ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on working with others both inside and outside academia to design, conduct and disseminate research. It describes how research on gender, violence and abuse cuts across different academic disciplines including sociology, psychology, criminology, law, anthropology, health and medicine. The chapter considers the challenges and opportunities that associated with working across disciplinary boundaries. It also describes how feminist research on gender, violence and abuse has been conducted in partnership with non-academic collaborators, using a historical overview of feminist academics working with the police as an example. The study of gender, violence and abuse is inherently multidisciplinary in nature. Police and academic partnerships in the area of gender, violence and abuse have developed over time. Often, feminist academics were also activists who were critical of the police response to violence against women and did not view police as potential research partners.
