1. ABOUT THE DATASET -------------------- Title: Dr Creator(s): Rebecca Shaw Organisation(s): University of Leeds Rights-holder(s):Unless otherwise stated, Copyright 2025 University of Leeds Publication Year: 2025 Description: This dataset contains transcripts from focus group sessions and individual interviews from the project 'Domestic Abuse Service Providers and their Stories'. Participants were drawn from four domestic abuse service providers across Leeds, West Yorkshire and York. The focus group sessions were conducted first, with all participants from each of the respective organisations, followed by the individual interviews. Data was collected through audio-recorded sessions/interviews, either held online or conducted in person. Cite as: Shaw, Rebecca (2025): Dataset for 'Domestic Abuse Service Providers and their Stories'. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1647 Related publication: Shaw, Rebecca. 'Decentering the "master narrative" of domestic abuse: a new nexus between narrative criminology and applied narratology.' Narrative Journal, 2025, Submitted. Contact: r.a.shaw@leeds.ac.uk 2. TERMS OF USE --------------- Access to the data is governed by an application process. Successful appliants will be asked to sign a Data Access Agreement and obtain a second signatory from their organisation. 3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION ---------------------------------- Title: Domestic Abuse Service Providers and their Stories Dates: May 2023-April 2024 Funding organisation: ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre Grant no.: ES/W002248/1 4. CONTENTS ----------- File listing: Folder: Focus_Group_Transcripts - contains transcripts from the focus group sessions held with each of the four partner organisations. Folder: Individual_Interview_Transcripts - contains transcripts from the 22 individual interviews conducted with participants. No specialised data file formats or software required. Files are word documents. 5. METHODS ---------- This dataset was generated through audio-recorded focus group sessions and individual interviews, which were then subsequently transcribed using the University of Leeds subscription to Microsoft Word in Office 365 and its transcription feature. Focus group sessions were conducted using semi-structured interview questions, and the individual interviews were conducted as narrative interviews: unstructured, in-depth conversations designed to encourage longer-form responses. Full details of methodology can be found in the related publication: Shaw, 'Decentering the "master narrative" of domestic abuse"'. The sessions/interviews were either held online or at various locations in Leeds, West Yorkshire and York, with the latter recorded using an encrypted digital recorder. Once recordings were transcribed, the transcripts were cleaned by the project's research fellow, Dr Kelly Henderson, in preparation for data analysis. All transcripts are stored in word document files and therefore no specialist software is required. Ethical approval was granted by the University of Leeds prior to commencing data collection: AREA FREC 2023-0606-638.