Dr. Marsha Scott is a feminist activist, researcher and practitioner and has advocated, volunteered, researched, and worked in gender and violence against women sectors in Scotland, the UK, Europe, and the United States for 30+ years (when she stopped counting). She is Chief Executive of Scottish Women’s Aid and works as a VAWG consultant for the Council of Europe as well as sitting on the First Minister’s National Advisory Council for Women and Girls. She and Emma Ritch wrote about criminalising coercive control in the context of wider feminist advocacy in: M Scott & E Ritch, “Gender Justice Advocates and the Making of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018”. In The Routledge International Handbook of Domestic Violence and Abuse, J Devaney, C Bradbury-Jones, R J. Macy, C Overlien, S Holt, eds. Routledge, 2021.
