About the FiLiA Research Hub

The FiLiA Research Hub provides a dedicated home for FiLiA’s growing body of feminist research.

Many aspects of women's lives remain under-researched, poorly understood or absent from public and policy discussions. Our work seeks to address this gap by producing rigorous yet accessible research grounded in women's lived realities.

Building on FiLiA's long-standing commitment to amplifying the voices of women, we generate evidence, analysis and practical recommendations drawing on women's perspectives, experiences and needs to inform public debate, policy and advocacy.

Through research, collaboration and engagement, we work to ensure that women's voices are heard, their experiences are documented, and that evidence is used to drive meaningful change. 

See below about each piece of research and a link to click-through to read more.

  • Life near Strip Clubs: Women’s Voices from UK Cities presents findings from a FiLiA study examining how strip clubs are viewed and experienced by women living, working and moving in their vicinity in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester.

  • FiLiA Women First Snapshot Report, developed by FiLiA in partnership with five specialist organisations across England and Wales, provides a stark insight into the realities faced by women involved in prostitution and sexual exploitation.

  • FiLiA Women First Freedom of Information Report examines how local authorities across the UK support women involved in the sex trade.

  • Making Policy Work for Women Report summarises the issues which are most pressing for women, including male violence, poverty and the cost of living, health, racism and the right to organise and be politically active. It is clear from the research that policies are failing to reflect women’s lives, needs and experiences. 

  • Resourcing Our Resilience: Black Feminist Mapping Across the FiLiA Legacy Cities documents and maps the work of Black and minoritised women-led organisations and groups that are based in and around six FiLiA ‘legacy’ cities: Manchester, Bradford, Glasgow, Portsmouth, Cardiff and Brighton.

  • FiLiA commissioned report to map women’s sector organisations and community groups across six FiLiA cities, with findings complemented by a detailed mapping of identified groups.

  • This paper, Legal Systems as Tools of Abuse: the Hague Power and Control Wheel, explores the theoretical underpinnings, methodological process and content of the Hague Power and Control Wheel – a vital new tool that reveals how international law can perpetuate abuse.

  • This expert paper, The Aftermath of Hague Convention Decisions, focuses on an international survey of mothers who have been respondents to petitions under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

  • In 2020, FiLiA conducted a survey of women, with the aim to find out how confident a snapshot of the female population in the UK feels in the police force and its ability to protect women, not just from male violence but also from harassment and abuse directed at women because of their sex.