WWP EN Online Events 2023
Webinar - Educational Sabotage: A form of abuse against children and youth with potentially long-term consequences
The Event
What effects does violence in the home or in an early relationship have on children's behaviour and success at school? What are behaviours and signs that teachers can watch out for? During the launch event for our expert paper “Educational Sabotage: A form of abuse against children and youth with potentially long-term consequences”, Prof. Carolina Øverlien shared insights from her research.
The Speaker
Carolina Øverlien is professor of social work at Stockholm University and lead researcher at the Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS). Professor Øverlien has researched Youth Intimate Partner Violence (YIPV) for many years and is currently leading the three-year research project 'Drawing the Line' on sexual YIPV at NKVTS, Oslo. The project focuses on young perpetrators and victims as well as the justice system and schools’ understanding and handling of this violence.
WWP EN Webinar - Community matters: Mobilising the power of bystanders against gender-based violence
The Event
Watch our webinar to gain - knowledge of the evidence base underpinning bystander intervention as a public health approach to violence prevention. - an understanding of what bystanders can do to prevent and respond to gender-based harms and tackle the root causes of violence and abuse. - a better understanding of bystanders’ barriers when deciding whether to intervene and how to overcome them
The Speaker
Dr Nathan Eisenstadt is a Senior Research Associate at University of Bristol Medical School working on domestic abuse behaviour change with a focus on men and masculinities. He is co-founder of Kindling Transformative Interventions, which designs and delivers evidence-led bystander intervention programmes in universities, communities, sports clubs and workplaces and is currently working with the Welsh Government on a national bystander intervention programme to prevent and respond to GBV. With Rachel Fenton at the University of Exeter and partners at Exeter City Football Club, Nathan co-designed and delivered a bystander intervention programme tackling GBV in football and sport which is currently being rolled out in other parts of the UK. At University of Bristol, Nathan is currently working on REPROVIDE, a pioneering randomised controlled trial of a domestic abuse perpetrator programme for men, he was lead qualitative evaluator on the Drive Project – a national pilot addressing high-risk perpetrators of domestic abuse.
