Domestic/Gender Based Violence
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Blog: Delivering tailored mental health services for marginalised women
Violence against women and girls is a cause of international concern and estimates suggest that 1 in 3 women will experience physical and sexual assault in their...
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Blog: Supporting Moroccan and Arabic-speaking women in need
When the official lockdown began in March 2020, the End Violence Against Women Coalition predicted: “The Covid-19 pandemic, and the emergency measures that must be taken...
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Blog: How to sustain the difficult work to end FGM
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a violent gender inequality. Globally over 200 million women and girls have been cut. Their families and communities will give many...
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Blog: Domestic abuse - including the LGBTQ+ community
Looking back, thanks to Covid-19, the last few months have felt like a relentless succession of changes. A lockdown on an unprecedented scale has given way to an opening...
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Blog: Supporting domestic abuse victims during lockdown
Since lockdown began, I have been offering free mentoring online for young women who are suffering from domestic violence, through my abuse prevention social enterprise...
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Covid-19 Action Fund winners: domestic abuse
PageThe Covid-19 Action Fund provides grants for Churchill Fellows to run projects combatting the effects of Covid-19 in all areas of society. Hundreds of pandemic projects...
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Blog: Supporting survivors of economic abuse during Covid-19
Since the social distancing measures began, Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA), the charity I founded as a result of my Fellowship has seen a sharp rise in numbers of those...
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News: Combating domestic abuse during Covid-19
News | 15 May 2020 |In April the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee reported that, in the first weeks of lockdown, calls to a national domestic abuse helpline rose by 49% and domestic...
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Blog: Combating domestic violence through civil society
Two women are killed every week by their partner or ex-partner in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics. And the UK is not alone in this....
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Reviewing domestic homicide - international practice and perspectives
James Rowlands, a researcher and domestic violence worker from Brighton, travelled to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA to study ways of improving responses to...
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Using performing arts to support recovery from interpersonal trauma
Evelyn Sharp, a counsellor and psychotherapist, travelled to the USA to explore the use of performing arts to support psychological recovery from trauma. She will seek...
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News: Leading banks to speak at economic abuse conference hosted by Churchill Fellow
Representatives from some of the UK's biggest banks will speak at a conference on economic abuse hosted by Churchill Fellow Nicola Sharp-Jeffs’ charity Surviving...
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Blog: Housing and domestic abuse
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. An estimated 1.9 million adults experienced domestic abuse in England and Wales in 2017. It...
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Blog: Bringing the issue of economic abuse into the mainstream
At our Award Ceremony in June 2018, Nicola Sharp-Jeffs received the Pol Roger award, which is given to a Fellow who has conducted an outstanding Fellowship and generated...
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Report: Enabling health professionals to respond to domestic violence – lessons from New Zealand
Frontline health professionals must be better supported to identify and support victims of domestic violence, according to a report by nurse researcher Dr Caroline...
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No means no: How is consent taught around the world?
Kate Wyver, a freelance journalist from Balham, travelled to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and India to study approaches to teaching consent in sex education in schools.
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Blog: Supporting survivors of financial abuse
It is hard to believe that only 12 months have passed since returning from my Churchill Fellowship trip. In 2016 I travelled to the US and then Australia to learn about...
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Nicola Sharp-Jeffs' Story
Nicola Sharp-Jeffs travelled to Australia and the USA to investigate ways of supporting survivors of financial abuse.
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John Devaney’s Story
John Devaney travelled to Norway in 2012 and Canada in 2013 to study approaches to working with perpetrators of domestic violence.
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Improving health professionals' responses to domestic violence
Dr Caroline Bradbury-Jones, a Reader in Nursing from Edgbaston, travelled to New Zealand to research health professionals' responses to domestic violence.
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Supporting Survivors of Financial Abuse: Learning for the UK
Nicola Sharp-Jeffs is a research fellow working at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit in London. She travelled to Australia and the USA to investigate ways of...
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Domestic Abuse and Housing: international practice and perspectives
Gudrun Helevuo-Burnet, a senior business partner from Chertsey, travelled to North America and Australia to research international perspectives on housing and domestic...
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Service provision for children affected by domestic violence
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Finding ways to engage male perpetrators of domestic violence
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Legal & community responses to domestic violence in the Americas
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Behind The Wall: breaking barriers to supporting those subject to domestic violence
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Partnership responses to sexual violence in Australia