Sian Oram

Professor Sian Oram is Professor of Trauma and Recovery at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London, from where she leads King’s Women’s Mental Health and directs the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network (VAMHN), which works to understand, prevent, and reduce the impact of violence and abuse on mental health.  She is also a co-investigator of the Violence Health and Society (VISION) Consortium, which aims to works to improve the measurement of violence to reduce its impact on health and leads its lived engagement strategy. Her research focuses on interpersonal trauma, its intersection with sex and gender and with institutional and societal structure, and its relationship to mental health. She has an interest in developing methods for safe, ethical, and participatory research with and by people affected by trauma and abuse, and has expertise in qualitative methods, evidence synthesis, and evaluation research.