ODDA Announces Partnership with the Centre for Protecting Women Online

The ODDA is delighted to enter into a partnership with the Open University’s Centre for Protecting Women Online.

Funded by a £7.7 million grant from Research England, the Centre is a vehicle for understanding and addressing challenges posed to women’s safety online through a novel, interdisciplinary and ambitious research agenda. Combined with cross-sectoral, collaborative outputs and interventions which inform law, policy, technology development and practice to reduce online harms suffered by women and girls, the Centre aims to minimise anti-social behaviours online whilst promoting pro-social behaviours and help build tech/software that ensures accountability, credibility and the facilitation of justice.

The ODDAs Simon Newman said:

This is an important partnership for the ODDA and its members that underlines our commitment to protecting women online. By working closely with the Centre, we’ll be able to benefit from research that will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our sector.”