Sundari Anitha is Professor of Gender, Violence and Work at the University of Lincoln. She has researched and published widely on the problem of violence against women and girls (VAWG); on gender and migration; and on gender, race and ethnicity in employment relations. Anitha has previously managed a Women’s Aid refuge and was a caseworker at a ‘by and for’ refuge for South Asian survivors of domestic abuse and has been involved in policy-making and activism to address VAWG for over two decades.