‘We take sexual violence extremely seriously’: Why should universities care about sexual violence?
Harriet Smailes – Postgraduate Researcher [Content warning: sexual violence – university and local support services: https://reportandsupport.le.ac.uk/support/category/resources] … It has not been uncommon for universities to show their commitment to tackling sexual violence with a statement espousing their understanding of the seriousness of the matter. However, there has been significant doubt cast over these claims in […]
How do we put the ‘Public Health’ into Violence Reduction?
Matt Hopkins – Associate Professor and Violence Hub Lead, Centre for Hate Studies Public health approaches to violence reduction are very much in vogue. Although the notion of taking a public health approach to tackling violence is nothing new, it has only fairy recently been spoken about within British crime prevention circles. Credit for this […]
Nothing About Me, Without Me
Emma Sleath – Head of School Millie Gant, Head of Delivery – Violence Reduction Network @milliegant1 @VR_Network The involvement of patients in the way in which research, practice, and policy is developed has significantly increased in recent times, particularly within health contexts. In other fields, growth in the use of patient involvement, or more commonly […]