The Alice Ruggles Trust, in partnership with the Department of Criminology at the University of Leicester, are proud to announce the fifth of our annual conferences where we bring together a range of practitioners and academics with a particular interest in stalking.

This year’s conference is timed to coincide with the publication of a new textbook Young People, Stalking Awareness and Domestic Abuse, which has been produced in partnership with the Alice Ruggles Trust. It features a number of speakers who have contributed to the book, as well as reports from current research projects relating to adolescent stalking, and workshops on subjects including cyberstalking, honour-based violence and tackling stalking in the military.

We warmly invite colleagues in the police, CPS, judiciary, social and healthcare services, probation services, and the charity sector together with academics and students from criminology, forensic psychology and other disciplines engaged in research related to stalking. As ever, we hope to stimulate further integration between these groups in order to improve strategies to tackle stalking and thus make victims safer.

This will be a hybrid conference:

• The physical venue offers plenty of opportunity for delegates to meet and talk informally, including at an informal three-course dinner for those able to arrive the evening before. Overnight accommodation is available on-site (but is limited, so if you need on-site accommodation please include it in your ticket and book as soon as possible). 
• On-line attendees will have access to all sessions taking place in the main hall, but not to parallel workshop sessions taking place in other rooms. The venue has installed new hybrid equipment which will prevent a recurrence of the issues last year that resulted in on-line attendees not being able to hear questions from the in-person audience (for which we apologise).

For more details and up-to-date information see  alicerugglestrust.org/conference-2023.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT PAYMENT METHODS. As a small charity, we do not have the resources to deal manually with small payments (e.g. setting ourselves up as a payee, issuing manual invoices against payment advices, and chasing late payments). For this reason we request payment at the time of (or, for payments by bank transfer, within 14 days of) registration. Our booking system will automatically issue an invoice. For LATE REGISTRATIONS we accept payment at the time of registration only.