‘Sexual Violence, Medicine, and Psychiatry’ is a five-year Wellcome Trust-funded interdisciplinary project led by Professor Joanna Bourke. The project aims to promote human health through providing unprecedented insights into the role of medicine and psychiatry in understanding, interpreting, treating, prosecuting, and preventing sexual violence.

‘Medical, legal and lay understandings of physical evidence in rape cases (EVIDENTLY RAPE)‘ is a project headed by professor May-Len Skilbrei at the department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at University of Oslo. The projects studies how physical evidence matters and can be a factor in how medical and criminal justice institutions approach the crime of rape.

‘Retrieving alternatives. Pluralism in practice in European psychiatry, 1950-1980’ is a transnational project that lays the foundations for the history of psychiatric practices at the time of the rise of modern psychopharmacology. It focuses on the diversity of Continental Europe’s post-war psychiatry will challenge both the biological-Kraepelinian paradigm (with its drug-related diagnostic and therapeutic corollaries) and its side-lined “alternatives” in diagnosis, therapy, and physician-patient relationships.

The ‘Exchange’  project explores the societal, cultural, ethical, regulatory and political impacts of the implementation of Prüm Decisions in the European Union. Within the project, an in-depth comparison of the cases of  Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom will be carried out.