This page includes links to research taking place and requests for help with research; as well as links to published theses and dissertations. If you would like your work to be included, please contact me with details.
If you are interested in Spanish language work, the website SEVIFIP has a page devoted to doctoral theses.
For research conducted by members of the International Network Addressing Filial Violence, see the links on this page of the Monash University website.
You can see the finished project here.
Congratulations Sophie!
Research Requests
Prof. Rachel Condry and Dr. Caroline Miles are investigating the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on families’ experience of violence and abuse from their children. The first phase, listening to parents, has been completed, and they now seek responses from Practitioners and Experts in the next phase. Responses by July 10th please. More information here.
Thien Trang Nguyen is researching adult child to parent abuse at Anglia Ruskin University, and would like to hear from parents who have experienced this.
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Participants are being sought for a survey regarding elder abuse.
I am conducting a study looking at the experiences of people who help older adults who have been victimised by someone in a position of trust. This could be family, friends, or others who help older people outside of a professional context. The objective is to understand the barriers they find and how we can better support older victims of abuse as well as these people who try to support them. My study has received ethical approval by the Ethics Committee at Royal Holloway, University of London. The study has a website with further information and contact information.
Are you eligible to participate?
You can participate in this study if you:
- Have supported a victim of elder abuse (60 or older) (e.g., provided help, advice)
- In a non-professional capacity (as their family member, friend, neighbour)
- In the UK, Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Spain.
What do you need to do to participate?
You have two options:
- You can complete a 30-minute online survey by following the link or scanning the QR code:
- You can participate in an interview (Please email the researcher to arrange a time)
Ged McElhone, of the University of Cumbria, has now moved on to the second part of his study – the child’s experience of child to parent violence – and is interested in talking to young people who might have been identified as “the abuser”.
If you know of young people who might be willing to be interviewed, please read the following information sheet.
CPV Research Directory
A list of current and recent research projects in the field of child to parent violence and abuse. Click for more information and contact details.
Victoria Baker, University of Central Lancashire, Exploring the abuse of parents by their teenage children: the experiences and perceptions of young people
Dr Hannah Bows, University of Durham, Sexual Abuse of Parents and Grandparents
Prof. Rachel Condry, University of Oxford and Dr. Caroline Miles, University of Manchester, Parents’ experiences of child and adolescent to parent violence during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Dr Shihning Chou, University of Nottingham, The associations between experiencing family violence and maltreating parents and the psychological underpinning of these associations
Fiona Creevy, University of Huddersfield, Walking on Eggshells: Parents’ Perspectives on Child-Initiated Family Abuse (provisional title)
Dr Amanda Holt, University of Roehampton, Investigating violence against grandparents in a kinship care context
Ruth Jones, OBE, University of Worcester, Should public policy and service provision responses to violence & abuse perpetrated by young people against parents in West Mercia be formulated within the dominant domestic violence framework?
Dr Sam Lewis, University of Leeds, Developing the Police Response to Child-to-Parent Violence
Gerard McElhone, University of Cumbria, Child to Parent Violence: An analysis of child to parent violence, focusing on the development of appropriate measures to improve future outcomes for children and families
Dr Caroline Miles, University of Manchester, Improving Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment
Thien-Trang Nguyen-Phan, Anglia Ruskin University, The ‘Dark Side of Families’: Exploring the Dynamics of Adult Child to Parent Abuse
Dr Alexandra Papamichail, University of Brighton, Young people who are violent towards their parents in the UK
Alexa Revels, University of Winchester, An Investigation into Adolescent-to-Parent Violence / Abuse (APVA) and the Available Services in Hampshire Which Run APVA Projects and Programmes
Nikki Rutter, University of Durham, What support needs do parents have when children are violent towards them?
Professor Julie Selwyn, University of Oxford, Evaluation of a Child to Parent Violence Project 2017-18 (report here)
