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RISE Funded Projects

RISE awarded nine interdisciplinary projects up to £50,000 each to deliver high‑impact, accelerated research and innovation pilots tackling VAWG between April and August 2026.

 

  The projects will deliver practical insights to support policy, practice and future research investment in this priority area, focusing on emerging issues including prevention and early intervention, structural drivers of harm, safer spaces, and online and AI-enabled misogyny. 

Proximal Risks: Understanding the Pathways from Socioeconomic Disadvantage to Intimate Partner Violence

This project addresses a key challenge in the study and prevention of VAWG: the limited understanding of how socioeconomic disadvantage translates into heightened risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) in everyday life.

Safer Parks: Improving Access for Women and Girls

With around one in six women feel unsafe during daylight across Britain's parks and green spaces, rising to four in five after dark, this project aims to create improved access for Women and Girls to safer parks.

Adolescent TFVAWG: A Practice Framework for Early Detection and Response

This project addresses the challenge of recognising and responding to harmful online behaviours affecting teenage girls before they escalate into more serious abuse.

Boys (as) Responsible Allies Against Violence Online (BRAVO): The Future Digital Leaders Programme

This project addresses the critical and under‑researched challenge of preventing online gendered violence in schools.

The Development of a Digital Repeat-Victimisation and Attrition Dashboard: A Strategic Innovation for Rape and Serious Sexual Offences in Bedfordshire

This project directly addresses the growing issue of victim disengagement and repeat victimisation in the highest harm Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) cases.

HARMONY: Hidden Abuse Research and Mapping of Online Misogyny Ecosystems

This project addresses the growing challenge of technology-facilitated violence against women and girls by examining how misogynistic discourse emerges, circulates, and becomes normalised within hidden online environments.

SaferStreetsAI

This project aims to help decision-makers prioritise place-based improvements more fairly and transparently, and enable more credible evaluation of whether environmental changes actually improve perceived safety.

Producing Policy Critical Knowledge about the Harms to Women and Girls Caused by Com-Networks

This project addresses the urgent and rapidly evolving threat posed by com networks, which create and protect spaces for extreme forms of violence to be committed.

Safer Spaces, Stronger Voices: Co-Creating and Evaluating a Learning Disability Specific VAWG Prevention Intervention

This project addresses the disproportionate exposure of women with learning disabilities to violence, harassment, and abuse, particularly in everyday public and digital spaces.

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