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Recovery History Oral History

To Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: Your History Matters and Should be Part of the Historical Record. Contact us…

Writing Difficult Subjects – Lived Experience and Memoir

A guest blog by Julie Wheelwright. Writers and readers of memoir understand, intrinsically, that our memories are not data collecting…

Illustration by Sophie Olson, Network Event.

Recovery History – Network Events

Recovery History Network Events On 1st and 2nd May 2025, the Recovery Histories Project’s first in-person network events took…

Call for Papers: Humour and Sexual Violence Proposal for Special Issue of Cultural History

Call for Papers: Humour and Sexual Violence Proposal for Special Issue of Cultural History Abstracts Due: 17 October 2025 …

SHaME Project Round-Up

The SHaME Project generated a number of significant research and public engagement outputs throughout the course of the project, which ran from 2018-2024. In this Project Round-Up you’ll find links to our most notable outputs and achievements.

SHaME End of Grant Report

Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh, SHaME’s Public Engagement Lead, has written an end of grant report, highlighting SHaME’s groundbreaking work across research, engagement and activism from 2018-2024.

SHaME Publication List

SHaME’s researchers have published numerous articles, chapters and monographs over the course of the project. This list brings together our current and forthcoming publications.

SHaME: Stories of Survival

SHaME: Stories of Survival is a survivor-led documentary film co-produced by SHaME and filmmaker Sophie MacCorquodale exploring the stories of four survivors of sexual violence sharing their reflections on the aftercare they received.

Collaborating with care: Creating inclusive public engagement programmes with survivors of sexual violence

On Wednesday 06 March 2024, The SHaME Project and Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Mental Health hosted an online seminar on public engagement with lived experience research with Zara Asif and Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh, chaired by Dr Sarah Marks.