Lived-Experience Advisory Group – Recovery Histories

Roz

Roz is a specialist researcher exploring abuse, trauma, and the experiences of Black communities, working in partnership with institutions including King’s College London. She is the founder and project leader of Little Ro, an initiative focused on help, hope, healing, and ensuring trauma survivors are heard. An award-winning public speaker, passionate feminist, and thought-provoking social…

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Selina Wallis

Selina Wallis is a writer, researcher, and survivor activist working at the intersection of trauma, safeguarding, and public health. She leads lived experience and involvement work at NIHR ARC North West Coast and is the founder of the Safe by Default campaign, advocating for tamper-proof digital safety settings to protect neurodivergent children. She has over…

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C C

I am a member of the Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG), bringing a background in dance and theater scholarship. My professional experience includes my work as a trauma recovery coach within the domestic abuse sector. I serve as a committee member for the Society for the Study of Theology and am a researcher specializing in…

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Lauren

My name is Lauren and I am a victim-survivor of intra-familial child sexual abuse, as well as a number of other adverse childhood experiences. The effects have impacted every aspect of my life and development, though despite these traumas (and maybe because of them) I harbour an innate drive to connect with, support, and empower…

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Shelley Trower

Shelley Trower has an academic background with publications including Sound Writing: Voices, Authors, and Readers of Oral History (Oxford University Press, 2023). Research interests include oral history and life writing; the history of psychology; memory and trauma; libraries and the role of reading in peoples’ lives. Shelley currently combines freelance roles including as a creative…

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Sheona Goodyear

Sheona Goodyear is a University of Birmingham funded PhD student in the School of Education. Her research investigates inclusive and trauma-informed practice in education; identification of barriers to attainment and well-being and facilitation of timely support, aiming to reduce cumulative, life-long effects and enable preventative action. She is interested in interpretive methodology and ethical application…

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Dr Jon Bird

Jon is a survivor of extra-familial CSA/E by several perpetrators that occurred in different settings. He was involved in NAPAC for 23 years, for the five years up to summer 2011 he was Chair of Trustees. Then he was involved in managing survivor support service delivery, training, consultancy, and researching best practice. This included managing…

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Bea Summers

Bea is a survivor of sexual abuse throughout most of her childhood. Bea survived the criminal justice system and managed to get her abuser convicted decades later. Bea and the fellow survivors set up Warrior Women to help other survivors. Bea is a member of the Pan London Expert by Experience Panel, and a member…

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Patricia M Wennell

Tricia retired from social work in 2022 and is a published author, campaigner and speaker. She has 30 years’ experience as a volunteer supporting adults who were abused in childhood. Since retiring Tricia has been involved in and benefiting from the peer support, research and creative writing opportunities within Survivors Voices. As part of Survivors…

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Lisa Ward

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…

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Shakira

I hope to use my lived experience to help others feel understood and less alone. Being a survivor already carries enough stigma, and feeling isolated only deepens the pain and shame. I want to contribute to a society where people feel safer to share their stories without fear of being misunderstood. My aim is to…

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