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Neyla Fidan

Portrait of Neyla Fidan, RDR PhD student

Supervisor: Dr Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson and Dr Estella Carpi
Funding: Self-funded
Email: neyla.fidan.24@ucl.ac.uk

DASHing from Violence: Deficiencies in risk assessment tools in evaluating cultural factors of abuse among migrant women.

This project will give essential attention to migrant women experiencing all forms of domestic abuse in the UK and how DASH fails them. I aim to highlight the failures of DASH in quelling instances of domestic abuse amongst migrant women, while also working to
develop a more effective and applicable tool for these demographics.

This research project asks: ‘How and why risk assessment tools are ineffective in evaluating cultural factors of domestic abuse amongst migrant women, and how a tool better equipped to address these specific instances can be developed?’

Publications

  • “An inquiry into same-sex intimate partner violence and the inapplicability of battered woman syndrome for same-sex violence cases within claims of self-defence.” Arbor Undergraduate Research Journal, University of Toronto (May 2023).

Qualifications

  • Honours Bachelor of Arts from University of Toronto (Double Major in Criminology & Sociolegal Studies and Philosophy).
  • Master of Science from University of Oxford in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Teaching experience