Core Team – Recovery Histories

Dr Joanne Wilson is a field research specialist with over 10 years’ experience leading and supporting sensitive research on child sexual abuse (CSA), sexual violence (SV), and inequalities affecting women and girls. She conducted the only UK primary research focused specifically on the experiences of Black African and African-Caribbean British adult victim-survivors of CSA. Dr…

Katie Elliott is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow 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.

Baljit Kaur is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow 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…