Researcher Núria Rodríguez-Planas receives an Advanced Grant

Núria Rodríguez-Planas is a researcher at the Department of Economics of the City University of New York (Queens College).
Núria Rodríguez-Planas is a researcher at the Department of Economics of the City University of New York (Queens College).
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(30/03/2023)
Researcher at the City University of New York, Núria Rodríguez-Planas has obtained a European Advanced Grant to study the factors of domestic violence in the European Union, a project to be developed at the University of Barcelona. WomEmpower will receive a funding of 2.49 million euros to identify those factors that increase or reduce the risk of victimization and perpetration from a causal perspective, in order to design policies that eradicate gender violence in Europe. Today, the new call for Advanced Grants from the European Research Council has been published.  
Núria Rodríguez-Planas is a researcher at the Department of Economics of the City University of New York (Queens College).
Núria Rodríguez-Planas is a researcher at the Department of Economics of the City University of New York (Queens College).
News | Research | Institutional
30/03/2023
Researcher at the City University of New York, Núria Rodríguez-Planas has obtained a European Advanced Grant to study the factors of domestic violence in the European Union, a project to be developed at the University of Barcelona. WomEmpower will receive a funding of 2.49 million euros to identify those factors that increase or reduce the risk of victimization and perpetration from a causal perspective, in order to design policies that eradicate gender violence in Europe. Today, the new call for Advanced Grants from the European Research Council has been published.  

According to data from the World Health Organization, one in three women globally suffers from violence or sexual violence. Ending with gender and domestic violence is one of the big priorities in the European Commission, as stated in the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025. Rodríguez-Planas notes that, at the moment, “we have information about the factors, the costs and the consequences associated with domestic violence”, but we have little information “about the factors that lead to an increase or reduction of the risk of victimization or perpetration”. “Moreover, many studies are focused on groups of women who have either been victims of gender violence of have a high risk of victimization”, the researcher adds.

WomEmpower is an innovative proposal because it suggests combining a great variety of populational data from different sources (hospital data, reports, physical, psychological or sexual violence surveys) with quantitative methodology from economics, in order to identify those factors that increase or reduce the risk of victimization and perpetration from a causal point of view.   

WomEmpower is an innovative proposal because it suggests combining a great variety of populational data from different sources.
This is an interdisciplinary project —it feeds on sociology, public health, gender studies and psychology— which considers intersectionality: it will study how structural inequalities (poverty, immigration, ethnics, etc.) have an impact on the risk of gender violence.

“WomeEmpower aims to respond to three basic questions: what is the risk of victimization of women when they become mothers?; what role do gender rules play in the incidence of domestic violence, gender discrimination and acceptance or rejection of hegemonic behaviours ascribed to the standard ‘masculinity’ of a society?; and last, what is the impact of an increase in the income of women with low-paid jobs on their risk of victimization?”, says Rodríguez-Planas.

The European Research Council has given 218 Advanced Grants, representing an investment of 544 million euros to promote cutting-edge research in fields such as medicine, physics, social sciences and humanities, among others. This grant is considered to be the most prestigious and competitive aid given by the Council, since it offers the researchers the chance to carry out the research that can lead to great scientific advances.  



 

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