english Daniela Gloor and Hanna Meier, sociologists Social Insight, Ltd. Research, Evaluation, Consultation Unterdorfstrasse 18 CH-5107 Schinznach-Dorf Switzerland Tel. +41 56 443 15 14, Fax +41 56 443 15 12 Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! Sie müssen JavaScript aktivieren, damit Sie sie sehen können. , www.socialinsight.ch «Social Insight – Research, Evaluation, Consultation» is an independent Social Research Institute in Switzerland. The institute was founded in 1997 by the two sociologists Daniela Gloor, PhD, and Hanna Meier, PhD. Specialized in the empirical and theoretical fields of gender, violence, equality, health, education and employment Social Insight works in commission for Swiss Federal Offices, municipalities, private organizations and NGOs. Social Insight was instrumental in developing the canton-wide intervention project «Halt-Gewalt» in Basle, Switzerland, addressing violence in partnerships, and has been responsible for the scientific basis and the monitoring of its interventions. As project leaders Daniela Gloor and Hanna Meier have been involved in several National Research Programmes (NRP) of the Swiss National Research Foundation (SNF), such as Violence in Everyday-Life (NRP 40, 1996–2001), Changes in the Way of Life and Social Security (NRP 29, 1991–95) and Impacts of State Actions (NRP 27, 1990–94). Within the EU COST-A4 Action they coordinated the Swiss participation of the Research Network on Social Shaping of Telematics and Rural Development. Social Inisght is a partner institution of the EU-project «Co-ordination Action on Human Rights Violations» (CAHRV, 2004-2007, www.cahrv.uni-osnabrueck.de). Publications in 2008 and 2009 include research results in the domain of housing (new forms in co-housing of elderly people; people with mental problems and assisted living) and in the domain of interpersonal violence (police’s investigation accounts on intimate partner homicides – a qualitative study).