About National Center

The Swedish National Centre for Knowledge on Men's Violence against Women (NCK) at Uppsala University has in Government directives been commissioned to

• offer service to patients with availability day and night,
• offer support to women subjected to violence,
• spread knowledge about and develop methods for care and treatment of women who have been subjected to battering and rape,
• spread knowledge and information about men's violence against women,
• educate medical staff and other categories of staff who are liable to meet women subjected to violence,
• follow, compile and spread research findings within the field of men's violence against women,
• carry on research within the faculty of medicine and
• function as a consulting resource for other organisations and authorities in the country.

NCK was first established in 1994 as an expert unit within the health and medical services for women subjected to battering and sexual assaults. Physicians, midwives, medical social workers, researchers, information workers and administrators work at the Centre.

Professor Gun Heimer has been head of the Centre from the start.