Profile

Laura Kite is a doctoral student in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Warwick. She is interested in violence against women and girls, particularly instances that occur in motherhood and how shame and 'mother blaming' may silence victim-survivors. Her research explores the phenomenon of 'child-to-mother abuse', specifically exploring mother victim-survivors' help-seeking behaviours through semi-structured interviews with victim-survivors, professionals and key experts.

Previously, Laura received a bachelor's degree in Social Policy and a master's degree in International Relations and Gender, both from the University of Birmingham.

Alongside her PhD, Laura works on for a third-sector sexual violence organisation providing emotional support to survivors of sexual abuse and rape.

Research Interests

Gender studies; violence against women and girls; motherhood studies; feminist research methodologies.

She is supervised by Professor Ravi Thiara and Professor Azrini Wahidin, both in the Warwick Department of Sociology.

Teaching

2022/23

• State Crime, Human Rights & Global Wrongs (third year UG sociology module)
• Gender and Violence (second year UG Sociology module)