SHERA Research featured in BBC documentary and news reports

September 14, 2023

As the principle investigator of this study I'm leading at the University of Manchester with Dr Donna Bramwell and Professor Arpana Verma, in collaboration with the SHERA group and in partnership with Associate Professors Dr Emma Katz of Durham University and Dr Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson of UCL and Reader in Law Dr Adrienne Barnett of Brunel University, CPI Voz Materna and The Survivor Family Network, I am very proud to announce our work - on women and child victims health experiences of family court and the harmful pseudoscience of so-called 'parental alienation' - has featured in a documentary 'Mums on the Run' on the BBC iplayer, BBC News, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Woman's Hour, Times Radio.

BBC iplayer and BBC News 4th September 2023

For those outside the UK, you can access the documentary here.

Our work also featured in The Daily Mail and the Telegraph. A summary of the research can be found here.

We thank the Expert By Experience Group at SHERA who dedicated their valuable time and input to this project and most importantly to the brave mothers who shared their experiences with us.

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