from the School for Policy Studies
By Bliss Magdalena Qadesh*
Paganism is emerging in the United Kingdom as a rapidly growing faith community, with 74,000 self-identified individuals listing this as their religious belief in the most recent British census (more…)
In this blog Nadia Aghtaie* argues that the enforcement of mandatory veiling is a form of ‘state-sanctioned liberty crime’, as it deprives the nation, especially the minoritised women and girls, from making free choices. (more…)
The Centre for Gender and Violence Research is running a series of blogs produced by staff and postgraduate researchers to spotlight feminist research on gender-based violence at the University of Bristol. Editor: Aisha K. Gill, School for Policy Studies. (more…)
by Natasha Mulvihill and Hannah Richards
There is small but growing academic interest in experiences of so-called ‘rough sex’, particularly within younger people’s relationships and in dating culture. This work explores both wanted and unwanted experiences (see e.g. Faustino and Gavey (2021); Herbenick et al (2022), Snow (2023) Mulvihill (2022), and the use of rough sex as a tool of coercive control (Wiener and Palmer. 2022 and murder (Edwards. 2020; Bows and Herring, 2020). (more…)
This week, Dr Natasha Mulvihill, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and researcher at the Centre for Gender and Violence Research in the School for Policy Studies, is launching an anonymised online survey to investigate experiences of ‘rough sex’. She introduces here the context and aims of the research. (more…)
Ensuring that that our research considers and promotes equality, diversity and inclusion is central to the work we do at the School for Policy Studies. Working in partnership with communities and stake holders to identify research questions that matter and ensuring that studies are co-produced wherever possible helps achieve these aims. This series of blog posts looks at some of the ways what we research and how we go about it incorporates EDI principles.
In this post, Kate Bowen-Viner (Social Policy PhD student) explores how research from the Centre for Gender and Violence is addressing inequalities and tackling gender-based violence. (more…)