Speaker bio page for Dr Mary Wakeham

Bio

Dr Mary Wakeham is the CEO of Refuge4Pets and a Links Group Trustee Mary has over 15 years of experience working in the domestic abuse sector. She founded Refuge4Pets in 2017, driven by her commitment to enable freedom from domestic abuse for all victim-survivors, both people and animals. Mary is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol with a specialism in the dynamics and implications of the use and abuse of animals in the context of domestic abuse, particularly animal abuse as a strategy of coercive control. Mary is currently researching ‘the use and abuse of animals by perpetrators and domestic abuse-related deaths’, a study hosted at the University of Bristol and funded by Defra.