Reports
Insights & Evidence: What We’re Learning About Women’s Online Wellbeing
Our research is designed to shine a light on how digital technologies are transforming the landscape of violence against women across Europe, and what needs to change to protect wellbeing, safety, and digital participation. This page will host all public reports, summaries, data insights, and key findings from the Women’s Online Wellbeing (WOW) project as they are released.
Over three years, our international consortium will produce substantial evidence based on the scale, nature and impact of digitalised violence against women (DVAW), including image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), online harassment, threats, impersonation, stalking, deepfakes and more. These findings will be released here as open, accessible resources for survivors, practitioners, policymakers, educators and researchers.
How Our Findings Will Make a Difference
Digitalised violence is evolving faster than policy, support systems and technology platforms can keep up. With evidence showing a sharp rise in cases — including a 106% increase in calls to the UK’s Revenge Porn Helpline in a single year — our findings will help shape urgently needed reform.
Through the WOW project, we aim to:
Improve recognition of how digital abuse affects women’s wellbeing, relationships, safety, mental health, and online participation.
Strengthen responses across policing, law enforcement, victim-support services and the criminal justice system.
Inform prevention strategies that reflect the experiences of the women most exposed to risk, including LGBTQ+ communities, minority ethnic groups and young people.
Challenge stigma surrounding image-based sexual abuse and other forms of digital violence, helping to shift public narratives and promote survivors’ rights.
