Publications

Do get in touch if you are having difficulty getting hold of any of the research publications (you can also try Royal Holloway – Janet C. Bowstead).

My most recent research publications include both academic and policy/practitioner-focused publications:

More academic-focused:

Bowstead JC. 2015. Forced migration in the United Kingdom: women’s journeys to escape domestic violence. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series 40: 307–320 DOI: 10.1111/tran.12085 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12085/full
Bowstead JC. 2016. Women on the move: theorising the geographies of domestic violence journeys in England. Gender, Place and Culture 24:1 108-121 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2016.1251396
Bowstead JC. 2017. Segmented journeys, fragmented lives: Women’s forced migration to escape domestic violence. Journal of Gender-Based Violence 1: 43–58 DOI: 10.1332/239868017X14912933953340
Bowstead JC. 2019. Spaces of safety and more-than-safety in women’s refuges in England. Gender, Place and Culture 26:1 75-90 https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1541871
Bowstead JC. 2019. Safe Spaces of refuge, shelter and contact: Introduction. Gender, Place and Culture 26:1 52-58 https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1573808
Bowstead JC. 2020. The Role of Means of Transport in Women’s Mobility to Escape from Domestic Violence in England and Wales.” Mobilities 15:4 559-574 doi:10.1080/17450101.2020.1750289
Bowstead, Janet C. 2021. “There Is Always a Way Out! Images of Place and Identity for Women Escaping Domestic Violence.” In Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe: Discourses, Images, and Practices, edited by TizianaBanini and Oana-Ramona Ilovan, 191–202. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-66766-5_13
Barry, K., Southern, J., Baxter, T., Blondin, S., Booker, C., Bowstead, J.C., Butler, C., Dillon, R., Ferguson, N., Filipska, G., Hieslmair, M., Hunt, L., Ianchenko, A., Johnson, P., Keane, J., Koszolko, M.K., Qualmann, C., Rumsby, C., Sales Oliveira, C., Schleser, M., Sodero, S., Soliz, A., Wilson, L.A., Wood, H., Zinganel, M., 2022. An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm. Mobilities. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2136996

More policy-focused:

Bowstead JC. 2013. What – if anything – is local about domestic violence? Safe 47: 10–13
Bowstead JC. 2015. Why women’s domestic violence refuges are not local services. Critical Social Policy 35: 327–349 DOI: 10.1177/0261018315588894 http://csp.sagepub.com/content/35/3/327
Bowstead JC. 2019. Women on the move: Administrative data as a safe way to research hidden domestic violence journeys. Journal of Gender-Based Violence 3:2 233-248 https://doi.org/10.1332/239868019X15538575149704
Bowstead, Janet C., Stuart Hodkinson, and Andy Turner. 2020. “Uncovering Internally Displaced People in the Global North through Administrative Data: Case Studies of Residential Displacement in the UK.” In The Handbook of Displacement, edited by Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton, and Ayesha Siddiqi, 431-450. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1_30
Bowstead, Janet C. 2021. “Stay Put; Remain Local; Go Elsewhere: Three Strategies of Women’s Domestic Violence Help Seeking.” Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence 6 (3): 4. doi:10.23860/dignity.2021.06.03.04. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol6/iss3/4/
Bowstead, Janet C. 2022. “Journeyscapes: The Regional Scale of Women’s Domestic Violence Journeys.” People, Place and Policy 16 (3): 219–235. doi:10.3351/ppp.2022.8332428488. https://extra.shu.ac.uk/ppp-online/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/journeyscapes-womens-domestic-violence-journeys.pdf

I have also provided evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic and Sexual Violence [https://www.womensaid.org.uk/appg-reports/] and the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on Domestic Violence, Forced Marriage and “Honour”-Based Violence [https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmhaff/263/263we01.htm ]

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) has used my research as a case study for geographical research having policy and practice impact. More details and a download here: https://www.rgs.org/about-us/what-is-geography/impact-of-geography/understanding-geographical-patterns-of-forced-migration-from-domestic-violence

Earlier publications and media coverage:

I have been working and writing on women’s domestic violence journeys for many years. My first academic research was an MA dissertation at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University in 2008 which analysed journeys to a selection of women’s refuges in England:

Bowstead JC. 2008. The extent and implications of forced migration/relocation for women fleeing domestic violence. London Metropolitan University (unpublished MA dissertation), London.

A presentation given at the British Library from this research is available at:

Bowstead JC. 2009. Mapping the forced migration of women fleeing domestic violence Available at: http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/socsci/events/dangerspaces/mds.html

An article in the journal Violence Against Women which includes this research is available at:

Coy M, Kelly L, Foord J, Bowstead JC. 2011. Roads to Nowhere? Mapping Violence Against Women Services. Violence Against Women 17: 404–425 DOI: 10.1177/1077801211398637 http://vaw.sagepub.com/content/17/3/404.abstract

My PhD research analysed domestic violence journeys to access services across England and integrated mapping and statistical analysis with survey, interview and creative groupwork data:

Bowstead JC. 2013. The extent and implications of women’s forced migration journeys to escape domestic violence. London Metropolitan University (unpublished PhD thesis), London.

Interim theoretical concepts were published in an in-house journal:

Bowstead JC. 2011. Space and place as constraints and resources in women’s strategies to escape domestic violence. Metronome 1: 9–17 DOI: http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/468/

Interim research findings were published in a briefing paper which received considerable media coverage locally, nationally and internationally.

Media coverage included interviews on BBC Radio (Leeds, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire), the front page article of The Independent newspaper in the UK, and online articles from the Netherlands, New York and Somaliland.

The Independent (11 April 2012):

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/scale-of-abuse-against-women-revealed-7637592.html?origin=internalSearch

Daily Mail (12 April 2012):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128732/Battered-Britain-How-19-000-women-year-forced-homes-abusive-partners.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

News Track India [India] (12 April 2012):

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/04/12/279-Shocking-extent-of-abused-women-across-Britain-revealed-for-first-time.html

360 Magazine [Netherlands] (14 April 2012):

http://www.360magazine.nl/in-het-nieuws/671/mishandeling-zorgt-voor-binnenlandse-volksverhuizing#.Uib6cT-DnMo

Togdheer News [Somaliland](April 2012 – no longer available online):

http://www.togdheernews.com

The New York Times [USA] (17 April 2012):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/world/europe/18iht-letter18.html?pagewanted=2&_r=4&ref=europe