Centre for Violence, Victimisation and Vulnerability
With a particular interest in violence reduction, exploitation and gender-based violence, we seek to develop an evidence base to drive innovations in policy and practice.
Overview
Understanding and responding to violence, victimisation and abuse with research
Our research seeks to understand the interpersonal, systemic and cultural dynamics of violence, victimisation and abuse. To do this, we critically engage with the concept of vulnerability and explore where people, neighbourhoods and communities find resilience to cope with the harms inflicted upon them.
Using a blend of innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods, we investigate how to understand and respond to these issues.
Striving for a fair and just society
The challenge is a fair and just society for all. We draw on applied innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods in seeking to address the inequalities in the distribution and experience of interpersonal harm.
With a focus on both immediate and far-reaching impact, we investigate how to understand and respond to violence and victimisation around the UK - and across the world.
Our focus
Research that makes a difference
Our research is a critical engagement with social justice, aiming to understand how it interacts at every level, from the individual to whole systems and from the local to the global. Our research should make a difference.
In aiming to promote justice and fairness for all, we draw on applied innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods in seeking to address the inequalities in the distribution and experience of interpersonal harm. With a focus on both immediate and far-reaching impact, we investigate how to understand and respond to violence and victimisation around the UK - and across the world.
Our research
Creating a positive change for victims of crime
We interact and engage with the world to provide the evidence and expert insight necessary to understand how society, justice and fairness can be realised and how people, households, communities, partners and policymakers can work to create positive change for victims of crime.
We aim to gain a better understanding of the experience of violence, vulnerability and victimisation. We want to reduce violence and combat exploitation and abuse, and improve the treatment of and empower victims.
Holistic research
Our research generates knowledge of the interpersonal, systemic and cultural dynamics of violence, victimisation and abuse.
Driving innovation
With a particular interest in violence reduction, exploitation and gender-based violence, we seek to develop an evidence base to drive innovations in policy and practice.
Wide application
With a focus on both immediate and far-reaching impact, we investigate how to understand and respond to violence and victimisation around the UK and across the world.
Representing victims of crime
We strive for social justice through evidence-led policy and practice. This goal informs how we approach research: ensuring that the voice of the public is represented, using the most rigorous approaches to understand violence and victimisation and producing applied research that speaks directly to policy-makers, practitioners and the public.
Whether it is demonstrating how to better apply modern slavery legislation, determining the most effective methods for reducing community violence or uncovering the hidden harms of violence against women and girls, CV3’s research makes a difference for victims of crime.
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