Our ARK colleagues are running an event on 10 June to mark the public release of the 2020 Northern Ireland Life & Times (NILT) survey (www.ark.ac.uk/nilt). The survey recorded the views of 1,292 respondents across Northern Ireland to key social policy issues.

Public Understanding of Coercive Control
Thursday 10 June 2021, 11.00-12.30 via Zoom

Coercive control is a form of domestic abuse also known as: emotional or psychological abuse; indirect abuse; or emotional torture. In order to address the need for evidence-based knowledge to improve public awareness and victim response to coercive control, a module of questions was included in the 2020 NILT survey.

Dr Susan Lagdon (Ulster University) and Dr Julie-Ann Jordan (Northern Health and Social Care Trust) will highlight the key findings of these questions, and discuss public understanding of coercive control within intimate relationships. An expert panel will give their comments, followed by a general discussion.