About the Centre
The Centre for Protecting Women Online is funded by a £7.7 million grant from Research England. It is the vehicle for understanding and addressing challenges posed to women’s safety online through a novel, interdisciplinary and ambitious research agenda.
This is combined with cross-sectoral, collaborative outputs and interventions which inform law, policy, technology development and practice to reduce online harms suffered by women and girls; minimise anti-social behaviours online whilst promoting pro-social behaviours and help build tech/software that helps ensure accountability, credibility and helps facilitate justice.
The Centre is led by Prof Olga Jurasz, Professor of Law and work of the Centre is delivered through a management and five interwoven Work Streams: Law and Policy, Human Behaviour, The Future of Responsible Tech, Ethical and Responsible Tech/AI and Policing.
Watch the Centre launch promotional video, filmed on campus at The Open University Library in Walton Hall, Milton Keynes featuring the CPWO team.
Media presence
Blackmailed: The Sextortion Killers – An OU/BBC Co-production | BBC, The Open University co-production
The Open University awarded £7.7m to protect women and girls online | The Open University
Women now ‘expect to be abused online’ | (thetimes.co.uk)
Together against violence: Tech’s role in addressing VAWG and RASSO | (techuk.org)
Open University centre in Milton Keynes aims to protect women from online violence | BBC News
£156m to expand excellent research units in English universities | UKRI
OU research reveals shocking level of online violence experienced by women and girls across the UK | OU News
‘We get bombarded’: study reveals ‘shocking’ impact of online abuse on girls | The Guardian
Almost one fifth of women in Wales experience online violence, survey finds | ITV News Wales
The Open University establishes new centre for protecting women online following £7.7 million grant | MKCitizen
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