In this section you will find our seminar series and the timetables.
Seminar 1: Economic abuse in Europe: toward a methodological integration -02/09/2019
During this seminar Dr. Bernardi created an network of organisations and academic partners to discuss European methodological integration, and the development of a platform of support for victims of economic abuse. The seminar led to the establishment of a network and initiated discussions of research funding and collaborations and the submission of multiple grant applications, some of which were independently pursued by the participating organisations.
Organisations involved: Surviving Economic Abuse, Global Thinking Foundation, Improvement Service, Mr. Paul Comley (National Adult Protection Coordinator).
Claudia Segre, Serena Spagnolo (GTF), Kathryn Royal (SEA) and Sandra Sankey (IS) discuss country-specific initiatives
Kathryn Royal explains the policy-driven initiatives pursued by SEAPaul Comley talks about the need to act more effectively and communicate abuse more promptly
Claudia Segre (GTF) explains the work that GTF undertakes in Italy and France and their focus on financial literacy and economic abuse.
Seminar 2: Communication and cultural barriers: how communication strategies must consider cultural and linguistic factors 11/06/2021
At the beginning of June 2021, Dr. CL Bernardi, Dr Kim Barker, Dr. Rosie Reimboldt and Dr. Saihong Li met informally to bring together their work on economic abuse.
Dr. Barker presented the legal issues attached to economic abuse in the UK. Whilst there exist some methodologies and efforts to tackle economic abuse there are no methodologies to really track it properly. The attempts so far have been limited in scope and potential. Dr. Barker very clearly identified how interdisciplinary the topic of economic abuse is.
Dr. Bernardi presented her computational analysis of over 2,000 between journal articles and web-based information about economic abuse and analysed the language used by organisations and academic alike to present economic abuse. While the research is a WIP, the language used is one of empowerment and support but also heteronormative information. A multi-language analysis was undertaken and the subtleties of language were further presented.
Dr. Reimboldt presented her research on abused women living in shelters and their lived experiences, their own understandings of abuse and their use of language to describe and understand (or interpret) abuse.
Dr. Li presented her research on the language used in China to talk and discuss abuse, the silences and the use of visual narratives in Chinese TV Series to talk and raise awareness about abuse. Her work focused on the use of images and dialogues as unique markers of a cultural understanding of abuse in China.
Seminar 3: Game-based learning for prevention strategies: role of serious games
Seminar 4: donation behaviours and invisible issues: streaming platforms and digital innovation
Seminar 5: content, hashtags and people: social media as Infomediaries