Aisha K. Gill is Professor of Criminology at University of Roehampton. She is an activist academic who has been involved in addressing the problem of violence against women and girls/ ‘honour’ crimes and forced marriage at the grassroots level for the past seventeen years. Her current research and campaigning work focuses on domestic violence; rights, law and early/child/forced marriage/female genital mutilation; sexual violence and femicide across Europe. She is also currently in the middle of documenting the experiences of victims/survivors of ‘honour’-based violence, including forced marriage and female genital mutilation in Hertfordshire and working with the Police Crime Commissioner to improve specialist services for BME communities.