current and Some completed projects.
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN) 2025 Fellow (mentored by Dr Kerstin Junge, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations). Project title: A story-telling approach to developing a complexity-aware theory of change for violence prevention. (2025-2026)
VISION Consortium, City St George’s University of London: Developing complex systems thinking, theory, and leading the complex systems strand. My work involves developing a complex system approach to violence prevention and mitigation, which includes expanding complex systemic understandings of conventional theories of change. (2023-2026)
Co-Investigator, Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of mothers at risk of recurrent care proceedings: a realist synthesis, Newcastle University (2025-2027) :https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=642062
Radical connections, poetry, and complex systems project (2024 -)
Safe Spaces Wheel Pilot (2025 -)
Co-Investigator/Collaborator, Developing a Community Practice to support migrant survivors of domestic abuse, City St George’s University of London (2025 -)
JaribioX (commencing in 2026, in development).
COMPLETED:
Co-designed a systemic evaluation blueprint for the culturally informed family approach (CIFA) and refresh of the CIFA model with RISE Mutual CIC and Barnet Council (Nov 2024 - completed Dec 10. 2024).
Co-development of the Safe Spaces for Racialised Leaders Wheel, with H.O.P.E Training and Consultancy (with input from over 40 Black and Racialised leaders) - completed
https://hopetraining.co.uk/safe-spaces-wheel/
Adisa, O., & Bond, E (2024). Tackling Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence: A Systems Approach, completed Dec 2024.
Knowledge Exchange ACTIVITIES.
UK-Focused
Natcen’s Mental health in context: research, policy and practice conference: https://natcen.ac.uk/events/mental-health-context-research-policy-and-practice
Centring otherness with migrant women affected by domestic abuse:https://vision.city.ac.uk/news/centring-otherness-with-migrant-women-affected-by-domestic-abuse/
Victims’ Commissioner of London’s IWD 2024 campaigns on #InspireInclusion
Adolescent Domestic Abuse Working Group Member, led by Thames Valley Police and City University of London.
NIHR Editorial Reviewer
PhD supervisor (co-primary); happy to discuss PhD opportunities around my interests.
Chair of the #menspeakoutvawg national event, organised and sponsored by the national charity SafeLives, in response to the tragic murder of Sarah Everard.
Covid-19 funding panel member for the Health Foundation.
Reviewer, LSE Review of Books
Ex-Trustee at Legal Action Group, a charity devoted to championing access to justice.
International
ECDV 2025 Symposium proposal submission. Informing Violence Prevention and Mitigation Pathways: A Complex Systems Approach
Presented at two international peer-reviewed conferences, European Domestic Violence Conference 2021 (virtual); and the International Conference on Complex Systems, Brazil, Oct 2023 (in-person).
Lucky to have three internationally respected complex systems experts as ‘critical friends’: Prof Hiroki Sayama (New York State University); and Prof Gerald Midgley (University of Hull), Prof Chris Bonnell (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) who act as ‘critical friends’ as part of the VISION Consortium.
I was part of a fledgling Complexity and Ethics group as part of the International Complex Systems Society, with colleagues from Austria, Brazil, Colombia, US, UK, and Portugal (2023 -2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02002