作者: Rebecca Barnes

Catherine Donovan is Professor in Sociology at Durham University, UK. She has been researching the intimate and family lives of LGB and, more recently T+ people for over thirty years. Most recently she has been focussed on experiences and uses of intimate partner violence and abuse. Other work includes on hate crime, particularly on hate relationships, and campus safety.  Rebecca Barnes has been researching and teaching about domestic violence and abuse for more than 15 years, focussing especially on LGB and/or T+ people’s relationships, and more recently on domestic abuse and the church. She is Senior Research Advisor in Qualitative and Social Research Methods for the NIHR Research Design Service (East Midlands), based at the University of Leicester, UK.