Nadia is a Professor of Psychology at Teesside University, the Lead for Doctoral Programmes in the Collective Place Leadership Institute and Deputy Lead for the Teesside University Policing Clinic.  She was previously the Director of the None in Three Research Centre for the Global Prevention of Gender-based Violence at the University of Huddersfield. She was awarded a PhD in Applied Social Psychology from Brunel in 2002 and has been lecturing in Forensic Psychology and Victimology for over 20 years.  Nadia is a mixed-methods researcher and has extensive experience of conducting research on gender-based violence and co-ordinating international, multidisciplinary research projects. She was PI on a £4.6 million project funded by UKRI/GCRF (2017 – 2021) which conducted primary research to inform the development and evaluation of prosocial digital games to tackle various forms of gender-based violence in four countries (sexual coercion in the context of child marriage in Uganda, intrafamilial child sexual abuse in Jamaica, violence against women in India and adolescent dating violence in the UK) and a $775,000 project funded by the End Violence Against Children Partnership to tackle youth-perpetrated online child sexual abuse in Brazil. (2021 – 2023). She has a history of evaluating community interventions for victims of serious crimes whilst working in partnership with those delivering the services.  This has included conducting research for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on the quantification of online-facilitated child sexual abuse/exploitation, the evaluation of an Independent Trauma Advisor service for victims of modern-day slavery for Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner, a rapid evidence assessment on the outcomes for survivors of historic child sexual abuse and an evaluation of the co-production of Victim Support’s service to adult survivors of child sexual abuse, a scoping review and a national survey of police officers’ experiences of using disruption strategies to tackle child sexual abuse for the Centre of expertise into child sexual abuse and more recently examined the traumatic impact on family and friends of people who are apprehended for online child sexual offences for Lucy Faithfull Foundation and a review of public understanding of rape and serious sexual assault and the law around consent for the Crown Prosecution Service.  Her primary areas of research interest are around the prevention of child sexual abuse and sexual revictimisation, positive survivorship, secondary victimisation and restorative justice.