Nadia Wager

Nadia is currently a Principal Lecturer in Forensic Psychology the University of Bedfordshire and a visiting lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Victimology at Royal Holloway University of London and Buckinghamshire New University. She was awarded a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and Criminology in 1998, after spending almost twenty years in various social support roles (e.g. community mental health, young people with profound physical and learning disabilities, the elderly and pre-school children. She was awarded a PhD in Social Psychology in 2002 by Brunel University and completed Stage 1 of the British Psychological Society’s Diploma in Forensic Psychology in 2009. She has been teaching about the causes, consequences and possibilities for intervention with regard to sexual violence for 13 years to undergraduates, Masters and Doctoral students. Her research interests include; investigating the causal mechanisms that potentiate risk for sexual revictimisation, evaluation of the services for survivors of sexual violence, exploring responses to disclosures of sexual victimisation and creating an understanding of conditions that facilitate disclosure, the use of restorative justice in the context of sexual and domestic violence, exploration of young men’s understanding of consent for sexual intimacy and evaluation of the efficacy of psycho-educational programmes to prevent sexual revictimisation.