Issue
02 May
2014 Centre Connect FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ON
INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE AND HARM
WELCOME TO MEMBERS OF THE CONNECT INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK ON INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
This is our second newsletter to update on our recent events and activities. Since our last newsletter we are delighted to report a steady growth in our membership with new contacts here in the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to col-leagues in Finland. We are keen to hear about any new cam-paigns, major new research initiatives and opportunities for collaborations, and the best research you have recently read and we can include in our newsletter. . Please send to: [email protected]
Lorraine Radford (far right) at the
North Wales Safeguarding Children
Board Annual Conference. Photo-
graph: Paula Hardy CEO Welsh
Women’s Aid, Gerallt Evans, District
Chief Crown Prosecutor & Legal
Performance Manager Crown Pros-
ecution Service, Lesley Griffiths, AM,
Minister for Local Government, Jen-
ny Williams Director of Social Ser-
vices Conwy and Professor Lorraine
Radford.
Recent Events
Inspirational Woman!
On International Women's Day, 8th
March 2014, Connect PhD student
Kelly Anne Bracewell was recognised
with an 'Inspirational Woman Award'
by Lancashire's Police and Crime
Commissioner for her dedication to
domestic violence services and her
assistance provided to Lancashire
County Council in consulting with
young people about domestic vio-
lence campaigns.
New Research Professor Nicky Stanley has started work on two new projects:
ESMI is a programme of research examining the effectiveness and cost
effectiveness of perinatal mental health services. This five year pro-
gramme funded by the National Institute for Health Research is led by
Professor Louise Howard at King's College London and Nicky will be
working with her and the ESMI team on a qualitative study of women's
views and experiences of perinatal mental health care and on a study ex-
amining the effectiveness of services for women with severe mental disor-
ders.
Nicky is also collaborating with Pro-
fessor Cathy Humphreys at the Uni-
versity of Melbourne on her new
study addressing Fathering and Do-
mestic Violence which is funded by
the Australian Research Coun-
cil. The research will be run in part-
nership with a range of organisa-
tions in Victoria, South Australia and
Western Australia.
Selected Recent Publications
Radford, L. Corral, S. Bradley, C. & Fisher, H. (2014) La
victimisation, la polyvictimisation et la délinquance chez
les enfants et les jeunes adultes au Royaume-Uni Revue
Criminologie Vol 47, No 1 pp59-83.
James, A. Smith, P. & Radford, L. (2014) Becoming
grown-ups: a qualitative study of the experiences of peer
mentors, Pastoral Care in Education: An International
Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development,
DOI: 10.1080/02643944.2014.893008 http://
dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2014.893008
Radford, L. (2014) ‘Domestic Violence’ in Oxford Bibli-
ographies in Childhood Studies. Ed. Heather Montgomery.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Radford, L. (2013) Child protection and confidentiality :
surveying children’s experiences of violence, abuse and ne-
glect in Graham, A.,Powell, M., Taylor, N., Anderson, D.
& Fitzgerald,R. Ethical Research Involving Children. Flor-
ence: UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti : 156-159.
Forthcoming International Events & Con-
ference Contributions. We are attending the
following events if anyone want to make contact:
Khatidja Chantler ‘Understanding Forced Mar-
riage’ Society for Research into Higher Educa-
tion, London, May 8th 2014.
Melanie McCarry ‘Risk, Resilience and Prevention:
Rethinking Violence and Abuse in Young People’s
Intimate Relationships’ International Family Vio-
lence and Child Victimization Research Confer-
ence, New Hampshire, July 13-15th 2014.
Lorraine Radford - Opening address, Global
Meeting on Violence against Children: ‘From Re-
search to Action: Advancing Prevention and Re-
sponse to Violence against Children' Mbabane,
Swaziland, Govt of Swaziland/ Together for Girls/
UNICEF, May 28-30th 2014.
Lorraine Radford –‘Sexual Offences Indaba’ 36
Degrees Against Sexual Offences, Johannesburg,
South Africa, June 24-27th 2014.
Lorraine Radford - Discussant at symposium on
Advancing the science of well-being: ‘Conceptual
and measurement strategies for diverse commu-
nities and contexts’ International Congress of
Applied Psychology, Paris, July 8 -11th 2014.
Lorraine Radford ‘Domestic Violence, Coercive
Control and ‘Risky Parenting’ XVIII ISA World
Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 13-
19th 2014.
Nicky Stanley XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociol-
ogy, Yokohama, Japan, July 13-19th 2014.
Recent Events & Conference Contributions Prof. Radford - World Health Organization, 6th Mile-
stones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention
meeting, Mexico.
Prof Radford - the Sexual Violence Research Initiative
Global Conference In Bangkok, Thailand.
Nicky Stanley ‘Impact of Domestic Violence on Chil-
dren’ Magistrates in the Family Court, Preston, 28th
April 2014.
Nicky Stanley ‘Service response to children experienc-
ing domestic violence’ Coventry LSCB conference. 1st
May 2014.
Behind Closed Doors, Belfast, 2014. Professor Nicky Stanley (fourth from right) delighted to give keynote address.
New PhD Students Connect welcomes the addition of new PhD
Students:
Lynda Shental working on Violence
Against Women and HIV. Dr Chantler,
DoS.
Valerie Wise working on Evaluation of
domestic violence interventions to re-
duce trauma and aid psychological re-
covery. Dr McCarry, DoS. Victoria Baker working on Child to Par-
ent violence. Prof Radford, DoS.
Guest Seminars
Thangham Debbonaire
‘Domestic Violence and the Political Agenda:
looking back and looking forward’
National Research Manager at Respect, the UK or-
ganisation for work with domestic violence perpetra-
tors and with male victims. Thangham has 25 years of
experience at local, national and international levels
of working to end domestic violence and other gen-
der-based violence and to promote gender equality.
Wednesday 25th June 4-5.30pm. Brook
Room 8, UCLan, Preston.
Book a place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/domestic-
violence-and-the-political-agenda-looking-back-looking-
forward-tickets-11461149607
Dr Christine Barter
‘Online and offline forms of intimate partner
violence in young people’s relationships: Ini-
tial findings from the first European survey’ NSPCC Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol.
Christine has published widely on a range of chil-
dren's welfare issues. Christine’s most recent work
has focused on the issue of peer violence including
violence in teenage relationships, undertaking the
first UK wide study in this area. Her work has attract-
ed substantial media, policy and practice attention.
Wednesday 2nd July 4-5.30pm. Brook Room
447, UCLan, Preston.
Book a place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/
connect-centre-seminar-online-offline-forms-of-
intimate-partner-violence-tickets-11568308121
Both events are free and all welcome to attend
but places are limited so please book early. If you want to join our Connect Network contact Lorraine Radford for further details. Member-ship is free and open to all who share our values and interests in doing and using research to end interpersonal violence. Connect welcomes appli-cations for researchers in the UK and overseas interested in postgraduate study for MPhil or PhDs in the area of interpersonal violence. To talk informally about the benefits of PhD study at Connect contact Lorraine Radford [email protected]
TWITTER: ConnectCentre@UCLan Email [email protected] to be added or removed from the list.
Further Details and Information
FUNDED RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS
The Connect Centre is delighted to announce an exiting new partnership with the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and funded by the British Council. An International Workshop is to be held in March 2015 at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa led by Ingrid Palmary, African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, and Nicky Stanley, Connect Centre. This workshop will bring together about 40 researchers from across the UK and South Africa to identify differences and commonalities in the conditions informing violence to women and children in the two countries. This New Researcher Seminar Series will fund up to 20 early career researchers to travel to South Africa. We will shortly announce a call for abstracts.
abstract submissions to be sent to Dr Khatidja Chantler [email protected].
**NEW RESEARCH REPORT**
Vashti Berry, Nicky Stanley, Lorraine Radford, Melanie
McCarry and Cath Larkins (2014) Building Effective Re-
sponses: An Independent Review of Violence against
Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Services in
Wales. Welsh Government Social Research.
Guest Visitors
We are delighted to be hosting Younis Arbaoui,
Research Fellow, from Vrije University, Amsterdam.
Younous is working alongside Dr. Khatidja Chantler
on issues of forced marriage and asylum. He will be
at Uclan from April to the end of June 2014. Younis is
giving a seminar presentation on Wednesday 4th
June, 12-1pm, room HA226, Harrington Building,
Preston. Book a place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/
connect-centre-seminar-the-myth-of-fraudulent-
parenthood-tickets-11504396961