SHaME team

The SHaME Project generated a number of significant research and public engagement outputs throughout the course of the project, which ran from 2018-2024. In this Project Round-Up you'll find links to our most notable outputs and achievements.

The SHaME Project Grant Report SHaME's Public Engagement Lead, Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh, has pulled together an end of grant report, highlighting SHaME's groundbreaking work across...

Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh, SHaME's Public Engagement Lead, has written an end of grant report, highlighting SHaME's groundbreaking work across research, engagement and activism from 2018-2024.

SHaME Publication List SHaME's researchers have published numerous articles, chapters and monographs over the course of the project. Below you'll find a list of our...

Until 1994, men were not recognized legally as victims of rape in England and Wales. This article explores the history of male survivors of rape...

SHaME's researchers have published numerous articles, chapters and monographs over the course of the project. This list brings together our current and forthcoming publications.

SHaME: Stories of Survival is a survivor-led documentary film co-produced by SHaME and filmmaker Sophie MacCorquodale exploring the stories of four survivors of sexual violence sharing their reflections on the aftercare they received.

On 05 March 2024 SHaME is held its final online event, a book launch for Challenging Conceptions: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation in collaboration with Tufts University.

Writer and historian Julie Wheelwright reflects on the Writing Narratively on Difficult Subjects workshop series she led for The SHaME Project, which brought together academics and practitioners researching and writing about sexual violence.

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME Director Dr Ruth Beecher interviews Fiona Ellis from Survivors In Transition.

How can historians meaningfully and ethically research past experiences of sexual violence? History Workshop Online's Dr Marybeth Hamilton and SHaME's Dr Ruth Beecher and Dr Rhian Keyse discuss the often surprising dynamics of the histories they’ve uncovered – and the strategies and supports they’ve developed for navigating their own emotions in conducting such emotionally challenging research.

How has sexual violence been produced through different institutional cultures of harm? And what strategies have survivors used to counter silence, shame, and stigma? The SHaME team explores various forms of institutional sexual violence in a series originally published with History Workshop Online in 2022.

SHaME's Charlie Jeffries and Avni Patel chat with Thomas Andrew Faulker and Kalpana Viswnath to explore the role of design in preventing sexual harm in public and private spaces. Does it exist? If so where?

SHaME's George Severs interviews author and activist Tanaka Mhishi about his powerful book 'Sons and Others: On Loving Male Survivors' following its launch late last year.

The SHaME project is pleased to present a Call for Papers for our upcoming workshop, 'Humour and Sexual Violence', taking place online on 15 March 2023.

Curator Fiona Rogers discusses the work of artist Laia Abril in the context of how gendered violence and rape appear in the canon and spaces of art history. An exhibition of Abril's work is on display at the Copeland Gallery from 10-27th November 2022.

On 24th September, the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence will take place in its second year in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro. Called Ecoar! Festival, the one day festival will be created and presented by Redes da Maré, in partnership with SHaME and the WOW Foundation.

On October 7th 2022, SHaME celebrated the release of Professor Joanna Bourke's new book, Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence, published by Reaktion Books. Joanna was joined by Jude Kelly CBE, Marai Larasi, Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh, and Maisha Sumah in a conversation between artists, activists and academics on boundary-crossing global approaches to creating a rape free world.