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Nadia Butler

Public and Allied Health

Faculty of Health

Email: N.L.Butler@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 4148

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Nadia Butler is a Research Fellow at the Public Health Institute (Violence, Peace and Health Risk Behaviours Team). She is a senior researcher in the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention, led by Professor Zara Quigg. Nadia works on research and evaluation at local, national, and international level. Her research areas of interest and expertise are primarily around interpersonal violence, and in particular, violence against children. She leads on the ongoing development and updating of the WHO Violence Prevention Information System (Violence Info: https://apps.who.int/violence-info/). Violence Info aims to improve access to scientific information about all types of interpersonal violence, including findings on prevalence rates, risk factors, consequences, and prevention and response strategies, through creating a data repository and displaying the information in a user-friendly forma on a website. It covers all types of interpersonal violence; child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner violence, abuse of older people and crosscutting categories such as sexual violence, violence against children, violence against women and homicide.

A specific area of research and evaluation which Nadia has interest and expertise in is violence against children (including Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), child maltreatment, and youth violence). She has led on evaluations of school-based programmes including Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership funded projects such as the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Programme (implemented by Merseyside Youth Association) and primary school violence prevention programmes (implemented by Ariel Trust), and Hampshire Violence Reduction Unit's funded Choices programme (implemented by Artswork/Bearface). She is involved in several evaluations of Emergency Department Navigator programmes across England (e.g. Midlands, Merseyside, and Hampshire). She has also led on primary research using school-based surveys to explore children's wellbeing and resilience, and experience of violence and abuse, and secondary analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales on child maltreatment and it's association with risk of adulthood violence revictimisation.

Other areas of research Nadia is interested and involved in is gambling and nightlife. Specifically she has led on the design and/or analyses of the Isle of Man and Guernsey gambling population surveys, exploring the prevalence of gambling behaviour, problem gambling, and its association with health and other health risk behaviours. Nadia has been involved in numerous evaluations of nightlife interventions across England and Wales to prevent and respond to the sale of alcohol to intoxicated patrons, as well as primary nightlife research investigating the extent of sexual violence in the night-time economy and patron's willingness to intervene as a bystander to potentially risky situations.

Nadia's methodological expertise is primarily in quantitative analysis, but also in evidence synthesis (e.g. Violence Info, NHS violence against staff evidence review). She has experience in programme evaluation methodologies using mixed methods (e.g. evaluations of MVP, Ariel Trust programmes, Choices programme). Nadia also has extensive experience analysing large population survey datasets (e.g. Isle of Man surveys, Guernsey gambling survey and the Crime Survey for England and Wales).

Nadia is currently working towards a PhD by publication on a public health approach to preventing and responding to violence against children.

She teaches on the Violence module on the MSc in Public Health, and Health Risk Behaviours module on the BSc in Public Health at LJMU, and supervisors MSc and PhD students.

Prior to joining the Institute, Nadia completed an MSc with Distinction in Investigative and Forensic Psychology at the University of Liverpool. She completed her Masters dissertation on sex offenders with learning difficulties’ motivation to engage in treatment and reduce offending behaviour. Nadia also holds a First Class Honours Higher Diploma in Applied Psychology, an MA Criminology, and a BA (Hons) Arts from University College Cork.

Degrees

2014, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, MSc Investigative and Forensic Psychology
2013, University College Cork, Ireland, HDip Applied Psychology
2011, University College Cork, Ireland, MA Criminology
2010, University College Cork, Ireland, BA Honours Arts

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