Gender-based violence

Questions on gender-based violence were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Questions on gender-based violence were asked in the Young Life and Times survey in 2022 - 2025.
Questions on Coercive Control were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey in 2020.
Questions on Coercive Control were asked in the Young Life and Times Survey in 2020-21.

ARK Resources

• Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls in Northern Ireland is a video highlighting ARK survey data on gender-based violence
• Feeling safe? Gender-based violence experiences of 16-year-olds (Research Update 158) by Martina McKnight and Dirk Schubotz, is based on data from the 2024 Young Life and Times Survey
• Violence Against Women and Girls - Attitudes and Experiences (Research Update 157) by Paula Devine and Martina McKnight, is based on data from the 2023 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey
• Sticks and Stones? Violence experiences of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland (Research Update 150) by Dirk Schubotz, is based on data from the 2022 Young Life and Times survey.
• Policy Roundtable: Public Understanding of Coercive Control In Northern Ireland (Policy Brief 23) by Susan Lagdon, Julie-Ann Jordan, Ann Marie Gray and Goretti Horgan, is based on an ARK round table event in August 2022.
• Young People's Understanding of Coercive Control (Research Update 143) by Susan Lagdon, Julie-Ann Jordan, Lucia Klencakova, Ciaran Shannon, Mark Tully and Cherie Armour
• Public Understanding of Coercive Control (Research Update 141) by Susan Lagdon, Julie-Ann Jordan, Ciaran Shannon, Mark Tully and Cherie Armour uses data from the 2020 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Economic Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence in Northern Ireland (Policy Brief 21) by Sarah Lawrence.

Links

• The Executive Office published a Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls and Foundational, 2024-31 in 2024. The document includes data from the Young Life and Times survey.
• The Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy 2024-31 was published by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health.
• The Executive Office has published a series of reports on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, based on data from the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey, and the Young Life and Times survey.
• 'It’s Just What Happens’ Girls and Young Women’s Views and Experiences of Violence in Northern Ireland, by Siobhan McAlister, Gail Neil, Dirk Schubotz and Michelle Templeton, was commissioned by The Executive Office in 2022.
• Every Voice Matters! Violence Against Women in Northern Ireland, by Susan Lagdon, Claire McCartan, Marcin Owczarek, Ngozi Anyadike-Danes and Mark Shevlin, Ulster University, and Claire McCartan and Julie-Ann Jordan from the IMPACT Research Centre as commissioned by The Executive Office in 2022.
• The criminalisation of coercive control by Francesca Soliman (Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information Service Research Paper NIAR 103-2019) highlights the legislative context of coercive control across the UK and Ireland.

Maintained by Paula Devine