Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno is a lecturer in global women's health and health systems challenges at University of Manchester. She is also the chair and founder of SHERA Research Group.
SHERA Research Group is a collective of researchers and advocates based around the world working in medicine, health care, social care, law, finance, human rights, academia, therapeutic services and domestic abuse support organisations. SHERA is also home to an Expert by Experience Group of victim-survivor mothers, who co-design all our projects meaning all our work is by and for those who are impacted by violence and abuse. In SHERA's first podcast, Dr Dalgarno is joined by actor, producer, film maker, domestic abuse (DA) veteran and advocate Sam Beckinsale where they discuss Sam's journey into the DA sector, her film LOVE? about Coercive Control, the Secret Family Courts, Unregulated Experts, The Pseudoscience of 'Parental Alienation', child safeguarding, misogyny in the police and society and the power of music and art in healing from trauma.
Support and other links mentioned in podcast:
www.shera-research.com
https://twitter.com/SheraFamily
https://twitter.com/beckinsale_sam
https://rightsofwomen.org.uk/
LOVE? film: https://vimeo.com/720726737/c72ed1fe87
Harms of family court videos: https://www.youtube.com/@sheraresearchgroup7723
https://broxtowewomensproject.org.uk/
https://www.allie-crewe.uk/i-am
https://www.eida.org.uk/
https://www.met.police.uk/police-forces/metropolitan-police/areas/about-us/about-the-met/bcr/baroness-casey-review/
https://www.everyonesinvited.uk/
https://twitter.com/menagainstvawg?lang=en
https://www.whiteribbon.org.uk/
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-03-22/debates/C99320D8-67DC-43AC-9D2A-5EC66F9AD2C2/FamilyCourtReformAndCAFCASS
Dr Emma Katz Book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/coercive-control-in-childrens-and-mothers-lives-9780190922214?cc=gb&lang=en&
Prof Jane Monckton-Smith book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/in-control/jane-monckton-smith/9781526613226
https://www.culturereframed.org/ (building resistance against hypersexualisation of children)
https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/mapping-perpetrator-patterns-and-reasonable-person-standards-help-keep-child-safety-as-the-bottom-line-in-domestic-violence-cases/
https://www.womensaid.org.uk/
https://survivingeconomicabuse.org/
Harm Report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/895173/assessing-risk-harm-children-parents-pl-childrens-cases-report_.pdf
Melanie Gill Case: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/26/tighter-regulation-of-psychologists-in-family-law-cases-up-to-mps-says-senior-judge
Full judgement Re C: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Re-C-Parental-Alienation-judgment-220323.pdf
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-abuse-act-2021
Government Rejection of 'Parental Alienation': https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/domestic-abuse-act-statutory-guidance/outcome/domestic-abuse-act-2021-statutory-guidance-consultation-government-response-accessible
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlling-or-coercive-behaviour-statutory-guidance-framework
https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/grown-ups/professionals/ciaf/
Gloria Gaynor, I will survive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dYWe1c3OyU
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