Technology-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence: A multidisciplinary examination of prevalence, methods used by perpetrators and the impact of COVID-19.

A multidisciplinary team of academics from the University of Kent’s Institute for Cyber Security in Society (iCSS) received funding from the Home Office Domestic Abuse Perpetrators Fund to conduct research into the perpetration of Technology Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence (TFIPV). The project comprised of 4 workstreams: 1) A Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) of the evidence base around TFIVP, 2) A thorough analysis of a representative sample of cases of TFIPV as reported to The Cyber Helpline, 3) interviews and surveys with Helpline Responders around their experiences responding to TFIPV and 4) a synthesis of the findings and a visual presentation.