IPVPUBEXP

Promoting change in approaching intimate partner violence through the analysis of public media and health experts knowledge

Coordinatore	LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY    more  Organization address address: Holloway Road 166-220 city: LONDON postcode: N7 8DB contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Liz Cognome: Kelly Email: send email Telefono: 442071000000 Fax: 442071000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	165˙540 €
EC contributo	165˙540 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-04-01   -   2013-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Holloway Road 166-220 city: LONDON postcode: N7 8DB contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Liz Cognome: Kelly Email: send email Telefono: 442071000000 Fax: 442071000000	UK (LONDON)	coordinator	165˙540.80

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Over the last few decades, intimate partner violence (IPV) has increasingly gained public attention and has been established as a gender-based issue and a priority concern in the international policy agenda. Despite remarkable achievements, effective transformations are strongly bound to established forms of social knowledge and unequal gender relations. Drawing on a gender perspective, and integrating it with psychological, social, and political theories, this study aims to explore the dynamics of social understandings and practices related to intimate partners violence interacting with broader changes. More precisely, this proposal looks at how the recent notion of IPV is symbolically signified, negotiated and shaped in the public sphere and in the institutional arena, by conducting field studies in two European countries, Italy and the UK. Common sense thinking and expert knowledge of IPV are analysed and compared: public knowledge is scrutinised through the analysis of media news and representations while institutional knowledge is investigated through the analysis of health professionals’ approaches. The rationale of the cross-cultural comparison between UK and Italy rests on their remarkable differences in terms of approach to the feminist perspective, to gender equality and ethnic diversity. It is expected that the present proposal might contribute to a sounder understanding of how IPV is represented in society and, ultimately, to its prevention in the European context.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Progress is being made on promoting change in the way intimate partner violence (IPV) is approached. An EU project contributed to this by analysing the public media and the knowledge of health experts.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

IPV is a grim topic that has gained widespread attention over the past decades. Yet, proper knowledge regarding the dynamics of social understanding and how to provide a means to implement change is fundamentally lacking.

In light of this, the EU-funded project IPVPUBEXP examined IPV through a gender perspective and also integrated it with psychological, social and political theories. The goal was to discover how the public as well as institutional perspectives have been formed.

Field studies were conducted in Italy and the United Kingdom, as a comparative approach, drawing on two major national newspapers in each country. News stories were collected during the years 1990, 2000 and 2010. The main aim was to examine how intimate violence is covered in press reporting.

Findings from the media analysis showed that IPV is portrayed as a private domestic concern. As such, there is an emphasis on homicide and a seeming link to mental and emotional imbalance. In short, this results in the issue becoming misrepresented overall.

The second half of the project's work, which involved the exploration of health practitioners' knowledge and understanding in both countries, revealed a gap. Health professionals claimed that while they are sympathetic and want to offer more help, they are in need of further knowledge to better equip them to fully handle such cases.

Both areas of the study, media and health care, are useful for policymaking in these areas in order to implement measures for change.