How do Children who live with domestic violence view, experience and understand the idea of home?

众所周知，家庭暴力对儿童有负面影响，无论他们自己是否受到直接伤害。我的博士研究重点是家庭暴力如何影响孩子们如何看待，体验和理解家庭的想法，研究着眼于直接和长期的影响。该奖学金的目的是在已完成的研究的基础上再接再厉，以不同的方式和通过不同的媒介分享研究成果，与其他组织和学者建立联系，并进行一些额外的研究，包括研究新冠肺炎的影响。这项研究涉及分别与从事住房和家庭暴力服务的专业人员进行访谈。这项研究还涉及到与那些在儿童时期遭受家庭暴力的成年人交谈。研究的全部重点是家庭暴力如何影响家庭成员，特别是儿童的真实的和想象的想法和经历。所有研究都是通过家庭的透镜进行的，这为了解儿童在家庭暴力环境中的日常生活做出了独特的贡献。这种日常的理解突出了家庭暴力对儿童影响的更隐蔽的因素，即强制控制。与儿童的韧性和代理有关的一些研究结果与以前的研究重叠（Callaghan et al，2017，Callaghan et al，2018：Katz，2016），因为儿童不仅是家庭暴力的被动见证者，而且通过采取行动或选择不采取行动，成为自己生活中的积极参与者。这项研究已经能够为这些想法增加层次，通过观察，有时儿童的行为，由于缺乏行动的成年人，这意味着他们“必须”做一些事情来保护自己或他人的安全。这是由于研究对家庭的独特关注而发现的。这项研究表明，家庭暴力如何干扰，有时甚至破坏任何被认为是积极的家庭现实或概念。研究表明，在情况结束很长一段时间后，经历如何继续给“家”增添色彩。这项研究还表明，福利和住房政策如何在这些问题发生时加剧这些问题，而且从长远来看也是如此。这项研究热衷于证明福利和住房政策之间的理想联系（Clapham，2005年，2010年）最近的《家庭虐待法案》（2021年）将承认遭受家庭暴力的儿童本身就是受害者。这一点受到许多组织和学者的欢迎和呼吁。鉴于这一事态发展，研究金可对有关儿童经历的知识的增长作出一些重要贡献。除了分享我的博士研究奖学金还将通过进一步的研究产生新的知识，其中包括社交媒体活动，邀请有关家庭的视觉和书面评论，儿童艺术项目，以及与最近逃离家庭暴力的成年妇女的进一步对话。这一进一步研究将有助于嵌入调查结果，并纳入，即使是在很小的程度上，大流行病的影响，这是不能完全忽略的，使研究保持其相关性。奖学金将提供宝贵的职业发展机会，其中许多机会由于新冠病毒限制的影响而错过，这意味着我的孩子（3岁和8岁）在大流行期间一直全职在家。这些机会包括使我能够在基于研究的学术期刊上发表高质量文章方面建立良好的记录;深化和扩大我在学术界，实践和政策方面的网络;以及提高我在研究和教学方面的经验和技能。

Domestic Violence is known to have a negative impact on children, regardless of whether they have been directly hurt themselves. My PhD research focusses on the how living with domestic violence effects how children view, experience and understand the idea of home and the research looks at both immediate and long term impacts. The aim of the Fellowship will be to build on the research completed by sharing it in different ways and through different mediums, making links with other organisations and academics, and doing some additional research which includes looking at the impact of covid. The research involved interviews with professionals working in housing and domestic violence services respectively. The research also involved talking to adults who had lived with domestic violence as children. The whole focus of the research centred on how domestic violence effects the real and imagined ideas of home people, and especially children, think of and experience. All of the research was carried out through the lens of the home and that has created a unique contribution to knowledge about how children live, day to day in circumstances of domestic violence. This day-to-day understanding has highlighted more insidious elements of the effects of domestic violence on children, namely coercive control. Some of the findings in relation to children's resilience and agency have overlapped with previous research (Callaghan et al, 2017, Callaghan et al, 2018: Katz, 2016) in that children have been shown to not just be passive witnesses to domestic violence but are active players in their own lives by taking action or choosing not to. This research has been able to add layers to these ideas, by observing that sometimes children act, as a result of lack of action by adults, meaning they 'have' to do something to keep themselves or somebody else safe. This has been uncovered as a result of the research's unique focus on home. This research has shown how domestic violence can interfere with, and sometimes devastate any reality or concept of home, that is recognised as positive. The research shows how experiences continue to colour 'home' long after the situation has ended. The research also demonstrates how policies regarding welfare and housing can exacerbate these problems when they are happening, but also in the longer term. This research is keen to demonstrate desired links between well-being and housing policy (Clapham, 2005, 2010)The recent Domestic Abuse Bill (2021) is set to recognise children who live with domestic violence as victims in their own right. This is welcomed and has been called for by a number of organisations and academics. In light of this development, the fellowship could make some important contributions to the growing body of knowledge about children's experiences. As well as sharing my PhD research the fellowship will also generate new knowledge through further research which will include a social media campaign inviting visual and written comments about home, a children's art project, and further conversations with adult women with children, who have recently fled domestic violence. This further research will help to embed the findings and also incorporate, even in a small way, the impact of the pandemic, which cannot be completely omitted, for the research to retain its relevance. The fellowship will provide invaluable career development opportunities, many of which have been missed due to the impact of covid restrictions which has meant that my children (3yr old and 8 yr old) have been at home full time for much of the pandemic. These opportunities include enabling me to establish a track record in the publication of high-quality articles for academic journals based on the research; the deepening and broadening of my networks within academia, practice, and policy; and the advancement of my experience and skills in research and teaching.