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Sidney Ball Lecture 2026
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Date & Time
Fri, 6 Nov 2026
17:00 - 19:00
Venue
Auditorium, Garden Quad, St John's College
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Professor Sylvia Walby delivers the Sidney Ball Lecture on defining and measuring violence and policy to reduce violence against women and girls.
Why you should come
AI-powered• Hear Sylvia Walby unpack ONS sex bias in violent crime stats
• Explore Walby's 10-flaw critique of the UK's VAWG halving metric
• With Walby, compare CSEW vs police crime data vs self-completion
Event Highlights
- •Keynote by Sylvia Walby OBE FBA FAcSS
- •Deep dive into defining and measuring violence
- •Examines sex bias in ONS violent crime statistics and incident capping
- •Assesses Government's metric to halve VAWG; identifies ten flaws
- •Proposes remedies with policy and resource prioritization implications
Speaker
Professor Sylvia Walby OBE FBA FAcSS
Professor of Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London
Programme
17:00-19:00
What is violence? How should it be measured? What are the implications for policy to halve violence against women and girls in ten years?
What to bring / Requirements
- •Registration is required
- •Register via Oxford Events link
Organized by: St John's College, Oxford
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