Advisory Board

Gerrilyn Smith. Gerrilyn came to England and completed her Clinical Psychology training at the Maudsley, Institute of Psychiatry. She joined the London Rape Crisis and Research Project in 1979 where she was actively involved for many years in the collective working of the project, including on the crisis line as an unpaid worker.  She has worked…

Julie Wheelwright FRHistS is an honorary research fellow in the school of historical studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and consultant on a Wellcome Trust/British Academy funded project, ‘Writing Difficult Subjects’: Towards the development of creative writing as a self-care tool kit for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) of gender-based violence (GBV). She founded the…

Victoria Hoyle is a Senior Lecturer in Public History at the University of York. She is a historian of twentieth century child welfare and social care, with a focus on understandings of and responses to child sexual abuse. Between 2017 and 2019 she was the Postdoctoral Research Associate on the MIRRA: Memory-Identity-Rights in Records-Access project…

Claudia Soares is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at Newcastle University, working on a 7-year project Caring Communities: Rethinking Children’s Social Care, 1800-present. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester with Prof Julie-Marie Strange, before working in a number of third sector organisations that support children and young people facing multiple disadvantage.…

William Tantam is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol. His current research explores the experiences of victims and survivors of non-recent child sexual abuse. This includes experiences of disclosure, support, coping and wellbeing. It also includes creative practices and responses to traumatic experiences. He is part of a network of therapists, counsellors, and…

Laura Eden is the Corporate Director of Children and Young People in Newham where she has been in post since April 2024. Prior to this she was the Director of Safeguarding from March 2020 to March 2024 and the Director of Youth and Communities between July 2018 and March 2020 in Islington.  Laura qualified as…

Marquette University (Wisconsin, USA) Professor Sameena Mulla is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University (U.S.). She uses anthropological methods to study the intersections of law, medicine and policing. She is the author of The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (NYU 2014), and the co-author of Bodies in…