Welcome to the Centre for Protecting Women Online

About the Centre

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The Centre for Protecting Women Online is funded by a £7.7 million grant from Research England. It will be a vehicle for understanding and addressing challenges posed to women’s safety online through a novel, interdisciplinary and ambitious research agenda.

This will be 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 will be 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.

Diagram showing the structure of the Centre. At the top overarching theme of regulation, which covers 4 sub-themes; law and policy, policing, ethical and responsible tech and AI, and the future of responsible tech. Beneath the 4 sub-themes, is the underlying theme of human behaviour.