Disclosing and Surviving Abuse in Religious Contexts, online webinar,
Tuesday 17th June, 1.00-2.30pm
To register for this event, please go to the event page here and click on ‘Get Tickets’
This webinar brings together key findings from the AHRC-funded research project, “Abuse in Religious Contexts”, where we will be focusing on the lived experiences of survivors of abuse in religious settings.
Please be aware that these presentations include images and quotes from victim-survivors that discuss experiences of abuse, disclosure and survival.
Prof. Lisa Oakley and Dr. Jenny Hardy will present findings from their photo-elicitation study, which offers powerful insights into survivors’ experiences of disclosure and abuse.
Prof. Linda Woodhead and Jo Kind will share outcomes from their interview-based research, focusing on what survivors themselves identify as vital factors and resources that have supported their survival.
The session will be chaired by Rosie Dawson and will provide space for discussion around the project findings and research processes.
About the speakers:
Rosie Dawson is a freelance religion journalist, documentary maker and radio producer with more than 20 years of experience in the BBC’s Religion and Ethics department. She studied Theology at Oxford before becoming a BBC journalist in the North West.
Dr Jenny Hardy, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Chester. Her research focuses on abuse and violence primarily affecting women in the Criminal Justice System. She is interested in developing the use of participatory research methods, with a key aim of the project being to ensure the research process and findings were led by participants.
Prof Lisa Oakley is a professor of safeguarding and knowledge exchange and deputy programme leader for the MSc in Family and Child Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Chester in the UK. She is a chartered psychologist and chair of the British Psychological Society’s safeguarding advisory group. Lisa has conducted research into issues of faith, safeguarding, abuse, and creating healthy cultures for the past 20 years and has focused on spiritual abuse; she has co-authored several articles and book chapters on these topics. Lisa has focused on learning more about victim-survivor experiences of abuse and harm in religious contexts.
Prof Linda Woodhead is F.D. Maurice Chair in Moral and Social Theology at King’s College, London, and Co-Investigator on the project. Linda worked with Jo Kind to lead the project’s work on victim-survivors’ experiences and reflections in relation to resilience.
Jo Kind has extensive experience of advocating and supporting victim-survivors who have experienced abuse in Christian churches and has been a national advisor on improving safeguarding in faith contexts. With Linda Woodhead, Jo led the project’s work exploring victim-survivors’ experiences and reflections in relation to resilience.
