Ruth Weir

Violence against women and girls in schools and among children and young people Violence against women and girls is increasing, with online harms and abuse affecting girls at a higher rate than boys. What are the core challenges and opportunities in the UK?

Just out: UK Parliament research briefing on violence against women and girls in schools & among children & young people.
@ruthweir.bsky.social
Kimberly Cullen & I all contributed in relation to the work we are doing on teenage relationship violence.

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Great to have an article on Teenage Relationship Violence in the GDST (The Girls'​ Day School Trust) in the GDST life magazine.
Really important to talk about adolescent domestic abuse & the work I'm doing with @ruthweir.bsky.social to review how policing & other agencies deal with it.

Today was our 3rd national roundtable looking at teenage relationship abuse, also known as adolescent domestic abuse.

@ruthweir.bsky.social Weir & I talked through our place based round tables & the national police survey I am conducting.

Today I've been up with Northumbria Police hosting another Adolescent Domestic Abuse place based round table with Dr @ruthweir.bsky.social
It was particularly poignant to have Micala & Lee Trussler with us, the parents of 15 year old Holly Newton who was horrendously murdered by her boyfriend.

Ever since first studying geography at school I have wanted to visit Giant’s Causeway. Finally I got there today and wasn’t disappointed!

Great to be on @bbcpointswest this evening talking about the work I am doing on teenage relationship violence together with colleagues across @glos-police.bsky.social & @ruthweir.bsky.social

You can watch the episode here:

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Pleased to have written an article with @ruthweir.bsky.social on teenage relationship violence & adolescent domestic abuse as part of the IOPC Learning the Lessons publication with a special focus on VAWG.
Please do share!
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First #bluebells of the year 😊

Adolescent Domestic Abuse Roundtable | Gloucestershire Constabulary Gloucestershire Constabulary is leading a national research project into ‘Adolescent Domestic Abuse’ sometimes known as ‘Teenage relationship abuse and violence.’ At the moment, sexual violence, coer...

Great roundtable event at @glos-police.bsky.social with partners today about how we might address adolescent domestic abuse.

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Brilliant afternoon yesterday celebrating the amazing work of @safelives.bsky.social at their 21st birthday tea party with the Queen at Clarence House. Great to go with @vision-research.bsky.social Kim Cullen and @ktbg1.bsky.social and to see familiar faces and meet new people working in this area.

Effectiveness of UK-based support interventions and services aimed at adults who have experienced or used domestic and sexual violence and abuse: a systematic review and meta-analysis - BMC Public Hea... Background Domestic and sexual violence and abuse (DSVA) is prevalent and harmful. There are a range of support services and interventions available to those affected by it, but evidence of their effe...

Really proud to say that my systematic review and meta-analysis on domestic and sexual violence and abuse services and interventions has been published! Read it here: bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Delighted to have given the Göran Gustafsson Lecture with Gene Feder this week at the University of Uppsala in Sweden on teenage relationship abuse and our @vision-research.bsky.social research. A brilliant day and great to hear about other really important research in this area.

New VISION Policy Briefing: A cross-government approach to preventing violence needs to include health services, alongside justice, welfare, education & other sectors. An effective & safe NHS response to survivors of domestic violence needs to be implemented.
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Happy International Women’s Day! I am very lucky to work with some brilliant women @violenceandsociety.bsky.social and @vision-research.bsky.social. You can find some on here @mcmanussally.bsky.social @vanessagash.bsky.social @anniebunce.bsky.social @lizzie-cook.bsky.social @andri-i.bsky.social #IWD

VAWG is a pressing issue in Iran. We funded animations in Farsi & English to inform public discourse & empower victims to seek support. They are grounded in evidence from Iranian women & resonate with audiences in Iran & the global diaspora community vision.city.ac.uk/news/united-...

Great to have been interviewed with @ktbg1.bsky.social by @policinginsight.bsky.social on the research we are doing into adolescent domestic abuse/teenage relationship abuse.

Really pleased to share that our rapid systematic review on adolescent domestic abuse has now been published link.springer.com/article/10.1... . The article focuses on risk & protective factors. Brilliant to work with such a good team on this. @drsophiecarlisle.bsky.social @ktbg1.bsky.social

Beautiful orchids at Kew Gardens #OrchidsFestival

In memory of Holly Newton: Why teens fall between the gaps of domestic abuse support | City, University of London Academics from the Violence & Society research centre echo Holly Newton’s parents call for domestic abuse policy reform to better protect teens.

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This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in doing a PhD using Natural Language Processing to combat tech-facilitated intimate partner abuse. ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2025-26-proj...

Frosty walk with floods turned into ice rinks and a dog that likes to pose.

Our Practitioner in Residence @ktbg1.bsky.social and I have written a policy brief highlighting the findings and recommendations from ongoing research and stakeholder engagement into abuse in teenage relationships carried out by the @vision-research.bsky.social
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Brilliant to be working with @ktbg1.bsky.social as our Practitioner in Residence on @vision-research.bsky.social research into adolescent domestic abuse. Here is more information about the national work Katy will be doing as part of her project: vision.city.ac.uk/news/deputy-...

Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones review – makes you long to lock your own device in a box This three-week experiment to study the horrifying effects of the grim content that children can access 24/7 has predictable results – which are nonetheless horrifying As a rule, jealousy is not an emotion social experiment TV tends to elicit. To gain…

Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones review – makes you long to lock your own device in a box

Our final #16DaysofActivism2024 post: VAWG research is vital to providing evidence that ensures the right solution / action is made to tackle this complex issue. Fantastic research is happening & ours is just 1 small part of the huge effort to move towards VAWG eradication.

#16DaysofActivism2024 To protect women in insecure migration status from experiencing violence associated with their migration status, it’s important the reporting of violence does not lead to immigration enforcement consequences for victims
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YouTube video by Women Research Hub (شبکه پژوهش زنان) Tech abuse-Another form of violence against women

with VISION consortium (vision.city.ac.uk) support - Iran-based NGO Mehre Shams Afarid, IKWRO, a team of Iranian animators, Ladan Hashemi and many others produced these short films on domestic violence, including on recognising tech abuse:
youtu.be/wtflT6uWlUw

'My biggest fear is more children will be murdered like Holly' Holly Newton's mother reacts to new survey findings about coercive control in young relationships.

The findings of the YEF survey, shared exclusively with the BBC, shed light on how widespread coercive control and violence is in young people's relationships.

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#16DaysofActivism2024: Results from a VISION consultation to ascertain usefulness of a VAWG data dashboard indicated it has practical value as a functional & easy to use tool facilitating access to high quality data spanning a range of types of violence & groups vision.city.ac.uk/news/vawg-da...

VISION works with Changemakers and their participation in our violence-related research is very insightful. Lived Experience is an important component of our project. 👍