VISION Consortium

VISION Consortium

VISION: Violence, Health and Society is a major research consortium, funded by the UKRI’s Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) from 2021 to 2026.

VISION brings together universities, public bodies and third sector organisations and aims to reduce the harms to health caused by violence by improving the data that underpins theory, policy and professional practice.

The Consortium includes the Violence and Society Centre at City St George's, University of London, King’s College London, University College London, Lancaster University, University of Bristol, University of Warwick, University of Lancashire, University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University

VISION stakeholders

Our Advisory Board is a vehicle to strategically engage with health and health services, crime and justice services, and domestic and sexual violence specialist services. Members include academics from a range of disciplines, policy makers, people from service providing and campaign organisations, and people from organisations that collect, curate, or use data on violence, health, and inequalities.

Incorporating the voices of those who have experienced violence is a key aspect of VISION. We actively engage with individuals who have lived experiences of domestic and sexual violence, as well as other forms of violence, across diverse social groups and age ranges.

It is the collaborative, inclusive nature of our relationships with other organisations that helps to improve our understanding of how violence is measured and ensures our findings are relevant and used. We strive for impact through partnership, seeking practical changes in policies and services that reduce violence and health inequalities.

VISION activity

Through VISION, our VASC colleagues:

• Publish research findings, with publications, policy briefings, and blogs from the VISION consortium available at Publications & Events - City Vision
• Respond to Parliamentary, government and non-government consultations and inquiries
• Synthesise evidence on violence and abuse and produce systematic, scoping and rapid evidence reviews.
• Actively engage across diverse social groups and age ranges, including with Revolving Doors, Lambeth Peer Action Collective and co-creating an animation highlighting the importance of LE involvement in violence prevention research.
• Participate in the City St George’s School of Policy and Global Affairs Practitioner in Residence programme with key stakeholders:
  • Deputy Chief Constable Katy Barrow-Grint, Gloucestershire Police, is reviewing how police constabularies document teenage relationship abuse to develop an improved understanding of the impact of the statutory age limitations on the practical work police officers do on the front line.
  • Aisling Barker, Cabinet Office and Islington Council, examines the impact of a training and support package for services working with young people affected by criminality and offending behaviour. She focuses on the feasibility of using the training and support package as an innovative approach to the prevention and early intervention on violence against women and girls.
  • Danielle Sharp, Centre for a Safer Society, bridges the gap between research and practice by developing practical resources for professionals working in domestic homicide reviews and identified ‘bi-directional violence’ or ‘dual-allegations’ between individuals.
• Organise major events such as VISION’s annual conference and the European Network on Gender and Violence conference.
• Collaborate across City St George’s departments, institutes and centres to share violence prevention research findings and develop new ideas and grants and innovative forms of outreach. For example, we partnered with the Institute for Creativity and AI to develop the VISION AI app, a secure platform, publicly available, to enable analysis of UK government and third sector violence related policy documents.

For further information please visit the VISION Consortium website: Home - City Vision