Author Archives: Helen Walker

Professor Evan Stark public lecture

From domestic violence to coercive control: Reframing partner abuse as a public health problem

Professor Stark codirected the Yale Trauma Studies with Professor Anne Flitcraft, conducting path-breaking research that was the first to document the significance of domestic violence for … read more

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World renowned expert speaks at CRFR conference

Professor Evan Stark, author of Coercive Control: how men entrap women in personal life, and Leverhulme Trust-funded visitor to CRFR is speaking at the annual conference of the Gender-Based Violence research network today.

This one day event is bringing … read more

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New briefing: domestic abuse and gender inequality

Domestic abuse is both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality.

Understanding gender as the central factor in domestic abuse enables us to develop services sensitive to the differing needs of individuals affected by domestic abuse. Assumptions that men … read more

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CRFR co-director Jeni Harden on Radio 4’s The Slow Coach

CRFR features in Radio 4’s The Slow Coach: busy health visitor Lizzie is advised to talk to CRFR co-director Jeni Harden about time and family life. Listen again to Jeni talking about her research, 13 minutes in http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038c0dt

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Women separating risk poverty in old age to retain family home

Women separating are foregoing their share of pension schemes to secure the family home, new research has found.

Researchers found that parties with private pensions were reluctant to disclose the value of their pension/s or to include these in the … read more

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