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

The 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...

🧵1/5 For Pride this year colleagues have been sharing their LGBT+ icons and to conclude what has been a month of learning, celebrating and remembering we wanted to share our last icon - Ellen Pence! Jo Todd, CEO at Respect, shared why Ellen is one of her icons…

They shared why specialist, tailored responses to domestic abuse are so important, and their hopes for a safer, more inclusive future. Read more below ↓ drivepartnership.org.uk/publication/... @womencentre.bsky.social

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.

⏳FINAL CfPs #LEXJointConferenece OPEN CALL🌎 ✅'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression’. ✅ Keynotes: #ProfMaggieO'Neill & #ProfAishaGill ✅ Liverpool University November 6-7 2025 ✅Registration on LEX website lexnetwork.org under ‘Events' ✅ Deadline May 30 2025 1/3 1/3

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👇

My 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...

·🎟️Tickets for the hybrid launch event are available now. The event will include opening remarks from Nicole Jacobs, and Dr Rowlands’ talk will be followed by a Q&A session chaired by Professor Hannah Bows, the Deputy Director of CRiVA. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-potent...

A new book by Dr James Rowlands, Assistant Professor of Sociology at @durham-university.bsky.social ''The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths'', explores how we make sense of these tragedies. Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @jhrowlands.bsky.social

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

Jess Phillips has marked her tenth year reading out in the House of Commons the names of women thought to have been killed by men in the past year. She spent five minutes listing 95 names in front of fellow MPs, who listened on in silence. metro.co.uk/2025/03/06/j...

Excited today to welcome people in person and online to an event with my colleagues Prof Catherine Donovan and Dr Kate Butterby at our ‘Responding to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans+ Domestic Abuse: The History of the Movement and a Vision for its Future’ event.

Delighted with this coverage in today's Guardian, thanks to Moya Crockett for working with the team, and for including quotes from @justinedodds.bsky.social You can both read our report and catch up with the launch event here #CAPVA www.respect.org.uk/articles/uns...

More than 170 mothers killed by their sons in 15 years in UK, report reveals

Along with @lizzie-cook.bsky.social, I'm running a free one-day conference on 19 March 2025 'Learning across statutory reviews: Developing a shared agenda'. On the day, we are bringing together practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to explore the intersections between these reviews.

Wrote something for @theguardian.com today with @claremcglynn.bsky.social on the new independent porn review and what needs to happen next www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New article published with some colleagues where we look at the intersection of cancer and domestic abuse-related deaths rdcu.be/ebsKq

For LGBT+ History Month this year we spoke to Professor Catherine Donovan and @jhrowlands.bsky.social about past and present responses to survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse in the LGBT+ community. youtu.be/7psj1eDS9A4

📣ALL STUDENTS -enter the Social Policy Association's new Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2025, with a chance to win £100 in cash, £100 in book vouchers & a chance to be published! I'm on the judging panel 😀 social-policy.org.uk/policy-group... #socialharm #stigma @durhamsu.bsky.social RTs 🙏

Memorial Map Each star on the Memorial Map represents a life, a story brutally interrupted. It humanizes the statistics of DA, revealing patterns of abuse and control. It’s a call to action, to - Recognise. - Protect. - Break the silence. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

I’ve noticed there are more accounts being written by chairs of their experience of leading domestic homicide / abuse related death reviews - it’s a tricky task but at the same time really valuable as it helps draw attention to the complexity of this work

Another development as part of the #domestichomicidereview reform agenda. A rather tight deadline for a public appointments to the Quality Assurance Board. A chance to make a potentially important contribution in terms of helping drive learning: apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8544

Statutory reviews - from domestic homicide/domestic abuse-related death reviews, to reviews into the serious injury or deaths of children or adults – are an important policy response to tragedy. But, although we have many types of statutory reviews, there's not been much work looking across them.

📢 New pubs! Thrilled to share our two papers in Trauma, Violence & Abuse. We scoped the field of LGBTQ+ adult sexual violence research, analysing what's known & how the field can improve LGBTQ+ inclusion. Open access—links in comments! Authored with @snappyalligator.bsky.social & Jess Ison

Excited to be running an event about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT+) domestic abuse. On the 7th March, we’ll be exploring the history of the LGBT+ domestic abuse movement, raising awareness, & developing a vision for the next 20 years. For details go to: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding...

I’m teaching a feminist anti violence activism module this term. Today, I’m on my way to work listening to the first cut of a feminist anthems playlist students started making yesterday. It’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it.

Managed to squeeze in one last publication for 2024 - what a year! Huge thanks to the brilliant Prof. Vanessa Munro and Lotte Young Andrade - I have loved working with you on this project. doi.org/10.1111/jols...

Oh exciting. I just got a bit of funding to support an event in LGBT history month titled ‘Responding to LGBT+ Domestic Abuse: The History of the Movement and a Vision for its Future’. As a start to planning this, if anyone is interested in stories of organising and activism, get in touch.

🚨Released today - The criminalisation of coercive control: A national study of victim‑survivors’ views on the need for, benefits, risks & impacts of criminalisation. We present findings from 130 in-depth interviews with female victim‑survivors. 👉🏼Read our report here: doi.org/10.26180/280...

Well, that’s a wrap. Teaching done, and last external event attended. The count down to annual leave has begun!

This year I've thought a lot about the ethics of social work responses to extra-familial harm I outline some of these thoughts in my latest paper on Risk Outside of the Home Child Protection pathways available for free via this link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... In it I argue that🧵