Explore a collection of informative videos featuring expert perspectives, legal developments, and research on domestic abuse. From understanding coercive control and the Domestic Abuse Act to exploring the experiences of women of Asian backgrounds in East Anglia, these videos offer valuable insights into the complexities of domestic abuse, the barriers survivors face and the importance of informed, effective responses.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Emma Katz, internationally renowned expert in domestic abuse and coercive control, whose research has influenced legislation and professional practice in the UK and worldwide.
Author of Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives (Oxford University Press, 2022), Dr Katz has transformed understanding of how coercive control affects mothers and children. Her pioneering research highlights how perpetrators use threats, intimidation, isolation, deprivation of resources and restrictions on freedom to dominate family members, often without physical violence.
Her work has brought greater recognition to children’s previously overlooked experiences of coercive control and has been described as groundbreaking in reshaping professional responses to domestic abuse.
Dr Mirna Guha is Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge where she researches and teaches on topics related to gender violence, social justice and development policy. Across the last 10 years, Mirna worked within the development sector in South Asia to address gender violence in the lives of marginalised women before moving into academic research in the UK to illuminate how experiences of gender violence intersect with pre-existing social inequalities around ethnicity, class and sexuality globally. Her talk will explore these intersections in the context of the specific and complex needs of Asian-origin women around domestic abuse in the East of England.
Jocelynne Annette Scutt is an Australian feminist lawyer, writer and commentator. She is one of Australia's leading human rights barristers, was instrumental in the reform of the laws on rape and domestic violence, and has served as Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania and as a judge on the High Court of Fiji. Jocelynn will speak about the Women's Bill of Rights and will discuss the achievements and deficits of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
