Nik Peasgood is the Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA) Service Manager and Director of HALT. […]
Speakers and Panellists
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Katie Russell
Katie Russell is Trustee, Director and founding Steering Group volunteer Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL). […]
Helen Reece
Helen Reece is a Reader in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where her main teaching responsibilities and research interests lie in Family Law. Her current research is concerned with the regulation of intimacy, particularly within the family setting. Her research project, ‘Violence to Feminism’, is a theoretical probing of the contemporary feminist approach to violence against women. The two main […]
Richard Exley
Richard Exley has worked in the autism field for 30 years, and currently works as a practitioner providing advice and support to people with autism. […]
Alison Stansfield
Alison Stansfield is the associate medical director for learning disabilities and the clinical lead for the Leeds Autism Diagnostic Service (LADS). […]
Stuart Murray
Stuart Murray is Professor of Contemporary Literatures & Film in the School of English, and Director of the interdisciplinary Leeds Medical Humanities Centre Director, at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Autism (Routledge, 2011) and Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination (Liverpool University Press, 2008). […]
Valerie Farnsworth
Valerie Farnsworth is a Research Fellow in 14-19 Education & Training, and a member of the Post-14 Education research group at the University of Leeds. She is the author of ‘Conceptualizing identity, learning and social justice in community-based learning’, Teaching & Teacher Education No.26 (2010), and co-author of Reframing Educational Research: Resisting the ‘what works’ agenda (forthcoming by Routledge). […]
Dennis Hayes
Dennis Hayes is Professor of Education at the University of Derby, and visiting Professor in the Westminster Institute of Education at Oxford Brookes University. He is co-author of The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education (Routledge, 2008), and founder of Academics for Academic Freedom. […]
Andrea Hollomotz
Andrea Hollomotz is a lecturer in Disability & Crime at the University of Leeds. She came to academia from a social work and social care background, and was previously a lecturer in Social Policy at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was on the editorial board for Disability & Society. Andrea is the author of Learning Difficulties and Sexual Vulnerability: A Social Approach (Jessica Kingsley, 2011). […]
Bill Carmichael
Bill Carmichael is joint course leader for MA International Public and Political Communication at the University of Sheffield. He joined the department in February 2005 as course leader for the MA web journalism course. He received his first degree and MA in history from King’s College, Cambridge before working as a reporter, industry correspondent, sub editor and news editor on a number of newspapers, culminating with […]