Emma Katz is a UK-based

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researcher. Katz has contributed to

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and popular cultural discussion on

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, in particular in the UK, the

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, and

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Policy

Katz was a member of the expert advisory panel for

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's ''Domestic Abuse Policy Guidance for UK Universities 2021''.

Publications

* ''Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives'' (Oxford University Press, 2022). She has also written for the academic journal '' Child Abuse Review''.

Award nominations

Media

In March 2020 Katz's research was cited in a ''

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'' article by

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on the murder of Hannah Clarke in

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, Australia. In the same month Katz featured in an

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report on the ''

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'' coercive control storyline involving the characters

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and Geoff Metcalfe. In November 2022 an article published on the '' Bristol Cable'' news website included quotes from Katz criticising the use of

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counter-accusations by parents accused of domestic violence or

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in family courts.

Footnotes

References

External links

Katz's Liverpool Hope University profile

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