Rate My Professor Charlotte Barlow

Her research specializations include policing and criminal and family justice responses to domestic abuse, with particular emphasis on coercive control, Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes (Clare's Law), specialist domestic abuse courts, and interventions for affected children. Barlow has secured funding from the ESRC, Home Office, Ministry of Justice, British Academy, and N8 Policing Research Partnership for projects including the ESRC-funded “Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme Project: Information Sharing and Domestic Abuse,” conducted with Dr. Ellen Reeves of the University of Liverpool, which analyzes data from all 43 police forces in England and Wales. Other key initiatives encompass three projects on police responses to coercive control from 2016 to 2024, a British Academy-funded study on victim-survivor experiences of disclosure schemes, Ministry of Justice evaluation of Integrated Domestic Abuse/Pathfinder Courts, Home Office-funded evaluations of child interventions, investigations into rural domestic abuse policing, and assessments of MARAC processes for high-risk cases. Additionally, she contributed to Project Bright Light, applying Operation Soteria principles to domestic abuse responses. Barlow's work has directly informed policy development, professional training programs, and practice improvements through engagements with the Home Office, College of Policing, National Police Chiefs Council, numerous police forces, the Ministry of Justice, and domestic abuse services like Women’s Aid, demonstrating substantial academic and societal impact.