Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls 2026
Online 23 April 2026, 9:30am - 1:00pm
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9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
9:40am
Opening Keynote: Confronting Violence Against Women and Girls - Challenges, Accountability, and Change in the UK in 2026
- Examining the interconnected social, economic, cultural, and structural factors driving the current landscape of VAWG in the UK
- The roles and responsibilities of central government, local authorities, and policymakers in preventing and responding to abuse
- Priorities for coordinated, long-term action beyond 2026
10:10am
Panel Discussion: Prevention and Early Intervention - Transforming Attitudes and Behaviours in Boys and Men
- Challenging misogyny, sexism, and harmful gender norms that underpin violence
- Education as prevention: the role of schools, universities, and informal learning spaces
- Tools to engaging men and boys as active allies, leaders, and advocates for change
- The influence of online spaces, media, and peer culture on attitudes and behaviour
- Identifying evidence-based early intervention approaches that create lasting change
- Questions and Answers
10:50am
Comfort Break
11:10am
Keynote: Centring Lived Experience - Designing Effective and Trauma-Informed VAWG Services
- How to elevate survivor voices to inform service design, delivery, and evaluation
- Understanding how systems and service responses are experienced in practice
- Barriers to access, trust, and engagement for diverse communities
- Turning lived experience insight into meaningful, sustainable change
11:35am
Intersectionality and Inequality: How Overlapping Identities Shape Experiences of VAWG
- Exploring how race, disability, sexuality, age, and immigration status shape experiences of VAWG
- The specific risks and barriers faced by migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking women
- Understanding how multiple forms of inequality and abuse intersect and compound harm
- Identifying inclusive, equitable responses that meet the needs of diverse communities
12:00pm
Panel Discussion: Hidden Harms - Recognising and Responding to Emerging Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls
- Understanding coercive control and psychological abuse as sustained patterns of harm, not isolated incidents
- Technology-facilitated abuse, including online harassment, stalking, and image-based sexual abuse
- The impact of AI technologies and their contribution to new forms of harassment, violence, intimidation and isolation
- Addressing workplace harassment and exploitation, power imbalances, and barriers to reporting
- Women’s safety in public spaces and on public transport, including the cumulative impact of everyday harassment
12:30pm
Questions and Answers Session
12:45pm
Chair's Closing Remarks and Conference Close