James
Assistant Professor | Durham University | Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) | Researching domestic abuse-related deaths, fatality review, femicide, LGBTQ+ domestic abuse | He/him
- A rather early start for a Saturday but for a good reason. I’m off to Sunderland this morning to the Stadium of Light to run a Durham University Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) event with Prof. Catherine Donovan exploring Violence, Abuse and Control in LGBT+ 🏳️🌈 Relationships. 1/2
- ⚠️ Just under a week to go to respond to the call for contributions for the Palgrave Handbook on Domestic Homicides and Death Reviews, edited by Myrna Dawson and myself. 1/3
- Pleased to have worked with Professor Catherine Donovan, & with input from members of the LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Practice Network & Briony Anderson & Holly McSpadden, to develop guidance for researching domestic abuse in LGBT+ communities. Find out more.👇 lnkd.in/evXAsqk2
- Pleased to be joining @sarahdangar.bsky.social to talk about 'Addressing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths by Suicide and Paths to Learning' for a Practice Development Webinar run by #MakingResearchCount
- @martindimarco.bsky.social and I have just had a new article published in the @ijqmonline.bsky.social in which we explore ethics in domestic abuse-related deaths and perpetrator studies👇https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16094069251374613
- Reposted by JamesThe ECHO Project is a longitudinal study on relationships and mental health in LGBTQIA+ communities. All LGBTQIA+ adults (18+) living in the UK or Ireland can take part. Participants receive a One4All voucher. Learn more & sign up: echoproject-research.com/join-study
- Really pleased to have a chapter in @katefitzgibbon.bsky.social & Sandra Walklate’s new book, 'Femicide: Problems, Possibilities, and Prevention', which brings together leading international scholars to critically examine how femicide is defined, understood, and prevented across diverse contexts.
- The weakness of oversight of recommendations from domestic homicide/abuse-related death reviews is something I’ve highlighted in my research. It’s a shocking gap. So, good to see @commissionerda.bsky.social pushing to ensure we learn & act after these deaths. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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- Thank you #AAFDA for the chance to join the DHR Forum today. As a practitioner & researcher, it's great to have spaces where we can come together, share best practices, work through common challenges, and think about what it means to do this difficult work well.
- This BBC news report powerfully highlights family experiences of #domestichomiciderewiews #domesticabuserelateddeathreviews, not least in terms of the impact of the length of time they can take & confidence in whether they bring about change. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/6
- Today is an important milestone as requests are going to local #communitysafetypartnerships for data about the deaths they receive notifications for and what they then commission in terms of #DomesticHomicideReviews #DomesticAbuseRelatedDeathReviews.
- I'm currently recruiting for a 6-month Research Assistant/Associate post, nominally one day a week, with flexibility in terms of actual working times. The research is looking at the commissioning of domestic homicide / suicide-related death reviews.
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- Excited to be attending the first Welsh Single Unified Safeguarding Review #SUSR dissemination event today. So good to see efforts to support and enoucrage a community of practice.
- Great to be able to share the proceedings from the 'Learning across statutory reviews: Developing a shared agenda' conference that I and Elizabeth Cook hosted earlier this year👇
- Reposted by JamesMy union branch is looking for a last push on petition signatures against job cuts at Durham. Potential redundancies & de facto imposed voluntary severance through fear is a gendered attack on the local working class in county Durham. Please share, sign & support. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- A frustrating anniversary: the consultation on ‘Updating the domestic homicide review statutory guidance’ opened on 1 May 2024. But, a year later, we still have no consultation response. So, we’ve no idea what stakeholders said or any indication about what comes next for the statutory guidance 1/7
- I'm marking third-year dissertations this week. Reading dissertations is a great part of the job (although I always eat a lot more Maltesers than normal or is healthy...) It's such a privilege to work with students as a supervisor and see them take their ideas through to a completed project.
- Interesting to see this article about #domestichomicidereviews in the ROI as a way to “respectfully ask the hard, painful questions” but questioning the delay in their introduction www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
- On my way to Edinburgh today to be part of conversations about introducing domestic homicide and suicide #reviews in Scotland. There’s lots of great parts to the job of an academic: being able to be in the room & to work with practitioners & policymakers to implement something is high on the list.
- It was interesting to read this report from @safelives.bsky.social about #MARAC, and it was good to see a connection being made to learning from #domestichomicidereviews. I have two reflections.
- 📢 Publication Day! 🚀 My new book - The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths - is out today with #routledge 📖 Get your copy & save 20% with code 25ESA1 🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Potentia...
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- Today I’m at the British Library, chairing a conference with @lizzie-cook.bsky.social. Supported by UKPRP Violence, Health and Society consortium (VISION) & Durham University Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA), we’re discussing opportunities for learning across statutory reviews
- So, my first book - is published this month. Based on my PhD, in the book, I explore domestic homicide/abuse-related death reviews (DHR/DARADRs) in England & Wales, including their establishment, doing, and use/impact. Find out more at www.routledge.com/9781032662084
