Liz is Professor of Sexualised Violence & Director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU), London Metropolitan University. She has been active in the field of violence against women and children for over three decades and is Chair of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, an expert on VAW to the European Women’s Lobby and EU Gender Institute, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. She has written numerous books, articles and reports including, recently, Sex without Consent Report for the Office of the Children’s Commissioner; Rotis not Riots: a feminist dialogue on the riots and their aftermath (with Aisha Gill); and Public Sociology: Working at the interstices.