Clare is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at 51. Her research examines various forms of gender-based violence (GBV) including economic abuse, tech-facilitated violence and coercive control. Clare’s current research projects focus on (1) designing out economic abuse in the UK banking industry (EPSRC/UKFIN+) and (2) women’s experiences of coerced debt in the context of domestic abuse (British Academy). Previous projects have examined online misogyny and abuse; trauma-informed lawyering in the context of civil claims for sexual violence; and women's experiences of subterranean public space. Clare’s work adopts qualitative, ethnographic and participatory design methodologies, is committed to intersectional analysis, and typically draws upon a feminist political economy theoretical framework.
Clare is programme lead for the MA Criminology and Criminal Justice programme, and co-leads the University’s Gendered Violence and Abuse IDRT. She also chairs the British Society of Criminology's North-East Regional Group and is Coordinating Editor of Feminist Legal Studies. Outside of academia, Clare's work often extends into the community and into policy arenas at national and international levels. She has worked as a steering group member of North East Women's Network; has helped inform Police and Crime Commissioners’ strategies around violence against women; and has lobbied the UN CEDAW Committee about rising levels of violence against women in the UK.
Clare welcomes enquiries from prospective students who wish to undertake a PhD about any topic relating to GBV – especially projects about economic abuse, post-separation abuse, tech-facilitated abuse, misogyny and incel culture, and the political-economic causes and consequences of GBV. Clare is the NINEDTP Pathway Lead for Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work and can support students with their applications.
Clare's current research projects include:
Designing out economic abuse in the UK banking industry - this project is funded by EPSRC/UKFIN+ and takes a proactive stand against economic abuse by identifying and proposing ways of radically reconfiguring the banking features that abusers use to their advantage, and envisioning new functionality that can prevent abusive behaviour. In close collaboration with banking professionals and under the design leadership of victim-survivors, the project will produce a key set of recommendations for designing out economic abuse from banking products.
The role of coerced debt in domestic abuse contexts in Britain - this project is funded by the British Academy and uses semi-structured interviews with victim-survivors of coerced debt and other relevant stakeholders to examine: (1) the occurrence of coerced debt in the context of domestic abuse; (2) survivors’ experiences of coerced debt and the consequences it has for their lives; (3) the links between coerced debt and other forms of domestic abuse; and (4) legal and financial responses to coerced debt in Britain. A feminist political economy framework guides this study, drawing attention to issues of structural gender inequality, economic insecurity, neoliberal reform, austerity and debt.
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