The Government Office for Science invites you to this event for civil servants.

About this event

Join Professor Jennifer Rubin, Dr Sian Oram and Lisa Ward to explore key research and policy making challenges regarding the role of misogyny in violence against women and girls (VAWG). The webinar will examine the impact of online misogyny on young women, the current research landscape and gaps, and the role of social and behavioural science in tackling these issues, before opening the session to Q&A.

Please pre-submit questions for our speakers by emailing kitty.saunders@go-science.gov.uk

Speakers

Professor Jennifer Rubin is the Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser. Before joining the Home Office Professor Rubin was the Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK’s largest funder of economic and social research, and was Director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London, where she remains a professor.

Dr Sian Oram is the Head of King’s Women’s Mental Health and Reader in Women’s Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. Her research focuses on interpersonal trauma, its intersection with sex and gender and with institutional and societal structure, and its relationship to mental health. Dr Oram directs the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network, which works to understand, prevent, and reduce the impact of violence and abuse on mental health. As part of this work, she led the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health. She is also a co-investigator of the Violence Health and Society (VISION) Consortium, which aims to works to improve the measurement of violence to reduce its impact on health and leads its lived engagement strategy.

Lisa Ward is currently the Lived Experience Involvement Consultant to the Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network based at King’s College, London, a Trustee for Aylesbury Vale & Milton Keynes Sexual Assault and Abuse Support Service and one of the Survivor Services Representative for NOTA. She previously held the role of Chief Executive Officer of Oxfordshire Sexual Abuse & Rape Crisis Centre (OSARCC) and as a Trustee for Rape Crisis England & Wales. She has a BSc in Psychology with English, an MA in Women & Child Abuse from London Metropolitan University, and is studying for a PhD at London Metropolitan University on child abuse. Her research areas focus on sexual abuse, lived experience, survivor status, and dual identities.

Misogyny and Violence Against Women webinar