I recently recorded an episode of the Conscious Combat Club podcast, which discusses trauma-informed martial arts and mental health. Founder Georgia Verry provides trauma-informed kickboxing programs in Australia, and through her podcast, she talks with women in martial arts, including academics and those with lived experience of violence. This is Read more
An athlete-survivor advocate’s perspective on how sports organisations can take a survivor-centred approach, for an IOC & European Olympic Committees project on safeguarding in sport.
Thailand just announced legal changes which criminalise sexual harassment, online abuse and stalking, and provide more robust protections for survivors of all forms of sexual violence. In this post, a Thai lawyer and sports ethicist team up to break down these changes and explore their implications for the world of sport.
I was recently invited by the Croatian Olympic Committee to take part in their GUARD: Safeguarding Children in Sport project, which provides education for child safeguarding officers from sports organisations in 8 different countries (Croatia, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Greece, Latvia, Macedonia & Slovenia). The topic of safeguarding in sport has Read more
UNESCO and the Sport & Rights Alliance held a consultation with 11 athlete-survivors in Paris, with the aim of developing global policy standards for safe sport informed by lived experience.
Last week was the Ann Craft Trust’s annual Safeguarding Adults Week, during which they bring safeguarding professionals from across the UK together to share expertise and raise awareness of important topics. This year, the theme was prevention. Each day, they held free online seminars with safeguarding experts on various topics, Read more
Emma of Under the Ropes flew to Finland to present research findings on women’s experiences of sexual harassment and abuse in Muay Thai at the Play the Game 2025 conference in Tampere.
An interview with Ann Craft Trust, a charity working to minimise the risk of abuse to adults in the UK. On this episode of their Safeguarding Matters podcast, we discuss the journey of Under the Ropes, safeguarding issues in Muay Thai, and how to eliminate gender-based violence in sport.
In September, I was invited to take part in a roundtable meeting at the UNICEF UK headquarters in London with a pool of safeguarding experts. We got together for a two-day workshop to begin the development of a safeguarding accountability framework for mega sporting events. Mega sporting events involve a Read more
A brief look back on 12 years of writing, advocacy, community building and more, all for the love of Muay Thai.