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: lradford@uclan.ac.uk

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 lradford@uclan.ac.uk

TWITTER: ConnectCentre@UCLan Email lradford@uclan.ac.uk 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 KChantle@uclan.ac.uk.

**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