All previous events hosted by Addressing Domestic Abuse are listed below.
The Social Housing Roundtable
Date: 6 January 2026 (11:00–12:00)
The Social Housing Roundtable are hosting an event 11-12 on 6th January 2026, which will be delivered by ADA Directors Dr Kelly Henderson and Deborah Alderson to discuss changes in housing legislation and innovative practice. Free to attend.
Webinar – The homicide timeline for housing professionals
Date: 11 December 2025 (13:52)
This webinar provided an easily understandable and intuitive framework for professionals in order to track the controlling person’s psychological journey, how risk and threat escalates, and discussed how relieving reliance on victim’s input, helps professionals assess escalatory patterns in the absence of victims.
Domestic Abuse Perpetrators: What Housing Professionals Need to Know
Date: 4 December 2025 (13:52)
Masterclass hosted by the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA), and delivered by ADA Directyors Dr Kelly Henderson and Debs Alderson (free to attend for DAHA members).
The Masterclass covered:
- How perpetrators present to professionals and the tactics used to minimise behaviour and discredit victims
- How housing teams can play an active part in perpetrator management through MATAC
- Using Clare’s Law confidently and understanding domestic violence protection notices and orders
- How intervention programmes link with the neighbourhood and community standard
- What good housing policy and practice looks like when perpetrators are involved
Domestic Abuse Perpetrators: What Housing Professionals Need to Know
Date: 27 November 2025 (13:52)
Masterclass delivered by ADA Directors Dr Kelly Henderson and Debs Alderson, hosted by Green and Burton ASB Associates. Free for attendees with a fee donated by Green and Burton to CoppaFeel, the UK’s only youth cancer awareness charity.
The Masterclass covered:
- How perpetrators present to professionals and the tactics used to minimise behaviour and discredit victims
- How housing teams can play an active part in perpetrator management through MATAC
- Using Clare’s Law confidently and understanding domestic violence protection notices and orders
- How intervention programmes link with the neighbourhood and community standard
- What good housing policy and practice looks like when perpetrators are involved
Debt trap nation: Family homelessness in a failing state and links to domestic abuse.
Date: 27 November 2025 (13:52)
During this webinar, we were joined by Katherine Brickell & Mel Nowicki where they discussed the findings of their latest book Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State.
We urge everyone working in housing to read this book! Give them a follow on linked in and you can check out the website here: https://lnkd.in/e2tJpkgd
ADA 3rd Annual National Learning Event held at the Hope Street Xchange, Sunderland.
Date: 13 November 2025 (13:52)
A free to attend event with 100 attendees with a fantastic line up of speakers:
Dame Nicole Jacobs
Micala Trussler at Holly’s Hope
Emma Walker at Northumberland County Council
Emma Storey Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse
Faty Kane at The Angelou Centre
Deborah Jones at Resolute Women’s Support Services
Vanessa Bettinson at Northumbria University
Dr Clare Wiper at Northumbria University
Kathryn Royal at Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA)
AddressingDA also presented our very first Valerie Wilson and Janine Turnbull Inspirational Individual Award which went to Micala and Lee Trussler in appreciation of their inspiring work at Holly’s Hope following the horrific and tragic murder of their daughter. Please support their work where you can, it is crucial 🤗
The Domestic Homicide Timeline for Housing Professionals
Date: 28 October 2025 (13:52)
During this webinar, ADA were joined by Sarah Ellis, Barrister at Law during which, we discussed learning from Domestic Homicide cases, highlighting risk factors and behaviours essential to understand to help prevent harm and stop escalation.
Conference – Futurescot Digital Justice and Policing Conference
Date: 23 October 2025 (13:52)
ADA Director Deborah Alderson speaking about a Domestic Abuse GPS Proximity System for Domestic Abuse Perpetrators
- Providing insight into a pilot of this system ran in conjunction with the MATAC process
- The positive impact on perpetrator behaviour change and prevention of harm
- The positive impact of victims’ feelings of safety and actual safety resulting
- Lobbying of UK Government to run a widescale pilot
Webinar – The homicide timeline for housing professionals
Date: 14 August 2025 (13:52)
This webinar provided an easily understandable and intuitive framework for professionals in order to track the controlling person’s psychological journey, how risk and threat escalates, and discussed how relieving reliance on victim’s input, helps professionals assess escalatory patterns in the absence of victims.
We were joined by Sarah Ellis who is a seasoned Barrister with over 25 years of experience, specialising in family law and housing. Holding an MA in Criminology, she is deeply committed to promoting understanding and reform within the Criminal and Family Justice Systems, particularly in relation to coercive control, stalking, & intimate partner homicide.
She collaborates with Professor Jane Monckton-Smith to deliver training on the Homicide Timeline, provides analytical support to police investigations, and contributes to expert reports. Additionally, Sarah offers pro bono assistance on complex criminal and family cases where coercive control may be a significant factor.
The Homicide Timeline is a predictive tool for mapping escalating risk and threat in intimate partner relationships where there are controlling patterns and/or stalking. The team researched c. 400 cases of intimate partner homicide. From those cases they identified a predictable pattern of escalation on the part of a controlling person, which they call the Homicide Timeline.
The Timeline can be used with other risk identification checklists, however it differs in 4 key areas (see opposite). This session focussed on the timeline and how housing professionals can use it to recognise and respond to coercive control.
Webinar – Innovations in and around domestic abuse
Date: 25 June 2025 (13:52)
We were delighted to host a webinar highlighting innovative work and research around domestic abuse. The webinar included:
- Dr Katy Brookfield, University of Nottingham on technology-facilitated domestic abuse;
- Nicki Clarke from Standing Together on housing and domestic abuse;
- Grace Wilson from the Alice Ruggles Trust on their work engaging young people on stalking via school assemblies.
National domestic abuse & housing national roundtable
Date: 30 January 2025 (16:29)
Our Domestic Abuse and Housing National Roundtable was hosted by Durham University Business School and the event brought together leaders from across the domestic abuse and housing fields to focus on what our key questions to HM Government would be. Participants included colleagues from:
Inside Housing.
The Chartered Institute of Housing;
Wearside Women In Need;
Berwickshire Housing Association;
The Drive Partnership;
Social Finance;
Northern Housing Consortium;
Durham Business School;
Believe Housing;
National Housing Federation;
Crisis;
Neil Morland Associates;
ADA National Learning Event 2024
Date: 20 October 2024 (16:37)
The 2024 ADA National Learning Event was held in Sunderland and brought together academics, practitioners, statutory and voluntary agencies from across the UK to share knowledge and learn from each other. The event was kindly sponsored by Sunderland City Council and MRI Social Housing. Our speakers for the day included:
Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner;
Professor Geetanjali Gangoli, Durham University;
Dr Rebecca Shaw, University of Leeds;
Laura Seebohm, Wearside Women In Need;
Dr Nicki Rutter, Durham University;
Dr Mercy Denedo, Durham University;
Dr Liz Riley, Betknowmore UK;
Sam Miller, QPM, National Police Chiefs Council.
ADA 1 year anniversary – National Learning Event
Date: 17 November 2022 (16:44)
Held in Durham, our 1-year anniversary National Learning Event brought people from across the UK to share domestic abuse knowledge, practice and research. The event was kindly sponsored by the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRIVA), Durham University.
Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner;
Joy Allen, Durham Police & Crime Commissioner;
Polly Harrar, Sharan Project;
Detective Chief Superintendent Deborah Alderson, Northumbria Police;
Dr Nicole Renehan, Durham University;
Professor Nicole Westmarland, Durham University