Gendered Violence and Abuse Conference 2025

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 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?

Confirmed Speakers

Employer’s Initiative on Domestic Abuse

Professor Parveen Ali, University of Sheffield

Steve Russell, Chief Delivery Officer, NHS England

Responders’ Lab