Organisation

The Centre for Violence Prevention (CVP) is a research centre at Karolinska Institutet. Activities started in 2002. In January 2003, a formal decision was taken to officially establish CVP at the Karolinska Institutet. In the Karolinska organisation, the Centre is located under the Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

The Centre has its staff offices at Drottningholmsvägen 22 in Stockholm, Sweden. Some activities are also carried out by local research units outside Karolinska Institutet (see Collaborative Centres).

CVP has four directors of research, including a guest researcher from Oxford, England. Several postgraduate students are also affiliated, as well as a handful of research assistants and graduate students. Activities are headed by centre director Niklas Långström, who answers to the head of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet.

The CVP receives financial support from the agencies in the collaborative network.

Over the years, CVP researchers have also been awarded a number of research grants from external sources, for example from the Medical Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Vårdalsstiftelsen, the National Board of Institutional Care (SiS), the Research Council of the National Prison and Probation Administration (Kriminalvården), the National Victim Compensation Authority (Brottsoffermyndigheten), the National Health Services R&D (UK), the Nuffield Foundation (UK), and The Stanley Foundation (USA).

CVP:s website is produced by Mediabyrån vid Karolinska Institutets Universitetsbibliotek.