Alex Walker

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• PhD
• Violence Prevention Outomes Officer at Public Health Wales

This article outlines a phenomenological study that used video-recorded life story work with ten older people who had dementia diagnoses. The aim of the study was to understand what it is like to live with dementia. Using life story work allowed me to understand how the individual’s past experiences have shaped their current experiences of living...

Violence is recognised as a cause of health harm, but it is not consistently or adequately captured in healthcare data systems. While administrative health records could be valuable sources of information for measuring violence, they remain underutilised in violence-related research. The present research aims to examine the suitability of violence...

This article seeks to understand the experiences of bystanders to domestic violence and abuse (DVA) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales. Globally, professionals voiced concern over the COVID-19 restrictions exacerbating conditions for DVA to occur. Yet evidence suggests this also increased opportunities for bystanders to become aware of DVA and t...

Sexual harassment is pervasive and often hidden, occurring on a continuum of violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence (VAWDASV), and often underpinned by problematic attitudes and beliefs. Bystander interventions have been shown to illicit positive outcomes in VAWDASV prevention. Therefore, the Wales Violence Prevention Unit crea...

#SafeToSay seeks to prevent sexual harassment through encouraging prosocial bystander responses towards sexual harassment or its warning signs in night life spaces. Building on the evaluation of Phase One of #SafeToSay, Phase Two was delivered by the Wales Violence Prevention Unit, with funding from the South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner, a...

Violence among children and young people (CYP) is a complex societal issue that has detrimental impacts on the health and well-being of children, young people, and adults throughout their lives. Population health research tells us that CYP are adversely at risk of experiencing violence and are at higher risk of experiencing multiple forms of violen...

The report ‘Wales Without Violence: Perspectives of Children and Young People’ brings together contributions from over 470 children and young people in Wales, providing unparalleled insight into the issues most affecting children and young people in Wales, as well as their priorities for preventing violence.

Violence is preventable, and ending violence is possible. Through the development of the Wales Without Violence Framework, children, young people and professionals have dared to imagine a society in which we all live free from violence.

This research explores the experiences and behaviours of bystanders to domestic abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic, to help inform policy and bystander intervention training programmes in light of the changes to daily lives brought about by COVID-19 restrictions. This study, delivered in partnership with the University of Exeter, and funded by Pub...

A review of trauma informed terminology, definitions and approaches being used across projects, programmes and interventions in Wales.

The aim of this thesis is to explore the lived experience of older people living with dementia and their family members. Exploring both perspectives of dementia can offer a deeper understanding into the lived experiences as they are equally important. This study is qualitative and used descriptive phenomenology and life story work to explore parti...

The latest presentation poster for the project "an exploration of stories or narratives from older persons living with dementia"

An exploration of stories or narratives from older persons living with dementia