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"Giving a £5 voucher to a survivor of human trafficking as a token of appreciation for their involvement in research triggers past traumatic experiences. Survivors are experts and deserve a proper wage". Bee Samara and Janet Joseph in the #kindnessinresearch conference

Thank you to Sohail Jannesari Bee, Jeanet Ariana Markowitz Lisa Ward and Jane Chevous 💙💜⛵ for your thought-provoking, reflective and inspiring talks and workshops at the #kindnessinresearch conference 🙏 you've given us lots to think about and apply in our own research!

VAWG is a public health problem that the health system has a responsibility to address. Great to see the new #WomensHealthStrategy championing trauma-informed care for women, trauma training for providers, and support for providers who are survivors. Let's make this a reality.

📣 call for abstracts for a special issue of ⁦Violence Against Women Journal⁩ co-edited by Noelle Brigden, who is somehow as generous a friend & mentor as she is a courageous & rigorous scholar. journals.sagepub.com/page/vaw/call-…

The Home Office's decision to accept some asylum applicants without interview is long overdue. As someone who conducted research with Afghan sanctuary seekers, I also suggested this approach. I have plenty more recommendations here! kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/assets/p… #Refugees

The Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network Lived Experience Group are running their own research on what trauma means. This is a fully co-produced piece of research by and for those with lived experience. Please do consider completing it and sharing it forms.office.com/Pages/Response… The McPin Foundation The Mental Elf

This week The Flying Child art group created these beautiful landscapes. You won’t see my picture in the video because as it turns out oil pastels are NOT my thing. That’s ok, I have a feeling that next week’s theme ‘scribbly dogs’ will be :) #PeerSupport #ArtForWellbeing

The count down to launch is on. Can't wait to pilot our new Pre-Trial Training & Accreditation service next week with @ImaraNottingham @sarsas_uk @womankindbs2 - love love love working with emma harewood. New free resources for services coming soon :) The Green House

To make VAMH Data more accessible to violence researchers, we launched a Data Directory in 2019 to signpost datasets, repositories and published statistics with measures on VAMH. To access our Data Directory you can visit our website at: vamhn.co.uk/data-directory… #MeasuringVAMH

Last year, I had a great time at the Kindness in Research Conference. Asking questions of (and being grilled by!) Bee and Jeanet, two excellent peer researchers on our modern slavery research project Modern Slavery Core Outcomes Set. We talked about research process ethics: vimeo.com/792757076

"Our in-person, peer support group is up and running. It is therapist and lived experience co-led, the aim being to create a sense of ‘us’ as opposed to the ‘them and us’ approach favoured by some but disliked by many" #CSA #PeerSupport #SocietysShame theflyingchild.com/2023/05/04/pee…

At a conference in Iceland, reading Dr Hannah Roberts (she/her)'s powerful book about intentional careers for STEM women. My favourite quote: "successes and failures are outcomes. They do not determine your self-worth". I need this reminder everyday. Launches today on: amazon.co.uk/Intentional-Ca…

📣Call for papers📣 Vicarious trauma prevention for gender-based violence researchers Guest edited by @MollyDragiewicz & Dr. Bethany Backes. Abstract submissions close 1 Feb bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/… #GBV #MentalHealth ASC Division on Feminist Criminology(formerly DWC) Gender Research Centre

Have a new article out about the importance of grey and qualitative literature when developing Core Outcomes Sets related to interpersonal violence. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

What do survivors of #IPSV want from service providers? In this new paper led by Siofra Peeren we analysed open-text responses from a national survey to find out. Free to read! @safer_families ANROWS UniMelb MDHS @UniMelbDGPPC MAEVe bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Last but not least, we have Siofra Peeren, the #SRIP2024 Doctoral Prize Winner, talking about her interesting PhD on healthcare experiences in survivors of sexual violence.