Our Research
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Effects of/surviving violence Research Review
Research into the extent and nature of financial abuse within intimate relationships
The aim of this review, conducted by Nicola Sharp, Research Fellow at the Child and Woman Studies Unit, was to summarise what research and policy tells us about financial abuse and the ways in which it is used by abusive men to exert coercive control over/limit the options
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Study on the gender dimension of trafficking in human beings
CWASU director Professor Liz Kelly contributed the following milestones in this project funded by the European Commission Review of literature on the Nordic model of demand reduction by criminalising the purchase of sex Contribution to the Case study of Nordic model as best practice, which included research in Sweden
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Hidden Depths – a detailed study of rape crisis data
Prof Liz Kelly & Joanna Lovett from The Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit and Rape Crisis England and Wales will be presenting the research findings from this 2-year ESRC-funded partnership project on data gathered by Rape Crisis Centres in England at LondonMet on 30th November.
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Young people and sexual exploitation research messages workshops
CWASU Deputy Director Dr Maddy Coy headed the delivery of several workshops from November 2014 to date, for Research in Practice
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Violence Against Women
Mapping support services for women victims of gender based violence
– Preparation of guidelines to conduct country-level studies to map support services for women victims of gender-based violence in Albania, Bosnia and Herzagovenia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia and Turkey. – An assessment tool for governments to benchmark their provision of support services for women victims of gender-based
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Training
Training on support services for women and girls subjected to gender based violence
CWASU’s Senior Research Fellow Joanna Lovett was commissioned by UN Women (the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women), to conduct a training on the methodology of a country assessment on support services for women and girls subjected to gender-based violence.
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Evaluation of a new service to tackle violence against women and girls in London’s Albanian-speaking community
Details coming soon
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Safe choices – Reaching Communities project
Further details coming soon
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Cultural Encounters in Intervention against violence (CEINAV)
This project takes a dual approach to cultural encounters as they play out in ethics, justice and citizenship through a focus on the production of fundamental rights of women and children
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A study exploring how young people understand consent to sexual activity
This research project was designed to inform the Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups (CSEGG). The purpose of the research and the Inquiry it informed, was to promote children’s rights to protection from sexual exploitation in accordance with the UN Convention of