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Sexual Harassment Training
Staff training – Sexual Assault Services Centre, Victoria
This training, led and delivered by Professor Fiona Vera Gray, is being delivered each year for the last three years at the Sexual Assault Services Centre, based in Victoria, Australia. This is part of a programme delivered by the Sexual Assault Services Victoria (https://www.sasvic.org.au) and drains on the content
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Pornography
The ethos and roots of the rape crisis movement in Ireland
The history of Rape Crisis movement globally is significantly under-recorded, with many centres and services rightly focusing on sustainability and service delivery over documenting original working practices and ethos of the movement. There has been little published work across academic, policy, and practitioner fields focused on mapping how the movement/s have developed over
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Domestic Abuse Perpetrators
Establishing standards for stalking and domestic abuse perpetrator interventions (2nd Edition)
This piece of work was commissioned by the Home Office to develop a set of overarching principles and a national standards framework for the safe and effective provision of interventions for perpetrators of domestic abuse and perpetrators of stalking in England and Wales. It extends, updates, and therefore replaces the
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Perpetrators
Stalking Risk research
Towards a systems change response to stalking in policing: an engagement with the tangle of typologies, risk and risk assessment This project was commissioned by the Home Office to develop a new model for assessing risk in stalking offenders. The project aimed to: assess existing academic and practice-based evidence on stalking perpetration; assess
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Sexual Harassment
Non contact sexual offences
Research from CWASU and Durham University shows how non-contact sexual offences are shaping women’s lives and limiting their freedom. Commissioned by the College of Policing to inform new training and guidance for all police forces in England and Wales, the research conducted by Professor Fiona Vera-Gray and Professor Clare Mcglynn presents
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Domestic Abuse
Project Bright Light
Project Bright Light, which took place between January and May 2025, aimed to lay the foundation for radically improving the police response to domestic abuse. It applied the ‘six Pillar’ methodological approach established by Operation Soteria. This involved close police-academic co-production to collect, analyse and interpret a range of data
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Domestic Abuse Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Evaluation Violence Against Women
Living at the edge
In May 2021, the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) were commissioned by Southall Black Sisters to produce an evaluation of the Home Office’s Support for Migrant Victims pilot programme (SMV pilot) and to document the experiences and support needs of migrant victim-survivors of domestic abuse, particularly foregrounding the
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Evaluation Harassment Perpetrators Protection Sexual Harassment Violence Against Women
Surviving Economic Abuse – Evaluation
This evaluation for SEA (Surviving Economic Abuse) will seek to understand the impact of SEA’s financial services influencing work atthree levels. Individual change: Changes in access to justice for victim survivors of domestic abuse.
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Evaluation Violence Against Women
RESET Evaluation
Evaluation for the London Borough of Waltham Forest VAWG Service of a community-based early intervention response to VAWG in the Borough. Project team: Dr Fiona Vera-Gray (PI) Prof Liz Kelly Dr Maria Garner For further information email: cwasu@londonmet.ac.uk
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Trade Union Congress Training
This high-quality training for TUC will be rooted in: understanding what sexism and misogyny (and other forms of discrimination) are,and how they manifest Understanding the processes of attitude change and behaviour change concerningsexism, misogyny
