to support user understanding and to enable further drilling down in the documents. INSIGHTS does not synthesize information but rather organises it for easier assimilation. It is specialised to policy innovation, and the documents VISION provided feed violence prevention into it to provide creative ideation support for policy generation, based on its existing capabilities. INSIGHTS is open to the entire VISION consortium. 2) Bespoke VISION AI tool - VISION partnered with the Institute for Creativity and AI (ICAI) at City St George's University of London to develop a tool in which the user can supply research questions that are run against UK policy and strategy documents on violence prevention from across central and local government and third sector / community and voluntary organisations to find an answer. The output is currently a synthesized report that can be structured (headings, etc), or provide critical analysis (patterns, insights, etc.), comprehensive summary (detailed narrative), deep analysis (advanced analytical interpretation) and custom instructions (users define their own response format). Questions so far used for analysis: How Violence is Represented Across Central Government, Local Government and Third Sector How is the type of violence between victim and perpetrator described? How are domestic violence and abuse vs. youth violence described in 'central government' documents What do we know about professionals as victims or survivors of violence? Purpose of the VISION AI project: It supports VISION's key objectives, in particular, (i) to map theories of change to inform pathways that reduce violence and (iv) to investigate connections and causal pathways. The project draws on large amounts of publicly available UK violence-related policies and supporting documentation and contributes to a growing body of evidence into how social science and AI can partner effectively and synthesise information to provide insight into social problems such as violence. An AI-generated synthesis of policy responses to violence will help to build an understanding of how current policy actors and institutions have constructed the problem of violence, understand its solutions, and to identify gaps in systems responses (e.g., between police and primary care). As a result of this project, VISION can demonstrate how policy actors represent violence, and which sectors represent violence in similar or different ways. It enables VISION to identify cross-government gaps, opportunities, silos, etc. We are working towards the possibility of developing evaluations of the relationships between sectors, to potentially identify sectors that are not communicating with one other, how they are overlapping (or not), and if and how partnership working has been successfully implemented. In particular, we hope that an output would provide an overarching statement on the condition of the field of violence and abuse as currently constructed in policy documents. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The bespoke AI tool has identified the lack of definitional clarity used by central government with regards to youth violence. |
| 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 | Crime analyst dataset |
| Description | We asked 40 questions related to knowledge, use of, and attitudes towards technology (ML, NLP, AI). Responses were collected from 150 crime analysts, mostly UK, with about 20% from US and a handful from other places (NZ). Responses were gathered from Qualtrics over 2 months between June-July 2024 Survey was promoted through various personal and professional networks (BSC policing network, college of policing, LinkedIn) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None yet |
| Title | Data for "Defining and Conceptualizing Technology-Facilitated Abuse: A Global Delphi Study" |
| Description | This data relates to the paper "Defining and Conceptualizing Technology-Facilitated Abuse: A Global Delphi Study", which is based on a study conducted by the Gender and Tech Research Lab at UCL Computer Science. The study is looking to define and conceptualise Technology-Facilitated Abuse (TFA), based on a global sample of experts. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset has generated significant interest, with 338 views and 142 downloads, indicating its relevance to the research community. While it has not yet been cited, it has the potential to support further studies in the field of technology-facilitated domestic abuse and intimate partner violence by providing valuable data for analysis. It has been shared within academic and professional networks and could contribute to policy discussions or practical applications in UN forums (such as UNFPA who we are closely working with) as well as the UK Government (the UK Home Office and Ofcom are aware of it). Future citations and applications are expected as researchers continue to engage with the dataset. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_Defining_and_Conceptualizing_Technology-Facilitated_... |
| 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. |
| Title | National survey on economic abuse in the UK - with ethnicity boost |
| Description | In 2023, SEA piloted a Rapid Impact Survey on the nature of economic abuse. In collaboration with VISION, we extended the scope of the pilot to generate new national data on detailed aspects of economic abuse forms and impacts. This includes a major ethnicity boost. The new national dataset will very soon be archived with the UK Data Service, along with supporting documentation and promotion to support its reuse. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Initial reporting has been widely covered. The dataset is about to archived with impacts expected. |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/funded-small-projects/#surviving-economic-abuse |
| 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. 2025 PHW team is putting together a funding application to NIHR Serious Violence call (https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/evergreen-assets/safelinks/2/atp-safelinks.html). Polina Obolenskaya (and potentially Anastasia Fadeeva) is part of the application with her work on the Crime Survey for England and Wales |
| 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" 2025 Presented findings from the above journal article: - at the Wales Without Violence Spring Seminar (8 May 2025) - at the ONS Crime Statistics team meeting (8 July 2025)- the purpose was to engage ONS with our Wales work, and gauge the possibility of the ONS publishing Wales-specific estimates of violence victimisation in the future. |
| 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 | End Violence Against Women (EVAW) Online VAWG Network |
| Organisation | End Violence Against Women |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Our research team contributes expertise on technology-facilitated abuse, cybersecurity, and gender-based violence to the EVAW Online VAWG Network. We engage in knowledge exchange, provide research insights on emerging threats, and support policy discussions on online violence against women and girls. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners contribute by collaborating on policy submissions, consultation responses, and advocacy efforts, including drafting letters to MPs. They help coordinate joint initiatives, amplify research findings, and support strategic engagement with policymakers to address online violence against women and girls. |
| Impact | As part of this collaboration, we co-signed a letter to Ofcom addressing the need for a robust draft guidance on violence against women and girls (VAWG) which is part of the commitment derived from the Online Safety Act. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Gloucestershire Constabulary Police - R Weir |
| Organisation | Gloucestershire Constabulary |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with Deputy Chief Constable Katy Barrow-Grint on Teenage Relationship Abuse: Katy Barrow-Grint has an academic and professional interest in adolescent domestic abuse/teenage relationship 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. We have formed the National Working Group for Teenage Relationship abuse which Katy and Ruth Weir co-lead, have hosted a conference and three national roundtables and three place-based local roundtables 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 and Ruth Weir are leading and progressing the teenage relationship work. Gloucestershire Constabulary have other member, including their Katy's staff office who have joined the working group, presented at the adolescent domestic abuse conference and contributed to roundtable discussions. We are about to submit an ESRC grant application to process this work further. Katy now has the national lead for teenage relationship abuse with the National Police Chiefs Council and has used her Practitioner in Residence and subsequent Honorary Research Fellow position to conduct a national survey of police responses to TRA. |
| Impact | Adolescent Domestic Abuse Conference Adolescent Domestic Abuse report Adolescent Domestic Abuse roundtable Adolescent Domestic Abuse Working Group |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| 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) 2025 Re-Development of Costings Methodology for Home Office 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) as well as estimates of job loss risk, which again, they did not have prior. |
| 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. 2025 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 National Working Group on Teenage Relationship Abuse, have hosted a conference and three national and three local place based roundtables 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. Aisling Barker, Workforce Development Manager has become a Practitioner in Residence and we have submitted a large grant application in teenage relationship abuse with the team as a partner. |
| 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 Mission Data and Digital Theme |
| Organisation | Swansea University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributing as lead for one of the three work packages and as co-investigator. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Work package and theme leadership |
| Impact | Additional funds for DATAMIND from the Mental Health Mission. Additional support for informatics activity at KCL and the Maudsley. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Mental Health Mission Data and Digital Theme |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributing as lead for one of the three work packages and as co-investigator. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Work package and theme leadership |
| Impact | Additional funds for DATAMIND from the Mental Health Mission. Additional support for informatics activity at KCL and the Maudsley. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Mental Health Mission Data and Digital Theme |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributing as lead for one of the three work packages and as co-investigator. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Work package and theme leadership |
| Impact | Additional funds for DATAMIND from the Mental Health Mission. Additional support for informatics activity at KCL and the Maudsley. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Mental Health Mission Data and Digital Theme |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributing as lead for one of the three work packages and as co-investigator. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Work package and theme leadership |
| Impact | Additional funds for DATAMIND from the Mental Health Mission. Additional support for informatics activity at KCL and the Maudsley. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| 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 2023/4 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 part 1 published July 2025, and part 2 published in Nov 2025. The new dataset includes a new violence module. |
| 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 2023/4, and due to archive March 2026. |
| 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 were invited to be members and they 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 | Partnership with Anglia Ruskin University |
| Organisation | Anglia Ruskin University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION provided funding to University South Wales from the Small Projects Fund for their research, 'Nothing about us without us': Investigating the impact of the leadership of ethnic minority women on domestic abuse service provision in East England. Their project was one of five selected from 73 applications for funding. A selection panel chose it because of the quality of the application and the fact it focused on East England which widened VISION's geographic reach and intel into violence prevention and specialist services. The VISION Knowledge Exchange Manager organised 2 seminars at which the lead researcher presented the results and discussed the project: 1. a presentation with the VISION Advisory Board 2. a presentation with the VISION consortium team |
| Collaborator Contribution | Through a collaboration between Anglia Ruskin University and the Institute for Social Justice and Crime at University of Suffolk, this mixed methods research aims to explore the impact of the leadership of Black and Asian women within domestic abuse service provision in a region with a notable absence of 'by and for' (BFR) services. The purpose of the research was to establish causal pathways and connections which demonstrate how the capacity-building of minoritised women affects VAWG services and minoritised service users' experiences. This project also sought to establish a knowledge and evidence base by integrating information from multiple sources to advocate for the deployment of national, regional and local funding towards leadership of minoritised women within DA service provision in a region with minimal presence of BFR services. As a result of the funding, the lead researcher and team developed the 'HUM place-based Emerging Leaders' Model - a novel approach and blueprint to increase the leadership of emerging Black and other racialised women leaders within domestic abuse and sexual violence (DASV) service provision, specifically, and wider public services across the UK, more generally. The HUM model centres the capacity-building and leadership of professionally isolated and racially marginalised emerging leaders, by fostering their professional and personal connections with established leaders working across statutory and voluntary organisations. It galvanises community-building between Black and other racialised women at different stages of their leadership journey to provide sanctuary for knowledge exchange and best practices and collectively heal from institutional and systemic barriers around racism, sexism, Islamophobia and other forms of exclusion. The HUM leadership model is grounded in local knowledge about the context, systems and relationships, and is attentive to local needs. |
| Impact | The HUM Place-Based Emerging Leaders Model is only currently available as a pdf. Interested parties will be able to download the file from https://vision.city.ac.uk/funded-small-projects/ by mid October 2025. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Partnership with University of South Wales |
| Organisation | University of South Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION provided funding to University South Wales from the Small Projects Fund for their research, Stalking and Young People in Wales: Exploring and increasing knowledge, awareness and understanding. Their project was one of five selected from 73 applications for funding. A selection panel chose it because of the quality of the application, the fact it was in Wales which widens VISION's geographic reach and intel and the research involved stalking which was an area of violence that was not a major part of VISION's own research into violence prevention. The VISION Knowledge Exchange Manager has organised 2 seminars for the lead researcher to present the results and discuss the project: 1. a presentation with the VISION Advisory Board (scheduled for Apr 2026) 2. a presentation with the VISION consortium team (scheduled for Oct 2025) |
| Collaborator Contribution | A University of South Wales (USW), Calan DVS, and South Wales Police (SWP) collaboration, this study is the first of a multi-phased stalking research programme in Wales. Phase one explored knowledge, awareness and understanding of stalking among young people (YP) aged 16-24 years in Wales e.g., recognising behaviours, reporting, impacts, and safeguarding. Findings informed the development of framework/guidance, with accompanying materials (road map, short film, and educational/best practice resources) for workforce/organisations/communities to facilitate and enhance knowledge, awareness and understanding amongst YP. Key findings include: 1. Limited Evaluation of Existing Programmes: While several UK charities offer stalking education and training, robust and public evaluations are scarce. 2. Academic Literature Trends: Most academic studies focus on bystander programmes that may include stalking within broader categories like sexual harassment and relationship violence. This generalisation risks obscuring stalking's unique dynamics. 3. Representation Gaps: Resources and research often fail to reflect the experiences of minority groups. LGBTQ+ youth and ethnic minorities face higher risks, including links to honour-based abuse, yet are underrepresented in studies. 4. Need for Co-Production: Effective stalking education should be co-created with young people. Initiatives like games and lesson plans developed collaboratively demonstrate the value of youth involvement but robust evaluation is needed to ensure impact. Young people's digital habits and lived experiences must inform educational design. 5. Welsh Context and Policy: Stalking is a concern for young people in Wales, but it is not explicitly addressed in the Welsh Government's Relationship and Sexuality Education Code (Welsh Government, 2022). However, its inclusion in the new UK Statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education (Department for Education, 2025) marks progress. |
| Impact | https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/31092304/PURE_report_version_250828.pdf The research results can be found in the report link above. This is a direct output from the VISION Small Projects Fund. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Partnership with University of West London |
| Organisation | University of West London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | VISION provided funding to University South Wales from the Small Projects Fund for their research, Navigating Complexity: Hate Crime Victims with Multiple Minority Identities and the Challenges of Reporting and Recording the victimisation. Their project was one of five selected from 73 applications for funding. A selection panel chose it because of the quality of the application and the research involved stalking which was an area of violence that was not a major part of VISION's own research into violence prevention. The VISION Knowledge Exchange Manager has organised 2 seminars for the lead researcher to present the results and discuss the project: 1. a presentation with the VISION Advisory Board (scheduled for Apr 2026) 2. a presentation with the VISION consortium team (done in April 2025) |
| Collaborator Contribution | The intersections of multiple identities elevate the health risks faced by these individuals. Unfortunately, the current legislation and hate crime recording system inadequately address the complexities of multiple minority identities (such as LGBTQ and an ethnic minority). The main objective of this research is to improve police handing of victims with multiple identities of hate crime at reporting stage, thereby supporting the mental health recovery of these victims. The project considered the specific nuances which are experienced by hate crime victims with multiple identities and thereby the challenges they face when reporting their victimisation. Hence, the project had considered two main research questions: 1. The types and impact of hate crime victimisation endured by victims with multiple identities. 2. The experiences of victims of hate crime with multiple identities at reporting stage. This research was completed collaboratively with the National Police Chief's Council. Insights into the lived experiences of hate crime victims with multiple minority identities was also collated. Key findings include: 1. The current legislation and hate crime recording system inadequately address the complexities of multiple minority identities. 2. Intersectional minority identities increase feelings of vulnerability. Victims often find themselves defending multiple aspects of their identity simultaneously, which can be mentally exhausting and emotionally taxing. Victims with multiple marginalised identities often face compounded difficulties in reporting hate crimes due to a lack of understanding by police officers of their intersecting identities with many victims feeling that their multifaceted identities are overlooked or reduced to a single characteristic. |
| Impact | https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13973/ The research results can be found in the report, Navigating Complexity: Hate Crime Victims with Multiple Minority Identities and the Challenges of Reporting and Recording the victimisation, above. This is a direct output from the VISION Small Projects Fund. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| 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 | Police |
| Organisation | Warwickshire Police |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are working with Warwickshire Police. |
| Collaborator Contribution | - Data - Access to experts - Internship of PhD student - Police Vetting |
| Impact | N/a |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| 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. 2025 Rape Crisis data has also been analysed for a paper as part of the VISION integration thread, entitled Profiles of victims of violence across health care, police, specialist victim support services, and victimisation surveys in the UK. Ciara Bergman provided comments on a VISION policy briefing on Measuring the effectiveness of support services and interventions for domestic and sexual violence and abuse in the United Kingdom on 16th July 2025. |
| 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. |
| 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 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- published in BMC public health- Effectiveness of UK-based support interventions and services aimed at adults who have experienced or used domestic and sexual violence and abuse: a systematic review and meta-analysis | BMC Public Health Madeleine Janickyj presented a paper as part of a symposium chaired by Annie Bunce at the European Conference on Domestic Violence in Barcelona on 4th September 2025- Understanding Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Exploring real-life experiences through Support Services' data |
| 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. 2025 VISION representatives joined a meeting on 22nd April 2025 to consult on Respect's plans to develop a new Centre for Excellence. |
| 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. 2025 In each quarterly meeting/workshop Respect have continued to provide expertise from the perspective of reducing perpetration of domestic abuse. |
| 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. 2025 Data analysis- statistical modelling of Drive data conducted and preliminary findings shared with stakeholders. Currently awaiting feedback. Paper on Drive analysis findings in early stages of drafting, to be submitted to Trauma Violence and Abuse. Jo Todd was unable to attend the VISION systematic review seminar on 10th September 2025, but got in touch after receiving the slides via email to say that they would be really useful for ongoing work on the Centre for Excellence. |
| 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. 2025 Thematic analysis of workshop data produced themes to be transformed into best practice principles- Doing Co-Analysis Justice: guiding principles Annie and Danica Darley (University of Sheffield) have written a chapter entitled Collaborative Insights: Co-analysis for meaningful impact in participatory research, which has been accepted for publication in Lived Experience in Criminal Justice Contexts: Applied Perspectives, edited by Schreeche-Powell, E., Chatwin, C., & Maruna, S. Learning for Revolving Doors was that there is currently not enough focus in their peer researcher training on the analysis stage, which is something Lauren will take forwards. Revolving Doors are also keen to continue collaborating on the development and dissemination of best practice principles, and Lauren has a few ideas for new project within which the preliminary principles could be tested in practice; Annie and Lauren are both looking for funding opportunities for this work. Danica Darley (University of Sheffield) was an external CI on Annie's PRF project, and this has resulted in Dani asking Revolving Doors to be involved in her upcoming NIHR project, in which the co-produced co-analysis principles will be tested. 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. Polina and Annie presented a paper entitled Too soon, too late: experience of and professional responses to intimate partner violence and abuse in teenage relationships at the Connect Centre conference in October 2024. SafeLives/the Changemakers sense checked the presentation ahead of the conference and were acknowledged. A co-produced journal article has been submitted to Child Abuse and Neglect, which is co-authored by Polina, Annie, Kristie, Imi, Maya and Ellie. We are also due to start co-producing producing a research brief to be published online, which aims to reflect on the co-production elements of this collaboration as well as on young victim-survivors' view on working with young people on teenage relationship abuse and direction for further research, with further funding from the VISION KE pot. Safelives and their changemakers ensure that our work is meaningful and grounded in lived experiences of those with teenage relationship abuse. 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. 2025 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. Jason Dutton met with Annie and Estela online on 16th July 2025, and in this meeting Annie presented preliminary findings from analysis of Drive data. Jason was unable to provide substantive feedback due to being new in post, so we will be meeting with Kyla soon to receive feedback on interpretation of results, which will inform writing up of the paper. |
| 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 2025 Connect Centre conference paper- Too soon, too late: experience of and professional responses to intimate partner violence and abuse in teenage relationships ECDV paper- Too soon, too late: experience of and professional responses to abuse in teenage relationships Obolenskaya, P., Bunce, A., Balachandran, I.; Balachandran, M.; Beat, E. & Waller, K. (submitted to Child Abuse and Neglect) Too soon, too late: experience of and professional responses to harmful behaviors in young teenage relationships. Obolenskaya, P., Bunce, A. & Weir, R. (2025). Breaking the cycle of harm in adolescent relationships. LSE Politics and Policy Blogs. Breaking the cycle of harm in adolescent relationships - British Politics and Policy at LSE Co-produced report of the wider findings from this project, with further funding from the VISION KE pot. Planning meeting to split co-writing tasks will take place in October 2025. SafeLives and the Changemakers are also keen to do some follow-up research on one of the key themes identified in Polina's PRF project, and Polina, Annie and Kristie are looking out for funding opportunities. |
| 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 gender-based violence' |
| 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. Founding members include: Dr Sophie Carlisle, Health Innovation East Midlands; Dr Elizabeth A. Cook, City, University of London (VISION); Dr Jessica Lynn Corsi, City, University of London (VISION); Dr Alexandria Innes, City, University of London (VISION); Dr Natalia Lewis, University of Bristol (VISION); Dr Sian Oram, Reader in Women's Mental Health, King's College London (VISION); Professor Carol Rivas, University College London ; Dr Karen Schucan Bird, University College London 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). 2025 Update: Natalia Lewis, Lizzie Cook, Jess Corsi, Sophie Carlisle contributed to organising and delivering presentation 'Producing evidence syntheses on violence and abuse: reflections on the methodological challenges, disciplinary variations and practicalities' at the at the Methods in Evidence Synthesis Salon (the MESS) meeting, University of Bristol, 17/07/2025. Natalia Lewis and Lizzie Cook contributed to ECDV workshop submission 'Community of practice for evidence syntheses on gender-based violence: learning together to enable methodological developments and improve evidence for policy and practice'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The two UCL collaborators (listed above) contributed to the meetings and led development of the grant proposal. Update 2025: Karen Bird contributed to the above items as co-author. |
| Impact | Grant proposal submitted 30 November 2023: The Independent Social Research Foundation, Small Group Projects (unsuccessful). 2025: Online presentation 'Producing evidence syntheses on violence and abuse: reflections on the methodological challenges, disciplinary variations and practicalities' at the at the Methods in Evidence Synthesis Salon (the MESS) meeting, University of Bristol. Presenters: Natalia Lewis, Lizzie Cook, Jess Corsi, Sophie Carlisle. 24 researchers attended. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Special Interest Group (SIG) 'Evidence syntheses on gender-based violence' |
| 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. Founding members include: Dr Sophie Carlisle, Health Innovation East Midlands; Dr Elizabeth A. Cook, City, University of London (VISION); Dr Jessica Lynn Corsi, City, University of London (VISION); Dr Alexandria Innes, City, University of London (VISION); Dr Natalia Lewis, University of Bristol (VISION); Dr Sian Oram, Reader in Women's Mental Health, King's College London (VISION); Professor Carol Rivas, University College London ; Dr Karen Schucan Bird, University College London 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). 2025 Update: Natalia Lewis, Lizzie Cook, Jess Corsi, Sophie Carlisle contributed to organising and delivering presentation 'Producing evidence syntheses on violence and abuse: reflections on the methodological challenges, disciplinary variations and practicalities' at the at the Methods in Evidence Synthesis Salon (the MESS) meeting, University of Bristol, 17/07/2025. Natalia Lewis and Lizzie Cook contributed to ECDV workshop submission 'Community of practice for evidence syntheses on gender-based violence: learning together to enable methodological developments and improve evidence for policy and practice'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The two UCL collaborators (listed above) contributed to the meetings and led development of the grant proposal. Update 2025: Karen Bird contributed to the above items as co-author. |
| Impact | Grant proposal submitted 30 November 2023: The Independent Social Research Foundation, Small Group Projects (unsuccessful). 2025: Online presentation 'Producing evidence syntheses on violence and abuse: reflections on the methodological challenges, disciplinary variations and practicalities' at the at the Methods in Evidence Synthesis Salon (the MESS) meeting, University of Bristol. Presenters: Natalia Lewis, Lizzie Cook, Jess Corsi, Sophie Carlisle. 24 researchers attended. |
| 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 | UKHLS Innovation Panel Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Department | Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UKHLS Innovation Panel Competition Winner, 2025. This collaboration involves the development of a new battery of indicators on workplace violence which will be fielded to a nationally representative sample within the United Kingdom's Household Panel Survey. Once the data have been collected, they will be made publicly available and will also be developed into a series of working papers by the PI, Vanessa Gash, and her co-applicants (Niels Blom and Sally McManus). We are working alongside the survey and questionnaire design team at Essex University, to help co-design a series of questions which will be fielded as part of the UKHLS data collected survey. After asking to present our research findings to the UKHLS research team, on our use of the pre-existing violence indicators in the UKHLS, alongside the formal submission of a request to amend these to better measure workplace violence, in 2024, Dr Gash submitted a bid as PI to have a new battery of questions fielded in the UKHLS data in 2025. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Vanessa Gash, alongside Niels Blom and Sally McManus submitted a proposal to have their questionnaire battery included in the UKHLS panel competition and was successful in their bid. The generation of the q'aire is collaborative with the team at Essex who manage the UKHLS. Vanessa Gash has signed an agreement with the team at Essex to work alongside them on this project, which includes a commitment to develop a series of working papers to disseminate findings and insights from the project. These papers will contribute to academic debates and inform policy discussions around workplace safety and wellbeing. The Innovation Panel Competition is a highly competitive initiative that supports cutting-edge research ideas with real-world impact. We are proud to see Dr Gash's work recognised and supported by Understanding Society. |
| Impact | The new questionnaire module and dataset are forthcoming |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team |
| Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team |
| Organisation | Swansea University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | University of Liverpool |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Department | Membership to the VISION Advisory Board and collaboration on a series of different publications (both published and in preparation) |
| 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 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| 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. 2025 Kimberley Cullen led and co-ordinated the production of an animation, co-produced with VAHMN's LEAG, with input from Oram and Cook. This involved producing a tender for creative partners to produce the animation, working closely with LE members to storyboard and script the animation, and providing regular feedback between the group and the creative agency. Cullen led and co-ordinated the production of an animation, co-produced with VAHMN's LEAG, with input from Oram and Cook. This involved producing a tender for creative partners to produce the animation, working closely with LE members to storyboard and script the animation, and providing regular feedback between the group and the creative agency. |
| 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. 2025 Oram leads the VAHMN LEAG which were involved in identifying core principles for the animation, scripts, language, design, and voiceover. This was informed by a previous workshop (with Cook and Innes) to identify key principles of LE resulting in a co-producing a visual summary of the role LE plays in evidence on violence, abuse and mental health. |
| 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 2025 The animation is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=z6LbYDGfBZw&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fvision.city.ac.uk%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjM4NTE It builds upon the infographic developed in the previous year by VAMHN LEAG available here: 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 multinomial logit models and survival analyses to explore (1) the length of service duration and determinants of case closure and case completion, and (2) the health outcomes of victim-survivors; priorities identified by Women's Aid in the earlier stages of VISION. In each case, preliminary findings were shared with Hannah, Emma and Sarah, and adjustments made to the models in accordance with their feedback. Draft papers for publication in the Journal of Family Violence and BMC Women's Health, respectively, were shared with Women's Aid and their feedback was incorporated into the papers prior to submission. Women's Aid collaborators will be acknowledged in both papers. Women's Aid OnTrack data has also been analysed for a paper as part of the VISION integration thread, entitled Profiles of victims of violence across health care, police, specialist victim support services, and victimisation surveys in the UK. Annie has applied for funding from the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) to further analyse OnTrack data, specially in terms of wellbeing outcomes linked to counselling; an area that Women's Aid identified as useful additional evidence for future work on their outcomes framework. Annie attended Women's Aid's Annual Conference in Nottingham on 10th July 2025. Ladan cleaned four of the On Track datasets provided to VISION, merged them into a single comprehensive dataset, and conducted analyses to examine differences in service needs, provision, and outcomes of contact with services between ethnic minoritised and non-minoritised service users. Preliminary findings were shared with Hannah, Emma, Sarah and the analyses were adjusted in line with their feedback. Women's Aid collaborators will be acknowledged in the forthcoming paper. |
| 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. 2025 Emma provided comments on a VISION policy briefing on Measuring the effectiveness of support services and interventions for domestic and sexual violence and abuse in the United Kingdom on 12th June 2025. Sarah provided support for a stage 1 funding application to further analyse OnTrack data, submitted on 26th June 2025 and progressed to stage 2 on 16th September 2025 (stage 2 application due 24th November). Hannah, Sarah, and Emma attended a meeting with the VISION team, where Ladan presented the preliminary findings. The discussion highlighted data gaps in service providers' data collection, which hinder effective impact evaluation. Their input led to revised variable definitions and the identification of key research priorities. |
| 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. 2025 Findings from statistical analysis of merged datasets. Paper entitled Service duration and determinants of case closure and case completion for victim-survivors accessing specialist domestic abuse support services, under review at the Journal of Family Violence (revisions submitted 29th July 2025). Paper entitled Health outcomes of victim-survivors accessing specialist domestic abuse services: the role of abuse experience, vulnerabilities and sociodemographic characteristics, under review at BMC Women's Health (revisions due 6th October 2025). Paper entitled Profiles of victims of violence across health care, police, specialist victim support services, and victimisation surveys in the UK, currently ready to submit to the British Journal of Criminology but awaiting permission from other partners. Conference presentation at the European Conference on Domestic Violence in Barcelona, 3rd-5th September 2025- presented findings from our analysis of victim-survivors' health outcomes in a symposium entitled Exploring multiple vulnerabilities using specialist services' administrative data: Challenges, opportunities and lessons for the future, chaired by Annie. Also part of this symposium, Ladan presented her analysis of OnTrack data, Ethnic Disparities in outcomes from contact with DVA support services. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Women's Budget Group |
| Organisation | Women's Budget Group (WBG) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | VISION collaborates with WBG in research specific to violence in the workplace and impacts on the labour market. WBG's interest in the effects of violence on women in the labour force and what can be translated into policy is an important piece of work in the VISION plan. The first output co-produced was the Sexual violence and abuse estimate calculator. VISION colleague Estela Capelas Barbosa prepared the dataset and Kimberly Cullen worked with Fabrik to project manage the design of the webpages. The VISION research and third sector networks were used to disseminate the tool. Finally, the tool was launched at the VISION annual conference in June 2026 by Estela which also generated a lot of interest on the day particularly the specialist services in the audience. |
| Collaborator Contribution | WBG colleagues Dr Sara Reis and Erin Mansell provided text for the SVA calculator estimate webpages and the tips tools. They also reviewed drafts of the webpages and provided comment. They developed the press release and used their extensive media, Parliamentary, third sector and economic networks to generate interest in the tool. As a result of their contacts, two stories were generated in media outlets: Lifetime cost of sexual violence in England and Wales is nearly £440bn, new research shows | openDemocracy Sexual violence has a £400 billion per year cost, says new report |
| Impact | The Sexual Violence and Abuse estimation calculator is the first output. VISION and WBG collaborated to create a calculator that estimates the lifetime costs of sexual violence in children and adults by national population and local area in England and Wales. This first-of-its-kind costing calculator offers a more realistic reflection of the long-term burden of sexual abuse and violence borne by both survivors and society. The key purpose is to support those working to provide services to people who have experienced or used sexual violence and abuse and commissioners of these services, and to demonstrate the economic and social burden of sexual violence if one fails to invest in effective prevention. WBG and VISION, specifically Estela Capelas Barbosa, have conducted online training with the Rape Crisis Centres in England and Wales and other specialist services working with victim / survivors of sexual violence to demonstrate the tool and encourage third sector use to provide an estimate of the cost of their services for funding applications. There have been discussions between VISION colleagues Sally McManus, Annie Bunce and Niels Blom and WBG colleagues Sara Reis and Mary-Ann Stephenson to discuss the impacts of violence against women and their earning capacity and participation in the labour market. Discussions also includes what is synthetic data and the benefits of creating a dataset based on sensitive information. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Title | Statistical (machine learning) model for predicting the victim-offender relationship type from crime reports |
| Description | A supervised machine learning model that predicts the relationship type between victims and offenders of domestic violence. Input is a crime report (free text). Output is one of: partner, ex partner, other family. The ML model is based on a combination of models including DistilBERT and random forest. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | We have been able to correctly classify gaps in police recorded crime data using this model, with up to 95% accuracy. |
| 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 | 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign |
| 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 | The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign took place from 25 November to 10 December in 2024. It is an annual and international event organised by UN Women to encourage NGOs, the 3rd sector, media channels, social media outlets, organisations and the general public to demonstrate throughout the campaign how they are working to reduce VAWG in their country and / or local communities. The theme for 2024 was UNiTE to prevent violence against women and girls. The VISION Knowledge Exchange Manager organised 16 days of key findings from VISION VAWG-related research, info on upcoming VISION events, and links to previous conference presentations, the risk of bias assessment tool, the VAWG dashboard consultation findings and the VISION LE strategy and more to post on the consortium Twitter / X and LinkedIn social media accounts. The endeavour raised awareness about VISION's profile and generated interest in who we are, the research and the events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 hackathon on mental health natural language processing |
| 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 | We co-hosted one of around 12 working groups for a Health Data Research Gateway hackathon 3-day event at the University of Nottingham, completing work on a prototype clinical decision support algorithm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 | A workshop on digital phenotyping |
| 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 | Contributed to a workshop for the Mental Health Mission, hosted by its Data & Digital Theme at Manchester University, to consider the applicability of digital phenotyping in trials-related activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Article in The Conversation on health inequalities from indirect violence |
| 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 | Article in The Conversation had global reach, bringing VISION results to wider audience on family health impacts of indirect violence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/families-of-victims-of-violent-assault-have-double-the-risk-of-anxiety-n... |
| Description | Article in The Converstaion on APMS |
| 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 | Article in The Conversation highlighting headlines from and availability of the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey dataset |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/mental-health-in-england-really-is-getting-worse-our-survey-found-one-in... |
| 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 | Cited in "Republik" 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 | A study on parental control apps, led by Eva-Maria Maier and co-authore by Leonie Tanczer, has been featured in Republik, a renowned Swiss publication. The articles, "Mit dieser App weiss Ihr Partner alles über Sie" ("With This App, Your Partner Knows Everything About You") and "Wenn der Kundendienst bei der Straftat hilft" ("When Customer Support Assists in Crime"), explore the potential misuse of these technologies, particularly in relation to privacy breaches and abuse. This work draws upon the findings of Maier's research, which was published in the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) in 2025. The article has sparked discussions around the ethical implications of parental control apps, with a focus on how such technologies can be exploited for monitoring partners rather than safeguarding children. The study's inclusion in Republik helps raise awareness of these issues, encouraging both public and professional reflection on privacy and digital safety. https://www.republik.ch/2024/11/19/mit-dieser-app-weiss-ihr-partner-alles-ueber-sie https://www.republik.ch/2024/11/20/wenn-der-kundendienst-bei-der-straftat-hilft |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.republik.ch/2024/11/20/wenn-der-kundendienst-bei-der-straftat-hilft |
| Description | Conference - Learning across statutory reviews: Developing a shared agenda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Over 50 people attended this event which was co-hosted by Cook and James Rowlands (Durham University) at the British Library. The event was attended by a range of third sector organisations (e.g., Women's Aid), Home Office, Welsh and Scottish Government representatives, statutory review authors and chairs, safeguarding panel members, and academics. Evaluations conducted after showed that people will be using learning from the day to change and inform their practice and ongoing discussions withi |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://collections.durham.ac.uk/files/r2vt150j30b |
| Description | Conference aimed at practitioners in health and social care and social services. |
| 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 | Domestic Abuse: Improving Practice in Health & Social Care - Sally McManus chaired and Gene Feder presented at this one day online conference aimed at practitioners in health and social care and social services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/domestic-abuse |
| 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 | Connect Webinar on Non Intimate Femicide |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Over 50 people attended an online webinar organised by the Connect Centre in July 2025. Cook was invited to present with Caroline Miles (University of Manchester). Questions and answer session followed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/non-intimate-femicide-in-england-and-wales-a-continua-thinking-approach... |
| Description | Consultation workshops on data extraction of Sex/Gender-related Motives and Indicators (SGRMIs) from Domestic Homicide Reviews |
| 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, Rowlands and Dangar run two consultation workshops with academic stakeholders and voluntary and community sector organisations on data extraction of Sex/Gender-related Motives and Indicators from Domestic Homicide Reviews. This was attended by a range of stakeholders including the Centre for Women's Justice, Femicide Census, Domestic Abuse Commissioner's Office etc. Approximately 12 attended. This exercise informed the revision of the data extraction template based on sector expertise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Cook invited to sit on Safer Streets Expert Advisory Group (SSEAG) established by the Home Office |
| 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 | The SSEAG will advise on how to achieve the outcomes identified within the Government's 'Safer Streets' mission. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/guidance/civil-society-covenant-programme |
| 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 | Delivered professional training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | College of Psychiatrists of Ireland invited Profs Sian Oram and Sally McManus to present on domestic abuse and mental health online in Spring 25 as part of CPD training for psychiatrists and other medics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://irishpsychiatry.ie/event/hot-topics-webinars-jan-feb-mar-apr-2025/ |
| Description | Delivery of professional training |
| 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 | At the 6th International Summer School on Public Mental Health: Trauma-informed public health. Sally McManus delivered two professional/practitioner training sessions on trauma in childhood and trauma in adulthood. 4th to 6th June 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://eupha.org/events/6th-international-summer-school-on-public-mental-health-trauma-informed-pub... |
| 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 | Elizabeth Cook - invited webinar at the Methods in Evidence Synthesis Salon (MESS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A total of 24 researchers active in evidence synthesis attended this meeting. Monthly MESS meetings are run by the Bristol Appraisal and Review of Research Group and host informal discussions of methods related to systematic reviews. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.bristol.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/centres/beam-centre/barr/ |
| Description | Elizabeth Cook invited presentation at the Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited participation in a panel 'Measuring vulnerability: harnessing routinely collected data' as part of the Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre annual conference in September 2025. The presentation addresses applying natural language processing to Domestic Homicide Reviews and will provide an early demonstration of a dashboard |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-conference-vulnerability-and-policing-reducing-harm-stre... |
| Description | Elizabeth Cook invited talk at Dutch Embassy in London, as part of a series called 'Just Talk(s)' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 50 participants attended this evening of talks hosted by the Dutch Embassy, regarding femicide and the criminalisation of violence against women and girls. The panel sparked a series of questions and discussion after, including networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/lizzie-cook-speaks-at-dutch-embassy-event-on-femicide/ |
| Description | Elizabeth Cook knvited talk at Lambeth Community Research Network launch event (March 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Over 40 people attended the launch of the LCRN. Cook was invited to give an academic perspective of being involved in community and participatory research which is youth-led. Networking took place after the launch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.lambethresearch.com/all-events/lambeth-community-research-network-membership-launch-even... |
| 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 activity with NHSE staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CWNL NHS Trust White Ribbon - Sally McManus gave a presentation as part of an interactive event on responding to Mental Health and Domestic Abuse: a cross-government response. As part of a 16 Days of Activism programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/news/cnwl-white-ribbon-programme-25-november |
| 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 | Expert Virtual Workshop - EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Leonie Tanczer participated in the Expert Virtual Workshop "Towards the Establishment of Joint Principles and the Advancement of Research Collaboration on Technology-Facilitated Gender-based Violence" organised by the Data Governance and Technology Platforms Working Group of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC); |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://futurium.ec.europa.eu/en/EU-US-TTC/wg5 |
| 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 | Gene Feder keynote and multiple VISION researcher presenting at the European Conference on Domestic Violence |
| 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 | Keynote from Gene Feder 'Moving from health care response to domestic violence towards trauma-informed health care systems: a dialogue on global lessons and challenges' and convened the symposium Adding to the evidence base that community-based perpetrator programmes work to reduce abuse: Positive findings from REPROVIDE, a UK randomised controlled trial Anastasia Fadeeva convened the symposium 'Health perspectives on addressing domestic violence and abuse' Ladan Hashemi, Anastasia Fadeeva and Sally McManus presented 'Gender Asymmetry in Physical Health Associations with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)' Anastasia Fadeeva and Niels Blom presented 'Injuries and Seeking Healthcare following Violence: Inequalities by Victim-Perpetrator Relationship' Vanessa Gash 'presented Hounded Out? Measuring the Effect of Workplace Violence on Women and Men's Employment Transitions' Natalia Lewis and Lizzie Cook participated in the workshop, 'Community of practice for evidence syntheses on gender-based violence: learning together to enable methodological developments and improve evidence for policy and practice.' Lizzie Cook and Sarah Dangar (VASC PhD student) presented 'Analysing sex/gender-related motives and indicators in England and Wales' Sally McManus 'presented Commercial Determinants of Health: Opportunities for domestic violence prevention from a public health framework analysis' which was written with VISION colleagues Olumide Adisa and Mark Bellis. Ruth Weir convened the symposium 'Violence and abuse in young people's intimate relationships' and presented 'ADA and its consequences: a rapid systematic review' Polina Obolenskya and Annie Bunce presented 'Too soon, too late: experience of and professional responses to abuse in teenage relationships' Annie Bunce convened the symposium, 'Exploring multiple vulnerabilities using specialist services' administrative data: Challenges, opportunities and lessons for the future' Maddy Janickyj and Leonie Tanczer presented 'Understanding Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Exploring real-life experiences through Support Services' data' Annie Bunce and Elouise Davies presented 'The role of vulnerability in the inequity of health outcomes for DVA survivors' Hannah Manzur presented 'Disclosure to Formal Agencies and Specialised Support Services among Victims of Intimate Partner Domestic Abuse: Comparing Inequality Patterns, Victim Profiles, and Harms by Disclosure', written with VISION colleagues Annie Bunce and Ravi Thiara Ladan Hashemi and Hannah Manzur presented 'Ethnic Disparities in outcomes from contact with DVA support services' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ecdv2025.com/ |
| 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 | Google Workshop in Paris |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Leonie Tanczer attended Google's Research in Online Trust & Safety (T&S) workshop in Paris this April. Google hosted 25 researchers across disciplines with expertise in T&S-related research areas. The event's goal was to bring together scholars working in siloed fields (misinformation, child safety, violent extremism, privacy, at-risk users, and more) and to share details on projects and insights across a broader T&S ecosystem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | HMIP survey data symposium. |
| 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 | Attended a symposium for users of HMIP survey data, which brought together a group of approximately 50 researchers from academia, the civil service and elsewhere to share findings from analysis of HMIP data and discuss ongoing engagement activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Home Office - NCII Workshops |
| 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 | Leonie Tanczer participated in two workshops on non-consensual intimate images (NCII) ecosystems and incentives/levers, organised by the UK Home Office. One workshop was conducted in collaboration with the Center for Humane Technology, and the other was conducted with Mostly Human. During these workshops, Leonie delivered a presentation on the challenges and strategies for addressing NCII, focusing on the role of technology platforms, legal frameworks, and victim support systems. The discussions aimed to identify effective approaches for preventing and responding to NCII, and Leonie's contributions helped to shape the ongoing work in this area. The meeting was organised by the Head of Strategy, Emerging Technology, Safety & Security Unit at the UK Home Office, fostering collaboration between various stakeholders in this field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Independent Office for Police Complaints Learning lessons magazine article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Katy Barrow-Grint and Ruth Weir wrote an article on teenage relationship abuse for the IOPC Learning Lessons magazine on VAWG. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/our-work/learning/learning-the-lessons |
| 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 | International Women's Day panel at University of Essex |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented as part of a panel on the "Harms to Women's Rights Online in the Context of the Digital Economy" at the University of Essex for international Women's Day. Aimed at human rights students (mainly postgrad) discussing tech abuse and the implications of tech on abusive situations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Interview with Policing Insight Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Katy Barrow-Grint and Ruth Weir interviewed for Policing Insight about VISION research into teenage relationship abuse |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 | Keynote at IoT Security Foundation Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The IoT Security Foundation Conference returned to London on the 23rd October 2024. This year's theme was "IoT Security: Past, Present and Future", exploring the evolution and future of securing the Internet of Things. The Gender and Tech Research Lab was present at the event, offering a presentation on "IoT Tech Abuse - Protecting At-Risk Communities". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTu7WuTXDBA&t=72s |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTu7WuTXDBA&t=72s |
| Description | Keynote at Police Foundation conference on VAWG at Cumberland Lodge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Katy Barrow-Grint presented keynote on VISION teenage relationship abuse research at VAWG conference. The audience included senior police leaders and networking resulted in future research activities being planned with senior level support. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 | Leonie Tanczer quoted in the Financial Times |
| 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 | Leonie Tanczer has been interviewed and quoted for this Financial Times article on why some homeowners and buyers are resisting the smart-home trend and choosing "dumb" homes without Internet-connected devices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://propertylistings.ft.com/propertynews/united-states/7280-why-dumbing-down-your-house-could-be... |
| Description | London's Violence Reduction Unit "Social Media and Violence Academic Roundtable" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Our grant's Policy Advisor, Jen Reed, fed into the "Social Media and Violence Academic Roundtable" organised by London's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and the London Research & Policy Partnership (LRaPP).; |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/communities-and-social-justice/londons-violence-redu... |
| 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 | Meeting and input into ONS safety during childhood survey |
| 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 engaged with ONS about the questions they were proposing for the safety during childhood survey that they would like to deliver to children and young people in schools. Feedback was given on the design and questions within the draft survey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Meeting and presentation with representatives from the Children's Commissioners office |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Representatives from the Children's Commissioners office came to present their findings around teenage relationship abuse and VISION presented our findings and we had a discussion around collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting to discuss risk assessment for children and young people with SafeLives |
| 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 | SafeLives have been commissioned by the Home Office to review domestic abuse risk assessment. Ruth Weir was invited to a meeting on risk assessment for children and young people and has now been invited for a follow up discussion on next steps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Mental Health in Context conference for policymakers and practitioners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | British Academy: Mental Health in Context conference (Sally McManus, Olumide Adisa, Anastasia Fadeeva) 10th July 2025 - highest online reach of any BA conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/5794/Conference_Programme_-_Mental_Health_in_Context.p... |
| 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 | Methodologists training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Health Survey User Conference: Health and Violence session. London, 23rd June 2025. (Sally chair, presenting: Anastasia Fadeeva, Ladan Hashemi) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/health-studies-user-conference-2025-06-23/ |
| Description | Ministerial round table on health care and the Government's VAWG strategy |
| 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 | Half day round table hosted by 3 ministers of state (Home Office, MoJ, DHSC). Gene Feder attended as a researcher and had the opportunity to discuss VISION research relevant to the health component of the VAWG strategy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Ministerial roundtable on VAWG and children and young people |
| 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 | The Children and Young People roundtable was one of series of meetings scheduled with Ministers in January and February to consult on specific policy areas to help shape the development of the strategy. Ruth Weir attended and produced a policy brief that was chaired with ministers and policy makers. She also spoke about the problems of measurement of teenage relationship abuse for under 16s |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | NZZ Format Documentary: "Vom Partner überwacht" |
| 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 | Swiss TV-Series NZZ Format recently released a 30-minute documentary examining the role of technology in gender-based violence. In the film, Dr Leonie Tanczer discusses how Internet of Things (IoT) devices can be exploited as tools for abuse, highlighting the pressing need for heightened awareness and action in digital safety. The documentary aims to inform viewers about the intersection of technology and safety. While specific outcomes or impacts have not been reported, it is anticipated that the film will stimulate discussions and increase awareness regarding digital safety and the potential misuse of IoT devices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtxp6sFHUQU |
| 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 | National working group for teenage relationship abuse and national and place-based roundtables |
| 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 | In collaboration with Gloucestershire Constabulary Deputy Chief Constable Katy Barrow-Grint we have formed the national working group for teenage relationship abuse and now have in excess of 60 members representing policy makers, practitioners, specialist services, parents and those with lived experience. We have held three national roundtables aimed at improving systematic responses to TRA. We have also held three place-based roundtables in Gloucestershire, Northumbria and Oxford. These areas are now setting up their own working groups to try and improve responses to TRA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| Description | Netzpolitik.org - mSpy 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 | Leonie Tanczer and Eva-Maria Maier, a bachelor's student affiliated with our lab, provided expert insights to German news outlets Netzpolitik and Tagesschau regarding the spyware app mSpy, as the app featured in a recent study that we published (https://petsymposium.org/popets/2025/popets-2025-0052.php). Their analysis shed light on the app's potential for misuse, including unauthorised surveillance and data breaches, highlighting significant risks of technology-facilitated abuse. This coverage raised public awareness about the ethical and privacy concerns associated with such spyware applications. a) https://netzpolitik.org/2025/mspy-leak-vom-partner-verwanzt/ b) https://netzpolitik.org/2025/mspy-leak-kundenservice-gibt-tipps-fuer-straftaten/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://netzpolitik.org/2025/mspy-leak-vom-partner-verwanzt/ |
| Description | New book & launch - Tackling Domestic Abuse & Sexual Violence: A Systems Approach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 75 people attended the special event at City St. George's University of London on Tuesday, 26 November at 5.30 pm, which explained the book. A panel of speakers from senior government, policy and practitioners' leaders shared their collective vision for systems change in tackling DASV in different systems. The event also featured poetry (spoken word) performances based on lived/living experiences of domestic abuse and as a survivor-centred response to the book's themes. Following the launch, we have recorded an increased numbers of consultancy collaborations in the use of the systemic change framework in evaluation designs. 1) Development of a theory of change for a community of practice (COP-MVS) 2) Evaluation of Culturally Informed Family Approach for working with perpetrators from Black and racialised communities - developing a systemic change evaluation framework 3) Safer Spaces national pilot strategy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/new-book-upcoming-launch-tackling-domestic-abuse-sexual-violence-a-sy... |
| Description | No More Week Conference (Silicon Saviours or Digital Threats? Exploring Tech's Impact on DASV) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented a panel on the Internet of Things and how online abuse is getting simpler. Presented the session as part of an international conference focused on ending domestic and sexual violence (5th March 2024). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Ongoing engagement with Home Office VAWG team around teenage relationship abuse |
| 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 | Several discussions with Home Office senior policy advisors around teenage relationship abuse and informing the VAWG strategy. This included discussing recommendations for around the need for conducting place-based systems mapping before making changes to the statutory age of domestic abuse, the need for analysis of trajectories of those experiencing and harming others. We invited the policymakers to speak at the third TRA roundtable. Ruth Weir was invited to a Home Office discussion on the age limit. Katy Barrow-Grint and Ruth Weir were also invited to give a Spotlight presentation to the VAWG research team in July. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/addressing-abuse-in-teenage-relationships/ |
| 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 REPHRAIN workshop (Safeguarding and Privacy Clinic) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited to and participated in a workshop run by REPHRAIN on privacy clinics, and the necessary safeguarding protocols needed to protect those running and those accessing the clinics, as well as the third sector organisations involved. There was a focus on the data of people involved in the clinics, their mental/psychological heath and their physical security/safety. Three different groups gave feedback on these topics to inform the clinics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Partitioning for Peace? Cyprus and the violence of bordering 50 years on |
| 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 | The complex international and regional politics of decolonization laid the ground for the partition of Cyprus. Since the 1950s the 'Cyprus question' has become a permanent fixture in international politics, and ever since multiple plans have been proposed for the 'solution' to the Cyprus question; those that have been implemented have failed to unify the communities and establish peace. Organised by VISION Co-Investigator Alexandria Innes, the workshop, Partitioning for Peace? Cyprus and the violence of bordering 50 years on, brought together scholars from various disciplines and paradigms (politics, international relations, history, literature, anthropology, media and communications, sociology, journalism, geography, migration studies, border studies, peace and conflict studies) to discuss new research on the past and present of the Cyprus question 50 years on from the events of 1974. Presentations were heard from academics, early career scholars, policy professionals, and practitioners working in community-based initiatives. Workshop delegates included: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office - the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Head Cyprus High Commissioner and additional representatives from the Cyprus High Commission Representative from the Greek High Commission Representative from the National Crime Agency Representatives from local authorities Representative from Chatham House |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/call-for-papers-cyprus-and-the-violence-of-bordering-50-years-on/ |
| 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 | Policing thread research with Revolving Doors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Eight workshops with those with lived experience in the criminal justice systems to co-produce research in the policing thread. There were sessions on complex patterns in police data, risk assessment, neighbourhoods, discussions on data and analysis and next steps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 | Presentation to the Violence Prevention Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | McManus presented on using England's mental health survey series to understand violence and abuse to the Violence Prevention Network, chaired by Sheena Carr DHSC, 14th May 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 | Privacy International's screening of "Preconceived" & Panel Discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On International Safe Abortion Day in 2024, Privacy International organised a screening of the documentary "Preconceived" at the Vagina Museum. The event was followed by a panel discussion featuring Leonie Tanczer. The intended purpose of the activity was to raise awareness about the intersections of technology, security, and reproductive rights, fostering informed discussions on these critical issues. While specific outcomes or impacts have not been publicly detailed, the event successfully sparked questions and discussions among attendees, highlighting the importance of integrating technological perspectives into conversations about reproductive rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://x.com/privacyint/status/1838135722131247303 |
| 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 | Radio Interview with LBC News on Cyberstalking |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Gave a 5 minute radio interview with LBC News (specifically Vanessa Bafoe) during the breakfast show. Discussed our recent paper on cyberstalking, comparisons with other forms of stalking, and the perception of these experiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Refuge Tech Safety Summit 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | UK domestic abuse charity Refuge hosted their first ever Tech Safety Summit on 24-25 September 2024, a two-day event specifically created to address rising cases of compltechnology-facilitatedted domestic abuse. Our Research Group was represented at the event, with Dr Leonie Tanczer having spoken on a panel entitled "What is Technology-Facilitated Abuse?" which featured Erica Olsen, Director at Safety Net Project, Karen Bentley, CEO of WESNET, and Emma Pickering, Head of Tech at Refuge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://refuge.org.uk/news/refuge-hosts-inaugural-tech-safety-summit-a-two-day-event-to-raise-awaren... |
| Description | Research symposium 'An update on the growing evidence base for trauma-informed approaches in health care' at a practitioner 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 | I prepared, co-chaired, and presented at research symposium 'An update on the growing evidence base for trauma-informed approaches in health care' at the practitioner conference 'Trauma-Informed Conference 2025: Examining communal healing from trauma' (6 February 2025, Oxford). 40 participants (practitioners, people with lived experience of trauma, researchers) attended, took part in discussion and Q&A session. 3 practitioners approached post-symposium for discussion and networking. Symposium slides were shared with all conference participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.traumainformedcommunityaction.org/2025-conference |
| 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 | Roundtable - community of practice for migrant victim-survivors of domestic abuse |
| 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 | The event featured practical presentations of regional charities supporting migrant victim-survivors and creative performances from by-and-for organisations. The event also shared the theory of change which has been informed by Adisa's systems change framework in VISION. The organisations that attended have reported an increased capacity for data sharing and collaboration, providing reassurance and confidence in the progress made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2025/june/roundtable-community-of-practice-fo... |
| Description | Roundtable at the Foundation for Science and Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Leonie Tanczer was invited to speak at a roundtable on the "Empowerment and Ethics at the Edge: the Benefits and Risks of Edge Technologies" at the Foundation for Science and Technology. A recording of this event is available https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2024/Empowerment-and-Ethics-at-the-Edge-the-Benefits-an Besides a write-up of the talk can be found in the FST Journal https://www.foundation.org.uk/Journal/2024/Volume-23-Issue-9 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2024/Empowerment-and-Ethics-at-the-Edge-the-Benefits-an |
| Description | Roundtable hosted by Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant in London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 14 November 2024, our group's Policy Advisor, Jen Reed, participated in a roundtable hosted by Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, in London. The event was part of the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment and Abuse, which the UK is a member of. It focused on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV). While specific outcomes of the roundtable have not been publicly disclosed, such gatherings typically aim to foster collaboration among experts, share insights, and develop strategies to address and mitigate TFGBV. These discussions often lead to enhanced awareness, improved policies, and strengthened networks to combat technology-facilitated abuse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Ruth Weir and Gene Feder invited keynote lecture at Goran Gustafsson Symposium at Uppsala University, Sweden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gene Feder and Ruth Weir gave the keynote lecture to an audience of over 800 on violence in young peoples intimate relationships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.uu.se/en/disciplinary-domain/medicine-and-pharmacy/news/archive/2025-03-31-success-for-t... |
| Description | Ruth Weir and Katy Barrow-Grint invited presentation and panel member for SAFE Conference, Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ruth Weir and Katy Barrow-Grint invited to present their research on teenage relationships abuse at the SAFE conference in Oxford and Ruth was a panel member alongside the police and crime commissioner and senior leaders from policing and the CPS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.oscp.org.uk/safe-conference-from-harm-to-healing-improving-responses-to-young-victims-of... |
| Description | Ruth Weir invited presentation with editorial board of the Journal of Sexual Aggression to the NOTA conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation with editorial board of the Journal of Sexual Aggression as part of a workshop at the NOTA conference in Belfast. Ruth Weir presented on the overlap of sexual violence and teenage relationship abuse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://nota.co.uk/notaevents/ |
| Description | SafeLives 21st birthday event at Clarence House |
| 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 representatives invited to a tea party with the queen to celebrate 21 years of the charity SafeLives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://safelives.org.uk/news-views/the-queen-receives-starfish-award-21st-birthday/ |
| 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 | Sky News Report on Stalkerware Phone Apps |
| 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 | Leonie Tanczer spoke with the Sky News team to inform their recent news story on hidden stalkware apps being installed on phones, highlighting the risks associated with such software. The discussion also covered how parental control apps are being exploited by domestic abusers to track and control victims. The segment raised awareness about the intersection of technology and abuse, sparking further public conversation on the topic and potentially influencing future reporting and policy discussions around tech-facilitated abuse. News story: https://news.sky.com/story/i-thought-id-been-microchipped-how-abusers-spy-on-partners-with-parental-control-apps-13272199 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvHrwaqfrTw |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://news.sky.com/story/i-thought-id-been-microchipped-how-abusers-spy-on-partners-with-parental-... |
| 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 | The Stylist - Smart Home Surveillance Article |
| 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 | Leonie Tanczer contributed to an article in The Stylist that examined the potential misuse of smart home devices for surveillance and control within intimate relationships. The piece explored how abusers might exploit these technologies to monitor and manipulate victims, highlighting the urgent need for protective measures. Leonie's insights underscored the risks associated with the pervasive nature of connected devices and emphasised the importance of safeguarding personal privacy. This contribution aimed to inform readers about the darker aspects of smart technology and advocate for enhanced security protocols to prevent misuse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.stylist.co.uk/long-reads/smart-home-devices-surveillance/948208 |
| Description | The UKPRP VISION Annual Conference 2025 |
| 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 | 101 delegates working violence prevention attended the one-day VISION annual conference on 3 June 2025 in the Light Auditorium in Friends House, London. The theme was: Mobilising a cross-government response to violence prevention. The conference brought together voices from across academia; the community and voluntary sector; central and local government; health, justice and welfare services; and others to discuss how to work together better to reduce violence. The Keynote Speaker was Dame Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales. She spoke about her office's work influencing domestic abuse policy and driving improvements to transform the response to domestic abuse in England and Wales. Sessions on the programme included new interdisciplinary research from the VISION consortium and its partners on: The cost of violence (presentations and Q & A) - Why costings matter, Women's Budget Group - Methodological approaches for estimating economic costs of sexual violence: a scoping review, VISION - Cost of sexual violence calculator, VISION Embedding Lived Experience in cross-government responses to violence prevention (animation launch and panel discussion) - The VISION Lived Experience animation was launched which highlighted what Lived Experience of violence and trauma is and how it is vital in violence prevention research. - An expert panel discussed the importance of working with those with Lived Experience and the challenges and successes they have been involved with. Panel discussants were from VISION, SafeLives, University of Essex, Lisa Ward Consulting, and Traumascapes. The successes and challenges working and influencing across government (presentations and Q & A) -SafeLives and Respect - Rape Crisis England & Wales - H.O.P.E. Training & Consultancy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/vision-annual-conference/ |
| Description | The UKPRP VISION LinkedIn company page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The UKPRP VISION LinkedIn page has almost 700 followers primarily those working the violence prevention field across the UK. The purpose of the page VISION is to showcase recent consortium publications, news, events and policy briefings. Many of our posts are liked and re-posted by VISION colleagues and followers. With each new publication we gain at least another follower. Comments to any posts have been positive and affirming of the research or news (e.g. a promotion, a successful grant, etc). The VISION page reflects the nuturing and respectful nature of professionalism across the LinkedIn and violence prevention communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukprp-violence-health-and-society-consortium-vision/?viewAsMember=t... |
| 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 | UK Evaluation Society webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'Engaging individuals with different needs and experiences in research: Meaningful measures, peer research and lived experience engagement' McManus, 8th July 2025 UK Evaluation Society webinar: focus on methodologists across tihrd and other sectors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://evaluation.org.uk/community-learning/evaluation-events/ |
| 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 Monthly Round-up e-newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Originally a curated monthly round-up of publications, news and events in violence prevention for the VISION consortium team, external members of the violence prevention sector (e.g. academics, third sector organisations, and central government) were interested in receiving the email as well. The readership has grown from 33 to over 150 recipients many of whom then forward it on. For example, VISION is aware that Wales Without Violence, the Home Office, and several academics forward the e-newsletter to other colleagues. It is engaging, relevant and interesting - highlighting recent VISION publications, upcoming events and news as well a compilation of important publications from the Lancet journal family and news websites (e.g. The Guardian, BBC). Others in the violence prevention community are welcome to submit their own recent publications, events, and news to be included. The monthly round-up includes and facilitates opportunities for collaboration and influence, such as highlighting consultations and grant funding applications. The Knowledge Exchange Manager has received several emails over the past year commenting on the valuable resource, how much they look forward to receiving it and how they refer back to them regularly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| Description | VISION Publications, News & Events webpage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Publications, News & Events webpage on the VISION site, is for anyone interested in violence prevention to explore our research findings. It is a comprehensive resource of VISION research and events and updated weekly. We provide easy to read and short blogs (also called 'tiles') on all our publications, policy briefings, presentations, blogs, events and news across the entire VISION research team. In 2025 we started adding recommendations to the publication and policy briefing tiles for immediate impact and relevance. Readers can search for a topic or a researcher in the easy-to-use search function at the top of the page. There are just over 100 tags attached to the tiles from abuse, cyberstalking and health to intimate partner violence, older people, and intersectionality. All VISION research from the methodological to someone's personal views on the impact of attending the 2025 annual conference as someone with Lived Experience of violence and trauma can be found. As of September 2025, there are 14 pages with 12 tiles each - that's 168 pieces of information on VISION violence prevention research for readers to easily access. The publication and policy briefing tiles have direct links to the original research. The event tiles entice readers to attend VISION events whether our annual conferences, the VISION / VASC Webinar Series, or one-off seminars and one-day conferences on such topics as teenage relationship abuse or systematic reviews. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/ |
| 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 | WDR COSMO Radio Interview |
| 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 | Leonie Tanczer was interviewed by WDR COSMO, a German public radio station, on the topic of "Location tracking among couples and friends." The interview aimed to explore the ethical and privacy concerns surrounding the use of location-tracking technology in personal relationships. The discussion sparked significant interest in the implications of such technology on privacy and trust, resonating with a broad audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www1.wdr.de/radio/cosmo/index.html |
| 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 |