Chair: Becc Brunk

Speakers: Becca Brunk (University of Lincoln); Eithne Dowds (Queens University Belfast); Lo Marshall (University College London)

Becca Brunk holds a Master’s in Organisational Behaviour from the University of Leeds, and a Bachelor’s in Neuroscience from Michigan State University. She is passionate about leveraging neuroscience to build effective teams, better workplaces and better policy processes. She is currently developing her PhD thesis on bystanders and the impact of training environments in sexual violence prevention. She has previously researched on addiction, heart rate variability, and diversity management, organised two TED style conferences, and spent a few years teaching and managing outdoor education programs.

Dr Eithne Dowds is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast. Her research intersects the areas of international and domestic criminal law, feminist legal theory and sexual offences. Most recently her research has focused on contemporary trends in legal reform to sexual consent. Eithne’s work on consent has been cited in the Gillen Review on the investigation and prosecution of sexual offences in Northern Ireland (2019) and she was invited to provide comments on a model rape law prepared by the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women (2021). To date she has published work in a number of peer-review journals, a monograph Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent (Hart 2019) and a co-edited collection Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives (Routledge, 2021).

Dr Lo Marshall is a Postgraduate Researcher in the Department of Geography at University College London. Lo is an urban geographer researching sexuality and gender. My doctoral research explores gender diversity in British cities through the experiences of people with trans identities and histories.