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Safety in Bradford: Voices of Women and Girls

What’s on offer?

Bradford residents will have the opportunity to share their views on the safety of women and girls in Bradford. The aim of the event is to increase women’s awareness of research in this area, initiatives to support vulnerable people, particularly women and girls, and give women and girls the opportunity to share their views of safety and access to support. This will support the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre’s Bradford Mapping project and ongoing work by other researchers who seek to improve women and girls’ safety in Parks. The Bradford Mapping project seeks to better understand violence against women and girls in Bradford city centre, what services are available and how these are perceived and engaged with.

What’s it about?

This event aims to support the local community in Bradford to address violence against women and girls. Researchers from the University of Leeds and the University of York are interested in what women and girls in Bradford think about this topic and what local organisations and services can do to help women and girls feel safe. 

We will talk about local and national initiatives that aim to make Bradford city centre and parks a safer place for women and girls. We would like to hear your thoughts on this. Your views on women and girls’ safety in Bradford will help the team to understand how women and girls feel and what, if anything, you would like to see change. Our recommendations for local services and the local authority will include these views to improve service provision in the future. 

As an attendee, you can expect to meet friendly researchers who have been working in Bradford for several years, who would like to share with you what they have heard from practitioners and community members about how to support women and girls. More importantly, we will ask for your opinions about women and girls’ safety in Bradford. This may involve different activities depending on how much time you have and what you would like to share.

You can: 

  • Talk with the team
  • Indicate on a map where you feel safe and unsafe in Bradford City Centre
  • Write on posters what you think about different initiatives trying to address women’s safety
  • Tell us one thing that works and one thing that does not work to keep women and girls safe
  • Let us know about why you might not visit a local park and what would make your local park safer

You do not have to give us your name or any personal information, but we would like to use what you tell us to support our work in understanding perceptions and responses to safety of women and girls in Bradford city centre. We will have information available in case you want to know more about the projects or women and girls’ safety in Bradford.

Who’s leading the event?

The event is led by researchers and academics from the University of Leeds (Dr Larissa Engelmann and Dr David Rowlands, Dr Anna Barker and colleagues) and the University of York (Professor Adam Crawford and Dr Nadia Jessop). These academics work on different research projects across the UK which seek to support police and local services to address the needs of local communities. The event is co-delivered with the Women and Girls Safety Lead from Bradford Metropolitan District Council.

Open to

This drop-in event is for women and girls (over 16) who regularly come to Bradford city centre.

Of particular interest to

This drop-in event will be of particular interest to people interested in the safety of women and girls in Bradford city centre and those who want to learn more about local initiatives to support police and partners to address the needs of vulnerable people.

Event Booking details

People will not have to register as we seek to encourage drop-in of people who already frequent the city centre at the time of the event.