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Experts in Social work and domestic abuse

Dr Gill Kirkman

Assistant Professor in Social Work

Expertise: Child abuse and neglect, working with families, gender-based violence. A former social worker of 14 years, she pioneered a project that used computer games (immersive technology) to try to better understand domestic abuse among young people.

Social work and domestic abuse

Dr Gareth Addidle

Associate Professor in Criminology

Expertise: Public management, vulnerability and policing, place leadership and vulnerability, vulnerability and police education, vulnerability and county lines, public health policing, collaborative partnership working, governance of crime and the crossovers between social and public policy.

Social work and domestic abuse

Dr Samina Karim

Associate Professor in Social Work and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

Expertise: Child protection, child abuse, research methods, anti-discriminatory practice, cultaral competency and historic abuse.

Social work and domestic abuse