Migrant women suffer high rates of gender-based violence, perpetrators exploiting their precarious immigration status to make them endure domestic abuse without seeking help. Yet there is little public debate or practitioner engagement with migrant men. While the EU Gender Equality Strategy draws attention to men, boys and masculinities in the prevention of gender-based violence, its call for holistic interventions with male perpetrators falls short of interrogating the relevance of intersectionality, racial discrimination and cultural specificity. Safeguards for migrant women are limited in the UK, which left the EU without ratifying the Istanbul Convention committed to redressing discrimination against migrant women. This study interrogates how Turkish-speaking men in the UK are engaged in interventions promoting gender mainstreaming and gender equality and focuses on whether there is a cultural mismatch between interventions for perpetrators and the intersectional disadvantages Turkish-speaking minorities experience. Through a placement at Respect, an NGO that benchmarks standards for perpetrator interventions, the project will contribute to the development of culturally informed responses to the prevention of gender-based violence in community and criminal justice contexts. The psychosocial approach will be adopted to capture the agentic aspects of perpetrators' narratives, revealing the link between masculinity and violence, and how these are evidenced in the justifications they often deploy. The study will inform intervention programmes recognising the impact of migration, discrimination and marginalisation, while still holding perpetrators accountable and requiring them to ramp down their use of violence. The project builds on longstanding collaborations between the project partners, who will support the fellow to address a pressing policy question and explore answers to it with international networks to improve the safety of migrant women and children.

Online abuse is one of the most pressing challenges for our digital society. This is best demonstrated in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV) which continues to affect over two million UK adults with nearly 85% of victims/survivors subjected to some form of technology-facilitated abuse ("tech abuse"). Tech abuse describes the use of "everyday" digital systems (computers, smartphones, apps) to coerce, control, and harm a person or groups of individuals. It includes offences such as image-based abuses ("revenge porn"), cyberstalking, and GPS-tracking. It exposes victims/survivors and their children to all types of physical, emotional, and financial harm. However, the true scale, nature, and impact of tech abuse is unknown, which makes developing solutions extremely problematic. Additionally, the issue is of pressing importance because tech abuse is on the brink of rapid change. As "smart", Internet of Things (IoT) devices and Artificial Intelligence (AI) become commonplace, these systems drastically increase the reach of abusers and the ease with which they offend. For example, smart speakers or thermostats allow abusers to monitor or remotely control the physical environment of victims/survivors and gives them increased power over their most private data. The proposed research programme draws on my specialisation on the intersection of emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and gender studies, developed through over 32 publications. The initial four years of my FLF will provide me with a leadership platform to drive change by studying: (a) The conceptual fit of tech abuse with existing IPV definitions, theories, and models. (b) The background, drivers, and practices of IPV tech abuse perpetrators. (c) The safety and security shortcomings of existing digital systems such as smart, Internet-connected devices. (d) The national and international policy landscape relating to domestic abuse, online harms, and cybercrime. To achieve this, my FLF leverages excellent partnerships with a cross-sectoral mix of world-leading users and beneficiaries, including industrial (IBM, Kaspersky, Fujitsu, IoT Security Foundation), third sector (Respect, Refuge, Suzy Lamplugh Trust, European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence), academic (Prof Marianne Hester OBE, Prof Elizabeth Yardley, Dr Nicola Henry), and policy stakeholders (National Cyber Security Centre, Home Office, College of Policing). Moreover, I have confirmed policy placements (UK Domestic Abuse Commissioner) and research visits (Cornell Tech, University of Melbourne), all of which are central to collate, validate, and triangulate data, to co-develop societal responses/technical design recommendations, and to advance my career, as well as my team's. Together, my FLF will result in an unprecedented evidence-base to revolutionise the tech abuse landscape to support the security and safety of IPV victims/survivors, with the findings of the first four years culminating in the co-creation of interventions and the establishment of a much-needed theory of change.