Glasgow Caledonian hosts European meeting on domestic violence

Domestic violence researchers, police and support groups from across Europe have gathered at Glasgow Caledonian as part of a £2.4million project to tackle domestic abuse.

Innovative Solutions to Eliminate Domestic Abuse (ISEDA) is a Horizon Europe-funded collaboration between 15 partners from nine European countries to combat domestic abuse via modern technological tools and practices.

Proposals include enhanced training for police, awareness campaigns and education programmes, the development of a chatbot, and perpetrator projects.

Professor Nancy Lombard and Dr Kate Butterby are involved across all work packages with PhD researcher Erin Rennie contributing to the education part of the three-year project.

This week, representatives from the Bulgarian, Greek and Catalonian police joined academics from Germany, Finland and Spain and survivor support groups from Italy, Greece and Cyprus for a two-day consortium meeting at our Glasgow campus.

Researchers from TH Köln, Tampere University, the University of Alicante, and The Centre for Security Studies attended the summit.

Support groups represented included the European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence, the Association for the Prevention and Handling of Violence in the Family, the European Anti-Violence Network, the Association Demetra, and the Listening Centre for Abused Men.

Professor Lombard said: “We were delighted to welcome everyone to Glasgow and share our preliminary findings.

“We hope the members will choose to adapt our solutions in their own countries.”