Dr Nancy Lombard

Bio

Nancy’s work looks at younger people and men’s violence against women, maintaining that young people’s own position in childhood directly impacts upon how they conceive of, construct and understand such violence.

She is one of the founders and coordinators of the Gender Based Violence Research Network (GBVRN), and also an Associate Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) based at the University of Edinburgh, where she leads on the research theme of gender-based violence. Presently she sits on the Scottish Government’s Cross Party Group on Violence Against Women.

Nancy’s research interests include men’s violence against women, particularly domestic abuse; violence prevention; methods of working with children and young people, gender; feminism and knowledge exchange activities. She has been a volunteer, researcher and activist within the violence against women movement for 18 years.

Relevant Publications

Books

Lombard, N. (forthcoming, 2014) Young People’s Understandings of Men’s Violence Towards Women, Surrey: Ashgate

Journals

Lombard, N. and Sardinha, L. (forthcoming, 2014) ‘The normalisation of violence by young people in Scotland and India’, Violence Against Women

Lombard, N. (2013) Young people’s temporal and spatial accounts of gendered violence Sociology

Gadd, D., Farrall, S., Dallimore, D. & Lombard, N. (2003) ‘Equal Victims or the Usual Suspects? Making Sense of Domestic Abuse Against Men’, International Review of Victimology, 10: 95-116.

Gadd, D. Farrall, S., Dallimore, D. & Lombard, N. (2003) ‘Male Victims of Domestic Violence’, Criminal Justice Matters: Gender and Crime, 53: 16-17.

Edited Collections

Lombard, N. and McMillan (eds.) (2013) Violence Against Women: Current Theory and Practice in Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence & Exploitation Research Highlights in Social Work, Jessica Kingsley Publications

Book chapters

Lombard, N. and Whiting, N. (forthcoming 2014) ‘The unique case of Scotland’ in L. Goodmark and R. Goel (eds.) Comparative Perspectives on Domestic Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide, Oxford University Press

Lombard, N. (2013) ‘But what about the men?’ in N. Lombard and L. McMillan (eds.) Violence Against Women: Current Theory and Practice in Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence & Exploitation Research Highlights in Social Work, Jessica Kingsley Publications

Lombard, N and Scott, M. (2013) Older women and domestic abuse: where sexism and ageism intersect in N. Lombard and L. McMillan (eds.) Violence Against Women: Current Theory and Practice in Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence & Exploitation Research Highlights in Social Work, Jessica Kingsley Publications

Lombard, N. (2008) ‘It’s wrong for a boy to hit a girl because the girl might cry: Investigating young people’s understandings of male violence against women’ in F. Alexander and Throsby, K. (eds.) Gender and Interpersonal Violence: Language, Action and Representation Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke pp. 121-138

McKie, L. and Lombard, N. (2005) ‘Violence and Families: Boundaries, Memories and Identities’ in Cunningham- Burley, S. and McKie, L. (eds.) Families in Society: Boundaries and Relationships Bristol: Policy Press

Briefing Papers and Reports

Lombard, N. (2011) ‘Young People’s Attitudes about Violence’ Centre for Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh Briefing 54 http://www.crfr.ac.uk/reports/briefing%2054.pdf

McFeely, C., Whiting, N., Lombard, N., Brooks, O. Burman, M., and McGowan, M. (2013) ‘Domestic Abuse and Gender Inequality: An Overview of the current debate’ Centre for Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh Briefing 69 http://www.crfr.ac.uk/assets/briefing-69.pdf

Gadd, D. Farrall, S., Dallimore, D. & Lombard, N. (2002) Domestic Abuse Against Men in Scotland, Scottish Executive Central Research Unit: Edinburgh.

Gadd, D. Farrall, S., Dallimore, D. & Lombard, N. (2002) “Domestic Abuse Against Men in Scotland” Crime and Criminal Justice Research Findings no. 61, Scottish Executive Central Research Unit: Edinburgh.