20-22 April: Centre for Action Against Stalking
Dear VSE Members,
We are pleased to share with you the invitation from our Member, Action Against Stalking, to join them at the official launch of the Centre for Action Against Stalking (CAAS) at the upcoming international conference and summit, ‘Dynamics between the Stalker and the Victim’ taking place from 20th – 22nd April 2021.
Please, see the message below:
Dear colleagues,
I am delighted to have been appointed as Interim Director of the Centre for Action Against Stalking (CAAS) which is a partnership between the University of the West of Scotland and Action Against Stalking.
CAAS is a centre of excellence structured around areas of scholarly focus that are critical to the prevention of and responses to stalking, harmful and abusive behaviour in contemporary society.
UWS has four campuses in Scotland and one in London. The University aims to have a transformational influence on the economic, social and cultural development of the west of Scotland and beyond. It is placed by Times Higher Education in the top 600 universities in its 2020 World University Rankings and in the top 150 in THE’s Young University Rankings 2020.
At UWS we are looking forward to the official launch of the Centre at the upcoming international conference and summit, ‘Dynamics between the Stalker and the Victim’ taking place from 20th – 22nd April 2021.
The content of the conference will underpin National Stalking Awareness Week 2021 with each day having separate themes – Understanding Stalkers; Challenges in Investigating and Prosecuting Stalkers; and Stalkers and their Victims.
Please join Ann Moulds and me at 4pm on Friday 2nd April for a live-stream across Action Against Stalking’s Facebook and Twitter to hear more about the CAAS International Conference & Summit.
Register for the conference here.
Best wishes,
Professor Ross Deuchar
Interim Director of the Centre for Action Against Stalking
