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Around The World with Rohan PatoleyTomorrowland Tales: Unveiling the Magic of the World's Premier Music Festival ft. Asmita SoodJoin us on a captivating episode as we get deeper into the enchanting world of festival tourism and embark on an unforgettable adventure at Tomorrowland, the pinnacle of music festivals. In this episode, we are thrilled to be joined by the talented and vibrant actor, model, and entrepreneur Asmita Sood, who will be our guide through the realm of electrifying beats, mesmerizing performances, and lifelong memories. Together, we'll explore the essence of festival tourism and how it has become a remarkable way to immerse oneself in different cultures and connect with like-minded individuals from around...2023-06-2321 min
Cancer Healing Journeys by ZenOnco.io & Love Heals CancerLung Cancer Caregiver : Shriya Sood : Cancer Survivor StoriesShriya Sood is a caregiver to her father, who was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer on 7 April 2021. She is 24 years old and a doctor by profession. He was a chronic smoker. We have to understand that we are on this journey, and being on the journey now, I can say that cancer is a disease just like any other disease. We have to change the mindset of people that cancer is not the end, it is curable, and people survive. She believes that a caregiver should create a positive environment around the patient.2022-04-0831 min
Talking ResearchDr Melanie O'Brien: Sexual Violence in Conflict ZonesDr Melanie O'Brien is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia and an award winning teacher of International Humanitarian Law and Legal Research. Her research examines the connection between human rights and the genocide process; and sexual and gender-based crimes and against women in conflict zones. She has conducted fieldwork and research across six continents. In this conversation, she shared her research on
Research Discussed:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642987.2015.10915622021-03-311h 01
Talking ResearchDr Sameena Mulla: Sexual Assault Forensic InterventionDr Sameena Mulla is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. She is the author of the Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses and Sexual Assault Intervention. Her work broadly theorises the gendered regimes of sexual assault intervention that emerge among the state and sexual assault survivors in the contemporary USA. In this episode, Sameena shared her work on forensic interventions for sexual assaults, how they are failing to do justice to victim-survivors and how they can be improved.
Research Discussed:
https://nyupress.org/9781479867219/the-violence-of-care/2021-03-1555 min
Let's LearnCurrent Affairs// 4th February, 2021📰 Current Affairs,
🗓️ 04 February 2021 .
👩🦰 Sangeeta Bahadur Appointed As High Commissioner Of India To Malta
👤 R N Swamy Appointed As Principal Secretary For Parliamentary Affairs
👤 Air Marshal Manavendra Singh Appointed Chief Of Southern Air Command
👤 Redmi India Ropes In Sonu Sood As Brand Ambassador
👩✈️ Ayesha Aziz (25) From Kashmir Becomes India's Youngest Female Pilot
✅ In The Year 2011 , Aziz Became The Youngest Student Pilot To Get A License At The Age Of 15
👩🦰 Erin Liz John Won The Miss Kerala Title Which Was Conducted Virtually
💉 India Becomes Fastest Country To Reach 4M COVID-19 Vaccination Mark
✅ The Country Has Achieved This Feat In 18 Days
👤 Amazon Founder & CEO Jeff Bezos Will Step Down From The Company
👤 An...2021-02-0403 minTalking ResearchDr Chloë Kennedy: Deceptive SexDr Chloë Kennedy is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Edinburgh. Her main research interests are criminal law, legal theory, legal history, and the relationship between these areas. Her research also focuses on law and gender and law and religion. Chloë is undertaking an AHRC research leader fellowship on identity deception, focussing in particular on inducing intimacy.
In this conversation, Chloë shared her research on deceptive sex, what it is, what forms it takes, debates around its criminalisation and the framework she has devised for its criminalisation.
Research Discussed: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-studies/art...2021-01-201h 02
Talking ResearchSamantha Freeman: Television Representations of Sexual ViolenceSamantha Freeman is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University's Screen Cultures programme and holds dual certificates in Teaching and Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her dissertation traces how television has represented sexual violence since the 1950s, with a particular focus on the medium's narrative conventions and aesthetics. In this conversation, we spoke about tv representation in the 1950s, two contemporary shows Unbelievable and I May Destroy You, how representations of sexual assaults in tv shows can be improved, and other themes.
Research Discussed:
http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/sexual-violence-crime-dramas-1950s2021-01-151h 07
Talking ResearchDr Gemma Hamilton: Changing Police Attitudes in Sexual Offence CasesDr Gemma Hamilton is a lecturer in criminology and justice studies at RMIT University. Her research focuses on violence against women and children, with expertise on policing, family violence, sexual offending and forensic interviewing. In 2016, she won a prize for her phD research that focused on improving investigative interviews with Australian Aboriginal children in cases of sexual abuse.
In this conversation, Gemma shared her research on improving police attitudes, forensic interviews.
Research discussed :
Tidmarsh, P., Hamilton, G. and Sharman, S.J., 2020. Changing Police Officers’ Attitudes in Sexual Offense Cases: A 12-Month Follow-Up Study. Criminal Justice and Behavior, p.0093854820921201.2020-12-2447 min
Talking ResearchErin O'Callaghan: Survivors' Experiences of Sexual Assault Involving Alcohol/Substance UseErin O'Callaghan is a Phd Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, US. Her dissertation will be a mixed methods study of survivors of sexual assault involving substance use at the time of the assault, in addition to investigating survivors' pleasurable and/or wanted experiences. In this conversation, Erin expanded on these topics.
Research Discussed:
Ullman, S.E., O’Callaghan, E. and Lorenz, K., 2019. Women’s experiences of impairment and incapacitation during alcohol/drug-related sexual assaults: Toward a survivor-informed approach to measurement. Archives of sexual behavior, 48(7), pp.2105-2116.2020-11-2550 min
Talking ResearchDr Jane Meyrick: Improving Reporting of Sexual Abuse on University CampusesDr Jane Meyrick is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at the University of West England, Bristol. She is qualified as a Chartered Health Psychologist and is a Public Health Specialist. She has worked at policy and service levels on sexual health for the last 20 years and leads on sexual health, sexual and reproductive rights/violence. She also co-leads the research on sexual abuse/violence at UWE, Bristol.
In this conversation, Jane shared her forthcoming research on the prevalence of sexual abuse at universities and experiences of survivors with reporting procedures at universities. She explained the various ways universities can...2020-11-111h 06
Talking ResearchDr Rachel Simon-Kumar: Why Ethnic Minorities Under-Report Sexual ViolenceDr Rachel Simon-Kumar is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her key areas of research are in women's studies and public policy. Her research interests lie in the intersections of gender, ethnicity and policy, in the context of Aoetaora/New Zealand as well as the geopolitical south, particularly India.
In this conversation, Rachel shared her research on under-reporting in ethnic minorities in NZ, the factors behind it, how this can be remedied, and more.
Research Discussed:
Setayesh Rahmanipour, Shannon Kumar & Rachel Simon-Kumar (2019): Underreporting sexual violence among ‘ethnic’ migrant women: pers...2020-10-2959 min
Talking ResearchRiya Singh: Caste-based Sexual Violence Against Dalit WomenRiya Singh is a part of Core Leadership Group in India's single and largest Dalit women collective, Dalit Women Fight. She works on ground with the survivors of caste atrocities of Dalit community in five states of northern India. She is also a PhD scholar at Ambedkar University Delhi and her research focuses on atrocities and the Scheduled Castes - Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
In this conversation, Riya shared her work and research on combating caste atrocities including sexual violence against Dalit women.
More info on Dalit Women Fight: https://dalitwomenfight.org/2020-10-1443 min
Talking ResearchDr Rachel Lovell: Rape Kits & Serial RapistsDr Rachel Lovell is a Research Assistant Professor at the Begun Centre of Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a Sociologist and methodologist who works with law-enforcement, community based agencies and public systems to examine the impact of violent behaviour that is primarily directed at women and girls.
In this conversation, Rachel shared her research on rape kits and how they can be used to identify serial rapists.
Research discussed:
Lovell, R., Luminais, M., Flannery, D.J., Overman, L., Huang, D., Walker, T. and Clark, D.R., 2017. Offending patterns for...2020-10-071h 08
Talking ResearchThomas Kadri: The Challenge of Digital AbuseThomas Kadri is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia School of Law and a Mellon Fellow at Yale Law School, where he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Law. He is currently working on the rise of digital abuse and how people are using networked technologies to engage in harassment, stalking, privacy invasions, and surveillance.
In this conversation, Thomas shared his research on digital abuse, how tech companies can be more mindful of digital abuse facilitated by their platforms and how they can foster a more empathetic response to it.
Research discussed:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...2020-09-2251 min
Talking ResearchDr Stephanie Bonnes: Sexual Harassment in the MilitaryStephanie Bonnes is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven. She received a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2018. Her scholarship broadly focuses on gender and racial inequality at the intersections of victimization, identity, and organizations.
In this conversation, Stephanie shared her work researching sexual harassment faced by servicewomen in the US military, bureaucratic harassment, how institutional sexism and racism intersect with sexual harassment in the institution among other things.
Research discussed:
Bonnes, Stephanie. (2017). "The Bureaucratic Harassment of U.S. Servicewomen." Gender & Society vol. 31, no. 6: 804-829.2020-09-1043 min
Talking ResearchDr Anna Bull: Staff Sexual Misconduct in Higher EducationDr Anna Bull is Senior Lecturer in sociology at the University of Portsmouth, and co-founder of The 1752 Group, a research and lobby organisation working to address staff sexual misconduct in higher education. Her research interests include class and gender inequalities in classical music education; and staff sexual misconduct in higher education. Anna has published her research in leading sociology and music education journals. She was academic advisor to the National Union of Students for their recent report Power in the Academy: staff sexual misconduct in UK higher education and was lead author on The 1752 Group’s report Silencing students: institutional re...2020-08-2649 min
Talking ResearchDr Laura Lammasniemi: History of Consent LawsDr Laura Lammasniemi is an Assistant Professor at Warwick Law School. Laura’s principal research interests lie in the areas of criminal law, gender, and class. She has been awarded the Leverhulme Fellow for 2020-2021. Previously, Laura has published on the history of regulation of human trafficking; and on gender, austerity and social welfare.
In this conversation, Laura talks about her research on the history of consent law in England, specifically about the Consent Law Amendment Act that raised the age of consent for girls from 13 to 16.
Research Discussed:
Lammasniemi, L., 2020. “Precocious Girls”: Age of Consent, Class and Family in Late N...2020-08-1346 min
Talking ResearchProf Karen Boyle: Media Coverage of Sexual AssaultKaren Boyle is Professor of Feminist Media Studies at the University of Stratchclyde. Karen’s research has long focused on questions of violence, gender and representation and she has published widely in this area, including in the monograph Media & Violence: Gendering the Debate (Sage 2005), as editor of Everyday Pornography (Routledge 2010) and her most recent book #MeToo, Feminism and Weinstein.
In this conversation, we spoke about Karen's work on the trial reporting guidelines (link below) for more responsible coverage of sexual assault trials, the role of media in shaping opinions, how we can push for better coverage of rape cases and mo...2020-07-2250 min
Talking ResearchDr Sreeparna Chattopadhyay: Sexual Coercion & Rape in MarriageDr. Sreeparna Chattopadhyay is an Indian researcher, temporarily based in the Netherlands. She's currently building a course commissioned by the WHO on Gender, Intersectionality and Health Systems. She has an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology and the Population Studies Training Centre at Brown University and a B.A. in Economics (Honours) from St. Xavier’s College, Bombay.
Her research in the last fifteen years has focused on the ways in which gender disadvantages interact with socioeconomic inequities, shaping women’s life trajectories including impacts on health, education and exposure to violence. Her work has been supp...2020-04-221h 09
Talking ResearchDr Stephen Burrell: Engaging Men in Preventing Men's Violence Against WomenDr Stephen Burrell is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Sociology at Durham University. He completed his PhD on engaging men and boys in the prevention of men's violence against women in England in the Department of Sociology at Durham University in 2019. He is now undertaking an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department. This is building on his PhD research by exploring opportunities for the business sector to contribute to preventing violence against women and encouraging men and boys to play a role in such efforts.
In this conversation, we spoke about Stephen's...2020-03-2556 min
Talking ResearchDr Bianca Fileborn: Sexual Harassment at Music Festivals & Street HarassmentDr Bianca Fileborn is a Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. In particular, her current work focuses on sexual violence and harassment. She is also interested in concepts of justice, and particularly informal, innovative, and transformative justice. Dr Fileborn is currently an ARC DECRA recipient. Her project examines concepts of justice and justice responses to street harassment. Dr Fileborn is also currently involved in collaborative projects examining sexual violence at Australian music festivals, and young LGBTIQ+ people's involvement in family violence. Dr Fileborn's recent work includes: an examination of unwanted sexual attention...2020-03-181h 00
Talking ResearchDr Parveen Ali: Extended Family & Intimate Partner ViolenceParveen Ali is a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sheffield. She is a Registered Nurse, Registered Nurse Teacher and Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts. She leads the MMedSci Advanced Nursing Studies and is Chair the School of Nursing and Midwifery’s Research Ethics Committee.
In this conversation, we spoke about Parveen's research investigating attitudes towards intimate partner violence in Pakistan and the theory she developed to help understand IPV better in that particular cultural context. We also spoke about the importance of culturally specific da...2020-03-0455 min
Talking ResearchDr Nicola Henry: Image-Based Sexual AbuseDr Nicola Henry is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University. Nicola's research focuses on the prevalence, nature and impacts of sexual violence and harassment, including the legal and non-legal responses in Australian and international contexts. Her research has been largely situated in three socio-legal and criminology fields: (1) transitional and post-conflict justice; (2) rape law reform and primary prevention; and (3) technology-facilitated sexual violence. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on mixed-methods approaches within multidisciplinary teams.
In this conversation, we spoke about how technology facilitates sexual violence- specifically image-based sexual abuse. We discussed the...2020-02-051h 01
Talking ResearchProf Joanna Bourke: Cultural History of Sexual ViolenceJoanna Bourke is Professor of History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, where she has taught since 1992. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Over the years, her books have ranged from the social and economic history of Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to social histories of the British working classes between 1860 and 1960s, to cultural histories of military conflict between the Anglo-Boer war and the present. She has worked on the history of the emotions, particularly fear and hatred, and the history of sexual violence. In the past few...2020-01-0854 min
Talking ResearchDr Hannah Bows: Violence Against Older PeopleHannah is currently an Assistant Professor in Criminal Law and Director of Equality and Diversity within Durham Law School. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA).
Her research interests are broadly located within the fields of violence against women, victimology, feminist and socio-legal theory. Over the last six years she has conducted research examining different forms of violence against older people, with a specific focus on domestic violence, sexual violence and homicide of older women. This work has led to a range...2019-12-2238 min
Talking ResearchDr Ruth Friskney: Public Understanding of Child Sexual ExploitationDr. Ruth Friskney is a Research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, currently working on a European funded project focused on children affected by domestic abuse called Improving Justice in Child Contact. She's also a Trustee of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. In this conversation, we talked about her study with Barnardo's looking at public attitudes to child sexual exploitation in Scotland. She explained what child sexual exploitation is, what the study found the public's understanding of it was, some common misconceptions about it, and other related themes.
Research discussed:
https://www.barnardos.org.uk/barnardo_s_scotland_-_public_understanding...2019-12-1550 min
Talking ResearchDr Rachael Burgin: Consent Law & Affirmative ConsentDr. Rachael Burgin is a Lecturer in Law at Swinburne University in Australia. Her work focuses on consent law and affirmative consent. In this conversation, we discussed her work on affirmative consent in Victoria, what affirmative consent means, how it is embedded in law, the limitations of law and room for reform. Rachael also spoke about the importance of being mindful of affirmative consent for individuals during sexual encounters and how they can do that.
Research Discussed:
Rachael Burgin, Persistent Narratives of Force and Resistance: Affirmative Consent as Law Reform, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 59, Issue 2, March 2019, Pages 296–314, https://do...2019-12-1044 min
Talking ResearchDr Rachel Loney-Howes: #MeTooDr Rachel Loney-Howes is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Wollongong. She is an early career researcher with expertise in substantial research into the use of digital technologies for anti-sexual violence activism, and has a particular interest in the relationship between activism, support services and law/legal reforms. Rachel is currently co-authoring a collected edition on the "Me Too" movement, due to be published in 2019, with a follow-up book on the use of social media for anti-rape activism to be released in 2020 with Emerald Press. She is also the recipient of a Faculty Partnership Grant with Illawarra Women's...2019-12-011h 07
Talking ResearchProf Liz Kelly: Coercive ControlProfessor Liz Kelly is a professor of sexualised violence and she is also director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) at the London Metropolitan University. She holds the Roddick Chair on Violence against Women. Liz has been active in the field of violence against women and children for 40 years and is the author of Surviving Sexual Violence, which established the concept of a 'continuum of violence' and over 100 book chapters and journal articles. In 2000, Liz was awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours List for 'services combating violence against women and children', and in January 2005 was...2019-11-2440 min
Talking ResearchDr Nadia Wager: Sexual RevictimisationDr Nadia Wager is a Reader in Forensic Psychology at the University of Huddersfield. She has over 20 years worth of experience researching sexual violence. In this conversation, she talked about sexual revictimisation, what it is and how it relates to child abuse disclosure and also disassociation. She discussed telltale sings of child abuse, and how to handle disclosures of child abuse and what betrayal trauma is. She also talked about disassociation, what it is and how it relates to disclosure and revictimisation and everyday situations.
Research discussed:
Wager, N., 2011. Researching sexual revictimisation: associated ethical and methodological issues, and possible solutions...2019-11-1748 min
Talking ResearchProf Alison Phipps: Lad Culture & Political WhitenessAlison Phipps is a Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Sussex. She has previously been Director of Gender Studies and Equality and Diversity Chair for the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at Sussex and is currently Research and Impact Lead for the Sociology department.
Alison advised National Union of Students (UK) on the groundbreaking 2010 Hidden Marks survey, the first prevalence study of violence against women students and co-authored That's What She Said, the 2013 report on women students' experiences of 'lad culture'. In this conversation, we spoke about Hidden Marks and That's What She Said. We also spoke...2019-11-1054 min
Talking ResearchDr Olivia Smith: Court Responses to RapeDr. Olivia Smith is a Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy at the University of Loughborough. Olivia’s research has been used as an evidence-base on rape justice by the Home Office and Ministry of Justice, and by third sector organisations such as Rape Crisis. In this conversation, we spoke about Olivia's research on the gaps in the criminal justice system in responding to rape victims in England and Wales. We discussed themes such as rape myths, gendered bias in Ancient Greek philosophy based concepts of reason and ration- and how they affect court responses to rape victims, moving towards a...2019-11-0347 min
Talking ResearchDr Manali Desai: Gendered Violence in IndiaDr Manali Desai is a Reader in Comparative and Historical Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on the areas of state formation, political parties, social movements, development, ethnic violence, gender and post-colonial studies. In this conversation, we spoke about gendered violence in India in general and Manali's related research in particular. Manali brought along her expertise of post-colonial India and used her sociological lens to dissect the institutional conditions that normalise violence, neoliberalism and how that relates to sexual violence, white feminist gaze and more.
Article that we discussed: Desai, M. 2016. ‘Gendered Violence and the Body Politic in...2019-10-2154 min
Talking ResearchErin Shannon: University Responses to Sexual ViolenceErin 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 response frameworks. Erin explained the issues with a national framework in the US- Title IX and with the lack...2019-10-1336 min
Talking ResearchDr Franziska Meinck: Child AbuseDr. 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 outstanding young professional in the field of child abuse and neglect. In this conversation, we spoke about her data oriented studies looking at different...2019-10-0648 min
Talking ResearchDr Holly Davis: Sex Work & Sexual ViolenceDr. 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. In this conversation, Holly explained the general academia on sex work, challenges to research on sex work, the gendered nature of...2019-10-0241 min
Talking ResearchDr Mithu Sanyal: From Lucretia to #MeTooDr. 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 a feminist organizer and dissects concepts such as restorative justice, healing with a focus on the...2019-10-0255 min