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Julie McGarry
Julie McGarry is an established researcher with expertise and professional background in the field of safeguarding (adults and children), gender-based violence and intimate partner violence/domestic violence and abuse with a focus towards survivors’ experiences and the development of effective health/social care professionals’ responses. Julie also has a well-established background in participant-led research exploring effective approaches to domestic violence identification and management through co-production of arts-based narrative projects with survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM) and domestic violence and abuse. Julie has initiated multi-agency collaborative scholarly partnerships on both international and national levels through leading the successful inception of the Integrated Domestic Violence and Abuse Research Group and Seminar Series within the Social Futures Centre of Excellence, Institute of Mental Health. Julie has published widely, disseminated her work through national and international conferences, and invited keynote speaker presentations. Recent co-production e-learning resource ‘Unlocking Stories: Older Women’s Experiences of Domestic Violence and Abuse told through Creative Expression’ can be accessed through the following link: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/helmopen/rlos/safeguarding/unlocking-stories/.