CVS - The Centre for Violence Studies
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Areas of research
- Impairment
- Honour-based violence and violations
- Intersectional violence and violations
- Gender Based Violence
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Human trafficking
- Intimate partner violence
- Prostitution
- Sexual violence
- Violence and Sport
- Stalking
- Technology facilitated Violence
- Online violence
- Violence regimes
The Center for Violence Studies (CVS) is an international multidisciplinary research center, comprised of senior and junior researchers.
Violence is a complex and challenging phenomenon, taking multiple forms and manifestations. It is a global social, political, and economic problem connected to gender, power, health, capital, and crime. It is a cause and consequence of both individual factors, such as mental health conditions and psychosocial issues, and structural factors of gendered, raced/ethnicised, classed, aged and socioeconomic inequalities. Therefore, reducing violence is a key to social, economic and ecological sustainability.
The Centre for Violence Studies responds to the complex challenges of violence in society by gathering researchers from multiple disciplines to create interdisciplinary synergies through excellent research. The CVS concept of violence is therefore broad, conceptualised as violence and violations in online/offline contexts, including interpersonal often direct physical, psychological, verbal, sexual, economic, and material violence and violations, as well as more diffuse, systemic, epistemic and disperse manifestations of violence and violations, such as environmental destruction and slow violence.
CVS is led by Susanne Strand, Associate Professor in Criminology, Örebro University.
Researchers
- Daniel Alsarve
- Tobias Axelsson
- Rúna Baianstovu
- Dag Balkmar
- Natalie Barker-Ruchti
- Anne-Charlott Callerstig
- Izabela Dahl
- Jan-Magnus Enelo
- Laura Ervo
- Jeff Hearn
- Liisa Husu
- Therese Johnstone
- Jessica Jonsson
- Åsa Källström
- Anna L Jonhed
- Kerstin Nordlöf
- Sofi Oskarsson
- Joakim Petersson
- Zara Saeidzadeh
- Susanne Strand
- Sofia Strid
- Sara Thunberg
- Catherine Tuvblad
- Rukaya Al Zayani, PhD student
- Johan Stjernqvist, PhD student
- Martina Vikander, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- #gymnastalliance: An international study on women's gymnasts speaking out about abuse
- Authorities work with people living with a double vulnerability - honour related violence and oppression in relation to prostitution and human trafficking
- Consequences of Threats, Harassments and Stalking in the Modern Society
- DIALOGUE: Dialogue support for the social service's assessment of risk for violence in close relationships
- Efter barnförhöret - Evaluation of an early intervention from the social services in cases of child abuse
- Evaluation of treatment provided by social service and nongovernmental organisations to men who seek help for their violent behaviour against an intimate partner
- Minority joy and minority stress in transgender people: An intervention study
- RESISTIRÉ: Responding to outbreaks through co-creative inclusive equality strategies (2021-2024)
- Risk Management for Domestic Violence
- RISKSAM: Structured collaboration to prevent stalking and intimate partner violence - Implementation and evaluation of a risk management model for the social services and the police
- Shame on you! Exploring fat-shaming in coaching practices
- VISA: Violence In close relationships and the Social service's Adapted work
- Women's Online Wellbeing: a European Examination of digitalised violence against women
Completed projects
- FATIMA: Preventing Honour Related Violence by Education and Dialogue Through Immigrant NGO:s (2015-2018)
- Feminist Theories on Intersectionality, Transversal Dialogues and New Synergies
- Fristad och brottsplats
- Gender Based Violence in Sports (2015-2017)
- HVS: Honour, Violence and Society. The expressions and prevalence of honour-related violence and the challenges to society (2017-2020)
- Ice hockey in change - masculinity ideal and violence norms in Swedish ice hockey circa 1965 to today
- LAWGEM: New Quality in Education for Gender Equality (2019-2022)
- Rape and Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones (2014-2018)
- The politics, expressions and prevalence of violence against trans* people in the EU (2020-2022)
- Violence against Trans* Women within Family and Work in Sweden: A Qualitative Analysis of Socio-Legal Status
- VRVR: Regimes of Violence: Theorising and Explaining Variations in the Production of Violence in Welfare State Regimes (2018-2021)
- Women's safety during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic (2021-2022)
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News
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50 million to EU project to reduce inequality in the wake of the corona pandemic
Örebro University is part of a new project that has received SEK 50 million from the EU to investigate and combat inequality and discrimination in the wake of the corona pandemic. “The goal is to find solutions and social innovations that can reduce...
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SEK 40 million for research on violence, abuse and sexual harassment within academia
How common are violence, abuse and sexual harassment within higher education and research – and what can universities, staff and students do about it? Sofia Strid, Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University, is heading up a large new EU...
