Research Community

The Centre for Military Women’s Research (CMWR)’s core mission is to inform and improve the well-being of women in the military and Veteran community through world-leading collaborative research and evaluation. Their work highlights women’s experiences, issues, and support needs and the centre is dedicated to fostering co-production with members of the military community and collaboration with partners and stakeholders.

Charlotte Williamson is a doctoral student at King’s Centre for Military Health Research, King’s College London. Her PhD seeks to explore self-harm and suicide behaviours in the UK Armed Forces using a mixed-methods design. Prior to commencing her PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant across several research projects in the field of military mental health, at both Combat Stress and the King's Centre for Military Health Research. Her research interests include self-harm and suicidality, military mental health, and using digital technology in mental health care.

Chloe Storer is a third-year PhD student at King's College London and Imperial War Museums. She was awarded AHRC CDP funding for her PhD which explores narratives of Operation Herrick told over time. She also has a distinction level MA in Public History and a first class History degree, both from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her historical interests include social and cultural history.  She specialises in the history and experience of Warfare, and is interested in exploring material culture further in the future. She is an experienced oral historian, working both on her PhD and a new project LOUD Fence which explores child sexual assault. 

CEDAR is an Applied Psychological Practice Centre of Excellence, and one of the UK's largest providers of training in evidence-based psychological practice and therapies, working in the NHS and private practice. One of the research groups (APTIA) focuses on adapting low-intensity written and mobile phone app-based CBT interventions to improve access and effectiveness for diverse groups, such as Armed Forces Veterans, Muslims, Informal Caraers and people with various physical health conditions. 

Combat Stress has an established record of conducting high-quality robust research to ensure the delivery of the best possible services to the Veteran community. Their work is focused on furthering understanding of how best to help Veterans with mental health difficulties and currently has three main areas of focus: Evaluating Combat Stress treatment programmes, population research (Understanding the needs of help-seeking Veterans) and exploring new ways to support help-seeking Veterans.

Dr Alison Osborne is a Senior Researcher in Psychology, with research interests in identity, well-being, EDI, digital health, Armed Forces, and mixed methodologies. Her current work is focussing on the role of digital technologies in women’s health communications. Alison’s research portfolio includes several projects with the Armed Forces Community centred on well-being, alcohol use, bereavement, family separation and limb loss. Most recently, Alison was the lead researcher for Fighting With Pride on the first UK research project exploring the experiences and impact of the UK Armed Forces ‘gay ban’ with LGBT+ Veterans.