Lisa is freelance consultant working on lived experience engagement in the violence and abuse field. She supports a lived experience advisory group for the Violence, Abuse & Mental Health Network, and another for Oxfordshire County Council, and also works on a range of ad hoc projects. She is a former rape crisis CEO, and is a trustee of SAASS BMK and the survivor services rep for NOTA. She is also undertaking a PhD at London Metropolitan University in child-perpetrated child sexual abuse, where the victim-survivors and perpetrators are aged 12 and under. In her spare time, she can be found travelling in her campervan with her wife and two dogs, at a gig, or at a parkrun.
Website link: www.iamlisaward.com