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Lorrie Hayman

Skilled Research Ireland, Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar. Research and facilitation consultant, working with charity sector, education, and corporate clients. Experienced in mixed-methods interdisciplinary research on cyber violence and feminist research practice. Community volunteer, working with Galway Rape Crisis Centre supporting survivors of sexual violence.

This website documents my experience as a consultant and researcher of technology-facilitated violence at the University of Galway, Ireland.

For details on my professional background, qualifications, and training, please find details on my LinkedIn here. My ORCiD is: 0000-0002-0817-2216. Find me on Google Scholar here. Find my Academia profile here.

Research Employment

  • Research Associate. Supporting the department of Open Justice on a project exporing law and Articifical Intelligence at the Open University, UK/remote.
    06/2025
  • Expert and Facilitator. Delivering training to staff and students on Cyber-located Sexual Violence at University of Galway, Ireland.
    11/2024
  • Expert and Facilitator. Delivering training to trainee teachers and staff on Cyber-located Sexual Violence at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland.
    09/2024
  • Research Assistant. Exploring legal and policy implications for deepfake technology in the EU and Commonwealth Nations for the Open University, UK.
    07/2024
  • Expert and Facilitator. Training early-career police officers in the UK on Image-based Sexual Abuse and the legal implications for the Police Now leadership programme, UK.
    06/2024
  • Researcher and Content Creator. Developing content for a 120-hour training programme for counsellors working with survivors of sexual violence with Galway Rape Crisis Centre, Ireland.
    03/2024

Peer Review Articles

  • Under review 2025 - Data Familiarisation in Reflexive Thematic Analysis: A Critical, Creative Engagement Through Voice-Centred Relational Analysis. Journal of Creative Methods, Bristol University Press.
    Review
  • Under review 2025 - Migrant Women in Ireland and Cyber-located Sexual Violence: A Case Study of Lived Experiences. Irish Journal of Sociology.
    Review
  • Perspectives from Ireland: The Psychological Harms of Cyber-Located Sexual Violence. WWW '25: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025. Available here.
    2025
  • Perspectives from Ireland: Women’s Responses to Cyber-located Sexual Violence (CLSV). IEEE Conference Proceeding, Cyber Research Ireland. Available here.
    2024
  • What’s in a Name? Women’s Perspectives on Naming and Defining Cyber-Located Sexual Violence (CLSV), Dearcadh: Graduate Journal of Gender, Globalisation and Rights, 5. Available here.
    2024
  • Accounting for the Harms of Image-Based Sexual Abuse in Ireland’s Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act. The Journal of International Women’s Studies. Available here.
    2024
  • A Critical Analysis of Ireland’s Approaches to Addressing Cyber Sexual Violence, Dearcadh: Graduate Journal of Gender, Globalisation and Rights, 4. Available here.
    2023
  • “Engineering or Computer Science Are Better for Males”: Female Refugee and Migrant Students’ Lived Experiences of Learning Digital Skills. Gender and Sexuality, 17. Available here.
    2022
  • “You Cannot Be What You Cannot See”: The Lived Experiences of Women Teaching Digital Literacy in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Germany. The Journal of International Women’s Studies, 20(6), 5-20. Available here.
    2022
  • “I Feel the Constant Low-Hum of Anxiety”: Peacebuilders’ Lived Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journal of Social Science (JSS), 89. Available here.
    2022

Academic Works

  • Co-author with Carol Ballentine - Resisting Cyber-located Sexual Violence Through Irish Feminisms. Abolitionist Futures. Available here.
    2025
  • Book of Abstracts [Needs and necessities: Identifying supports for researchers engaged in emotionally demanding research]. Feminist and Queer Spatialities conference. Ireland. Available here.
    2024
  • Book of Abstracts [How the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 Fails to Capture the Harms of Cyber Sexual Violence]. 5th Global Conference on Women's Studies. Available here.
    2023
  • Understanding the Digital Skills Gender Divide: A Multi-Case Analysis of Women’s Lived Experiences and Perceptions of Teaching or Learning Digital Literacy in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Germany [Master’s thesis, International Christian University]. Japan.
    2021
  • Book of Abstracts [Understanding the Digital Skills Gender Divide: A Multi-Case Analysis of Women Learning or Teaching Digital Literacy in Germany]. The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) for the 7th World Conference on Women’s Studies, 15. Available here.
    2021
  • Confronting Global Crises: “ICU in Dialogue with the Present, Past, and Future” with Prof. Emeritus Steele. Available here.
    2020
  • Rotary Peace Fellowship: Spotlight on a Fellow. Available here.
    2020
  • Ten reasons to apply for a Rotary Peace Fellowship at ICU. Available here.
    2019
  • “The British Withdrawal from Palestine- Lessons Learned by the Labour Government”. This research included extensive primary source content analysis and archival work in the Labour Archive in Manchester [Undergraduate Dissertation, Liverpool Hope University]. UK.
    2008

Conference Presentations

  • Cyberflashing: Women’s Ideas About Men Who Cyberflash. LEX, the University of Liverpool, UK.
    11/2025
  • Cyberflashing: Women’s Perceptions of Men Who Cyberflash. Digital Intimacies, University of Padova, Italy.
    09/2025
  • Barriers to Justice: Victim-Survivors’ Experiences of Reporting Cyber-located Sexual Violence in Ireland. Centre for Protecting Women Online Inaugural Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
    09/2025
  • Cyber-located Sexual Violence: Women’s Responses in Ireland. European Conference on Domestic Violence, Barcelona, Spain.
    09/2025
  • The Psychological Harms of Cyber-located Sexual Violence. The Centre for Protecting Women Online, Towards a Safer Web for Women Workshop, WWW25 Conference, online.
    04/2025
  • Methodological Considerations: Researching Cyber-located Sexual Violence in Ireland. Sociological Association of Ireland, TUS Athlone, Ireland.
    02/2025
  • Cyber-located Sexual Violence in Ireland: Framing an Emerging Form of Sexual Violence Against Women. Society for Women in Philosophy, Maynooth University, Ireland.
    12/2024
  • Perspectives from Ireland: Women’s Responses to Cyber-located Sexual Violence (CLSV). Cyber Research Ireland, SETU, Ireland.
    11/2024
  • Shifting Safety: Cyber-located Sexual Violence in Ireland. Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures, the University of Liverpool, UK.
    11/2024
  • Needs and necessities: Supporting researchers engaged in emotionally demanding research (with Stacey Scriver). AtGender, the University of Utrect, Netherlands.
    09/2024
  • What’s in a Name? Drawing on Women’s Lived Experiences to Introduce and Define Cyber-Located Sexual Violence (CLSV). European Sociological Association Summer School, University of Porto, Portugal.
    08/2024
  • Needs and necessities: Identifying supports for researchers engaged in emotionally demanding research (with Stacey Scriver). Feminist and Queer Spatialities, Dublin City University, Ireland.
    08/2024
  • What's in A Name? Reconceptualising 'Deepfake' and 'Revenge Pornography'. Post-graduate Researcher International Conference, University of Galway, Ireland.
    05/2024
  • What’s In A Name? Problematising The Term ‘Deepfake Pornography’ In Media Discourse. Twentieth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
    04/2024
  • Presenting for Unite! Activism to End Violence against Women and Girls, I share ‘A Critical Analysis of Ireland’s Approaches to Addressing Cyber Sexual Violence’. Centre for Global Women’s Studies, University of Galway, Ireland.
    12/2023
  • Gender-Binary Phraseology and Accounting for Harms in Ireland’s Legal Approach to Image-Based Sexual Abuse. “Gender, Disability, and Social Change” International Conference, Milieu, Bulgaria.
    11/2023
  • Women’s Experiences and Responses to Cyber Sexual Violence in Ireland. GSSR Summer School 2023, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.
    09/2023
  • The Harms of Image-Based Sexual Abuse and Ireland’s Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act. 5th Global Conference on Women’s Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland. Abstract available here.
    07/2023
  • Cyber Sexual Violence and Feminist Research. University of Granada, HisGenderGap Summer School funded by DAAD, Spain.
    06/2023
  • Feminist Research Practice - A Methodology. Education Research Symposium, University of Galway, Ireland.
    04/2023
  • Cyber Sexual Violence and Women in Ireland (video presentation). University of Galway Research Festival, University of Galway, Ireland.
    02/2023
  • Why Peace Studies? Research as a Rotary Peace Fellow. Speaker at Rotary District 1040 National Conference, UK/remote.
    10/2021
  • Understanding the Digital Skills Gender Divide. 19th Annual ICU Rotary Peace Centre Conference, International Christian University, Japan.
    06/2021
  • Becoming a Rotary Peace Fellow. Keynote speaker at Rotary Club Keighley, UK/remote.
    06/2021
  • Understanding the Digital Skills Gender Divide: A Multi-Case Analysis of Women Learning or Teaching Digital Literacy in Germany. 7th World Conference on Women’s Studies, Japan/remote. Abstract available here.
    05/2021
  • Dance and Peace. Presentation for Mitaka Rotary Club Peace Wing, International Christian University, Japan.
    05/2021
  • Case Study Discussion: Ethical Concerns in Teaching Vulnerable Women with Low Digital Skills Through Online Learning. TCC Conference, America/remote.
    04/2021
  • Reflections on Opportunities, Challenges, and Next-Steps in Online Learning for Refugee and Migrant Women in Munich. Joint presentation, Hayman, L.J. & Ramirez, A., ReDI School of Digital Integration, Germany/remote.
    03/2021
  • Chatbots for Child Suicide Prevention. Joint presentation Chhorn, C., Hayman, L.J., Maloko, M. & Obisesan, E., UNLEASH Innovation Lab, China.
    11/2019

Scholarships and Awards

  • Irish Research Council, 2023 Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship for Doctoral Research investigating technology-facilitated sexual violence and emergent violence against women. Details available here.
    2023-26
  • Scholar at the European Sociological Association (ESA) Summer School and Conference. Funded (accommodation and attendance) by the ESA, Portugal.
    08/2024
  • Emerging Scholar Award at the Twentieth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society. Funded (conference attendance) by the conference.
    03/2024
  • Expansion of the Peer Support Group for Early-Career Researchers, the University of Galway, Office for the Vice President of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Grant funding awarded to the tune of EUR 950.
    02/2024
  • Partial Scholarship for Participating in “Gender, Disability, and Social Change”. Accomodation stipend, Milieu, Bulgaria.
    11/2023
  • mWISE Conference 2023 Digital Scholarship for Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS ), funded full conference attendance. WiCyS, remote.
    09/2023
  • Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR) Summer School funded by the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institutes of Philosophy and Sociology (IFiS), Political Studies (IPS) and Psychology (IP) (travel and accommodation), Poland.
    09/2023
  • HisGenderGap Summer School funded by DAAD (travel and accommodation), University of Granada, Spain.
    06/2023
  • Hardiman Research Scholarship. Funded scholarship and a living stipend for Doctoral Research. University of Galway, Ireland.
    2022-23
  • Graduation with Honours, Master of Arts. International Christian University, Japan.
    06/2021
  • Rotary Peace Fellowship. Fully-funded scholarship for leaders with work experience in peace and development. Rotary International, Japan.
    2019-21

University Teaching Experience

  • Human Rights MA Module Lecturer [Specialist topic: Women's Rights and CEDAW]. University of Galway, Ireland.
    10/2024
  • Social Justice Undergraduate Module Lecturer [Specialist topic: Social Movements and Theory]. University of Galway, Ireland.
    09/2024
  • Guest Lecturer. I delivered a seminar session on Cyber Violence with undergraduate students at the University of Galway, Ireland.
    03/2023
  • Adjunct Faculty. I supported students online to access quality English Language education at Waseda University Westgate Corporation, Japan/remote.
    04/2022
  • Guest Lecturer. I delivered a lecture titled ‘Weaving my way to Positive Peace’ for post-graduate students at International Christian University, Japan.
    05/2021
  • Guest Lecturer. I delivered a lecture sharing details of my fieldwork to undergraduate students at International Christian University, Japan.
    04/2021
  • Adjunct Faculty. August 2018~August 2019: I provided English language lessons that emphasised female empowerment and the achievement of the SDGs. Kyoritsu Women’s University and Mejiro Japan Women’s University. Westgate Corporation, Japan.
    2018-19

Other Facilitation Experience

  • Facilitator. I facilitated a workshop that shared the testimony of survivors of the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing that occurred on the 9th of August 1945. Rotary Peace Fellow Alumni Association International Conference, Japan/remote.
    09/2021
  • Facilitator and Mentor. I facilitated programmes on achieving the SDGs, globally helping youth develop and implement solutions. UNLEASH Innovation Lab, global/remote.
    2021-22
  • Assistant Language Teacher. July 2016~July 2018: I developed and delivered lessons that explored cross-cultural awareness and communication. Yamaguchi Board of Education, Japan.
    2016-18
  • History and Politics Teacher. August 2010~February 2013: I am a qualified teacher. My teaching specialisms included the War in Vietnam, Civil Rights Movement, the Tudors, and UK Politics. Sir John Deane’s College, UK.
    2010-13
  • Examiner. May 2010~June 2013: I worked with Edexcel and AQA marking GCSE, AS Level and A Level scripts during the May / June examination period. This required me to have expertise in the subject areas I examined and a clear ability to focus my time and prioritise.
    2010-13
  • History and Politics Teacher. January 2010~July 2010: I taught history and politics in this brand new education institution during my teacher training year. The role saw me rise to the challenges of a newly qualified teacher, including managing a demanding workload while delivering interesting lessons to engage students with new topics.
    2010

Other Service Experience

  • Representative for the Centre for Global Women's Studies on the Sexual Harassment and Violence Response and Prevention Committee at the University of Galway.
    2024-26
  • Peer Support Group founder. Founded and developed a Peer Support Group for early-career researchers undertaking emotionally demanding research. The group meets bi-weekly during term time and has grown in popularity since its inception, University of Galway, Ireland.
    2022-25
  • Career Development Centre Ambassador. Supporting students with their career experience, including CV writing, editing, and placements, University of Galway, Ireland.
    2023-24
  • Podcast Guest on 'The Digital Wellness Podcast' by Cassie Widders. Episode #53 "Cyber Violence - what is it and how can we combat it? With Lorrie Hayman", Episode available here.
    03/2023
  • Panel and World Cafe Facilitator. Supported time-keeping and logistical organisation at the Research Festival, including facilitating a World Cafe session with eight presenters, University of Galway, Ireland.
    02/2023
  • Psychological Supporter. Helping survivors of sexual violence with their health and well-being, Galway Rape Crisis Centre, Ireland.
    2022+
  • Curriculum Developer and Literacy Content Creator. Words Alive, Remote/USA.
    2016-22

Education Background

  • Doctoral Researcher (PhD), Global Women’s Studies, University of Galway, College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies, Ireland.
    2022
  • Master of Arts in Social and Cultural Analysis, Rotary International Peace Fellow and Scholar, Graduation with Honours, GPA: 4.0/A-grade, International Christian University, School of Arts and Sciences, Public Policy and Social Research Programme, Japan.
    2021
  • Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (Teaching Qualification), Level 6 with Distinction, Edge Hill University, Department of Education, UK.
    2010
  • Bachelor of Arts with Honours, History with Dance, Upper Second-Class, Liverpool Hope University, Department of History/Department of Performance Studies, UK.
    2009