Glossary of key terms

App

Short for application, an app is a software program designed to run on a specific device. Apps can be used on both mobile phones and on a web browser.

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

Measures taken to reduce crime through the design of the physical environment.

Feminist urbanism

Urban design and planning through a feminist lens.

Gender analysis

Exploring how policies affect women and men differently.

Gender-based violence

Violence directed against someone because of their gender.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

A set of EU rules on data protection and privacy.

Intimate Partner Violence

Physical, sexual violence or emotional abuse by a current or former intimate partner.

National Performance Framework

A framework outlining Scotland’s eleven national outcomes that measure national wellbeing, including economic, social and environmental indicators (Scottish Government, 2023).

Personal safety

How people experience or perceive risk of harassment, intimidation, and sexual behaviour (UK Government, 2021).

Public transport

Forms of transport that are available to the public, charge set fares, and run on fixed routes (e.g., trains, buses).

Public space

Places that are accessible to the general public. It is important to note that it is a contested concept and there are hierarchies of public spaces.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

An intergovernmental agency made up of thirty-eight countries, which helps members to formulate economic and social policies.

Sexual harassment

Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, which has the purpose of “creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment” (Equality Act 2010).

Sustainable Development Goals

Seventeen global goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 to end poverty, hunger, AIDS, and discrimination against women and girls by 2030 (United Nations, 2015).

Violence against women and girls (VAWG)

Physical, sexual and psychological violence including domestic abuse, rape, incest and child sexual abuse, sexual harassment and intimidation at work and in public, commercial sexual exploitation including prostitution, pornography and trafficking and so 'honour based' violence, including dowry-related violence, female genital mutilation, forced and child marriages and 'honour' crimes (Scottish Government, 2023).