Professor Tamsin Bradley works in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in the School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature, at the University of Portsmouth. Tamsin joined the University of Portsmouth as a Lecturer in September 2011, and was promoted to Professor in September 2017. She began her academic career with a degree in Politics and the Study of Religion at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London in 1996. In 1997, she completed an MA in Social Anthropology of Development at SOAS. Following her MA, she completed a PGCE at the University of Cambridge, before returning to SOAS for her PhD. Tamsin’s thesis, "Challenging the NGOs: Women, Religion and Western Dialogues in India", was published as a book by Bloomsbury Academic in 2006. Tamsin has also worked as a Tutor in International Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at London Metropolitan University, and a Lecturer of Gender Studies at the University of London. She is currently working with Plan International on a project working to end violence against children in South Sudan. She has also worked on various projects with Stop Domestic Abuse in Havant. Tamsin recently released a report in collaboration with the charity and the Home Office. Tamsin’s main research interest is in ending violence against women and girls, including harmful cultural practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa (Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal, Somalia), breast ironing in West and Central Africa, rape, harassment and dowry-related violence in India, violence against women generally in South Sudan, direct links between women, violence and displacement in Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar, and also links between women, work and violence in Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan. Her research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Academy, and she has worked in close collaboration with research networks, NGOs and affected communities.