Domestic, Sexual, and Gender-based Abuse Virtual Community of Practice (vCOP)
In 2018, Haven Horizons developed a collaborative partnership with the Technological University of Shannon (TUS) to establish a DSGBA Research and Knowledge Centre. One outcome of the collaborative partnership was the development of a DSGBA virtual Community of Practice (vCOP).
The virtual Community of Practice will:
- provide a platform to share experiential knowledge
- facilitate networking opportunities
- facilitate collaboration between academics, practitioners, people with experiential knowledge and policy makers
- accelerate knowledge transfer that informs policy, practice and legislation
- provide discussion forums and events
- provide an opportunity to collaborate on resources
- promote engaged research and effective research translation in the field of DSGBA
The DSGBA virtual Community of Practice will also facilitate networking opportunities for national and international researchers seeking to develop partnerships for future gender-based abuse collaborative proposals and research projects.
The goal of the community of practice is to close the gaps in knowledge, practice, policy and legislation in order to end domestic, sexual and gender-based abuse and coercive control.
This project is part of a PhD research conducted by PhD student, Claudine Donnellan, who will be testing levels and types of engagement and interaction. All data will be collected anonymously.
Haven Horizons’ Community of Practice is underpinned by the Integrated Knowledge Translation Capacity Framework developed by Dr Jacqui Cameron (University of Wollongong). This framework provides a plan that outlines the key actions that need to be taken to enhance knowledge translation in a DSGBA research network.
Two research groups from TUS, Computing and Informatics Research Group (CaIR) and Social Sciences Connexions, have informed a multidisciplinary approach to the development of the Community of Practice.
The development of the DSGBA Community of Practice was initially funded by the Irish Research Council’s New Foundations programme 2021/ 2022.