East Midlands Partnership On violence against WomEn and giRls (EMPOWER)

东米德兰兹关于暴力侵害妇女和女孩行为的伙伴关系 (EMPOWER)

• 批准号: ES/X002985/1
• 负责人: Emma Sleath
• 金额: $ 5.11万
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX002985%2F1
• 关键词: East; Midlands; Partnership; violence; against

Specific crimes that occur in our society are experienced disproportionately by women and girls, including crimes such as rape, domestic violence and homicide. We need effective, specific, and targeted solutions to address this violence against women and girls (VAWG). Solutions should recognise that these crimes are complex and involve intersecting and overlapping issues that cannot be effectively addressed by a single agency e.g., the police. The University of Leicester recognises its responsibility as a civic university to support its local communities to aid in the development of these solutions. The East Midlands Partnership On violence against WomEn and giRls (EMPOWER) will achieve this by drawing together agencies spanning criminal justice, health/forensic, local authorities, third sector/voluntary and survivors of VAWG, to develop a research strategy that will identify and unpick the key pillars of work needed to address VAWG in the East Midlands region. A key ethos to the project is the emphasis on co-design and co-production by all involved partners. What this means in practice, is that partners work together to identify the main challenges, questions and issues that affect their practice, supported by the expertise of academics from the University of Leicester. This engenders a shared vision for the partnership in working together to develop strategies that address these challenges, rather than privileging a view from one source (e.g., academia). Therefore, the outcomes from this project will be grounded in real world issues and relevant to those agencies that work to tackle VAWG, both regionally and more nationally.The work of the partnership will be delivered across a 9-month time period. Through a series of five themed workshops that will bring together key policing and multi-agency partners, core area(s) relevant to a range of topics (e.g., sexual violence, domestic violence, human trafficking) will be identified through discovery and co-creation methods. Following each workshop, a phase of Themed research activity, actioned through embedded researcher placements and postgraduate placements will provide preliminary answers to these core area(s) and unpack any issues that were identified from the workshop. Outputs from these phases will include short evidence briefings of findings drawn from this piloting/scoping work. At the conclusion of the thematic workshops and the subsequent Themed research activity phases, the project will move into a synthesis phase where the objective is to draw together and distil the learnings gained from these activities. A synthesis workshop with the partners will focus this work into developing two key outputs from the project: (i) a co-created research strategy that identifies the key priorities required to address VAWG in the East Midlands and (ii) a sustainability plan that outlines a detailed set of activities and research application plans for achieving future funding to deliver this research strategy. EMPOWER and the outputs it will produce are a critical opportunity to develop a structured and targeted plan for effectively intervening in VAWG in the East Midlands region, with opportunities to inform practice nationally. We know that experiencing violence has devastating impacts on women and girls, with ripple effects across their families, communities, and broader society. Domestic violence alone is estimated to have economic and social costs that exceed £66 billion each year (Oliver at al., 2019). EMPOWER represents a partnership of passionate and committed academics, practitioners, and survivors, who are ultimately dedicated to reducing the occurrence of VAWG in our society, and subsequently improving the lives of women and girls.

妇女和女孩经历的社会中发生的具体犯罪，包括强奸、家庭暴力和杀人等犯罪，比例过高。我们需要有效、具体和有针对性的解决方案来解决对妇女和女童的暴力行为。解决方案应认识到这些犯罪是复杂的，涉及交叉和重叠的问题，无法由单一机构有效解决，例如，警察莱斯特大学认识到其作为一所公民大学的责任，以支持当地社区，以帮助这些解决方案的发展。为了实现这一目标，东米德兰兹郡暴力侵害妇女和女童问题伙伴关系将把刑事司法、卫生/法医、地方当局、第三部门/志愿人员和暴力侵害妇女和女童行为幸存者等机构聚集在一起，制定一项研究战略，确定并挑选出解决东米德兰兹郡暴力侵害妇女和女童问题所需的主要工作支柱。该项目的一个关键精神是强调所有参与合作伙伴的共同设计和共同生产。这在实践中意味着什么，是合作伙伴共同努力，以确定影响其实践的主要挑战，问题和问题，由莱斯特大学学者的专业知识支持。这就产生了伙伴关系的共同愿景，共同努力制定应对这些挑战的战略，而不是从一个来源（例如，学术界）。因此，这一项目的成果将以真实的世界问题为基础，并与区域和国家一级致力于解决对妇女和女童的暴力问题的机构相关，伙伴关系的工作将在9个月的时间内完成。通过一系列五个主题的讲习班，将主要的警务和多机构伙伴聚集在一起，讨论与一系列专题有关的核心领域（例如，性暴力、家庭暴力、人口贩运）将通过发现和共同创造方法加以确定。在每个研讨会之后，通过嵌入式研究人员安置和研究生安置开展的主题研究活动的一个阶段将为这些核心领域提供初步答案，并解开从研讨会中发现的任何问题。这些阶段的产出将包括关于从试点/范围界定工作中得出的结论的简短证据简报。在专题研讨会和随后的专题研究活动阶段结束时，该项目将进入综合阶段，其目标是汇集和推广从这些活动中获得的经验教训。与合作伙伴举行的综合研讨会将把这项工作的重点放在开发该项目的两个关键成果上：（i）共同制定的研究战略，确定解决东米德兰兹地区对妇女和女童的暴力行为所需的关键优先事项;（ii）可持续发展计划，概述了一系列详细的活动和研究申请计划，以获得未来的资金来实现这一研究战略。“增强妇女权能”方案及其产出是一个重要机会，可借以制定一项结构化和有针对性的计划，有效干预东米德兰兹地区对妇女和女童的暴力行为，并有机会为全国的实践提供信息。我们知道，经历暴力对妇女和女孩产生毁灭性影响，并在其家庭、社区和更广泛的社会产生涟漪反应。据估计，仅家庭暴力一项，每年的经济和社会成本就超过660亿英镑（奥利弗等人，2019年）。增强权能组织代表了充满激情和坚定的学者、从业者和幸存者的伙伴关系，他们最终致力于减少我们社会中对妇女和女童的暴力行为，并随后改善妇女和女童的生活。