The questions we care about
Our research interest sits exactly where this whole platform sits: the space between housing provision and human recovery. What actually transforms a house into a home after abuse? What happens to women in the months after the tenancy starts, when the files close? Which parts of the system help recovery, which quietly hinder it, and what would survivors design differently if anyone asked them?
These questions are informed by over a decade of frontline practice in housing and domestic abuse, and by current postgraduate study in housing: academic rigour and duty-desk reality, together.
How it will work
- Lived experience first. Surveys and interviews built around survivors' own accounts of housing instability, temporary accommodation, and rebuilding.
- Ethics before everything. Informed consent, anonymity, trauma-aware methods, and the right to withdraw at any time: non-negotiable foundations, not paperwork.
- Findings that travel. Results shared openly here, and carried into the rooms where housing practice and policy get decided: through writing, partnerships, and the professional networks this platform is part of.
For researchers, students and organisations
If you are working on housing, trauma, domestic abuse or recovery and see an overlap: for collaboration, data sharing within ethical bounds, or amplifying each other's work: get in touch. This field is better joined-up than fragmented.