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Let's TALK Trauma Abuse Love Kindness: SHERA Research podcast Family Law
Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno5 EpisodesMar 9, 2026
This podcast is produced by SHERA Research Group and amplifies the work, life stories, art, music and healing of people working in and around domestic abuse, gender-based violence, violence against women and children, and the family courts. It is hosted by Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno, who brings together a worldwide collective of researchers and advocates from medicine, health and social care, law, finance, human rights, academia, therapeutic services and abuse support organisations. Episodes delve into the research and advocacy these people carry out, with particular attention to the family court system and its impact on the health and rights of women and children. The show mixes personal testimony and lived experience with discussion of systemic and legal issues.
Episodes
Bail, Family Courts, and Child Safety: Why the Law Must ChangeMar 9, 20263576In this important episode, we discuss the urgent need to strengthen protections for children when someone is under investigation for rape or other serious sexual offences.Joining the conversation is Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno, Founder and Director of SHERA Research Group and Lecturer at University of Manchester, Dr Sarah Learmonth of the London School of Economics and SHERA Research Group who alongside
Let's TALK Trauma Abuse Love Kindness with LGBTQI+ advocate, therapist and victim-survivor Dr Andrew Thomas CicchettiDec 15, 20233862In this podcast Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno of SHERA Research Group and University of Manchester talks to LGBTQI+ advocate, therapist and victim-survivor Dr Andrew Thomas Cicchetti about his experiences as a gay man who has been subjected to coercive control*, his work as a Gestalt therapist/trauma coach, so-called 'parental alienation', domestic violence, his ground-breaking supreme court case
Dr Saira Khan on the impact of Abuse and Trauma on ChildrenDec 3, 20232488In this episode Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno, Director and Founder of SHERA discusses with Counselling Psychologist Dr Saira Khan the impact of Abuse and Trauma on Children. They talk all things Family Court and how the courts may be improved. Dr Khan covers the importance of professional understanding on neurodiversity, centring the voice of the child and shares her thoughts on resilience, post traumati
Ruth Reymundo Mandel of Safe and Together InstituteJun 30, 20233030Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno Chair and Founder of SHERA Research Group and Lecturer at University of Manchester is joined by Ruth Reymundo Mandel Stearns of Safe and Together Institute. Ruth Reymundo Mandel (Stearns) has been in training and implementation since 1995. She is dedicated to issues surrounding social justice and violence. Drawing on her childhood experiences growing up in an abusive, religi
SHERA Research Group Domestic Abuse (DA) Island Discs Episode 1: Sam Beckinsale on LOVE?, trauma, Coercive Control, Secret Family Courts, Unregulated Experts & Pseudoscience of 'Parental Alienation'May 12, 20235397Dr 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 supp
