Centre for Culturally Sensitive and Faith-informed Domestic Violence Services

The Centre specialises in designing robust, community-grounded, culturally appropriate and faith-informed research on domestic violence in religious, ethnic minority and migrant communities with the aim to develop or inform effective interventions that are contextualised and integrated in local response systems. The Centre builds on the work we achieved at Project dldl/ድልድል, co-creating several successful domestic violence data-driven responses with communities in Ethiopia and the UK.

As a Centre, we are especially interested in:

• Promoting religio-cultural sensitivity in the UK’s domestic violence services sector, with a special interest in collaborative approach working with regulatory bodies, established generalist services and ‘by and for’ organisations at community level.
• Scaling out the Project dldl/ድልድል Model to conduct research on domestic violence in underrepresented communities, including those in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and inform services-provision.
• Exploring novel, sustainable and scalable approaches to providing culturally sensitive and faith-informed domestic violence services in ethnic minority and migrant religious populations.

Centre Lead, Members and Contributors