The Sexual Violence Research Podcast
Episodes
S5E2 Missing from the Data: The Invisible Crisis of Sexual Violence Against LGBTQI+ Youth
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
LGBTQI+ young people face disproportionate levels of sexual violence and exploitation globally. Yet in many countries, they remain invisible - in heal...
S5E1 SVRI Forum 2026: Making space for conversations that matter to end GBV
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we take you inside the SVRI Forum - the world’s leading global conference dedicated to research, practice, and action on violence a...
S4E11 Turning Evidence into Action: Are Global Actors Delivering on GBV Prevention?
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Translating research into real-world programs, policies, and advocacy is essential for ending violence against women and children. Yet, despite clear ...
S4E10 How Male Supremacism Drives Gender Based Violence
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Male supremacism is the belief that men are more important, more valuable, or should have more power than women; reinforcing gender inequality, and cr...
S4E9 Can Policy Reform Help Reduce Intimate Partner Violence?
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Policy reform has enormous potential to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) - yet this area is surprisingly under-researched. Through systems such...
S4E8 Understanding IPV Over Time: The Power of Longitudinal Research
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Understanding intimate partner violence (IPV) requires more than a snapshot in time. Long-term studies that follow people and communities over years c...
S4E7 Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education: Rethinking Institutional Responses
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Universities and colleges are meant to be spaces of learning, growth, and opportunity. Yet for many, they can also be environments where sexual and ge...
S4E6 Field Building in Crisis - Sustaining the violence prevention sector in unprecedented times
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Around the world, organisations and activists working to end violence against women and violence against children are facing unprecedented threats, fr...
S4E5 GBV and LGBTQ+ Communities: Addressing the Research Gap
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we turn our attention to gender-based violence and LGBTQ+ communities. GBV within LGBTQ+ communities is a serious yet under-researched issue...
S4E4 Working with Faith Leaders in Prevention and Response to Gender Based Violence
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Faith and religion are central to the lives of billions of people around the world. In many communities, faith leaders are among the most trusted voic...
S4E3 Conflict-related Sexual Violence - Centering Survivors
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conflict zones are places of immense hardship - with people facing displacement, broken healthcare systems, and separation from families and communiti...
S4E2 New Tools for Measuring Sexual Violence Interventions
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Measuring the impact of violence prevention interventions is crucial to understanding which efforts are truly making a difference in reducing sexual...
S4E1: Masculinity, Misogyny, and the Manosphere - A Conversation with Gary Barker
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The manosphere is a sprawling online network of forums, influencers, and content that brings together ideas about men, power, gender roles and identit...
S3E12: Impact and Memory - Voices from the SVRI Forum 2024
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The SVRI Forum 2024 brought together a diverse group of researchers, activists, donors, practitioners, and survivors, united by a shared goal: to crea...
S3E11: Activism in Action: The Power of the 16 Days Campaign To End Violence
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The fight against gender-based violence is a 365 day commitment, but for 16 days each year, the global community unites to raise awareness, ignite con...
S3E10: The Power of Data: Protecting Children from Sexual Violence
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One in five girls and one in seven boys will experience some form of sexual violence before their 18th birthday. These statistics are shocking, and hi...
S3E9: The Powerful Journey of Two Activists
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Survivors hold the key to bringing about empowering and systemic change in the field of gender-based violence. Their stories and their voices must be ...
S3E8: How Online Pornography is Fueling Sexual Violence Among Young People
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By the age of 16 more than 90% of boys will have watched online pornography, some even as young as nine. Research is also showing us that exposure to ...
S3E7: Adapting IPV Prevention Programmes: Key Insights and Best Practices
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With around 30% of women globally experiencing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), the need for effective and adaptable interventions is more urgent than...
S3E6: Addressing violence against LGBTQI+ people
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sexual violence can happen to anyone and by anyone, but research shows LGBTQI+ communities are targeted specifically because of their identities. Whil...
S3E5 How can we prevent technology facilitated child sexual violence?
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Online spaces were not created or designed with children in mind. Children are exposed to all kinds of content on the internet, and interact with stra...
S3E4 Understanding the psychology of men who use violence
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do certain men use violence in certain situations? How do they rationalise their actions? And should researchers approach them with empathy? From ...
S3E3 How can we improve safeguarding against sexual abuse in the humanitarian sector?
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it still so hard to talk about sexual exploitation and abuse within humanitarian agencies? What are we doing to safeguard against this kind of ...
S3E2 Are RCTs The Best Way to Evaluate Violence Interventions?
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What works and what doesn’t in reducing violence driven by gender inequality? While many teams around the world search for the perfect intervention ...
S3E1 Making just and inclusive systems for change
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To shift the balance of power and control, to end violence driven by gender inequality, we need deep systemic change. Creating just and inclusive syst...
S2E12 Collective Care and Kindness
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Change starts from within us.” With so many important goals to achieve, it can be difficult to remember the importance of prioritising health and...
S2E11 Technology facilitated gender-based violence
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From trolling to stalking to the sharing of intimate images, technology has facilitated a wide range of threats against women. But what implications d...
S2E10 Improving the Way We Measure Impact
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Measuring the impact of violence prevention interventions is an incredibly important part of the process, as it allows us to understand what works and...
S2E9 The Role Of Climate Change In Violence Against Women
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The United Nations estimates 80% of people displaced by climate change are women, putting them at greater risk of violence, including sexual violence....
S2E8 How To Conduct Ethical Research
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we ensure research in the area of violence against women and violence against children is ethical and ethically funded? In this episode, we h...
S2E7 Taking back power and control in research
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who has the power when it comes to research in the area of violence against women and violence against girls? And what can we do to ensure that power ...
S2E6 Research for Impact
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we ensure research in the area of violence against women and violence against girls leads to meaningful change? Research for impact is often ne...
S2E5 Engaging religious and spiritual leaders in addressing violence against women
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Faith and spiritual leaders are often deeply trusted and hugely influential people in the heart of their communities. In this episode, we consider the...
S2E4 Technology facilitated sexual violence against children
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the world’s use of technology grows, so too does it’s role in facilitating sexual violence against children. Throughout this episode we conside...
S2E3 Engaging men and boys - what works?
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Engaging men and boys in violence prevention programmes can produce real world benefits. This strategy - to be successful - has to be implemente...
S2E2 Practise-Based Knowledge
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are many methods of gathering research, data and evidence in the work we do to end violence against women and violence against girls. One of tho...
S2E1 The Power of Connecting
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alone we cannot end violence against women and violence against children. Connecting with other researchers, funders, policymakers and survivors is an...
S1E12 How To Conduct Research on Violence Against Women Ethically
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ethics must be considered ahead of any research which addresses violence against women. Safety is of paramount importance when working with vulnerable...
S1E11 Decolonising Knowledge and Funding in the VAW field
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Decolonising knowledge production in the field of violence against women is about empowerment. Instead of allowing Western ideals to dominate knowledg...
S1E10 How to Conduct Research with Children Ethically
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Researching violence against children is an incredibly important, yet ethically challenging task. How do we balance the importance of involving childr...
S1E9 The Power of Activism and Women’s Movements
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is often the passion and activism of women’s movements that powers and transforms evidence to influence policy change. So how can we support acti...
S1E8 Research for Impact
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Research is only useful if it leads to meaningful change. So, when assessing what works to end violence against women and violence against girls, how ...
S1E7 What Is The Evidence Telling Us?
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout this podcast we’ve heard about many incredible programmes that have been taking place globally to prevent violence against women and viol...
S1E6 Engaging Faith and Spiritual Leaders
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Faith and spiritual leaders are influential, often deeply trusted members of their communities, with power to direct community attitudes on violence a...
S1E5 Mental Health
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The mental health impacts of sexual violence, abuse and exploitation are complex. To ensure the effectiveness of our mental health interventions post ...
S1E4 Ethical Funding in VAW prevention and response
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Very little funding is dedicated to understanding what works to prevent violence against women and how to strengthen responses for survivors. And when...
S1E3 Global Shared Research Agenda
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Funding in the field of violence prevention is often misdirected, with research agendas set by people far removed from the communities the research is...
S1E2 Starting Young
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Children who are exposed to violence are more likely to become perpetrators or victims as adults. They may also suffer from a variety of lifelong issu...
S1E1 Engaging Men
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Engaging men in violence prevention interventions is crucial. Many of the issues we see today stem from harmful ideas of masculinity. In many societie...
Trailer
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a podcast from the SVRI, the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. Our vision is to see a world free of violence against women and violence aga...