Our Research
118 results found.
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Effects of/surviving violence Evaluation Violence Against Women
Weaving the Web project evaluation
CWASU has been commissioned to provide an external evaluation service to Rape Crisis England & Wales' (RCEW) Weaving the Web project delivery
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Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Evaluation Support Projects
Big Lottery Fund – Women and Girls Initiative
CWASU will be continuing their Big Lottery funded work on Women and Girls Initiative (WGI), in partnership with The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and DMSS Research, to deliver evaluation and learning support to the 63 projects funded by the Big Lottery Fund to support and empower women and girls facing violence, abuse, exploitation and mental health issues
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation
Barnardo’s Centre of Expertise
Barnardo’s was awarded a grant by the Home Office to set up a new national Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse and Child Sexual Exploitation for England and Wales that will act as a focal point for identifying, generating and sharing high quality evidence
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation
Rapid evidence assessment: social & political discourses about child sexual abuse
The research team at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse was seeking a Rapid Assessment (REA) that should identify, review and synthesise existing high quality literature on the social and political discourses about child SA in England and Wales from the 1940’s to the present day and should also
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Evaluation
First contact sexual violence navigators: women & girls Big Lottery project
CWASU researchers will be working with The Essex Rape Crisis Partnership (ERCP) comprising of South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre (SERICC) (lead partner) Southend Rape Crisis Centre (SOSRC), and Mid & North Essex Centre for Action on Rape and Abuse (CARA) to deliver this project funded by the Big
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Europe Young People
Developing bystander responses to sexual harassment among young people
In this project, developed in Portugal (FPCEUP / UMAR), Slovenia (Peace Institute), United Kingdom (CWASU, London Met), Malta (University of Malta - MT) the researchers will develop, pilot, implement, and evaluate a school-based programme for bystanders to prevent sexual harrassment in high-schools.
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Domestic Violence
Domestic Homicide Reviews
Nicola Sharp-Jeffs and Liz Kelly from CWASU worked with Standing Together Against Domestic Violence to analyse the Domestic Homicide Reports of 32 reviews chaired by their associates. Six thematic areas arose: § Victim/perpetrator contact with General Practitioners (GPs) § Mental health § Safeguarding adults
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The role of self-defence in the prevention of violence against women
CWASU Director Prof Liz Kelly and Research Fellow Nicola Sharp-Jeffs have been commissioned by the Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs to conduct an in-depth analysis on the role of self-defence in the prevention of violence against women. The project has been requested by the Committee on Women’s
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Trafficking
Trafficking: Study on the gender dimension of trafficking in human beings
CWASU was one of 12 European colleagues, with Lancaster University as lead, conducting the above study, which demonstrated that 96% of those trafficked for sexual exploitation are female whereas 74% of those trafficked for labour exploitation are male. This research, prepared under a contract with the European Commission, was published and
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Evaluation Support Projects
Learning and Evaluation Scoping Support for Women and Girls Initiative (WGI)
Women and girls initiative - Empowering women and girls to take control of their lives