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Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs is an expert in economic abuse[1] and a prominent commentator on it.[2][3][4] She is founder of the UK charity Surviving Economic Abuse which raises awareness of economic abuse and transforms responses to it.
Career
[edit]Sharp-Jeffs led Surviving Economic Abuse as its CEO between January 2017 and May 2024.
She was instrumental in securing legislation in England and Wales to name and define economic abuse in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021[5][6] as well as an amendment to section 76 of the Serious Crime Act (2015) for economic abuse and other forms of post-separation abuse to be prosecuted when the victim is no longer living and/or in a relationship with the abuser[7][8].
Sharp-Jeffs is an Emeritus Fellow in the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University.[9] She carried out the first piece of UK research on economic abuse in 2008. Her research on economic abuse has since been published in the journal Trauma, Violence and Abuse[10] and the Journal of Gender-Based Violence[11]. She is the author of Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse.[12]
Her work includes influencing government and campaigning for social change. Between 2011 and 2013, Sharp-Jeffs was Director of Policy and Advocacy at Missing People where she led a successful campaign to bring about the Presumption of Death Act and Guardianship provisions so that families of missing people can cope with the complex legal and financial issues they face[13].
Sharp-Jeffs has won awards for Rising Chief Executive (Third Sector)[14] and Rising Leader (Charity Times)[15]. She was awarded an OBE in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to victims of domestic and economic abuse[16].
References
[edit]- ^ Sharp-Jeffs, Nicola (2020-10-14). "Women must stop paying the price for economic abuse". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "The Policy Ask with Nicola Sharp-Jeffs: "No recourse to public funds is a form of state-sanctioned economic abuse"". New Statesman. 2024-04-11. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "BBC Radio 5 Live - Wake Up to Money, Economic abuse: victims have new way to stop malicious payment references". BBC. 2023-06-06. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ Binns, Katie (2023-08-06). "How to recognise a financially abusive relationship, and what to do if you're in one". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "Domestic abuse: Non-physical and economic abuse included in law". BBC News. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ Moore, Anna (2019-02-05). "'I had no job, no savings. I knew he'd destroy me' – the women fighting against economic abuse". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "The Horror Of Post-Separation Abuse: 'It's The Last Invisible Chain'". Grazia. 2021-01-22. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ Bate, Marisa (2021-02-05). "'I go to sleep in tears because my abusive ex refuses to pay child maintenance'". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "Nicola Sharp-Jeffs". London Metropolitan University. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ Postmus, J; Hoge, G; Breckenridge, J; Sharp-Jeffs, N; Chung, D (2018). "Economic Abuse as an Invisible Form of Domestic Violence: A Multi-Country Review". Trauma, Violence and Abuse. 21 (2): 261–283. doi:10.1177/1524838018764160. PMID 29587598.
- ^ Sharp-Jeffs, Nicola (2021-02-01). "Understanding the economics of abuse: an assessment of the economic abuse definition within the Domestic Abuse Bill". Journal of Gender-Based Violence. 5 (1): 163–173. doi:10.1332/239788220X16076181041680. ISSN 2398-6808.
- ^ Sharp-Jeffs, Nicola (2022). Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse. Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited. doi:10.1108/9781801174183. ISBN 978-1-80117-421-3. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "New law for missing persons". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ Ricketts, Andy. "Scores of voluntary sector figures recognised in bumper honours list". www.thirdsector.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ Moody, Melissa (2021-10-09). "Charity Times Awards 2021: Winners Revealed". Charity Times. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for Essex". Essex Lieutenancy. 2024-09-17. Retrieved 2024-11-06.