Getting free – leaving a violent partner c1960-1990 Content warning: this post contains description of domestic abuse. Please read with care – information on where to find support is listed at the end of the post. “Why doesn’t she just leave?” This question, frequently asked about women living with violent men, is loaded with incomprehension …
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‘Policing domestic abuse in late twentieth century Scotland.
Just a domestic’ or a working patriarchy? Content warning: this essay contains descriptions of domestic abuse and sexual violence. Please read with care – information on where to find support is listed at the end of this blog. The conviction of a serving Metropolitan police officer for the brutal abduction, rape and murder of Sarah …
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BEUL NA h-UAMHA
BELNAHUA – MOUTH OF THE CAVE One of the four main Slate Islands of the Firth of Lorn, Belnahua is situated in the middle of open water with Mull to the north, Easdale five miles to the east and Scarba to the south. The small, deserted island is still dominated by the great quarry at …
Placebo 50:50
How I gambled on a Covid-19 Vaccine trial and lucked out. During one of the daily Covid briefings late last summer, Nicola Sturgeon called for volunteers to take part in Covid-19 vaccine trials by registering on the NHS COVID-19 Vaccine Research Registry portal . Oh, I thought ‘science needs me’ so I registered my interest …
New online resource to tackle gender based-violence prevention on Scottish campuses
The University of the Highlands and Islands is one of seventeen Scottish universities that came together to create and fund access to a new training course to help prevent and eradicate gender-based violence in colleges and universities. Building on the work of the Scottish Government’s Equally Safe in Higher Education Toolkit and carried out in …
ESHE Rapid Review III
This final Rapid Review report provides an analysis of interview, case study and documentary data from four Scottish colleges who agreed to pilot the Equally Safe in Higher Education (ESHE) Toolkit during the period 2018-2019. The ESHE Toolkit provides guidance and resources for implementing a gender-based violence (GBV) prevention strategy in Scottish universities. The aim …
ESHE Rapid Review II
A desk-based Rapid Review of existing gender-based violence (GBV) policy and practice,prevention and interventions in Scotland’s 19 HEIs was undertaken in 2017 (McCullough,McCarry and Donaldson, 2017). The Review concluded that, overall, positive action in the form of response, intervention and prevention was evident and that while activity in this area was fast-paced it did not appear to …
Equally Safe in Higher Education Toolkit
Published in 2018 The Guidance to the Equally Safe in Higher Education (ESHE) Toolkit is available for free download. Click here to download the ESHE Toolkit Guidance (2018)Click here to access the full ESHE Toolkit
From ‘Battered Wives’ to ‘Coercive Control’: Domestic Abuse in Late Twentieth Century Scotland
Image reproduced courtesy of Scottish Women’s Aid Scotland’s response to male violence against their wives, partners or girlfriends has come a long way since the 1970s when ‘wives’ were ‘battered’, failed to protect their children and police didn’t get involved in ‘domestics’. Forty years since the publication of Violence against Wives – A Case against the Patriarchy, new legislation – The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act …
Domestic abuse, culture and Scottish history
It takes a whole society and its culture to create a domestic abuse perpetrator. A critical look at our history can help us understand why. The annual 16 days of international activism against gender-based violence ended yesterday. During this year’s campaign a report by ‘Counting dead women’ on the UK National Femicide Census made harrowing reading and showed that …
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