On the 12th November 2025, we ran a webinar on the "Health outcomes of victim-survivors accessing specialist domestic abuse services: the role of abuse experience, vulnerabilities and sociodemographic characteristics" where we welcomed guest speakers Dr Annie Bunce, City St George's, and Estela Capelas Barbos. You can watch the webinar recording below.
Extra Resources
| vamhn_webinar_12_nov_2025__wa_health_outcomes_presentation.pdf |
Speaker information
Dr Annie Bunce is a Research Fellow in Criminology and accredited member of the British Psychological Society whose research focuses on developing effective ways to support the recovery, and research engagement, of those with experience of abuse and adversity. Prior to her PhD Annie worked for third sector organisations including Victim Support and the Samaritans. Her PhD explored prisoners’ motivation to take part in a rehabilitation programme, which formed the qualitative part of a wider mixed methods process and outcome evaluation.
After her PhD she joined the research team at HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP). She is currently based at the Violence and Society Centre at City St. George’s, University of London, where she is part of the Violence, Health, and Society (VISION) consortium; a multidisciplinary collaboration bringing data together from health and crime surveys, health services, police and third sector services to improve the measurement of violence and health inequalities to inform prevention.
Annie’s primary role is delivering the specialist services work strand, processing and analysing administrative datasets provided by research partners from specialist sexual and domestic violence support services. She is also part of the National Working Group on Teenage Relationship Abuse (TRA) and involved in VISION’s lived experience engagement work, having led two small participatory projects with survivors of TRA and people with lived experience of the criminal justice system. Annie has maintained an interest in prisons, having recently undertaken secondary analysis of HMIP survey data to explore trends in violence and victimisation in prisons in England and Wales.
After her PhD she joined the research team at HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP). She is currently based at the Violence and Society Centre at City St. George’s, University of London, where she is part of the Violence, Health, and Society (VISION) consortium; a multidisciplinary collaboration bringing data together from health and crime surveys, health services, police and third sector services to improve the measurement of violence and health inequalities to inform prevention.
Annie’s primary role is delivering the specialist services work strand, processing and analysing administrative datasets provided by research partners from specialist sexual and domestic violence support services. She is also part of the National Working Group on Teenage Relationship Abuse (TRA) and involved in VISION’s lived experience engagement work, having led two small participatory projects with survivors of TRA and people with lived experience of the criminal justice system. Annie has maintained an interest in prisons, having recently undertaken secondary analysis of HMIP survey data to explore trends in violence and victimisation in prisons in England and Wales.