Published Undergraduate Dissertations

By Federica Aurora Salanitri, London Metropolitan University. Femicide represents one of the most severe forms of gendered violence. It exposes the limits of state protection, despite extensive legal frameworks addressing domestic abuse and lethal violence in both Italy and England and Wales. This dissertation adopts a qualitative, documentary-based comparative methodology to examine how legal definitions, institutional structures and professional cultures shape the state’s

By Simona Maciute, London Metropolitan University. This dissertation examines the experiences of women victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence in the United Kingdom, focusing on the effectiveness of support systems and the barriers women face when seeking justice. The study explores how legal frameworks, criminal justice responses, and support services influence victims’ access to protection, recovery, and empowerment. Using a desk-based literature review methodology,

By Mia Hatch, University of Surrey. This dissertation investigates the construction of gendered narratives in UK newspaper coverage of female-perpetrated domestic abuse (DA). Even though existing research and campaigning has extensively explored DA, there remains to be an insufficient focus on the portrayal of female perpetrators and male victims in news media. This raises important questions around how evolving dynamics of DA is going to be understood, if reporting still op