Resources and Helplines
Through our resources tab, you can find various information about trainings, other networks and research centres, radio stations, TV, podcasts, recent publications, opportunities to publish and previous webinar material.
BocaRecoveryCenter.com is a free web resource and 24/7 helpline that provides information and support to people fighting physical, emotional, or sexual abuse and addiction. To cope with the trauma, some victims turn to the use of drugs and alcohol. Our mission is to be a support resource for those coping with these issues. Please take a look at our Trauma-Informed Therapy for Substance Use Disorders resource guide. You may also be interested in the guide about the dangerous relationship between domestic violence and addiction.
Helping Survivors is an advocacy centre, whose mission is to assist anyone who has been victimized by sexual assault or abuse. Their website is a compilation of information around different instances of sexual violence. They offer resources to assist survivors and their families, and They will continuously be adding more. They recently made a guide specific to domestic violence and sexual abuse. It has tons of great info, including how to help someone who has experienced this type of abuse and warning signs to be aware of.
The Recovery Village offers information concerning domestic abuse on their website.
AVA Project can provide in house delivery for teams needing training, either online or in the future when we can be safely back in the classroom. Over the coming months they have many free webinars and interactive sessions across topics such as trauma-informed approaches, dealing with secondary trauma, supporting survivors, families and children. They also have e-learning courses which have a £15 admin fee. AVA are market leaders in training on gender based violence and abuse, with particular expertise in children & young people and multiple disadvantage.
Gender Representation in the Media is a new free online course which has been put together by colleagues in Gender Equal Media Scotland. It is an introductory 7-week course, which draws on expertise from researchers, journalists and content producers, and colleagues in the feminist and equalities sectors. There is a week specifically focused on violence, with input from Speak Out Survivors, Zero Tolerance, Rape Crisis Scotland and the Women’s Support Project. Additional content on commercial sexual exploitation sits within the week on sexualisation and body image. Other themes addressed on the course include gender monitoring, politics (where we also deal with online abuse), sport and feminist media.
Child & Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University
Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA), Durham University
LINEA Project (Learning initiative on norms, exploitation and abuse), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The International Centre, University of Bedfordshire
The Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol
Violence and Society Centre, City University
The Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence and Harm, University of Central Lancashire
Talking Research Podcast features in-depth interviews with prominent academics and researchers who study sexual violence across disciplines. The aim is to make academic knowledge and research on sexual violence accessible. Every Sunday, guests talk about their research, their findings, the process, the challenges and everything else in between. Contact: talkingresearchpodcast@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/talkingresearch https://twitter.com/talk_research
The Women’s Protection and Empowerment: IRC’s Women’s Protection and Empowerment Podcast Channel is dedicated to creating space for women and girls in humanitarian settings. The podcast showcases programming achievements, lessons learned, good practices, useful tools, and ultimately strive to foster the global movement.
Spotlight – A Podcast for the Domestic Abuse Sector is a podcast that shines a light on the issues around domestic abuse and is produced by SafeLives.
Professor Jan Jordan’s Inaugural lecture: The price of being ‘friends with Harvey’: Men, Power and Sexual Violence.
Owning it through photo-elicitation: a retrospective exploration of young people’s experiences of family violence – Janine Ewen is an aspiring criminologist based in northeast Scotland. Janine participated in a research project that explored young people’s experiences of family violence using a survey followed by an interview with photo-elicitation. She hopes by sharing her experiences of her participation that it will contribute to enhancing ideas and research practice for everyone involved. Janine Ewen's Blog.
The Homicide Abuse Learning Together (HALT) research team have published their first briefing paper based on their systematic review of the recommendations of processes for the conduct of Domestic Homicide Reviews globally as well as recommendations made for improving policy and practice responses to domestic violence and abuse.
Aref Abdulrazaq Ahmed kindly shared this new paper – Gender, (COVID-19) and health sector in Yemen; From Gender Mainstreaming into Structural Transformation – This paper presents the main gender issues that have been impacted by the implication of COVID-19 crisis on women and girls in Yemen. Read and download the paper.
The Domestic Abuse Report 2021: The Annual Audit – Women’s Aid Federation of England – The Domestic Abuse Report 2021 gives an overview of the domestic abuse support services available in England, and including provision and usage, during the financial year 2019–20, as well as an overview of the impact of Covid-19. Read Women’s Aid’s report.
Locked in abuse, locked out of safety: The pandemic experiences of migrant women – Safety4Sisters – Safety4Sisters have published a report detailing the risks faced by migrant women due to Covid-19. They call for urgent action for migrant women who are increasingly being exposed to high-risk situation with violent perpetrators. Read Safety4Sisters report.
Oona Brooks-Hay has kindly shared a publication listing Gender Based Violence research resources in Scotland. Download the paper..
Bristol University and Policy Press shared a policy briefing based on Angela Marinari’s new book, ‘Restorative Justice for Survivors of Sexual Abuse’ which gives a voice to survivors and illuminates how restorative justice processes can meet their justice needs. Marinari offers radical solutions for the development of restorative justice programs and policy initiatives. Read this blog post for more information.
Sexual and other forms of violence during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency in Kenya: Patterns of violence and impacts on women and girls authored by network members Dr Kari Davis (University of Birmingham), Dr Heather Flowe (University of Birmingham) and Jessica Woodhams (University of Birmingham) with other wonderful authors Sarah Rockowitz, Rockey James; Wangu Kanja, Catherine Kamau, Melissa Colloff, Jasmin Kauldar is available. Download the paper.
Reclaiming Voice: Minortised women and sexual violence: Key findings (March 2020) authored by network members Ravi Thiara (University of Warwick) and Sumanta Roy (Imkaan). Download the paper.
#Not Buying it! Who work closely with survivors to challenge the porn and sex trade have lots of resources available on their website.
June 2020 – Prime Minister’s Virtual Summit on Hidden Harms – Read the full report here.
Please get in touch if you have any opportunities to publish which might be of interest to our members.