Associate Fellows – SHaME

Joana Ferreira is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge working on a project on vicarious traumatisation among women working to support marginalised and socially isolated women and girls. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Suffolk currently working on Project Bluestone – Operation Soteria, focused on police’s response to rape and…

Sundari Anitha is Professor of Gender, Violence and Work at the University of Lincoln. She has researched and published widely on the problem of violence against women and girls (VAWG); on gender and migration; and on gender, race and ethnicity in employment relations. Anitha has previously managed a Women’s Aid refuge and was a caseworker…

Jeanette Copperman is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the Open University. As a community worker and mental health activist, she was a founder member of the National Women and Mental Health Network and campaigned about women’s mental health issues including sexual assault within psychiatric settings. She has written about sexual violence within the…

Dr Claire Cunnington is a researcher at the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Her research, both in the present day and historically, focuses on adults who experienced CSA. The film ‘Flow’ is inspired by her Wellcome Trust funded doctoral research where she asked adults recovering from CSA what helped…

Ravi Thiara is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her main interest lies in the area of gendered violence and social change, through research and activism. Her research explores and theorises the intersection of violence, gender and inequality-marginality (‘race’/ethnicity and disability). Her expertise in gendered violence and racialised communities, disability and domestic violence, and…

Tanaka Mhishi is a writer, performer and storyteller. His works with issues surrounding masculinity and trauma have been produced on screen for BBC 3 and on stages nationwide, including This Is How It Happens, a play about male survivors of sexual violence and the Off West End Award nominated Boys Don’t which he co-wrote and…

Lucy Delap is a Professor in Modern British and Gender history at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Murray Edwards College.  She has published widely on the history of feminism, gender, labour and religion, including the prize-winning The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the early twentieth century in 2007, and Knowing Their Place: Domestic…

Matt Cook is Professor of History at Birkbeck. He is a cultural historian specialising in the history of sexuality in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published extensively on queer histories and cultures (including queer local, community and public histories), on the history of London, and on histories of home and family. He…

Amina Memon is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law at Royal Holloway University. With a background in Cognitive and Social Psychology, she has contributed to research and police on best practices for gathering information from victims/witnesses with a particular focus on vulnerability. Her new research work…

Kate Davison is a historian of sexuality, psychiatry and sexology and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. In September 2021 she will take up the position of DAAD Lecturer in Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a Gilbert Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she completed a PhD in the…

Lisa Featherstone (Associate Professor) is an historian whose work focuses on the intersections between sex, medicine and the law. She is currently focusing on the sexual assault of women and children in late twentieth century Australia, and has a monograph on this topic forthcoming in late 2021. She has published widely on sexual crimes, including child…