Economic Abuse and Support available in Scotland
12 August 2020
This study is based on an ongoing research project that studies and examines primary and tertiary prevention strategies in the context of economic abuse. The aim of the study is to test several methods to improve people's understanding of economic abuse and recognise it. This specific experiment wants to test the feasibility and effectiveness of serious games. Other avenues are also being investigated and will be equally tested in order to improve primary prevention strategies.
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Ethical approval
This research follows all the ethical procedures of te University of Stirling and all data gathered will be handled following the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The analysis the project proposes maintains the respondents' anonymity. None of the questionnaires or the computational analyses undertaken in the context of this project includes any personal information. The ethics of undertaking online research is constantly monitored and in line with the Association of Internet Research.
About the researcher
Dr. CL Bernardi is interested in invisible issues. Her research focuses on the politics of data and data missing-ness. This study group has been created to understand how economic abuse - a fairly unknown issue in the broader context of domestic and familial abuse- can be brought to light. Dr. CLBernardi merges computational methods, social media analytics and digital marketing communications and applies these to non profit communication and marketing strategies.
