Christine Barter - Academic Staff

Dr Christine Barter is Professor of Interpersonal Violence Prevention and Co-Director of the Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence and Harm. Her research interests include children and young people’s experiences of peer violence and abuse, institutional abuse, prevention of violence, domestic violence, research ethics and the integration of childhood studies and gendered power theories. She has led on a range of national and international research projects, most recently focusing on violence prevention. Christine supervisors a range of PhD students.

Christine is an nationally and internationally recognised expert in child and family welfare having led and managed over 20 research projects over the last 20 years. Christine's research interests fall into four interconnected areas: Young people’s experiences of violence and abuse in their intimate relationships; Looked after children; Evaluations of services for children, parents and families, including families with complex needs; and Evidence reviews. She has published widely on these issues.

Christine has been involved in a range of advisory roles including:

Invited member on the A Sporting Chance: An independent review of sport in justice, Ministry of Justice, 2018.
Advisor on the Parliamentary Briefing Paper drafting the amendments for the statutory implementation of relationship and sex education (relationship education in primary schools) 2018
Special advisor to the Government’s Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence in schools Inquiry, 2016-2017.
Invited speaker, Sexual Abuse Seminar, Houses of Parliament, Dept of Education. 2014.
Short-listed for the University of Bristol Impact Award (2014).
Member of the Home Office Young People’s Relationship Violence Working Group
Home Office Consultant: Acted as the main consultant on Home Office public awareness media campaign on the issue of teenage partner violence; repeated for subsequent campaigns 2010; 2011; 2012; 2014;2016.

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Research Projects

Barter, C. (lead co-applicant) Determinants and health sequelae of intimate partner violence and abuse in young adult relationships: a mixed methods study, with Prof Feder (University of Bristol) 2018-2021, Medical Research Council/ESRC, £550,000
Barter, C. (Co-applicant) TESSE – An Evaluation of the NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe Programme (SOSS), with Prof Nicky Stanley (PI, UCLan) 2018-2020, £650,000.
Barter, C. (PI) Evaluation of Stopping the Cycle of Youth Violence, Premier League and Children in Need. 2017-2019, £80,000.
Barter, C. (Co-applicant) Pilot randomised trial of Project Respect: a school-based intervention to prevent relationship violence and sexual harassment and address health inequalities among young people. NIHR PHR, with Prof Chris Bonell (PI, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine). 2017-2020, £450,000.
Barter, C. (co-applicant) Roadmap System Change Evaluation. Women’s Aid and SafeLives with Prof. Nicky Stanley, UCLan. 2017-2021. £350,000.
Barter, C. (PI) Liberty Evaluation of a Standard Risk Domestic Violence Service, 2016-2019, Big Lottery. £20,000.
Barter, C. (Co-applicant) The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), Rapid Evidence Assessment: What can be learnt from other jurisdictions about preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. IICSA, 2016- 2017, with Prof Radford (PI) UCLan. £45,000.
Barter, C. (Co-applicant) Review of the evidence on the nature and prevalence of child abuse in Scotland, with specific reference to the abuse of children in residential and foster care, Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry. 2016-2017 £40,000.
Barter, C. (PI) Safeguarding Teenage Intimate Relationships (STIR) online and offline contexts and risks (2013-2015). EU DAPHNE III. £600,000.
Barter, C. (PI) Evaluation of Integrate Bristol (UK) School-based interventions to prevent FGM (Comic Relief) 2015-2017. £15,000.

Grants

Barter, C. (lead co-applicant) Determinants and health sequelae of intimate partner violence and abuse in young adult relationships: a mixed methods study, with Prof Feder (University of Bristol) 2018-2021, Medical Research Council/ESRC, £550,000
Barter, C. (Co-applicant) TESSE – An Evaluation of the NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe Programme (SOSS), with Prof Nicky Stanley (PI, UCLan) 2018-2020, £650,000.
Barter, C. (PI) Evaluation of Stopping the Cycle of Youth Violence, Premier League and Children in Need. 2017-2019, £80,000.
Barter, C. (Co-applicant) Pilot randomised trial of Project Respect: a school-based intervention to prevent relationship violence and sexual harassment and address health inequalities among young people. NIHR PHR, with Prof Chris Bonell (PI, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine). 2017-2020, £450,000.
Barter, C. (co-applicant) Roadmap System Change Evaluation. Women’s Aid and SafeLives with Prof. Nicky Stanley, UCLan. 2017-2021. £350,000.
Barter, C. (PI) Liberty Evaluation of a Standard Risk Domestic Violence Service, 2016-2019, Big Lottery. £20,000.
Barter, C. (Co-applicant) The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), Rapid Evidence Assessment: What can be learnt from other jurisdictions about preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. IICSA, 2016- 2017, with Prof Radford (PI) UCLan. £45,000.
Barter, C. (Co-applicant) Review of the evidence on the nature and prevalence of child abuse in Scotland, with specific reference to the abuse of children in residential and foster care, Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry. 2016-2017 £40,000.
Barter, C. (PI) Safeguarding Teenage Intimate Relationships (STIR) online and offline contexts and risks (2013-2015). EU DAPHNE III. £600,000.
Barter, C. (PI) Evaluation of Integrate Bristol (UK) School-based interventions to prevent FGM (Comic Relief) 2015-2017. £15,000.

Conferences & Events

Barter, C. (September 2019) Young people’s experiences of intimate violence, (keynote) 3rd European Conference on Domestic Violence, Oslo, Norway, 2019.
Barter, C. (2018) Football and IPVA prevention in adolescent relationships – the ability to hook and hold to transform masculinities? International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Prague 2018.
Barter, C. (2017) Young women’s experiences of sexual violence and mental health, (Keynote), Institute of Psychiatrists, Let’s Talk about women and sex. London. November 2017.
Barter, C.(2017) Risk factors associated with young people’s instigation of physical, sexual and emotional abuse in their intimate relationships, IInd European Conference on Domestic Violence Porto, September 2017.
Barter, C.(2017) Interpersonal Violence and Abuse in Young People’s Same-Sex Intimate Relationships, IInd European Conference on Domestic Violence, Porto, September 2017.
Barter, C. (2017) Young people’s online and face-to-face experiences of Interpersonal violence and abuse and its subjective impact across five European countries, Interpersonal Violence Interventions - Social and Cultural Perspectives, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. June 2017.
Barter, C. (2017) Young people’s experiences of sending and receiving of sexual images (sexting) and associations with interpersonal violence in young relationships: Messages from a comparative European study, International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, September, The Hague.
Barter, C. (2017) Online Abuse in Young People’s Intimate Relationships: From research to practice. (keynote) Making Research Count National Conference, October 2017.
Barter, C. (2016) Insider and outsider views. European Anthropology in a Changing World: From Culture to Global Biology, Zagreb. August 2016
Barter, C. (2016) Images across Europe: The sending and receiving of sexual images (sexting) and associations with intimate partner violence in young people’s relationships, International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, August 2016, Canada.
Barter, C. (2015) Incidence, nature and impact of online and offline forms of intimate partner violence in young people’s relationships: Findings from the first European survey, European Conference on Domestic Violence, Queen’s University Belfast, September 2015.
Barter, C. (2015) Symposium lead: Preventing violence and abuse in young people’s relationships, BASPCAN 2015, Edinburgh, April 2015.
Barter, C. (2015) Methodological, contextual and conceptual issues for researching young people’s experiences of violence and abuse, Violence against Women and Children in Diverse Contexts, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2015.
Barter, C. (2014) Preventing violence and abuse in young people’s relationships – messages from a European research project, International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Japan, September 2014.