Dr Oona Brooks

Reader (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 7722
email: Oona.Brooks@glasgow.ac.uk

Sccjr, Room 302A, Ivy Lodge, 63 Gibson Street

Biography

I joined SCCJR (Sociology) at the University of Glasgow in September 2013. My research interests include police and criminal justice responses to sexual violence and domestic abuse, victim-survivor experiences and understanding of 'justice', alternative forms of justice, feminist advocacy and practice, creative methodologies and forms of representation.

Recent research:

Operation Soteria/Project Bluestone: transforming the policing response to reports of rape and sexual assault in England and Wales’ (funded by Home Office). https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/project/bluestone-soteria/
Exploring Survivor Views on Sentencing for Rape and Sexual Assault (funded by Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service). https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/new-research-offers-window-into-how-victim-survivors-of-rape-and-sexual-assault-view-sentencing-in-scotland/
Social and health impacts of COVID-19 suppression in vulnerable groups (co-lead for Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence stream)(funded by the Chief Scientists Office). https://scotlandinlockdown.co.uk/
IMPRODOVA: Improving Frontline Responses to Domestic Violence in Europe (funded by Horizon2020). https://www.improdova.eu/
Justice Journeys: informing policy and practice through lived experience (funded by ESRC Impact Acceleration Account and Scottish Government, Justice Analytical Services). https://justicejourneysonline.com/
Evaluation of the Rape Crisis Scotland National Advocacy Project (funded by the Scottish Government via Rape Crisis Scotland). https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/national-project-provides-life-changing-advocacy-work-to-victims-of-sexual-violence/

Roles and affiliations include:

REF Impact Lead for UoA 20 (Social Policy and Social Work)
Founder and coordinator of the Glasgow University Gender Based Violence Research Forum http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/groups/genderbasedviolenceresearchforum/
Member of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Gender, Crime and Justice
Member of the European Network on Gender and Violence
Member of Women Against Violence Europe
Member of BSA Violence Against Women Study Group
Member of the Scottish Government’s Victims Taskforce

Research interests

My main research interests include rape and sexual assault, domestic abuse, criminal justice responses to sexual and domestic offences, victim-survivor experiences and understanding of 'justice', the prevention of gender-based violence, feminism and gender.

Research groups

Criminology

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2024

Johnson, Kelly, Walling-Wefelmeyer, Rosa, Smith, Olivia, Hohl, Katrin and Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2024) Re-imagining procedural justice in policing sexual violence: centring survivors. British Journal of Criminology, (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azae060) (Early Online Publication)

Hillyard, Susan and Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2024) Is Co-Location a Useful Tool in Police and Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA) Partnership Working? Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow.

Smith, Olivia, Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X and Johnson, Kelly (2024) Key Findings from Operation Soteria: Pillar 3, Year 1: Embedding procedural justice and engaging victims. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow.

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and Glinski, Jenn (2024) Victim-Survivor Views and Experiences of Sentencing for Rape and Other Sexual Offences. Project Report. Scottish Sentencing Council.

2023

Burman, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194, Brooks-Hay, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X and Friskney, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0515-5717 (2023) Operationalising coercive control: early insights on the policing of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018. In: Douglas, Heather, Fitz-Gibbon, Kate, Goodmark, Leigh and Walklate, Sandra (eds.) The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780197651841 (In Press)

2022

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Saunders, Kristina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6714-9040 and Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 (2022) A toxic mix: the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on the post-separation experiences of domestic abuse survivors. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 6(3), pp. 426-441. (doi: 10.1332/239868021X16536613142067)

Smith, O., Johnson, K. and Brooks-Hay, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2022) Detailed Learning from Pillar 3 of Soteria: Embedding procedural justice and engaging victims. Other. Operation Soteria Bluestone.

2021

Friskney, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0515-5717, Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X and Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 (2021) Frontline responses to domestic abuse in Scotland. In: Lobinkar, Branko, Vogt, Catharina and Kersten, Joachim (eds.) Improving Frontline Responses to Domestic Violence in Europe. University of Maribor University Press: Maribor, pp. 239-255. ISBN 9789612865436 (doi: 10.18690/978-961-286-543-6.14)

2020

Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Bradley, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-7649, Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X and Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 (2020) Justice journeys: Survivor stories. [Website]

Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2020) Feminist framings of victim advocacy in criminal justice contexts. In: Tapley, Jacki and Davies, Pamela (eds.) Victimology: Research, Policy and Activism. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 135-157. ISBN 9783030422875 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-42288-2_6)

Williamson, Emma, Lombard, Nancy and Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2020) Domestic violence and abuse, coronavirus, and the media narrative. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 4(2), pp. 289-294. (doi: 10.1332/239868020x15893043718030) (PMID:32934437) (PMCID:PMC7483056)

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2020) Doing the “right thing”? Understanding why rape victim-survivors report to the police. Feminist Criminology, 15(2), pp. 174-195. (doi: 10.1177/1557085119859079)

2019

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and Bradley, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-7649 (2019) Justice Journeys: Informing Policy and Practice Through Lived Experience of Victim-Survivors of Rape and Serious Sexual Assault. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, Glasgow.

2018

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and McFeely, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-1727 (Eds.) (2018) Domestic Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives and Innovative Practices. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care. Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781780460598

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2018) Policing domestic abuse: the gateway to justice? In: Brooks-Hay, Oona, Burman, Michele and McFeely, Clare (eds.) Domestic Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives and Innovative Practices. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care (22). Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, pp. 25-38. ISBN 9781780460598

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X and Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 (2018) Understanding, defining and measuring domestic abuse. In: Brooks-Hay, Oona, Burman, Michele and McFeely, Clare (eds.) Domestic Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives and Innovative Practices. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care (22). Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, pp. 10-24. ISBN 9781780460598

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and McFeely, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-1727 (2018) Introducing Scotland's approach to domestic abuse. In: Brooks-Hay, Oona, Burman, Michele and McFeely, Clare (eds.) Domestic Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives and Innovative Practices. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care (22). Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, pp. 1-9. ISBN 9781780460598

McFeely, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-1727, Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2018) Conclusion: looking back, moving forward ('Ahin/gang forward'). In: Brooks-Hay, Oona, Burman, Michele and McFeely, Clare (eds.) Domestic Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives and Innovative Practices. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care (22). Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, pp. 93-102. ISBN 9781780460598

Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2018) Victims are more willing to report rape, so why are conviction rates still woeful? Conversation, 8 Mar.

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X and Lombard, N. (2018) 'Home game': domestic abuse and football; the role of research in policy and practice. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 2(1), pp. 93-108. (doi: 10.1332/239868018X15155986580769)

Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2018) Aligning policy and law? The creation of a domestic abuse offence incorporating coercive control. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 18(1), pp. 67-83. (doi: 10.1177/1748895817752223)

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194, Bradley, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-7649 and Kyle, Deborah (2018) Evaluation of the Rape Crisis Scotland National Advocacy Project: Final Report. Project Report. SCCJR.

Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2018) Young women’s responses to safety advice in bars and clubs: implications for future sexual violence prevention campaigns. In: Lombard, Nancy (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence. Routledge: London, pp. 274-286. ISBN 9781472483515

2017

Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2017) ‘Guys! Stop doing it!’: Young women’s adoption and rejection of safety advice when socializing in bars, pubs, clubs and implications for future campaigns. In: Lombard, Nancy (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence. Routledge. ISBN 9781472483515

Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X and Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 (2017) Reporting rape: victim perspectives on advocacy support in the criminal justice process. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 17(2), pp. 209-225. (doi: 10.1177/1748895816667996)

2015

Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X and Kyle, Deborah (2015) Dual Reports Of Domestic Abuse Made To The Police In Scotland: A Summary Of Findings From A Pilot Research Study. Project Report. Scottish Institute for Policing Research, Dundee.

Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and Kyle, Deborah (2015) Evaluation of Support to Report Pilot Advocacy Service: Summary Report. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, Glasgow.

2014

Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2014) The interplay between power and reflexivity in the feminist research process. In: Lumsden, Karen and Winter, Aaron (eds.) Reflexivity in Criminological Research: Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 90-101. ISBN 9781137379399

Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2014) Rising rape figures in Scotland could actually be a step forward. Conversation,

Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2014) Interpreting young women's accounts of drink spiking: the need for a gendered understanding of the fear and reality of sexual violence. Sociology, 48(2), pp. 300-316. (doi: 10.1177/0038038512475108)

Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Burman, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194, Lombard, N., McIvor, G., Stevenson-Hasgings, L. and Kyle, D. (2014) Violence Against Women: Effective Interventions and Practices with Perpetrators: A Literature Review. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow.

Crowley, Annie, Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X and Lombard, Nancy (2014) Football and Domestic Abuse: A Literature Review. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow.

2013

Mcfeely, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-1727, Whiting, N., Lombard, N., Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Burman, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and McGowan, M. (2013) Domestic abuse and gender inequality: an overview of the current debate. Other. Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2013) Gendered freedoms and constraints for young women socialising in bars and clubs. In: Blackshaw, T. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies. Routledge, pp. 243-256. ISBN 9780415697170

2011

Parkes, T. et al. (2011) An Evaluation to Assess the Implementation of NHS Delivered Alcohol Brief Interventions: Final Report. Project Report. NHS Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2011) 'Guys! Stop doing it!': young women's adoption and rejection of safety advice when socializing in bars, pubs and clubs. British Journal of Criminology, 51(4), pp. 635-651. (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azr011)

MacAskill, S., Parkes, T., Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Graham, L., McAuley, A. and Brown, A. (2011) Assessment of alcohol problems using AUDIT in a prison setting: more than an 'aye or no' question. BMC Public Health, 11(1), p. 865. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-865)

2010

Eadie, D., MacAskill, S., Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Heim, D., Forsyth, A. and Punch, S. (2010) Pre-teens Learning About Alcohol: Drinking and Family Contexts. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, UK.

Parkes, T., MacAskill, S., Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Atherton, I., Jepson, R., Doi, L., McGhee, S. and Eadie, D. (2010) Prison Health Needs Assessment for Alcohol Problems. Other. NHS Health Scotland.

Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2010) Routes to Magic: The Alcoholic Beverage Industry’s Use of New Media in Alcohol Marketing. Other. Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems, Edinburgh, UK.

Hastings, G., Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Stead, M., Angus, K., Anker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8432-2941 and Farrell, T. (2010) Failure of self regulation of UK alcohol advertising. British Medical Journal, 340, b5650. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5650)

Hastings, G., Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Stead, M., Angus, K., Anker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8432-2941 and Farrell, T. (2010) "They'll Drink Bucket Loads of the Stuff": An Analysis of Internal Alcohol Industry Advertising Documents. Project Report. Alcohol Education Research Council.

2008

Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2008) Consuming alcohol in bars, pubs and clubs: a risky freedom for young women? Annals of Leisure Research, 11(3-4), pp. 331-350. (doi: 10.1080/11745398.2008.9686801)

2007

Burman, M., Jamieson, L., Nicholson, J. and Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2007) Impact of Aspects of the Law of Evidence in Sexual Offence Trials: An Evaluation Study. Project Report. Scottish Executive Social Research.

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Articles

Brooks, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X (2014) Rising rape figures in Scotland could actually be a step forward. Conversation,

Book Sections

Brooks-Hay, Oona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Burman, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194 and McFeely, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-1727 (2018) Introducing Scotland's approach to domestic abuse. In: Brooks-Hay, Oona, Burman, Michele and McFeely, Clare (eds.) Domestic Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives and Innovative Practices. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care (22). Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, pp. 1-9. ISBN 9781780460598

Edited Books

Research Reports or Papers

Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Parkes, T. et al. (2011) An Evaluation to Assess the Implementation of NHS Delivered Alcohol Brief Interventions: Final Report. Project Report. NHS Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.

Hastings, G., Brooks, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-322X, Stead, M., Angus, K., Anker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8432-2941 and Farrell, T. (2010) "They'll Drink Bucket Loads of the Stuff": An Analysis of Internal Alcohol Industry Advertising Documents. Project Report. Alcohol Education Research Council.

Website

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Grants

Operation Soteria/Project Bluestone, Year 3: transforming the policing response to reports of rape and sexual assault in England and Wales’. Home Office, £497,000: 2023-24 [Co-I]

Exploring Survivor Views on Sentencing for Rape and Sexual Assault. Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS), £58,410: 2023-24 [PI]

Operation Soteria/Project Bluestone, Year 2: transforming the policing response to reports of rape and sexual assault in England and Wales’. Home Office, £754,363: 2022-23 [Co-I]

Operation Soteria/Project Bluestone, Year 1: transforming the policing response to reports of rape and sexual assault in England and Wales’. Home Office, £27,629: 2021-22 [Co-I]

Social and health impacts of COVID-19 suppression in vulnerable groups. CSO Covid-19 Rapid Response Call, £186,869, 2020 [Co-I]

IMPRODOVA: Improving Frontline Responses to Domestic Abuse. Horizon 2020, £2.9 million, 2018-2021 [Co-I]

Ugandan parenting programme to reduce gender based violence. Global Challenges Research Fund, £55,754, 2018-19. [Co-I]

Justice Journeys: informing policy and practice through lived experience. Scottish Government, Justice Analytical Services, £37,752. [PI]

Justice Journeys. ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, £20,291: 2017-2018. [Co-I]

Evaluation of the Rape Crisis Scotland National Advocacy Project. Rape Crisis Scotland, £39,950: 2016. [Co-I]

Football and Domestic Abuse in Scotland and England: A Feasibility Study. Sir Halley Stewart Trust, £22,618: 2015. [Co-I]

Evaluation of the Police Scotland/Rape Crisis Scotland Pilot Advocacy Support Service. Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR) and Rape Crisis Scotland, £19,498: 2014. [Co-I]

Dual-reports of Domestic Abuse Reported to the Police: A pilot study. Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), £4,911: 2014. [PI]

Counter-Allegations of Domestic Abuse Reported to the Police: A pilot study. Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Research Grants Scheme, £1,741: 2014. [PI]

Supervision

Current students

Armstrong, Lisa Mary
The impact of remand decision making on the rights of women
Chapman, Claire
Supporting victimised autistic women in Scotland: Using inclusive approaches to understanding their experiences
Smith, Cassidy
Erasure, Dehumanisation and the Creation of Victimhood in Contemporary True Crime
Tayo, Oluwatofunmi Oreoluwa
Societies response to male domestic abuse in Nigeria.
Yin, Yubo
Female victims in the just world: Exploring victim-blaming

Previous students

Jennifer Glinski: “First you’re abandoned by the system and then you’re abused by it”: Seeking Support for Economic Abuse and Separation
Emma Forbes: The challenge of criminalisation: perception and reality for victims of domestic abuse
Stuart Milne: LGBTI hate crime in Scotland; an exploration of the lived experiences of victims

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