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 management of 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
‘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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If you would like to discuss any collaborations, contact a specific team member or to find out more about the Centre, please email us.
