UK

Professor Samantha Lundrigan

Director
Policing Institute for the Eastern Region

Discipline Areas: Criminology; Social research; Psychology
Research Interests: Child protection and safeguarding; Child sexual abuse/exploitation; Offending behaviour

Dr Laura H.V. Wright

Research and Teaching Fellow
University of Edinburgh

Discipline Areas: Social justice; Education; Human/children's rights
Research Interests: Child and youth participation; Child and youth mental health; Participatory research

Mr. Shailesh Kumar

PhD student & Associate Tutor
School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London

Discipline Areas: Law; Human/children's rights; Criminology
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse/exploitation; Criminal justice; Human/children's rights

Professor M Catherine Maternowska

Professor of Violence Prevention for Young People
End Violence Lab, University of Edinburgh

Discipline Areas: Human/children's rights; Public Health; Social research
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse/exploitation; Data Translation and Mobilisation ; Research methods

Chad Hemady

Discipline Areas: Social work; Social policy; Health
Research Interests: Child and youth participation; Research methods; Participatory research

Kai Grygier

PhD student
University of Sussex

Discipline Areas: Sociology; Social justice
Research Interests: Child and youth participation; Child sexual abuse/exploitation;Participatory research

Professor Anita Franklin

Professor of Childhood Studies
University of Portsmouth

Discipline Areas: Social work; Social justice; Social research
Research Interests: Child and youth participation; Human/children's rights; Child protection and safeguarding; Disabled Child Abuse and Protection

Janelle Rabe

Postgraduate researcher
Durham University

Discipline Areas: Sociology;Social research;Social policy;
Research Interests: Child and youth participation;Child sexual abuse/exploitation;Participatory research;

Steff Mitchell

Community Safety and Resilience Principal
Local Government

Discipline Areas: Criminology;Social justice;
Research Interests: Child and youth participation;Child sexual abuse/exploitation;Participatory research;

Lopa Bhattacharjee (she/her)

Senior Programme Advisor
Family for Every Child

Discipline Areas: Human/children's rights;Social work;Social research;
Research Interests: Participatory research;Child and family research;Child sexual abuse/exploitation;

Ms. Rebecca Meiksin

Research Fellow in Social Science
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Discipline Areas: Health; Social research
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse/exploitation; Adolescent dating violence

Lynne Cairns

PhD Candidate
University of Durham (Department of Sociology)

Discipline Areas: Social work; Sociology; Criminology
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse/exploitation; Participatory research;Offending behaviour

Claire Cunnington

PhD Candidate
University of Sheffield

Discipline Areas: Sociology
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse/exploitation

Kirsty Alderson

PhD Candidate
University of Central Lancashire

Discipline Areas: Psychology
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse/exploitation

Sarah Colley

PhD Candidate
University of Hull

Discipline Areas:
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse/exploitation

Dr Carol A. Ireland

Reader
University of Central Lancashire

Discipline Areas: Psychology
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse/exploitation

Franziska Meinck

Lecturer
University of Edinburgh

Discipline Areas: Social work;Political science; Social research
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse/exploitation

Dr Susan Roberts

Senior Lecturer
University of Swansea

Discipline Areas: Criminology
Research Interests: Child protection and safeguarding

Michael Lewis

Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
University of Central Lancashire

Discipline Areas: Psychology
Research Interests: