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Session 08.1 Shadows of the Web

Tracks
Track 1: Room LG19
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
LG19 - The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre​

Overview


45 minute screening of “Shadows of the Web” followed by a 45 minute panel session
Chair: Commander Helen Schneider


- Professor Michael Salter, Childlight (Asia and Pacific), Australia
- Raphaela Thynne MBE, Head of Strategy & International - Tackling Child Sexual Abuse, Government Home Office, UK


Speaker

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Professor Michael Salter
Director
Childlight (East Asia and Pacific)

Session 08.1 Shadows of the Web

Biography

Professor Michael Salter is the Director of the East Asia and Pacific Hub of Childlight, based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Childlight is a global child safety institute dedicated to research for impact on child sexual exploitation and abuse. Professor Salter is an internationally recognised expert in child sexual exploitation, complex trauma and gender-based violence. His published work includes the books Organised Sexual Abuse (2013, Routledge) and Crime, Justice and Social Media (2017, Routledge) and over sixty papers in international journals and edited collections. Professor Salter is the Chairperson of the Grace Tame Foundation, dedicated to the prevention of child sexual abuse, and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, the premier global organisation for the study and treatment of complex trauma. He sits on the editorial boards of the journals Child Abuse Review and the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. Dr Salter is a member of a number of advisory groups, including the Advisory Group of the National Plan To Prevent Violence Against Women and Their Children, the Expert Advisory Group of the eSafety Commissioner, and the Expert Advisory Committee of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.

Raphaela Thynne MBE
Head of Strategy & International - Tackling Child Sexual Abuse
Government Home Office

Session 08.1 Shadows of the Web

Biography

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