Events
The aim of the symposium series is to bring together academics in law, criminology, sociology, economics with public policy, and service providers and individuals to build a community of practice that, together, can seed collaborations and bring a wider suite of problems and reform proposals to the attention of policymakers. You can find out more about the past and upcoming events below.
Past event:
Institutional intimate partner financial abuse: Exploring lived experience and housing impacts
On Friday 2 May 2025 practitioners, academics and Government representatives gathered to discuss institutional intimate-partner financial abuse, the lived experiences of victim-survivors of financial abuse, and the impact financial abuse has on women’s housing over the lifecourse. Key insights from the event included: the power of embedding lived experience in policymaking and the importance of trust and time when engaging with victim-survivors; the need for careful consideration of unintended consequences when co-designing policy reforms and financial abuse interventions; and the critical need for more research focus on housing impacts for victim-survivors of financial abuse.
Past event:
Innovative methods for exploring financial abuse: A symposium
On Monday 9 September 2024, practitioners, academics and Government representatives gathered to discuss how legal, government, financial, and interpersonal systems can be mapped to identify unexplored avenues for the prevention of and intervention into intimate-partner perpetrated financial abuse. Together, the group determined that accessing previously untapped data sources and centring the lived experience of women and children - particularly those most marginalised - was critical to the innovative disruption of financial abuse.