Educational Background

🎓 From Survivor to Researcher

In 2018, I graduated with a 2:1 BSc (Open Degree) from the Open University in Milton Keynes, where I studied Social Science, focusing on Psychology, Biology, and both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

I began studying because I wanted to understand my abuse, not just relive it.
Through learning, I found a way to turn pain into purpose — developing the tools to explore, explain, and eventually expose the systems that failed so many children in care.

Education gave me structure, language, and evidence.
It helped me transform my experiences into something that could help others heal and help policymakers listen.

✍️ My Ongoing Work

Since graduating, I’ve been writing a book that explores child sexual abuse from a lived perspective — led by survivors, not institutions.

The book has three parts:

  1. Child Sexual Abuse and Life Circumstances
  2. Legislation, Investigations & Courts
  3. Mental Health & Wellbeing

It currently stands at over 30,000 words and continues to grow. It’s both a work of personal reflection and a body of survivor-led research — drawing connections between individual experience and systemic failure.

“Abuse from a lived perspective” means research carried out by people who experienced it — not those studying it from the outside.

💡 Why Survivor-Led Research Matters

I’m not affiliated with any corporate body, institution, or university research group.
My work is independent and rooted in experience — Which will eventually combine survivor testimony with critical research methods.

Like many who grew up in care, I was failed by the system meant to protect me.
A statutory apology, followed by legal denial, is not justice.
Survivors deserve honesty, transparency, and reform — not damage control disguised as care.

My research aims to give survivors back the narrative.
To make sure our stories are not rewritten by bureaucracy, but remembered in truth.

It only takes one person to create a pathway to change.