Saint Mary’s Centre 18th Annual Conference 2021 The Science of Rape Tuesday 16 – Wednesday 17 March 2021 Location: Virtual Programme – Tuesday 16 March - Morning 9.00am Welcome and Introduction Rachel Coppock, Directorate Manager, Saint Mary’s Centre Chair: Kathy Cowell OBE DL, Chairman of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust 09.05am Opening Address Baroness Beverley Hughes, Greater Manchester's Deputy Mayor for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire. 09.20am Title to be Confirmed Dr Cath White, Clinical Director, Saint Mary’s Centre 09.45am The impacts on ISVAs and ISVA Managers of working with Victims of Sexual Violence Kristina Massey & Kasandra Matthews 10.10am Transforming the Policing response to rape; Project Bluestone DCC Sarah Crewe, NPCC Lead, Adult Sexual Offences, Avon and Somerset Police 10.35am Questions 10.50am BREAK AND ACADEMIC POSTERS Chair: Kate Davies CBE, Director of Health and Jusitice and Sexual Assault Services Commissioning, NHS England 11.00am The Science and Power of Hope Professor Chan Hellman, Director of The Hope Research Centre, The University of Oklahoma, USA 11.35am Tracking an Eight Stage Perpetrator Progression to Intimate Partner Homicide Professor Jane Monckton Smith, University of Gloucestershire 12.05pm Questions 12.20pm Panel Discussion: Walking the tightrope: Is there a space for sexual violence prevention messages? Emmeline May (AKA rockstardinosaurpirateprincess) Professor Betsy Stanko OBE 1.00pm BREAK AND ACADEMIC POSTERS 1 Saint Mary’s Centre 18th Annual Conference 2021 The Science of Rape Tuesday 16 – Wednesday 17 March 2021 Location: Virtual Programme – Tuesday 16 March - Afternoon Chair Gillian Tully, Forensic Science Regulator 2.00pm The Benefits of Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS) in Sexual Offence Cases Claire Reynolds, Forensic Reporting Scientist, Cellmark Forensic Services Sally Stanbie, Forensic Reporting Scientist, Cellmark Forensic Services 2.20pm Reclaiming our Dark Chapters: Community and the Arts after Sexual Violence Winnie M Li, Survivor, Author and Activist 2.40pm Rape Prosecution: Challenges and Solutions in the Digital Age Siobhan Blake, Chief Crown Prosecutor and CPS National Lead for Rape and Serious Sexual Offences, CPS 3.00pm Questions 3.15 – 5.15pm Workshops (see page 4) 2 Saint Mary’s Centre 18th Annual Conference 2021 The Science of Rape Tuesday 16 – Wednesday 17 March 2021 Location: Virtual Programme – Wednesday 17 March Chair: Dr Margaret Stark, President, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine 9.00am THINK VICTIM. Assistant Chief Constable Nicky Porter, Greater Manchester Police 09.25.am Operation Island: Multi Trial, Multi Victim Management DCI Zed Ali, Public Protection and Serious Crime Division, Greater Manchester Police Lisa Waters, Deputy Directorate Manager, Saint Mary’s SARC Ian Rushton, Area Legal Lead, Crown Prosecution Service 10.40am Questions 11.00am BREAK AND ACADEMIC POSTERS Chair: Karen Connolly, Chief Executive Officer, Saint Mary’s Hospital Managed Clinical Service 11.15am Towards a Social Science of Rape: Reflections on Men’s Accounts of Perpetrating Sexual Violence Professor David Gadd, Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester 11.45am Management of Repeat Attenders Assistant Professor Vanita Parekh, Director, Clinical Forensic Medical Services, The Canberra Hospital, Australia 12.15pm Closing Views as Forensic Science Regulator on SARCs Dr Gillian Tully, Forensic Science Regulator 12.30pm Questions 12.50pm BREAK AND ACADEMIC POSTERS Chair: HHJ John Potter, Minshull Street 1.40pm MiMOS & MESARCH 2.00pm Closing Remarks Rachel Coppock, Directorate Manager, Saint Mary’s Centre 2.10 – 4.10pm Workshops (see page 4) 3 STREAM A STREAM B STREAM C STREAM D Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair: Tuesday: 3.15pm Wednesday: 2.10pm Photography of injuries in Approaches to therapy The Science of Hope Issues affecting CSE the SARC setting Saint Mary’s Counselling Professor Chan Hellman, survivors into adulthood Dr Will Anderson, Course Team Director of The Hope Zoe & Elicia, Directors, The Director, Patient Focused Research Centre, University Reign Collective of Oklahoma, USA STREAM A STREAM B STREAM C STREAM D Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair: Tuesday: 4.15pm Wednesday: 3.10pm Our Stories, our words: The FFLM Forensic Specimens Polygraph testing in sexual Management of non-fatal role of language and the Update offences strangulation in the SARC potential of creative writing Dr Bernadette Butler, Kerry Clarke, Polygraph setting for survivors of sexual Forensic Physician and Examiner, Greater Dr Cath White, Clinical violence Clinical Education and Manchester Police & Victoria Director, Saint Mary’s Centre Clare Shaw, Poet and Training Lead, The Havens, Hopley, Polygraph Examiner, Author, Royal Literature London & Rachel Morgan, Greater Manchester Police Society Forensic Reporting Scientist, Sexual Offences Lead, Cellmark Forensic Services 4 .