Supporting survivors of financial abuse
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Fellow’s Profile
Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Supporting survivors of financial abuse
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Developing support mechanisms for survivors of financial abuse
Countries
Fellowship year
2016
Biography
I am the CEO of Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA), the charity I established following my 2016 Fellowship to the USA and Australia.
After seeing the innovative responses to economic abuse in these counties, I was determined to ensure that women in the UK had access to the same support. Set up in 2017, the charity has already influenced legislative change and transformed frontline practice.
At the time of my Fellowship I was a researcher in the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) at London Metropolitan University (2013-18). I have since been appointed by the university as an emeritus research fellow and so continue to publish on the issue of economic abuse. Due to my knowledge in the area, I am considered a leading expert in economic abuse as it occurs within the context of coercive control.
Pre-2013 I worked within policy influencing and parliamentary roles – again within the violence against women and girls sector. In October 2020, I was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to survivors of domestic and economic abuse.
Ideas
Activity
November 2021 Fellows' update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (CF 2016) ran a pilot training session this month on economic wellbeing and maternity for employers at the charity she founded, Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA). The training formed part of Nicola’s Covid-19 Action Fund project, which is developing ways of preventing economic abuse.
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
October 2021 Fellows' update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (CF 2016) has been named Charity Times’ Rising Leader of the Year this month. The award was in recognition of Nicola’s work to raise awareness of economic abuse through Surviving Economic Abuse, the charity she founded as a result of her Fellowship.
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
Community and citizenship: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
April 2021 Fellow's update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (CF 2016) hosted a webinar on economic abuse with Australian Churchill Fellow Rebecca Glenn on 21 April. The event discussed learnings from their collective Fellowships and shared best practices in responding to victims of economic abuse.
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
November 2020 Fellow's update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (CF 2016) is taking part in a 20-million-step challenge with Australian Churchill Fellow Rebecca Glenn this month. Nicola will be raising awareness and funds for her charity, Surviving Economic Abuse, which she set up following her Fellowship.
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2020
October 2020 Fellow's update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs has received an OBE for services to victims of domestic and economic abuse. Nicola’s Fellowship investigated ways of supporting survivors of financial abuse which inspired her to set up a charity on her return, Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA).
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2020
Supporting survivors of economic abuse during Covid-19
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2020
Bringing the issue of economic abuse into the mainstream
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2018
Supporting survivors of financial abuse
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2017
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Ideas
Supporting survivors of financial abuse
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
Activity
November 2021 Fellows' update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (CF 2016) ran a pilot training session this month on economic wellbeing and maternity for employers at the charity she founded, Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA). The training formed part of Nicola’s Covid-19 Action Fund project, which is developing ways of preventing economic abuse.
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
October 2021 Fellows' update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (CF 2016) has been named Charity Times’ Rising Leader of the Year this month. The award was in recognition of Nicola’s work to raise awareness of economic abuse through Surviving Economic Abuse, the charity she founded as a result of her Fellowship.
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
Community and citizenship: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
April 2021 Fellow's update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (CF 2016) hosted a webinar on economic abuse with Australian Churchill Fellow Rebecca Glenn on 21 April. The event discussed learnings from their collective Fellowships and shared best practices in responding to victims of economic abuse.
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2021
November 2020 Fellow's update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (CF 2016) is taking part in a 20-million-step challenge with Australian Churchill Fellow Rebecca Glenn this month. Nicola will be raising awareness and funds for her charity, Surviving Economic Abuse, which she set up following her Fellowship.
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2020
October 2020 Fellow's update: Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs has received an OBE for services to victims of domestic and economic abuse. Nicola’s Fellowship investigated ways of supporting survivors of financial abuse which inspired her to set up a charity on her return, Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA).
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2020
Supporting survivors of economic abuse during Covid-19
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2020
Bringing the issue of economic abuse into the mainstream
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2018
Supporting survivors of financial abuse
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, 2017
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
