Prof Parveen Ali
Professor Parveen Ali has a joint position at the University and Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH). Prof Ali joined the School of Nursing and Midwifery in 2014. She is a Registered Nurse, Registered Nurse Teacher and Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy and Fellow of Faculty of Public Health. Professor Ali leads MMedSci Advanced Nursing Studies and is a Deputy Director of Research and Innovation in the School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery. Her role at the DBTH aims to develop research capacity among Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals. Prof Ali is Editor-in Chief of International Nursing Review.
Professor Ali completed her PhD from University of Sheffield in 2012. She completed MScN and BScN from Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Her research focuses on gender-based violence, domestic abuse, inequalities in health related to gender and ethnicity, and health care professionals’ preparation. She is a mixed method researcher and has led and contributed to many projects around her research and teaching interests. She is an expert in developing and delivering effective and interactive face to face and online learning material. She is the developer and lead educator of Supporting victims of domestic violence and domestic abuse training game.
Keynote presentation - From Evidence to Influence: Translating Research on Violence and Inequalities into Policy and Practice
Building health equity requires more than generating evidence. It demands sustained, strategic effort to ensure that evidence reaches and reshapes the systems, policies and practices that determine health outcomes for the most marginalised communities. Nowhere is this challenge more acute than in the field of domestic and gender-based violence (DVA/GBV), where health inequalities are compounded by stigma, cultural invisibility and the persistent failure of mainstream health and social care systems to respond equitably and effectively.
This invited talk draws on over two decades of research, knowledge mobilisation and policy engagement to examine the conditions under which complex violence and inequalities research translates into meaningful change. Drawing on examples including the evidence synthesis underpinning national screening policy for intimate partner violence, the development of culturally grounded research programmes with South Asian and other minoritised communities, and the creation of practice frameworks now embedded in professional education, the presentation explores what genuine research-to-policy translation looks like — and what it costs.
Behavioural medicine is uniquely positioned to advance this agenda. Understanding why professionals fail to ask, why patients do not disclose, and why organisations resist systemic change calls for precisely the interdisciplinary toolkit — spanning health psychology, implementation science, sociology and clinical practice that defines our field. Yet realising this potential requires us to confront the equity gaps within our own research canon: in whose questions we ask, whose communities we study, and whose voices shape the evidence we call robust.
The talk concludes with practical reflections on coalition building, public scholarship and the strategic use of evidence synthesis as tools for influence and with a provocation for the field about what building health equity together genuinely demands of researchers, clinicians and policymakers alike.
Keywords: domestic violence and abuse, gender-based violence, health inequalities, policy translation, culturally competent practice, implementation science, behavioural medicine, health equity
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