Our Head of School and Professor of Criminology, Professor Michele Burman and Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Dr Oona Brooks-Hay will conduct a three-year study into how institutions respond to domestic abuse, thanks to receiving EU Horizon 2020 funding.

Working within one of our School's research centres - the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) - they will work in partnership with Police Scotland to carry out the Scottish strand of the €2.9 million IMPRODOVA project.

Scotland will join Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Portugal, Hungary and Slovenia in what researchers have described as one of the most significant contributions to our understanding of domestic abuse to date.

Professor Burman welcomed the new funding: “We are delighted to join such a large consortium of European researchers to research such an important issue. With around 58,000 incidences of domestic abuse reported to Police Scotland every year we know that domestic abuse affects many people and causes considerable harm. It is therefore essential that victim-survivors have confidence in those services providing assistance to them.”

Dr Brooks-Hay said: “We plan to document police, social work, health and non-governmental organisation responses to domestic abuse and identify positive examples of best practice across Europe.

“The findings will help us produce a series of recommendations as well as new toolkits and training opportunities for frontline staff which we hope will encourage improved responses to those who have been affected by domestic abuse.”

To read more on the study visit the SCCJR website.

 

 

First published: 15 November 2018

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