Gender Violence

Adult Memories and Consequences and Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse
Remembering Childhood Sexual Abuse

This research looked at longitudinal data about adult memories of abuse-related traumas from childhood. Findings from this project can be used to design interventions for and promote the health and well-being of victims of childhood sexual abuse and violence.


Attachment- and Mindfulness-Based Interventions

Interventions based on exploring intergenerational attachment patterns and learning to use mindfulness exercises can be useful in helping pregnant and parenting teens modulate their reactions to stress.


Battered Mothers' Testimony Project
Gender and Justice

This statewide project combines human rights fact-finding, qualitative research, advocacy, and community organizing to document and address the injustices inflicted on battered mothers and their children during family court child custody and visitation litigation.


Creating a Family Court Advocacy Training Curriculum for Battered Minority and Immigrant Women
Empowering Battered Immigrant Women

Through this project we will develop and pilot-test a new family court advocacy training curriculum for service providers who work with battered immigrant and minority women.  This project is intended to directly affect the lives of battered immigrant women by empowering them with substantive, strategic knowledge.


Dating Violence Prevention Programs in Public Middle Schools
A Collaborative Multi-Level Experimental Evaluation

The goal of this study is to increase the capacity of schools to prevent Dating Violence/Harassment (DV/H) by evaluating the effectiveness of current multi-level DV/H prevention programming in middle schools within a large urban school district.


Decriminalizing Consensual Teen Sex
Law and Consensual Teen Sex

This project explored the ways in which states attempt to regulate consensual adolescent sexual behavior through criminal law.


Developing Direct Connections on Bullying and Harassment to Curriculum Frameworks and Performance ..
Linking Bullyproof to Curriculum Frameworks and Performance Standards: Nationwide

This project led to the development a teacher's manual that links curriculum on bullying and harassment directly to national education standards, based on Bullyproof curriculum.


Development and Evaluation of Sexual Violence/Harassment Prevention Programs
Sexual Violence/Harassment Prevention Programs in Middle Schools

This study is designed to help increase the capacity of programs to prevent sexual violence and harassment. The long-term goal/objective of this study is to help prevent intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and sexual harassment by employing the most rigorous methods to evaluate strategies for altering the violence-supportive attitudes and norms of youth.


Dual-Trauma Couples
Couples where both members have a history of childhood trauma

This project is attempting to address the question as to what happens when both members of a couple have a history of childhood trauma.


Gender & the Law in China Expert Group Consultation
Chinese Expert Group on Gender & Law

international work  The project brings together China’s leading scholars on gender and the law to build common cause on women’s rights in China.


Homeless Women and Intimate Partner Violence

A collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance and numerous shelters in Boston, this study involves surveying and interviewing homeless women with respect to their experience of childhood trauma and intimate partner violence. 


Improving the Court Approach to Domestic Violence Cases in the Massachusetts Family Courts
Massachusetts Domestic Violence Data Collection

This project will provide systematic data on court cases involving domestic violence in Massachusetts.


Intimate Partner Violence, Motivational Interviewing and Health Outcomes
Proposal to train domestic violence advocates

A collaboration with the HAVEN Program at Mass General Hospital for a proposal to train domestic violence advocates to use motivational interviewing with victims of partner violence.


Longitudinal Research on Partner Violence, Child Physical Abuse, and Child Sexual Abuse
Partner Violence, Child Physical Abuse, and Child Sexual Abuse

This study examined the ways in which physical and/or sexual violence within a family affects the individual, the family unit, and the community. The project focused on prevention programs and policies in order to better understand the varied outcomes of family violence.


Middle School Bullying & Sexual Violence: Measurement Issues & Etiological Models
Informing Sexual Violence Prevention

This research project addresses a critical issue by examining the overlap of bullying perpetration/victimization and sexual violence in order to inform sexual violence prevention in US schools.


National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center
A consortium to help prevent violence against women.

The Centers for Disease Control established this consortium of WCW, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of Missouri. 


Navy Family Study
Violence in Navy Families

This longitudinal study examined family violence within the Navy and was designed to help Navy leaders develop their family advocacy program.


Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence in Schools: A Research and Development Project Linking Schools
Title IX, Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence in Schools

This project created a collaborative intervention model and curriculum for schools and community-based organizations in order to understand and counter rising rates of rape, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in school environments.


Stages of Change in Intimate Partner Violence
Impact of stages of change on both male batterers and their female partners

This project looks at the impact of stages of change on both male batterers and their female partners.


Teasing and Bullying
Addressing Teasing and Bullying in Schools

This project worked to examine and counteract the effects of the culture of bullying on children and youth by raising awareness about bullying and by exploring the links between bullying, other forms of aggression, and violence through a combination of research, action, and advocacy.


Women in Development IQC: Gender Matters
School-related Gender Violence in Developing Countries
international work

  Through this project, a review was developed to identify, annotate, and synthesize research studies and projects/interventions addressing primary and secondary school-related gender-based violence in developing countries. The review was conducted in 2003 and again in 2005/2006.


Women's Insights Project: African-Americans and Intimate Partner Violence
Domestic Violence and African-American Women

The Women’s Insights Project was a study that is designed to explore the experiences of African-American women who have survived IPV. Specifically, the purpose is to gain an understanding of the perceived costs and benefits that African American women experiencing intimate partner violence face when they consider seeking help from family, friends, and social institutions.


Zero Tolerance
Sexual Harassment Policies: Zero Tolerance

Through this project, researchers examined experiences of sexual harassment in schools even when zero-tolerance policies may exist.