Whatever your discipline or background, join us for a free one-day conference to discuss how we can make sure our research supports healing and avoids harm. Everyone who comes gets a free gift to support you to implement trauma-informed research into your practice.

The conference has two key themes:

Supporting meaningful involvement

Addressing researcher well-being

Experiences of trauma, violence and abuse are extremely common worldwide. Trauma-informed approaches recognise the impact of trauma on individuals and empower participants rather than take power away

In trauma-informed research we also acknowledge that anyone can be affected by trauma – including academics, clinicians, and PhD students – and that this is not an inherent sign of vulnerability or weakness but can often be a source of connection, empathy and kindness, leading to better data and more ethical research.

So, join us for a discussion on trauma-informed approaches to research and methods. We will bring together a group of researchers and survivor-researchers who have addressed this topic in their work. We will have a mixture of talks, panel discussions and practical workshops. Attendees will leave with a toolkit that they can apply to their own research practice.

The conference will run between 10am – 7pm. The event will be catered with a lunch and a wine and soft drinks reception with snacks.

Contact: Siofra Peeren siofra.peeren@kcl.ac.ukI or Iveta Tsenkova iveta.1.tsenkova@kcl.ac.uk

This event is supported by Survivors Voices: https://survivorsvoices.org/

Kindness in Research: trauma-informed perspectives