Samantha Billingham @sammieb1980.bsky.social Advocate | Coercive Control Consultant | ABC Framework Founder | Survivor
Dr Loren Parton @loreneparton.bsky.social Criminologist/Psychologist researching technology-facilitated abuse and IBSA. Former Probation Officer. Dog mum 🐶 excessive tea drinker
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/people/academic-staff/loren-e-parton
Frauenhauskoordinierung e.V. (FHK) @frauenhauskoordinierung.de 💜 Gemeinsam mit über 280 Frauenhäusern & 285 Beratungsstellen im Einsatz gegen geschlechtsbasierte Gewalt! 💪 https://www.frauenhauskoordinierung.de/
Cordelia Moore @cordeliamoore.bsky.social digitalegewalt.de
digitalviolence.net
Working on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (tech abuse). Survivor-centred & trauma-sensitive.
Geschlechtsspezifische digitale Gewalt.
Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social Sociologist. Author of WHEN RAPE GOES VIRAL. Research on #gender #techabuse #sexualviolence #digitalculture #youth.
Dr Hannah Slack @hannahslack.bsky.social Research and Involvement Manager @ The McPin Foundation | FHEA | Interests: students' and young people's mental wellbeing, social connection & belonging | #firstgen | she/her
Yvonne Jewkes @yvonnejewkes.bsky.social Criminologist. Memoirist @ScribeUKbooks. Writer in Residence HMP Grendon and HMP Rye Hill. Creative writing tutor Freedom to Write. Agent Eleanor Birne @rcwlitagency
https://linktr.ee/YvonneJewkes
Danielle Slakoff, PhD @dslakoffphd.bsky.social Award-winning Criminologist. Associate Professor #SacState. Research: Media Portrayal of Crime/Victims, Domestic Violence, Gender, Race. Views my Own. Pronounced “Slay-coff"
Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social Criminologist with a focus on the sensory and ethnography in prisons. Also running @SensoryPenalities to share exciting new material from www.sensorycriminology.com Author of Sound, Order and Survival in Prison. All about supportive academia
Caitlin Bunce @caitlinbunce.bsky.social ESRC PhD Student, University of Nottingham
#greencriminology investigation into #waterpollution in England
Mary-Louise Corr @mlcorr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Criminology, Queen's University Belfast & Centre for Children's Rights. Youth Justice, Youth Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Youth, Narrative Research
Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England & Wales @commissionerda.bsky.social Dame Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales.
Championing all domestic abuse victims to bring change.
Unable to intervene in individual cases. Get in touch via my website ⬇️
https://domesticabusecommissioner.uk/
Dr Alice R Phillips @alicerphillips.bsky.social Research Associate investigating experiences in care, child and adolescent mental health, childhood maltreatment and, social and interpersonal outcomes.
University of Cambridge | visiting researcher at University College London & University of Oxford
Alice Quinton @alicequinton.bsky.social PostDoc @ the reimagine lab, University of Oxford
My research explores how we support autistic young people's mental health
Katy Barrow-Grint @ktbg1.bsky.social Deputy Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Constabulary. On the @wecops team! Edits @CollegeofPolice #goingequipped publication. Honorary Research Fellow at City, Uni of London Current Academic Research: Adolescent Domestic Abuse
UKPRP VISION research consortium @vision-research.bsky.social The Violence, Health, and Society (VISION) consortium is funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership. We aim to improve the measurement of data on violence to influence policy and practice and reduce violence and the health inequalities that result.
Dr Lucy Baldwin @drlucyb.bsky.social 
@operationencompass.bsky.social @operationencompass.bsky.social 
Paul Christopher @chappelp.bsky.social 
Sara Hyde @drsarahyde.bsky.social Fabian Society Chair. Councillor Islington Labour. Prisons expert. Passed-viva-but-not-yet-graduated Dr - PhD on healthcare staff experiences of prisoner suicide & self-harm. Labour Women's Network exec. Trade Unionist. Twin mumma. Kindness changes lives.
Leanne Patrick QN @leannehpatrick.bsky.social Queen's Nurse (RNMH) | Domestic abuse & sexual violence specialist | Writer | Feminist | RCN Council Member | #NurseSky 🏴
Hannah Summers @hansummers.bsky.social Investigative journalist/ family courts for @tbij.bsky.social |Best specialist journalist 2023 - Freelance Journalism Awards |Media Freedom Awards winner 2025
Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social Stories that reveal and inspire, challenging expectations.
Weekdays 7-8pm on Channel 4.
Got a story? C4Nstories@itn.co.uk
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The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
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The Telegraph @telegraph.co.uk Think ahead with the latest news, comment, analysis and video.
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Lisa Ward (she/her) @lisapinkyward.bsky.social VAWG and Lived Experience Consultant. PhD Student in CSA. Vegan runner, parkrun enthusiast, insomniac with ADHD. Dog mumma. All tweets my own views and not representative of organisations I work or volunteer for/with
Emily Katy @itsemilykaty.bsky.social AuDHD blogger 🌻, author of GIRL UNMASKED: HOW UNCOVERING MY AUTISM SAVED MY LIFE (The Sunday Times Bestseller) 📚 & Trustee of Autistic Girls Network 🦋
https://linktr.ee/itsemilykaty
Killed Women @killedwomennw.bsky.social A charity for bereaved families whose daughters, mothers, sisters or other relatives have been killed by men in the UK. We work to protect women's lives and ensure justice. We want change.
www.killedwomen.org
Crimestoppers UK @crimestoppersuk.bsky.social UK charity. Takes info about crime anonymously. Call 0800 555 111 or give info via http://crimestoppers-uk.org. We can't take information about crime via social media.
Dr Kelly Johnson @drkellyjohnson.bsky.social SL in criminology at the University of Glasgow. My work addresses domestic and sexual violence, policing, victim-survivors, justice, criminal justice, VAWG & sociolegal studies. More info: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/kellyjohnson/
Rape Crisis England & Wales @rapecrisis.bsky.social With our 36 Rape Crisis centres we deliver specialist services to those affected by sexual violence & abuse, and aim to educate, influence and make change.
Rights of Women @rightsofwomen.bsky.social Women’s legal rights charity supporting women facing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in England & Wales since 1975. Campaigns for equality, justice & safety in the law for all women.
rightsofwomen.org.uk
Hannah Wilkinson @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social Assistant Professor in #criminology at the University of Nottingham.
Researching war, state violence and social harm 
Nicola Collett @nicolacollett.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Criminology. Chair of the Criminal Record Research and Reform Network.
Dr Shardia B.Palmer @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Sociology @UoNSociology - Constructions and Experiences of Black Political Masculinities, Sex & Reproductive Healthcare Inequalities, Mental Wellbeing & Selfcare Practices in Marginalised Communities. EDI in HE, Tedx Speaker.
Dr James Tangen @jamestangen.bsky.social Academic | Criminology, Social Policy & Sociology. Former Probation Officer
Researching Probation & Community Justice
Sarah Warbis @sarahwarbis.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at Bath Spa | Researcher of bystanders, GBV and filmed VR | Researcher Wellbeing Group Founder | She/her | Views my own
Judith Vickress @judev.bsky.social Specialist domestic abuse & VAWG consultant & trainer. Creative Initiatives to Tackle Abuse. Churchill Fellow 2023.
25 years in this sector & passionate about driving change. J.vickress@creativeinitiativesta.com
Equality Now @equalitynow.bsky.social International human rights organization using the power of the law to end discrimination & violence against all women & girls around the world
https://equalitynow.org/ #GenderEquality #WomensRights
Fiona Sheil @fionasheil.bsky.social Feminist researcher and strategist. Andean cyclist. Environmental activist. Founding an inclusive system change think tank to end violence against women and girls. Because it’s long past time we did.
Michaela Taylor @mamamichaelax.bsky.social Mummy. Lived experience. Severe PND. MBU admission. PTSD. Stillbirth + recurrent miscarriage. Suicide survivor. Believer in hope. Healing is possible. 🌟
Alice Ievins @aliceievins.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, interested in punishment, especially of sexual violence.
Abi Stark @abistark.bsky.social Research interests: imprisonment; rights and citizenship of people with convictions; resettlement.
Dr Sophie Doherty @sophiedoherty.bsky.social Lecturer in Law: law and art/humanities, justice, VAWG/GBV, menstruation, visual constitutionalism, and feminism. QUB/ Durham Alumni. PhD FHEA. Belfast. 
Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim
Gender Violence Collaboration Network @gvrcn.bsky.social We are global community of 11,000+ early and mid-career researchers and practitioners in Gender-based Violence (GBV). We aim to increase collaboration, well-being and knowledge sharing through collaboration with advanced-career professionals in the field.
Murray Goulden @murraygoulden.bsky.social Sociologist of the digital and everyday, and the political economies intertwined • Move slow and fix things.
Assoc. Prof U Nottingham.
@femicidecensus.bsky.social @femicidecensus.bsky.social 
Rhys Hart @rhyshart.bsky.social Policy advisor in the streets, anxious mess in the spreadsheets | Working to end domestic abuse | London and Shrewsbury
@samaritans.bsky.social @samaritans.bsky.social 
Sensory Penalities @sensorypenalities.bsky.social Account of the book and ongoing blog: www.sensorycriminology.com run by Kate Herrity (@kateherrity) + Jason Warr (@warrcrim) for all things foregrounding a #Sensory focus on matters #Criminological. Follow for #Creative and #Sensorial takes on #Criminology
Nazir Afzal @nazirafzal.bsky.social Former Chief Prosecutor, Current Chancellor of Manchester University, member of numerous boards & patron of 9 women led charities protecting the vulnerable
All views my own
Dr Claire Meehan @drclairemeehan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology, interested in young people’s digital sexual cultures & intimacies, sexualities, gender, consent, IBSA. Book: Politics of Porn for Young People in New Zealand. Feminist. Mum of two little people, scottie dog and cat. She/ her
Karen @facethesunbefree.bsky.social Coercive control & Domestic Abuse survivor | DV campaigner, advocate & Consultant | Public speaker | Working to empower victims & survivors & promote DV awareness |
Anneli @pigletish.bsky.social Streamer on twitch @pigletish | mental health advocate | artist | simmer | abuse survivor | believes in dogs | love/hate relationship with socks | invented Autumn 🏴🏳️🌈
Jade Blue @jadeblueldn.bsky.social Secured a landmark victory by successfully suing the CPS for violating my human rights by failing to prosecute my rapist 🟦 BBC Doc: Sexsomnia: Case Closed? 🟦
SHERA Research Group International Collective researchers MVAWC @sheraresearch.bsky.social #Health #Social #Rights #Familycourt #violenceagainstwomen #Children #CSA
Insta:@sherafamily_
X: @sherafamily WARNING: SHERAFAMILLE IS A FAKE ACCOUNT
https://www.shera-research.com
Some LTs:
https://linktr.ee/elizabethdalgarno1
https://linktr.ee/dremmakatz
thrivin’ together @thrivintogether.bsky.social Offering #choicevoicechange to UK women impacted by #gambling - led by #women with #livedexperience
www.thrivintogether.org.uk
@kareningalasmith.bsky.social @kareningalasmith.bsky.social Woman. Feminist. Northerner.
Woman's Trust @womanstrust.bsky.social We are the mental health specialists within the #VAWG sector, with unrivalled experience providing specialist (and free) mental health services for survivors of domestic abuse. www.womanstrust.org.uk
Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social We support women seeking safety in the UK to rebuild their lives on their own terms.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
#WelcomeEveryWoman #SetHerFree #SistersNotStrangers
Madeleine Black @madeleineblack.bsky.social Author of #Unbroken, Speaker, Podcaster, Activist, Psychotherapist, TEDx speaker x 2
Helping others to find their courage and voice too through storytelling #metoo
Recently promoted to Grandma
Clare Laxton @ladylaxton.bsky.social Founder & Director Hawkins Laxton & Co - a Comms and Influencing Consultancy📱Criminal Justice academic - PhD specialising in intimate partner homicide & coercive control 🎓Trustee at Working Chance 💜 Podcaster at Killer in the family podcast 🎙️
Whole Housing Approach (WHA) @wholehousing.bsky.social The WHA is a framework for addressing the housing needs of DA survivors in a locality. It includes all housing tenure types alongside housing options and support initiatives needed to help maintain or access safe and stable housing.
Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) @dahalliance.bsky.social The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance’s (DAHA) mission is to improve the housing sector’s response to domestic abuse through the introduction and adoption of an established set of standards and an accreditation process.
FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Books: "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars", "Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement". Queer for cats and feminism. Recent article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2025.2502679
Simon Obendorf @obendorf.bsky.social Studying/teaching international theory, post/decolonial praxis & queer worlds. Proud Chair of Cheka Sana UK. 🇦🇺🇬🇧🏳️🌈🇪🇺 He/Him
Heather Douglas @hdouglaslaw.bsky.social Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School. Criminal law/criminalisation, family /domestic violence.
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Gracey @graceys.bsky.social Public health.
formerly @graceyswer
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
James Heydon @jheydon.bsky.social Associate Prof. in #Criminology at the Uni of Nottingham. Environmental harm, deviance and regulation. Currently focusing on #airquality and #airpollution.
Dr Jenny van Hooff @jennyvanhooff.com Sociologist at Manchester Met University. Intimacy, couples, friendship. Rhymes with loaf.
Suzie Dunn @suziedunn.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law || Interim Director of the Law and Technology Institute 
alexa dodge @xadodge.bsky.social Associate Professor @smucrim : researching tech-facilitated harm👩🏻💻 & teaching digital criminology 🤖
DIYdigitalsafety.ca
Lisa Sugiura @drlisasugiura.bsky.social Ass Prof in Cybercrime and Gender. Researches online gender-based violence and incels. Currently in my Red era. 
Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social Consultant psychotherapist/ disability activist/ bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker, future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️🥄💜🎭🦓🥄🏳️🌈
#MadSky #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Neurodivergent #Mad https://t.co/83d2Ztwpp2
Ellie Wilson @ellieokwilson.bsky.social Survivor & campaigner | Justice reformer ⚖️ | ‘Pain can either be your prison or your platform’ | UofG world changing alumni | Speaker, writer, & analyst ✍🏽 https://www.elliewilson.net/
Solace @solacewomensaid.bsky.social Solace is a leading specialist charity in the UK supporting women and children experiencing domestic abuse and sexual violence. Whatever form violence comes in. www.solacewomensaid.org
Dr Emma Katz @dremmakatz.bsky.social A world-leading coercive control expert. Academic researching domestic violence. http://linktr.ee/dremmakatz In-demand speaker. Author. Find me on Substack. http://dremmakatz.substack.com
Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social Leading national organisation, working to prevent and address the impact of domestic violence and abuse. 24hr National Freephone Helpline 1800341900 www.womensaid.ie. RCN: 20012045 
Charlotte Proudman @drproudman.bsky.social Woman of the Year 2025 | Family Law | Cambridge Academic | Founder @Right2Equality. Personal account; RT/likes not endorsements.
Women's Aid Federation Northern Ireland @womensaidni.bsky.social Supporting women, children & young people affected by domestic abuse.
✉️ info@womensaidni.org
Jo Todd CBE @jotodd.bsky.social CEO at Respect, mum to 3 teenage boys
Refuge @refugecharity.bsky.social Refuge provides specialist services to survivors of domestic abuse. We run the Freephone 24 hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247
Sikh Women’s Aid @sikhwomensaiduk.bsky.social UK-based ‘by & for’ support service for victims of domestic/sexual abuse& faith based exploitation in the Sikh & Panjabi Community.
Home of #ThePhulkaariPodcast 🎙️
The Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social 📣Leading Conversations About #CSA Through Survivor-Led Training, Campaigning & Support
🌸Sophie Olson: Founder/activist/writer
📖Author of The Flying Child - A Cautionary Fairy Tale For Adults 🌸(ZunTold)
#TheFlyingChildStory #CSASurvivorSky
Dr Sophie Hindes 🌈💗they/them @drsophiehindes.bsky.social Queer and critical criminologist. Research Fellow at ARCSHS. I research LGBTQ+ communities and sexual violence. Veggie garden enthusiast.
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Dr Kim Detjen, LCSW @drkimdetjenlcsw.bsky.social Social Work Academic Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust/Academic at ARU & Uni of Greenwich/Associate for RiP NCB/PE & ASYE Assessor/Trainer/Consultant/Domestic Abuse/C&F SW/American in the UK
Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics, University of Lincoln. Parliament, the intelligence services, a little bit of social policy.
Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social Trying to leave things better than I find them
Analytical Scientist 👩🔬 #AcademicMentalHealth advocate 🌱 Founder VoicesofAcademia.com 💬 Author of "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD" 📘 ADHDer 💚 Proud mum 👶 she/her. Views mine.
Dr Adrienne Barnett @dradriennebarnett.bsky.social Reader in Law, Brunel University of London. Research domestic abuse and family court proceedings
Anna Tarrant @profatarrant.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Following Young Fathers Further
Chair of Trustees of the North East Young Dads and Lads
Research, education and training about father-inclusive practice and policy
https://followingyoungfathersfurther.org
Dr Sharron FitzGerald @sharronfitz.bsky.social Academic: VAW, trafficking, gender, law
Director LEX network
lexnetwork.org
Bluesky: lexnetwork.bsky.social
Co-E-in-C Gender & Justice
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gj/gj-overview.xml
genderandjustice.bsky.social
Emma Storey @emma-storey.bsky.social Director of Housing at Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse
https://www.standingtogether.org.uk/
https://www.dahalliance.org.uk/