ECDV 2025

CONTRIBUTIONS ARE WELCOME TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING THEMES:

  • Child protection and child welfare services responses to domestic violence
  • Children experiencing domestic violence
  • Community intervention, support networks and upstander/bystander approaches
  • Criminal Investigation and judicial processes
  • Digital violence against women and/or children / Technology related abuse
  • Domestic abuse and masculinities
  • Domestic abuse within LGBQ+ &/or T relationships
  • Domestic violence and disability
  • Domestic violence-related homicide
  • Economic/Financial abuse in the context of violence against women and domestic violence
  • Female genital mutilation
  • Femicide or suicide
  • Forced Marriage
  • Health impacts
  • Health Responses
  • Historical perspective on domestic violence in Europe
  • Historical perspective on violence against women in Europe
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Legal culture. Legal Frameworks
  • Men’s experiences of domestic violence and other gender-based violence
  • Migrant, Refugee and Displaced Women
  • Perspectives and Experiences of Risk Assessment
  • Police responses
  • Post separation / custody issues
  • Prevalence and typologies
  • Preventive actions and responses on domestic violence
  • Preventive actions and responses on violence against women
  • Researching domestic violence
  • Researching violence against women
  • Retaliation against supporters: Isolating Gender Violence
  • Sex trafficking
  • Sexual freedom and consent
  • Sexual violence
  • Shelters / Refuges responses
  • Stalking
  • The role of education in preventing violence against women and domestic violence
  • The role of social movements in the response to violence against women and domestic violence
  • Understanding domestic abuse/violence against women through an intersectional lens
  • Using new technologies to analyse or respond to domestic violence
  • Using new technologies to analyse or respond to violence against women
  • Violence against older women
  • Violence against women and disability
  • Violence against women and masculinities
  • Violence against women in armed conflict situations
  • Violence against women in universities
  • Violence and abuse in young people's intimate relationships
  • Violence in migration contexts
  • Violence in sporadic relationships
  • Working with perpetrators of violence against women/domestic violence
  • Open session
  • Open session in Spanish (only for Workshops)

ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

Oral presentations will have a duration of 15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions. Oral sessions last 90 minutes, with four papers per session. A chair appointed by the Scientific Committee will introduce the speakers and manage the time.

The posters will be placed on display boards in the foyer of the conference venue. The posters will be sorted alphabetically by surname. Presenters should be present at their poster during the lunch-café breaks on Wednesday 3 September or Thursday 4 September (as indicated in the programme) for questions and discussion.

A prize will be awarded to the best poster presented by students (if you want to participate in the prize, please select the corresponding section in the registration form). For more information please go to "criteria for posters award" or click here

An oral paper presentation and a poster may be authored by an individual or by a group. If you are unable to find a suitable theme to submit your proposal against, then please just use the ‘Open session’ category. The submitted abstract should be 300 words or less. In cases where there is more than one author, one person should log in and register as Author 1, and then add all the other authors as Author 2, Author 3.,…Author 1 will be responsible for completing the online form including selecting the preferred theme and indicating the second preferred theme matching the paper's contribution. Author 1 will be the person with whom we communicate, and it is their responsibility to liaise with the other named authors.

One person cannot submit more than 2 contributions as the first author (in any of the possible formats). However, participants can be co-authors in more than 2 contributions in the Conference. In order to appear in the programme, all the co-authors of any contribution to this conference need to be registered.

Deadline for abstract submission is midnight on December 12th, 2024.



CLICK ON HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL!



INFORMATION ABOUT CERTIFICATES

The Coordinating Committee for the conference will provide two types of certificates:

1) Certificate of Attendance: For those fully registered at the ECDV in Barcelona but not presenting any contribution in the scientific programme for the conference and have attended.

2) Certificate of Presentation of Work: For those presenting papers or posters accepted for presentation at the European Conference on Domestic Violence in Barcelona.

Only contributors being fully registered (with the payment of the conference fee complete) and presenting or co-presenting a contribution (oral paper/poster/symposium/workshop) will receive this certificate.

The Conference organizers can not certify the authorship of contributions or the delivery of contributions. This certificate is individual to the registered conference delegate.