Talking Research

Talking Research features in-depth interviews with prominent academics and researchers who study sexual violence across disciplines. The aim is to make academic knowledge and research on sexual violence accessible. Every other Wednesday, guests talk about their research, their findings, the process, the challenges and everything else in between. talkingresearchpodcast@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/talkingresearch https://twitter.com/talk_research Organisations that provide support: India: https://yourstory.com/2016/04/women-helpline-india Scotland: https://www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk/ England & Wales: https://rapecrisis.org.uk/ USA: https://www.rainn.org/ Australia: https://www.rape-dvservices.org.au/ Credits: Logo- Raghvi Bhatia Music- Madhav Narayan Join our bookclub! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lhm-hdtys8XsughAj6x99IFUyeeY2LZuX5ghN8RUaOQ/edit

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Erin Shannon: University Responses to Sexual Violence

Erin Shannon is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Education at the University of York in York, England with several years of experience in researching sexual violence in universities. Her Ph.D. research project is a comparative study of university responses to sexual violence in the US and England. In this conversation, we go into her Ph.D. research in detail. We look at how university responses interact with the neoliberal university, preserving reputation and the benefits of comparing respo...

Oct 13, 2019•36 min•Ep. 4

Dr Franziska Meinck: Child Abuse

Dr. Franziska Meinck is a lecturer in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focus is the prevalence, risk and protective factors of child maltreatment in vulnerable populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, health outcomes of violence exposure in childhood, childhood violence prevention and on the development and testing of global child abuse measures. Franziska is currently funded by an ESRC Future Research Leader Award and in 2016 she won the ISPCAN C. Henry Kempe Award for outstan...

Oct 06, 2019•49 min•Ep. 3

Dr Mithu Sanyal: From Lucretia to #MeToo

Dr. Mithu M. Sanyal is a radio presenter, an award winning academic, a prominent German feminist and an author. Her first book, Vulva, was translated into 5 languages. Her second book Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo came out earlier this year and has received widespread acclaim. In this conversation, Mithu talks about the cultural history of rape, how honour is linked to rape and the notion of 'hysteria' to false accusations. Moving to present day issues, she lends her expertise as an academic and...

Oct 02, 2019•56 min•Ep. 1

Dr Holly Davis: Sex Work & Sexual Violence

Dr. Holly Davis received her phD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh for her research exploring the experiences of pimps involved in illegal prostitution in the United States. She has also worked directly and in various capacities with sex workers, sex trafficking victims, domestic and sexual violence survivors, violent male offenders and male sex offenders. She has convened and delivered the course The Sociology of Sex Work in the department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh...

Oct 02, 2019•41 min•Ep. 2

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