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Ruth Weir

@ruthweir.bsky.social
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Deputy Director of @violenceandsociety centre. Geographer and Criminologist. Researching policing, domestic abuse, abuse in teenage relationships and neighbourhoods.

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Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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. post.parliament.uk/research-bri...
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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?
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Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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.
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Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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.
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Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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.
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Ever since first studying geography at school I have wanted to visit Giant’s Causeway. Finally I got there today and wasn’t disappointed!
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Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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! @glos-police.bsky.social www.policeconduct.gov.uk/publications...
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
First #bluebells of the year 😊
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Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Great roundtable event at @glos-police.bsky.social with partners today about how we might address adolescent domestic abuse. @ruthweir.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/glouce...
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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...
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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.
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Sophie Carlisle @drsophiecarlisle.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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.... @anniebunce.bsky.social @mcmanussally.bsky.social @matthewprina.bsky.social
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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...
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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.
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UKPRP VISION research consortium @vision-research.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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. vision.city.ac.uk/news/vision-...
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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
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UKPRP VISION research consortium @vision-research.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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-...
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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.
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Beautiful orchids at Kew Gardens #OrchidsFestival
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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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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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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...
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Towards Safer Online Spaces: Leveraging NLP and User-Centred Design to Combat Technology-Facilitated Intimate Partner Abuse
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Frosty walk with floods turned into ice rinks and a dog that likes to pose.
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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 vision.city.ac.uk/news/address...
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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-...
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Deputy Chief Constable awarded Practitioner in Residence at Violence and Society Centre - City Vision
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) City St George’s, UoL, offers a Practitioner in Residence programme at the School for Policy and Global Affairs. It is for mid-level and senior pol...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/12/2024
Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones review – makes you long to lock your own device in a box
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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…
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UKPRP VISION research consortium @vision-research.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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.
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UKPRP VISION research consortium @vision-research.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#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 globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Sally McManus @mcmanussally.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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
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Tech abuse-Another form of violence against women
YouTube video by Women Research Hub (شبکه پژوهش زنان)
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'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.
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UKPRP VISION research consortium @vision-research.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#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...
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UKPRP VISION research consortium @vision-research.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
VISION works with Changemakers and their participation in our violence-related research is very insightful. Lived Experience is an important component of our project. 👍
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UKPRP VISION research consortium @vision-research.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Good news during #16DaysofActivism2024: Victims to be given more protection in stalking crackdown. New ‘Right to Know’ statutory guidance to empower the police to release the identity of an online stalker at the earliest opportunity. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Victims to be given more protection in stalking crackdown
Stalking victims will be better protected under a raft of new measures unveiled by the Home Office.
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Alexandria Innes @andri-i.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
📢📢📢New article out! On violence and insecure #migration status in Globalization and Health journal: read it here rdcu.be/d1gTT Reporting of violence victimization should never result in immigration enforcement. Everyone deserves to be free from violence. W/ Annie Bunce, Hannah Manzur & Natalia Lewis
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Experiences of violence while in insecure migration status: a qualitative evidence synthesis
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Katrin Hohl OBE @katrinhohl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
More (free) tickets released for today’s online seminar on the findings of our latest #OpSoteria police experience survey for survivors of rape and sexual assault. Book a place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/police-res...
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Police responses to rape and sexual assault: Op. Soteria survivor survey
Online webinar series to mark the 16 Days of Activism re: Violence Against Women and Girls
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/11/2024
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
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Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show An estimated 140 women and girls across the world die at the hands of their partner or family member every day, according to new global…
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Sally McManus @mcmanussally.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Share these powerful animations exploring economic abuse and coercive control - result of an international collaboration led by Dr Ladan Hashemi, alongside multiple NGOs, universities, the brilliant IKWRO (ikwro.org.uk) and an incredible Iranian production team www.youtube.com/@WomenResear...
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Women Research Hub (شبکه پژوهش زنان)
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New article out on using unsupervised machine learning to find profiles of domestic abuse perpetrators. Great to work on this with Kat Hadjimatheou, Alejandro Quiroz Flores and Taylor Skevington. academic.oup.com/policing/art...
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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 21/11/2024
If you research data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, you might want to present it at the Crime Surveys User Conference in March. Always lots of interesting presentations!. #UKDSCrime25
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Call for papers: Crime Surveys User Conference 2025 - UK Data Service
Do you conduct crime research using quantitative surveys or longitudinal studies from the UK Data Service, such as the Crime Survey for England and Wales, Commercial Victimisation Survey, and many…
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Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
At @VISION to present to the @ChildrensComm our work on Adolescent Domestic Abuse & hear about their work on Children's experiences as victims of sexual harm and intimate relationship abuse. Their recommendations certainly chime with our research. @ruthweir.bsky.social
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Less than a week on BlueSky and great to connect with so many old and new friends #skircle
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Clare Laxton @ladylaxton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Last week the CPS and National Police Council released a Joint Plan for Domestic Abuse. Lots to welcome in it and considering domestic abuse represents a third of all crime received by the CPS - so important to get it right www.cps.gov.uk/publication/... #DomesticAbuse #CoerciceControl
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Domestic Abuse Joint Justice Plan: National Police Chiefs’ Council and Crown Prosecution Service | The Crown Prosecution Service
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
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Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
So great to have @ktbg1.bsky.social as our Practitioner in Residence and to be progressing this research on adolescent domestic abuse.
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Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Two years since the publication of our book! I'm very proud to have written 'Policing Domestic Abuse' I wrote about adolescent domestic abuse & continue to research it as practitioner in residence at City, University of London. You can find out more here: vision.city.ac.uk/news/researc...
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Policing Insight @policinginsight.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
How can training have a positive impact on public trust and confidence in police? policinginsight.com/feature/opin...
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How can training have a positive impact on public trust and confidence in police?
With public trust and confidence in policing reportedly at record low levels, University of the West of England Criminology Lecturer Finley MacDonald, and University of Hull Policing Degree Programme…
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SHERA Research Group International Collective researchers MVAWC @sheraresearch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Totally newb but hope this works / helps - let us know if we can add you :-) go.bsky.app/NCCEjuu
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Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Check out my new preprint. I really like this one. Worked hard on it with great academics. Disabled individuals experience violence the most. #Criminology #Violence #DomesticViolence
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Fiona Vera Gray @veragraf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Small start pack on researchers, activists, journos, anyone really working on violence against women and girls. Message me to add yourself/others. Let's try to find folk on here! go.bsky.app/4u3Rk6g
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Sally McManus @mcmanussally.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Adults with learning disability at increased risk of mental & physical health conditions & have reduced life expectancy. We used the GP Patient Survey to show they have less confidence in their healthcare and were less likely to feel their needs were met. Led by Sam Tromans bjgp.org/content/earl...
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