Changing Public and Professional perceptions of Gendered Violence and Abuse through research and policy implementation
Hosted by Northumbria University's Gendered Violence and Abuse Interdisciplinary Research Theme.
This interdisciplinary conference will focus on how to
overcome the challenges and complexities of changing public and professional
perceptions of gendered violence and abuse.
The topic is complex and multifaceted, influenced by
cultural, social, and economic factors. Despite a growing awareness and concern
about gendered violence and abuse, changing public and professional perceptions
that lead to better outcomes for victim-survivors remains slow.
This one-day in-person conference will focus on how research and
organisational policies on gendered violence and abuse are, and can be, used to
bring about changes to practice, delivering better outcomes for
victim-survivors.
It will explore the complex relationships between research,
policy and practice and will address in relation to gendered violence and abuse
questions such as:
- How can academic research and organisational policies
effect change in professional practice?
- How can policy-makers, practitioners and researchers
collaborate to increase public and professional awareness of gendered
violence and abuse in order to prevent and reduce it?
- What kinds of strategies are needed to implement change
that is capable of ending gender-based violence?
PROGRAMME
09:30 Welcome (Rima Hussein/Angelika Strohmayer, Gendered
Violence and Abuse IDRT Leads)
09:45-10:15 Keynote: Ayesha Fordham, Employers’ Initiative on Domestic
Abuse
10.15-10:25 Q and A (Chair: Sarah Ralph-Lane)
10:25-10.55 Keynote: Professor Parveen Ali, Professor of Nursing and Gender Based Violence with a
joint position at the University of Sheffield and Doncaster & Bassetlaw
Teaching Hospitals (DBTH).
10.55-11:05 Q and A (Chair: Claire Bessant)
11.05 -11.20 Refreshment break
11:20-11:50 Keynote: Steve Russell and Catherine
Hinwood, NHS England: Domestic Abuse and
Sexual Violence Programme Director - NHS sexual safety charter
11:50-12:00 Q and A (Chair: Claire Dosdale)
12:00-12.30 Responders Lab
(Australian initiative)
12.30 – 12:40 Q and A – (Chair: Kayliegh Richardson)
12.40 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Workie Ticket Theatre
Company and JoJo Kirtley
GDVA IDRT seed corn funded
projects 2023-4
14:30 – 14:45 Paper 1 - ‘The
Wrong Type’ – Kayliegh Richardson and Rima Hussein
14:45 – 15:00 Paper 2 - ‘Unravelling the
anti-feminist backlash of young men to gendered violence and abuse’ Cassandra
Jones
15.00 – 15.10 Refreshment break
15:10 – 15:25 Paper 3 - ‘Harmful sexual behaviours in intimate relationships’
Connor Leslie/Amy Newman
15:25 –
15:40 Paper 4 - ‘#WomenSpatialActivism’ – Jiayi (Jennifer) Jin and Lucy
Grimshaw
15:40 - 15:55 Q and A (Chair:
Amanda McBride)
15:55 - 16:15 Closing
remarks (Rima Hussein/Angelika Strohmayer)
This event is supported by Northumbria
University's Gendered Violence and Abuse Interdisciplinary Research Theme and the Faculty of Business and Law
Click here to download the conference Programme
