Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence and Harm

Description

In the Connect Research Centre, members do research to influence change and to prevent and reduce all forms of sexual, gender-based and interpersonal violence against adults, children and young people. The Centre is called ‘Connect’ because its members are making connections between:

• Responding to overlapping forms of violence and violence experienced at different stages of life, such as gendered violence to adults and violence, abuse and neglect of children
• How violence is understood and responded to across different areas of knowledge and practice, such as social work, criminal justice, health, education, the voluntary sector
• Understanding and preventing violence across different relationships, countries, settings, communities, cultural and political contexts
• Research, policy and practice

The Centre’s research is policy and practice focused and often collaborative, working with other researchers and organisations both in the UK and internationally. Members also provide a specialist environment for PhD and postgraduate research training; consultancy; a forum and opportunities for cross disciplinary and international networking, debate and collective influencing through the Connect Members Network; and support activities for knowledge exchange and the use of research to influence change.

Expertise and Subject Areas are:

• Child protection
• Domestic violence and abuse
• Forced marriage
• Gendered violence
• Ethnicity, citizenship and violence
• Sexual exploitation and sexual abuse
• Trafficking
• Polyvictimisation
• Suicide and self harm
• Cross national/international perspectives
• Perpetrators
• Violent children
• Violence prevention
• Prevalence and impact of victimisation
• Children’s participation
• Multi-agency working
• New technologies
• Abuse in young people’s intimate partner relationships
• Child advocacy
• Domestic abuse and adult safeguarding

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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University of Central Lancashire
Preston