Core Team – Recovery Histories

Dr Katie Elliott

Katie Elliott is a Research Assistant on the project. Her PhD thesis explored the gap between media and practice through a feminist analysis of media representations and practitioner perspectives on sexual exploitation of girls and young women. She has extensive experience as a researcher and practitioner in gender-based violence services over recent years.

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Dr Baljit Kaur

Baljit Kaur is a Research Assistant on the project. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Sussex. Her doctoral research is an ethnography of young people’s production of rap music in East London, in which music making and musical practices are the vehicle through which violence and resistance to violence are…

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Dr Ruth Beecher

Dr Ruth Beecher is an historian of medicine, welfare and childhood in Britain, Ireland and the US and is the principal investigator of the Recovery Histories project. Her previous role was as director of the SHaME project at Birkbeck. Her first book, Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s, was published…

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Dr Adeline Moussion Esteve

Dr Adeline Moussion Esteve is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the project. She is a social anthropologist. Her research focuses on gender-based violence, situated within the framework of critical trauma studies. Her work explores the social and political dimensions that shape the experience of violence, with particular attention to the material and everyday consequences of…

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