Once upon a time (last December) I wrote an article for the Independent on how sexual violence is depicted on screen. I pointed to a new...

Are men living in perilous times where they may be falsely accused of rape at any moment? You would think so. A recent poll showed that...

For most of us, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War have long receded into the realm of history. What were once...

Last month, the Home Secretary announced a new strategy for tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG). Within this was a raft of...

How can a 3D interactive lineup system help improve the accuracy of eyewitness identification?

Overhauling the UKs rape response - why we need greater public access to interview data and survivor input

The stories that are presented to us give a highly skewed picture about the reality of rape.

We have come a long way in our understanding of memory. Yet we are still deferring to decades-old legal precedents built on myths.

How do news articles impact memory reporting in criminal justice contexts? Does this news make us less likely to trust our own eyes?

A version of this blog first appeared in The Independent on 20 December 2020. Promising Young Woman, the debut film of Emerald Fennell...

There is no short-term fix to solving the problem of violence against women. We can, and must, go further.

Tonic immobility – the idea that someone enters a state of involuntary paralysis when being sexually assaulted – is a popular concept in...

Sadly, the loudest voices in the US in 2020 are staying quiet because of their own history. Their silence speaks volumes.

This week marked three years since actor Alyssa Milano raised the profile of the Me Too movement in the wake of sexual assault...

Do rape victims remember rape less accurately if they were alcohol intoxicated during the rape? Video summarising a research study that...

In recent publicised reports of sexual assault, often from events many years ago, some ask why those reporting the assault waited so long...

A large percentage of sexual assaults still go unreported. A belief that the police will not do anything and that it is a ‘personal...

Our meta-analysis that synthesizes findings from 1,100+ participants in 10 research studies has been published. The results show that...