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.

Watch the Centre launch promotional video, filmed on campus at The Open University Library in Walton Hall, Milton Keynes featuring the CPWO team.

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.