My work is focused on prevention of and response to gender-based violence including intimate partner abuse, sexual abuse and sexual harassment. My work in this area emerges from the end-point of my doctoral research which questioned how groups that reject punishment as a route to justice can respond to social harm – in particular sexual violence. As both practitioner and researcher, I am interested in what it takes to achieve profound and sustainable transformation of people using abusive behaviours and in what kinds of interventions are most effective at preventing harm in the first place.As Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies I recently led on the qualitative evaluation of the Drive Pilot – an intervention with high risk perpetrators of domestic abuse (links below). Currently at Bristol Medical School’s Centre for Academic Primary Care I am working on Reprovide (Work Stream 2) – a pioneering randomised controlled trial of a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme (DAPP).On prevention, I work in schools, universities and workplaces designing and evaluating gender-transformative bystander intervention programmes to prevent sexual and domestic abuse. The bystander approach enables people to skilfully challenge the ‘small’ comments, jokes and behaviours that create a conducive context for more severe harms. With Dr. Rachel Fenton at University of Exeter, I recently designed and delivered ‘Football Onside’ – a bespoke bystander intervention programme for Exeter City Football Club and Community Trust. Rachel and I are founder-directors of Kindling (Kindling-Interventions.com) which offers bespoke bystander programmes for violence prevention, equality and diversity.Participatory Mapping & Co-production:As Knowledge Exchange Fellow on Know Your Bristol on the Move, and Co-investigator on Mapping LGBT+ Bristol I have developed interest in the possibilities, tensions and ethics of university-‘community’ co-production. This strand of my work is about creating knowledge and tools (like digital maps, mobile apps and schools resources) with and for the communities whose stories they seek to tell. In particular I am interested in how historically colonizing modes of knowledge production– such as maps and mapping – can be re-purposed to engender socially just outcomes.