Our Research
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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
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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.