CWASU wins £500,000 Lottery funding

The Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) at London Met and research partner  Solace Women’s Aid  and have been awarded Lottery money for a four-year project investigating long-term pathways which help women rebuild their lives after domestic violence.

Solace Women’s Aid (SWA) is a charity based in North London working to end domestic and sexual violence.

The aim of the Big Lottery Research Programme was to enable Voluntary and Community Organisations to produce and disseminate evidence-based knowledge, to influence local and national policy and practice and, in the longer term, to help them develop better services and interventions for their beneficiaries.

The success of the grant application shows the relevance to the voluntary sector of CWASU’s research expertise and the importance of the strong working relationship CWASU has built with SWA over the past years.

The application process was highly competitive with an 87% rejection rate. Big Lottery received over 450 applications of which 13 percent were funded.

Professor Liz Kelly, Roddick Chair in Violence against Women and Director of CWASU, will be the scientific supervisor of the research team. Mary Mason, executive director of SWA, is the project director. DASS professor Renate Klein wrote the proposal and will serve as senior researcher.

28 January 2010