Consultancy: SVRI Forum Longitudinal Analysis

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Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Research/ Data analysis
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Deadline: 25/05/2026
  • Location: Remote (global)
GBV / VAWG Movement building
About this opportunity

The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) is a global network advancing research and practice on violence against women, violence against children, and other forms of violence driven by gender inequality, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the majority of this violence occurs and where research capacity has historically been under-resourced.

Since 2009, SVRI has convened the SVRI Forum, its flagship global event on research and practice. The Forum has been held eight times: 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, and 2024. Our ninth Forum takes place in Bangkok in October 2026. Over this period it has grown into one of the largest global gatherings in the field, attracting researchers, practitioners, policymakers, activists, donors, and people with lived experience from over 142 countries.

SVRI holds a unique longitudinal dataset spanning all nine Forums. This includes conference reports, presentation files, and programme data for all Forums; participant lists for most Forums; and, from 2019 onward, full abstract submission data, summary spreadsheets, and abstract reviewer records. No other organisation holds this breadth of data on the field over this time period.

A distinctive feature of the Forum is its commitment to valuing practice-based knowledge alongside academic research. Practitioners, frontline service providers, community organisations, and government implementers have always been part of the Forum community, and SVRI has sought to create space for implementation experience and programmatic knowledge, not only peer-reviewed research findings, to be shared and debated. Whether this intention is reflected in who submits, who is accepted, and what gets presented is an important question that this analysis should address.

SVRI wishes to commission a consultant to analyse this dataset, establish a dataset and coding framework that can be updated after each subsequent Forum, and write a report. The analysis will serve SVRI's field-building mission, inform strategic investment in research capacity, and contribute substantively to knowledge about how the VAW and VAC research field has evolved over seventeen years.
What the consultant will do

  • Compile, clean, and code SVRI Forum data into a single longitudinal dataset covering all nine Forums from 2009 to 2026.
  • Conduct descriptive and comparative analyses addressing the core research questions set out below.
  • Establish a documented, replicable coding framework and dataset structure that SVRI can update after future Forums.
  • Prepare a report and slide deck.

Consultant requirements

The consultant should demonstrate:

  • Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, including coding of unstructured or semi-structured datasets.
  • Familiarity with the VAW and VAC research field, including knowledge of key topic areas, populations, and methodological debates.
  • Strong writing skills.
  • Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a complex, multi-source dataset independently.
  • Proficiency in Excel and at least one data analysis tool (R, Stata, SPSS, or equivalent).
  • Familiarity with LMIC research contexts and the global GBV research field is an advantage. The ability to work in languages other than English may be an advantage depending on the language profile of abstract submissions.

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