European Conference on Domestic Violence
Catherine Donovan is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Sociology Department at Durham University. She has researched the intimate and family lives of lesbians, gay men, bisexual women, and men, and, more recently trans+ folk for over twenty years. For most of that time her focus has been on their victimisation through, and perpetration…
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Ragna Björg Guðbrandsdóttir is a specialist in children´s affairs at the District Commissioners Office of the Reykjavík Metropolitan area. The department of Children´s Affairs services the whole of Iceland in mediation in custody cases. Ragna recently relocated from Bjarkarhlíð – Family Justice Center for survivors of violence, an NGO opened in 2017, with active participation…
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Guðrún Kristinsdóttir is professor emerita at the School of Education, University of Iceland. Guðrúnhas cooperated most with partners in Northern Europe, working in Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden, furthermore with colleagues in Australia and Canada. She is a former Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK; earlier a board member of Gender Studies, Umeå University, Sweden, was…
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Ilona Michailovič, PhD is an expert of victimology and an associate professor at Vilnius University, Lithuania. With more than 20 years of research in criminal justice, she focuses on domestic violence, stalking, sexual harassment, restorative justice and mediation, discrimination and human rights. Dr. Michailovič has led several national research projects with regard to restorative justice,…
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Susana Pavlou has over 15 years of experience in research, policy development, and policy monitoring and evaluation with expertise on gender equality and violence against women.She is widely recognised as a gender equality expert and has served as a senior researcher on a number of projects and studies commissioned by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE),…
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Lucas Gottzén is a Professor at the Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University. His research takes feminist and critical perspectives on youth, gender, and sexuality, particularly focusing on young and adult men’s domestic violence. He is the author and editor of several academic monographs and volumes, including the lead editor of Routledge International…
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Heidi Stöckl is a professor of Public Health Evaluation in the Medical Faculty at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Her main research interests are the prevalence, health effects and risk and protective factors of intimate partner violence, sexual violence and intimate partner homicide. Her work focuses in particular on violence during pregnancy and against older women. She is…
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Professor John Devaney, Centenary Chair of Social Work and Dean of the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh I joined the University of Edinburgh in January 2018 as the Centenary Chair of Social Work, later becoming Dean and Head of the School of Social and Political Science. I am a qualified social…
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