Sophie King-Hill

• Senior Fellow at University of Birmingham

This scoping review offers insight into researcher well-being when working with sensitive and traumatic topics in a qualitative research context. The study identified existing empirical research concerning researcher well-being and mental health. The databases included SSCI, ASSIA < IBISS, Scopus, Social Policy and Practice, PsycInfo, Social Scienc...

Purpose of Review This paper reviews recent research into sibling sexual behaviour (SSB). This is an emerging professional and community issue that binds together a limited evidence base across research, practice and policy in psychology, criminology, politics, social work and policy studies. The review will demonstrate that a multi-disciplinary, l...

This chapter draws together the findings of both of the studies, the literature review and the overarching picture of sibling sexual abuse in contemporary UK culture. This chapter provides key recommendations that link to developing a clearer recording criteria and definition of SSA, the reality and impact of young people who have been the victim o...

This chapter will detail the findings of the part of the project that was led by Dr. Sophie King-Hill at The University of Birmingham, supported by Abby Gilsenan, Jonathan Beavis and Purple Leaf and West Mercia Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (WMRSASC). The project had a number of research objectives that were underpinned by the overall projec...

The epilogue captures a survivor’s voice and tells their story. This narrative shows that sibling sexual abuse is complex and that its characteristics cannot be predicted nor expected.KeywordsRecoveryDisclosureFamilyLife- long impactSibling relationshipsLived experience

Chapters 1 and 2 provide a comprehensive and broad overview of the existing Sibling Sexual Abuse (SSA) evidence base. This chapter will provide the first piece of empirical evidence from the research. The chapter will start with a discussion of the context, background and methodology of the study by the University of West England with 18 adult vict...

This chapter outlines the project from which the research in this book originated. It outlines the context and intended outcomes on the ‘Sibling sexual abuse: supporting victims and survivors to recover, heal and rebuild their lives’ project that was funded by the Home Office Support for Victims and Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (SVSCSA) fund. It...

This chapter seeks to identify and explore core lessons learnt through the amalgamation of both studies. Furthermore, this section aims to critically examine the implications of the data considering broader societal and structural narratives surrounding sexual abuse. Utilising this exploratory analysis, we offer a detailed discussion of possible ne...

A critical discussion of the Brook Traffic Light Tool (TLT) is provided. The TLT supports professionals assessing sexual behaviour in children and young people (CYP). This critical commentary formed part of a wider evaluation of the TLT. The approach taken uses evidence-based, policy transfer and policy success frameworks. Conceptually, questions w...

This chapter brings together the literatures on learning and policy transfer with material on crisis learning in order to assess policy transfer in the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. The policy transfer literature focuses on ‘normal’ times, but there is little on policy transfer in a crisis, with its constituent elements of threat, uncertainty and ur...

This article assesses, using a framework derived from lesson-drawing, policy transfer and crisis research, the lessons offered by the media from abroad and from the past in the UK COVID-19 pandemic. The lesson-drawing literature focuses on a series of steps and questions associated with the ‘fungibility’ of lessons, and the crisis literature, with...

Introduction This chapter brings together the literatures on policy-learning and lesson-drawing on the one hand, and intra-crisis learning on the other, in order to examine the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy-learning literature explores issues such as what lessons were learned by whom. The lesson-drawing literature examines the...

The vast majority of scholars who focus on health services explore ‘normal’ times, with long-standing issues which often change rather slowly. Much used words such as ‘crisis’ and ‘disaster’ are arguably overused and often do not fit academic definitions. Very few scholars explore huge and fast-moving ‘external shocks’ such as COVID-19, which does...

The Brook Traffic Light Tool intends to support professionals in responding to developmentally inappropriate behaviours in children and young people. This is important as the number of reported harmful sexual behaviours in children and young people is rising. This study is a realistic evaluation of Brook Traffic Light Tool training implemented acro...

Purpose This article brings together the literatures on policy learning and lesson drawing with the intra-crisis learning literature in order to assess “learning lessons” in the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach It carries out a structured review of articles that seek to provide lessons for the pandemic. It examines these articles usi...

This article explores perceptions of consent in adolescents who display harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). It discusses society's constructions of the adolescent in terms of emerging sexuality, and examines definitions of HSB in terms of adolescents and gender. The terminology of consent, and what it means will be examined in depth in relation to the...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in school-aged children and young people is often associated with risky behaviours such as sexual risk-taking, drugs and alcohol misuse, and engaging in high-risk activities that may lead to physical injury. This article looks at the potential causes and effects of risk-taking behaviours children and...