Emma Williamson
- Research Fellow - PhD, PGDip, BA
- Centre for Gender and Violence Research
- Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6788
- Email: e.williamson@bristol.ac.uk
Personal profile
Emma Williamson re-joined the School for Policy Studies in November 2006 as a Research Fellow in Gender-Based Violence. Emma has 15 years research experience working in the area of gender-based violence which has included research on health, law, social policy, and service interventions. Emma also has a keen interest in research ethics and has published widely on this topic. She is the current Chair of the School for Policy Studies Ethics Committee.
Emma previously worked as the Domestic Violence Information and Membership Manager for Women's Aid, the National Domestic Violence charity and continues to provide training to the National Domestic Violence Helpline. In addition, Emma sits on a range of consultative bodies for National government and NGO organisations.
Emma has recently completed projects including: an evaluation of the South Tyneside Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme; a Home Office project exploring the service and support needs of male, Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgendered and Black and other minority ethnic victims of domestic and sexual violence; research into the impact of domestic abuse on military families; the impact of violence against women on rural and urban women; and an evaluation of the Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act.
Teaching interests
Emma has a wide range of teaching interests and has contributed to a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses within the University of Bristol since 1998. Specific areas of interest include: domestic violence and health; feminist research methods; feminist theory; gender, sexuality, and identity; research ethics; computer assisted qualitative data analysis; research ethics within the social sciences; research governance; gender, violence and health.
Research interests
Violence against women in all its manifestations; gender inequality; domestic violence and health; professional interventions and state responses to victims and perpetrators of gendered violence; research ethics; research methods.
Research projects
Current
- The Bristol TARA project: a longitudinal study of the service use and need of homeless women
- Exploring the service and support needs of male, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered, black and other ethnic victims of domestic and sexual violence
- PROVIDE - Programme of Research On Violence in Diverse domestic Environments
- Violence against women in rural and urban areas
Completed
- The Phoenix Programme (2011)
- Women's mapping project and evaluation of the Women's Night Centre (2010)
- Evaluating the Bristol Freedom Programme Network (2010)
- Review of tackling perpetrators of violence against women (2009)
- The role of the Virtual School Head for looked after children (2009)
- Domestic abuse and military families (2009)
- Domestic violence perpetrator services evaluation (2009)
- Evaluation of the measures to support victims of domestic violence in the Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act (2004) and the proposed Croydon Integrated Domestic Violence Court (2008)