Joana Ferreira is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge working on a project on vicarious traumatisation among women working to support marginalised and socially isolated women and girls. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Suffolk currently working on Project Bluestone – Operation Soteria, focused on police’s response to rape and sexual assault. Her research interests revolve mainly around domestic abuse, intimate partner abuse, and justice. She has an M.Phil. in Criminological Research and has recently completed her doctoral studies in Criminology, with a comparative study on Intimate Partner Violence Victims’ Perceptions and Experiences of Criminal Justice Interventions in England and Portugal.