Bridget is a mixed-methods researcher focused on the structural causes of gender-based violence and its impact on survivor health and wellbeing. Through her research, Bridget aims to inform the design and evaluation of prevention and responses programmes and policies. She uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches, and has specific expertise in survey design and dissemination and systematic review and meta-analyses methods.
Bridget leads the OUR SPACE research project  on gender and sexual-based violence in higher education. Bridget sits on the advisory group task force for the Office of Students on measuring sexual violence in higher education and the UK Ministry of Justice Roundtable on Sexual Offending. She also is involved in several global research collaborations on violence against women and children including projects with UNICEF, The Childlight Institute, and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative.
Prior to this role, Bridget was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, at Dalhousie University, Canada and is currently a co-investigator on the  Interprovincial Violence Against Women Project.Â
Bridget has a DPhil in Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation and a MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation from DSPI, University of Oxford. She has a Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University, Canada and Bachelor of Arts and Science Degree from McMaster University, Canada.
Bridget can be found on Google Scholar.
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