Dr Rockowitz is a KTP Associate on a UKRI-funded project looking at pharmaceutical automation at an NHS trust in England. She recently finished her PhD in the Applied Memory Lab at the University of Birmingham, where she focused on post-rape medical and legal service provision in Kenya.

Dr Rockowitz also co-leads the Researcher Resilience CoP.

Dr Laura Stevens is a research fellow at the Institute for Social Justice and Crime at the University of Suffolk. She completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham, which focused on innovative methods of documenting memory evidence from victim-survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including using digital platforms (i.e., mobile phone apps and websites), training non-police first responders to use evidence-based interviewing skills, and behaviourally informed interview techniques.

Dr Amy Burrell has been researching in crime and policing for over 20 years. Much of her research has had a policing focus with topics including burglary, robbery, sexual offences, spiking, and criminal damage. She has gathered and analysed data for service evaluations of sensitive topics (such as drug / alcohol abuse) and worked with vulnerable groups (e.g., offenders (in the community and prison), addicts, children). She has run interviews and focus groups run with a range of practitioners including police analysts, police officers, council staff, and prison officers. Her work includes a focus on researcher wellbeing, especially those working in on emotionally demanding topics. 

Katharina is an associate professor at the University of Birmingham. Dr Katharina Karcher's qualitative empirical research focuses on protest movements and political violence in the 20th and 21st centuries. In this context, she is particularly interested in questions of gender, race, class, dis/ability, and political ideology. She is also interested in the question of how researchers navigate emotionally demanding research, and what institutions can do to better support this important work. 

Relevant publications include: 

1. Karcher et al (2024). '(Self-) Reflection / Reflexivity in Sensitive, Qualitative Research: A Scoping Review'. International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

2. King-Hill et al 'Protecting researchers working with sensitive topics'. Humanities and Social Science Communications, forthcoming.