On the 18th of March 2026, we welcomed Dr Adeline Moussion Esteve of Birkbeck University of London, to our lunchtime webinar where she gave her talk on Sexual violence in the context of domestic abuse - reframing the experience beyond PTSD and incapacitated avoidance models. You can watch the webinar recording below.
Extra resources
| presentation_slides_2026.pdf |
Speaker information
Adeline Moussion Esteve is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Birkbeck. She is a feminist social anthropologist. Her research focuses on gender-based violence, situated within the framework of critical trauma studies. Her work explores the social and political dimensions that shape the experience of gender-based violence, with particular attention to its material and everyday dimensions. Her thesis, The Domestic in Violence: Understanding the Experience of Violence Beyond Trauma in Contemporary France, compared feminist ‘expert’ discourses, trauma-informed socio-medical interventions, and women’s perceptions of the aftermath and the experience of sexual and domestic violence. She is currently working on the ‘Recovery Histories’, a Wellcome Trust-funded research project running from 2024-2028. It is the first social, cultural and medical history into recovery from child sexual abuse in the second half of twentieth century Britain and Ireland. She leads the ethnographic strand of the project. Together with Dr. Baljit Kaur, they work with survivors and practitioners and aim to find out how survivors live in the aftermath of child sexual abuse.