James
@jhrowlands.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | Durham University | Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) | Researching domestic abuse-related deaths, fatality review, femicide, LGBTQ+ domestic abuse | He/him
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James
@jhrowlands.bsky.social
· Mar 28
The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths
Considering the potential and peril of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuserelated deaths, this book examines what DARDRs – first...
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📢 Publication Day! 🚀
My new book - The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths - is out today with #routledge
📖 Get your copy & save 20% with code 25ESA1
🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Potentia...
My new book - The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths - is out today with #routledge
📖 Get your copy & save 20% with code 25ESA1
🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Potentia...
A rather early start for a Saturday but for a good reason. I’m off to Sunderland this morning to the Stadium of Light to run a Durham University Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) event with Prof. Catherine Donovan exploring Violence, Abuse and Control in LGBT+ 🏳️🌈 Relationships. 1/2
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A rather early start for a Saturday but for a good reason. I’m off to Sunderland this morning to the Stadium of Light to run a Durham University Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) event with Prof. Catherine Donovan exploring Violence, Abuse and Control in LGBT+ 🏳️🌈 Relationships. 1/2
⚠️ Just under a week to go to respond to the call for contributions for the Palgrave Handbook on Domestic Homicides and Death Reviews, edited by Myrna Dawson and myself. 1/3
September 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
⚠️ Just under a week to go to respond to the call for contributions for the Palgrave Handbook on Domestic Homicides and Death Reviews, edited by Myrna Dawson and myself. 1/3
Pleased to have worked with Professor Catherine Donovan, & with input from members of the LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Practice Network & Briony Anderson & Holly McSpadden, to develop guidance for researching domestic abuse in LGBT+ communities. Find out more.👇 lnkd.in/evXAsqk2
September 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Pleased to have worked with Professor Catherine Donovan, & with input from members of the LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Practice Network & Briony Anderson & Holly McSpadden, to develop guidance for researching domestic abuse in LGBT+ communities. Find out more.👇 lnkd.in/evXAsqk2
Pleased to be joining @sarahdangar.bsky.social to talk about 'Addressing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths by Suicide and Paths to Learning' for a Practice Development Webinar run by #MakingResearchCount
September 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Pleased to be joining @sarahdangar.bsky.social to talk about 'Addressing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths by Suicide and Paths to Learning' for a Practice Development Webinar run by #MakingResearchCount
@martindimarco.bsky.social and I have just had a new article published in the @ijqmonline.bsky.social in which we explore ethics in domestic abuse-related deaths and perpetrator studies👇https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16094069251374613
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September 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
@martindimarco.bsky.social and I have just had a new article published in the @ijqmonline.bsky.social in which we explore ethics in domestic abuse-related deaths and perpetrator studies👇https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16094069251374613
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The ECHO Project is a longitudinal study on relationships and mental health in LGBTQIA+ communities. All LGBTQIA+ adults (18+) living in the UK or Ireland can take part. Participants receive a One4All voucher. Learn more & sign up: echoproject-research.com/join-study
August 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The ECHO Project is a longitudinal study on relationships and mental health in LGBTQIA+ communities. All LGBTQIA+ adults (18+) living in the UK or Ireland can take part. Participants receive a One4All voucher. Learn more & sign up: echoproject-research.com/join-study
Really pleased to have a chapter in @katefitzgibbon.bsky.social & Sandra Walklate’s new book, 'Femicide: Problems, Possibilities, and Prevention', which brings together leading international scholars to critically examine how femicide is defined, understood, and prevented across diverse contexts.
August 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Really pleased to have a chapter in @katefitzgibbon.bsky.social & Sandra Walklate’s new book, 'Femicide: Problems, Possibilities, and Prevention', which brings together leading international scholars to critically examine how femicide is defined, understood, and prevented across diverse contexts.
The weakness of oversight of recommendations from domestic homicide/abuse-related death reviews is something I’ve highlighted in my research. It’s a shocking gap. So, good to see @commissionerda.bsky.social pushing to ensure we learn & act after these deaths.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Labour not learning lessons from deaths of domestic abuse victims, report finds
Exclusive: ‘Deeply concerning’ oversight as government fails to act on recommendations made after victim’s death
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The weakness of oversight of recommendations from domestic homicide/abuse-related death reviews is something I’ve highlighted in my research. It’s a shocking gap. So, good to see @commissionerda.bsky.social pushing to ensure we learn & act after these deaths.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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For Pride this year colleagues have been sharing their LGBT+ icons and to conclude what has been a month of learning, celebrating and remembering we wanted to share our last icon - Ellen Pence!
Jo Todd, CEO at Respect, shared why Ellen is one of her icons…
For Pride this year colleagues have been sharing their LGBT+ icons and to conclude what has been a month of learning, celebrating and remembering we wanted to share our last icon - Ellen Pence!
Jo Todd, CEO at Respect, shared why Ellen is one of her icons…
June 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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For Pride this year colleagues have been sharing their LGBT+ icons and to conclude what has been a month of learning, celebrating and remembering we wanted to share our last icon - Ellen Pence!
Jo Todd, CEO at Respect, shared why Ellen is one of her icons…
For Pride this year colleagues have been sharing their LGBT+ icons and to conclude what has been a month of learning, celebrating and remembering we wanted to share our last icon - Ellen Pence!
Jo Todd, CEO at Respect, shared why Ellen is one of her icons…
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They shared why specialist, tailored responses to domestic abuse are so important, and their hopes for a safer, more inclusive future.
Read more below ↓
drivepartnership.org.uk/publication/...
@womencentre.bsky.social
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Pride, partnership, and progress: Improving responses to domestic abuse within LGBT+ communities - The Drive Partnership
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June 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
They shared why specialist, tailored responses to domestic abuse are so important, and their hopes for a safer, more inclusive future.
Read more below ↓
drivepartnership.org.uk/publication/...
@womencentre.bsky.social
Read more below ↓
drivepartnership.org.uk/publication/...
@womencentre.bsky.social
Thank you #AAFDA for the chance to join the DHR Forum today. As a practitioner & researcher, it's great to have spaces where we can come together, share best practices, work through common challenges, and think about what it means to do this difficult work well.
June 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Thank you #AAFDA for the chance to join the DHR Forum today. As a practitioner & researcher, it's great to have spaces where we can come together, share best practices, work through common challenges, and think about what it means to do this difficult work well.
This BBC news report powerfully highlights family experiences of #domestichomiciderewiews #domesticabuserelateddeathreviews, not least in terms of the impact of the length of time they can take & confidence in whether they bring about change. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/6
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/6
Domestic abuse review delays are 'hell', bereaved families say
The reviews aim to prevent future attacks but just 1% are completed on time, BBC research suggests.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This BBC news report powerfully highlights family experiences of #domestichomiciderewiews #domesticabuserelateddeathreviews, not least in terms of the impact of the length of time they can take & confidence in whether they bring about change. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/6
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/6
Today is an important milestone as requests are going to local #communitysafetypartnerships for data about the deaths they receive notifications for and what they then commission in terms of #DomesticHomicideReviews #DomesticAbuseRelatedDeathReviews.
June 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Today is an important milestone as requests are going to local #communitysafetypartnerships for data about the deaths they receive notifications for and what they then commission in terms of #DomesticHomicideReviews #DomesticAbuseRelatedDeathReviews.
I'm currently recruiting for a 6-month Research Assistant/Associate post, nominally one day a week, with flexibility in terms of actual working times. The research is looking at the commissioning of domestic homicide / suicide-related death reviews.
May 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I'm currently recruiting for a 6-month Research Assistant/Associate post, nominally one day a week, with flexibility in terms of actual working times. The research is looking at the commissioning of domestic homicide / suicide-related death reviews.
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⏳FINAL CfPs #LEXJointConferenece OPEN CALL🌎
✅'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression’.
✅ Keynotes: #ProfMaggieO'Neill & #ProfAishaGill
✅ Liverpool University November 6-7 2025
✅Registration on LEX website lexnetwork.org under ‘Events'
✅ Deadline May 30 2025 1/3 1/3
✅'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression’.
✅ Keynotes: #ProfMaggieO'Neill & #ProfAishaGill
✅ Liverpool University November 6-7 2025
✅Registration on LEX website lexnetwork.org under ‘Events'
✅ Deadline May 30 2025 1/3 1/3
LEX Research Network – Law Gender & Sexuality
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May 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
⏳FINAL CfPs #LEXJointConferenece OPEN CALL🌎
✅'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression’.
✅ Keynotes: #ProfMaggieO'Neill & #ProfAishaGill
✅ Liverpool University November 6-7 2025
✅Registration on LEX website lexnetwork.org under ‘Events'
✅ Deadline May 30 2025 1/3 1/3
✅'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression’.
✅ Keynotes: #ProfMaggieO'Neill & #ProfAishaGill
✅ Liverpool University November 6-7 2025
✅Registration on LEX website lexnetwork.org under ‘Events'
✅ Deadline May 30 2025 1/3 1/3
Excited to be attending the first Welsh Single Unified Safeguarding Review #SUSR dissemination event today. So good to see efforts to support and enoucrage a community of practice.
May 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Excited to be attending the first Welsh Single Unified Safeguarding Review #SUSR dissemination event today. So good to see efforts to support and enoucrage a community of practice.
Great to be able to share the proceedings from the 'Learning across statutory reviews: Developing a shared agenda' conference that I and Elizabeth Cook hosted earlier this year👇
collections.durham.ac.uk
May 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Great to be able to share the proceedings from the 'Learning across statutory reviews: Developing a shared agenda' conference that I and Elizabeth Cook hosted earlier this year👇
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My union branch is looking for a last push on petition signatures against job cuts at Durham.
Potential redundancies & de facto imposed voluntary severance through fear is a gendered attack on the local working class in county Durham.
Please share, sign & support.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Potential redundancies & de facto imposed voluntary severance through fear is a gendered attack on the local working class in county Durham.
Please share, sign & support.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Support Durham Staff: Stop the Cuts!
Durham University plans to cut £20 million from staff costs over the next two years. These cuts threaten a minimum of 200 jobs in the first year alone and will increase workloads, damage student suppo...
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May 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My union branch is looking for a last push on petition signatures against job cuts at Durham.
Potential redundancies & de facto imposed voluntary severance through fear is a gendered attack on the local working class in county Durham.
Please share, sign & support.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Potential redundancies & de facto imposed voluntary severance through fear is a gendered attack on the local working class in county Durham.
Please share, sign & support.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A frustrating anniversary: the consultation on ‘Updating the domestic homicide review statutory guidance’ opened on 1 May 2024. But, a year later, we still have no consultation response. So, we’ve no idea what stakeholders said or any indication about what comes next for the statutory guidance 1/7
May 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A frustrating anniversary: the consultation on ‘Updating the domestic homicide review statutory guidance’ opened on 1 May 2024. But, a year later, we still have no consultation response. So, we’ve no idea what stakeholders said or any indication about what comes next for the statutory guidance 1/7
I'm marking third-year dissertations this week. Reading dissertations is a great part of the job (although I always eat a lot more Maltesers than normal or is healthy...) It's such a privilege to work with students as a supervisor and see them take their ideas through to a completed project.
April 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I'm marking third-year dissertations this week. Reading dissertations is a great part of the job (although I always eat a lot more Maltesers than normal or is healthy...) It's such a privilege to work with students as a supervisor and see them take their ideas through to a completed project.
Interesting to see this article about #domestichomicidereviews in the ROI as a way to “respectfully ask the hard, painful questions” but questioning the delay in their introduction www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Sarah Harte: Why Ireland still fails to learn from domestic homicides — and how we can change that
Ireland urgently needs domestic homicide reviews to learn from preventable partner killings and close gaps in frontline responses
www.irishexaminer.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Interesting to see this article about #domestichomicidereviews in the ROI as a way to “respectfully ask the hard, painful questions” but questioning the delay in their introduction www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
On my way to Edinburgh today to be part of conversations about introducing domestic homicide and suicide #reviews in Scotland. There’s lots of great parts to the job of an academic: being able to be in the room & to work with practitioners & policymakers to implement something is high on the list.
April 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
On my way to Edinburgh today to be part of conversations about introducing domestic homicide and suicide #reviews in Scotland. There’s lots of great parts to the job of an academic: being able to be in the room & to work with practitioners & policymakers to implement something is high on the list.
It was interesting to read this report from @safelives.bsky.social about #MARAC, and it was good to see a connection being made to learning from #domestichomicidereviews. I have two reflections.
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On Wednesday we’ll be at a launch event of this report commissioned by the Mayors Office for Policing And Crime ( #MOPAC ), sharing our key findings and recommendations into how #London can better manage and prevent the risk of serious harm from #DomesticAbuse.
On Wednesday we’ll be at a launch event of this report commissioned by the Mayors Office for Policing And Crime ( #MOPAC ), sharing our key findings and recommendations into how #London can better manage and prevent the risk of serious harm from #DomesticAbuse.
March 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It was interesting to read this report from @safelives.bsky.social about #MARAC, and it was good to see a connection being made to learning from #domestichomicidereviews. I have two reflections.
📢 Publication Day! 🚀
My new book - The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths - is out today with #routledge
📖 Get your copy & save 20% with code 25ESA1
🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Potentia...
My new book - The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths - is out today with #routledge
📖 Get your copy & save 20% with code 25ESA1
🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Potentia...
The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths
Considering the potential and peril of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuserelated deaths, this book examines what DARDRs – first...
www.routledge.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢 Publication Day! 🚀
My new book - The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths - is out today with #routledge
📖 Get your copy & save 20% with code 25ESA1
🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Potentia...
My new book - The Potential and Peril of Reviewing Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths - is out today with #routledge
📖 Get your copy & save 20% with code 25ESA1
🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Potentia...