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Professor Joanna Bourke is the Principal Investigator for Sexual Harms + Medical Encounters, a five-year Wellcome Trust-funded interdisciplinary research group based at Birkbeck, University of London. In this inaugural post, Joanna discusses what motivated her return to studying sexual violence.

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME's Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Prof Aisha K Gill CBE from the University of Roehampton.

On 26 May 2021, SHaME closed its Writer in Residence Programme with Winnie M Li with a public panel and creative performance event with poet Clare Shaw, SHaME academics Professor Joanna Bourke and Dr Ruth Beecher, and our Writer in Residence Winnie M Li.

On 14 April 2021, SHaME continued its Writer in Residence Programme with a public event featuring a distinguished panel of award-winning authors who spoke about transforming their own lived experiences of sexual violence into different forms of literature. Our guests were graphic writer Una, philosopher and memoirist Susan J. Brison and poet Shivanee Ramlochan.

On 08 March 2021, our academic lead, Professor Joanna Bourke, joined Jude Kelly, Marai Larasi and Winnie M Li to talk about creating a 'rape-free world' during WOW UK Festival 2021's International Women's Day programming.

SHaME is holding an online international, interdisciplinary academic symposium to explore the relationship between Medicine, Psychiatry, and Sexual Violence.

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME's Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Dr Gethin Rees from Newcastle University.

SHaME launched its Writer in Residence Programme with a special In Conversation Event with Professor Amina Memon, Writer in Residence Winnie M Li, and SHaME Principal Investigator Professor Joanna Bourke.

In this episode of 'Spotlight On', SHaME postdoctoral researcher Dr Stephanie Wright speaks to Sarah Lasoye, black feminist, poet, and former Women's Officer for the National Union of Students (NUS).

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME's Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Marai Larasi, 'rock star' feminist activist and College Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London.

SHaME welcomes author and activist Winnie M Li for a Writer In Residence Programme taking place online across March - May 2021.

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME's Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Prof Avtar Brah, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London.

In this installment of 'Spotlight On', SHaME postdoctoral researcher Dr Stephanie Wright, speaks to Dr Ángel Alcalde (University of Melbourne) about his work on sexual violence during the Spanish Civil War and Francoist dictatorship.

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME's Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Dr Dimitra Vassiliadou from the Hellenic Open University in Greece.

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME's Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Ian Warwick Blair, The Lord Blair of Boughton QPM.

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME's Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Dr Sameena Mulla from Marquette University in Wisconsin.

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME's Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen from the University of Newcastle in Australia.

Prof Joanna Bourke, SHaME's Principal Investigator, highlights how a rise in domestic firearms sales in the US is exposing girls, women and other minoritised groups to increased domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this post, Prof Joanna Bourke, SHaME's project lead, explores the history of domestic violence and pandemics by looking at the case of the 1918-1920 Spanish Flu.