Research into Intervention, Safety and Empowerment (RISE)
Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls
The UK Government’s Safer Streets Mission and cross-government strategy, Freedom from Violence and Abuse, aims to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the next 10 years.
Funded by the UKRI’s R&D Missions Accelerator Programme and led by interdisciplinary experts in VAWG, RISE is a new research and engagement project designed to help deliver this aim.
RISE policy briefs:
Safer Spaces and Inclusive Design
This policy brief addresses learning disability-specific VAWG prevention, gender inclusive park safety training in professional practice and recognising and responding to son-mother violence and matricide.
Preventing Harm Before it Happens
This policy brief addresses prevention programmes, what to consider when designing interventions, the establishment of a national early intervention framework for tech-facilitated VAWG and investment in interventions that show a long-term reduction in VAWG.
Digital Worlds and Online Harm
This policy brief addresses youth-informed prevention education in schools and beyond, and the strengthening of detection and coordinated responses to online hidden misogyny.