Professor Lisa Oakley
Professor
Biography
Dr Lisa Oakley is a Professor of Safeguarding and Knowledge Exchange in the Division of Psychology in the School of Society within the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society. She is Deputy Programme Leader for the MSc in Family and Child Psychology and Post Graduate Research Tutor for the Division of Psychology and a Chartered Psychologist. Relevant Key Performance Indicators, including the Research Excellence Framework and Knowledge Exchange Framework and Postgraduate Research provision. She is an international scholar, securing external academic and partnership funding working with a range of organisations. She is engaged in teaching and supervision, has acted as an expert witness and works in external private consultancy and training
Teaching and Supervision
Professor Oakley is an experienced lecturer, having taught research methods, developmental and social psychology and been programme leader for the only undergraduate course on Abuse Studies in the country whilst employed at Manchester Metropolitan University . More recently she has focused on teaching qualitative methods at MSc and Undergraduate level. She also delivers teaching on trauma, abuse and safeguarding and the psychology of religion and stigma. She supervises and examines a wide range of postgraduate research including interdisciplinary studies across departments.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Professor Oakley acted as a core participant in the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse and chaired the National working group for child abuse linked to faith and belief. She is current chair of the British Psychological Society Safeguarding Advisory Group , She also chairs the Postgraduate research group for spiritual abuse/religious trauma. She has written training, policy and practice guidance. She is a qualitative researcher but has also conducted mixed-methods studies. Her research interested are primarily focused on safeguarding in faith contexts, including the development of an understanding of spiritual abuse and how to create healthy safe cultures. Current work is focusing on exploring experiences of disclosure and non-disclosure of abuse experienced within religious contexts, using visual methods.