Chair: Prof Amina Memon

Speakers: Michaela Campbell (Warwick University) & Rianna Raymond-Williams (Glasgow Caledonian University); Nadia Wager (Huddersfield University); Amy Beddows (CWASU, London Met)

Prof Amina Memon

Prof Amina Memon directs the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law at Royal Holloway University. With a background in applied Psychology Amina has been contributing to research and policy on best practices for gathering information from victims/witnesses for over 30 years.

Title: Silenced Voices in VAWG

Michaela Campbell is a part-time doctoral researcher and academic activist at the University of Warwick, Centre for Education Studies. Michaela's research centres on amplifying the lived experience of Black and Mixed-race children who live in domestic abuse refuges.

Rianna Raymond-Williams is a PhD student at Glasgow Caledonian University in London. She is exploring how Black women make sense of their sexual identity in the UK. Rianna has worked in sexual and reproductive health for the last ten years in a variety of roles. She also freelances as a journalist who covers sexual health and wellbeing, identity, race, and digital media for The Voice Newspaper, Black Ballad, The Independent, Galdem and SH:24

Title: Ironic Sexism: Hiding in Plain Sight

Amy Beddows is a part-time PhD student at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University, researching women’s experiences of victim blame. She is also an accredited psychotherapist working in HE, with a speciality in trauma.

Title: Preserving researcher wellbeing while researching gender-based violence

Nadia Wager