Speakers

Sabrina Page

Sabrina Page is a researcher working at the intersection of child protection, gender-based violence, and technology-facilitated harm. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh, where her thesis examines the psychological harms of online child sexual exploitation and abuse using Disrupting Harm data from sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She consults for UNICEF Innocenti on technology-facilitated sexual violence, contributing to a base paper and conceptual framework on the topic, and is the founder of the Global Violence Research and Collaboration Network. Her methodological background is in social epidemiology, systematic review methods, and evidence synthesis.

Luise Koch

Dr. Luise Koch is a researcher at the Professorship of Global Health at the Technical University of Munich, where she recently completed her PhD on technology-facilitated gender-based violence against politically active women. Her research examines the psychological and political consequences of online violence, gendered hostility, and their implications for political participation and democratic representation. Alongside her academic work, she consults for the World Bank on gender norms in entertainment media and for HateAid on technology-facilitated violence in Germany. Her methodological background spans mixed-methods research, survey and qualitative research, systematic reviews, and large-scale computational analysis of digital data.

Sangeeta Chatterji

Sangeeta Chatterji is the Research Director at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative with over 15 years of experience in violence prevention and social work. Sangeeta specializes in developing rigorous measurement tools and testing gender-transformative interventions in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular emphasis on social norms and economic empowerment.

Afreenbanu A. Khadirnawar

Afreenbanu holds a PhD in Psychiatric Social Work from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India. She also works as a Consultant Psychotherapist at Aweksha, a centre supporting women survivors of violence. Her research interests include gender-based violence, technology-facilitated abuse, women’s mental health, and reproductive and perinatal mental health in South Asia.