Lorna O'Doherty is Professor at the Centre for Healthcare and Communities, Coventry University, UK.

She leads a programme of multidisciplinary research in abuse, trauma and health, supported by a thriving team of researchers and postgraduate students. Lorna’s background is in health psychology, drawing on multiple methodologies to advance interventions for healing across the lifespan after exposure to sexual and domestic abuse. She has been awarded funding by the Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute for Health and Care Research, the Home Office and Innovate UK. Lorna’s commitment to improving outcomes and tackling health inequalities with and for survivors extends beyond health into justice, policing and community spaces. This is exemplified in the narrative research conducted with Upfront Survivors, a novel community-based project working with artists, activists and frontline services to build a visible, peer-led, accessible child sexual abuse survivor community. Lorna has established international collaborations around evaluating new interventions aimed at survivors’ wellbeing and transforming health care responses to survivors of sexual violence.

You can read more about Lorna’s work here.