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The Coventry Lord Mayor's Peace Lecture 2025 Domestic Violence: Think Globally - Act Locally

6 November 2025 Doors at 7pm
Lecture at 7.30pm
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The Coventry Lord Mayor's Peace Lecture 2025 Domestic Violence: Think Globally - Act Locally

Doors open 6pm, lecture starts 7pm

Join us at Coventry Cathedral for a thought-provoking lecture with keynote address from Mandy Sanghera OBE, distinguished winning philanthropist and international advocate, often hailed as a driving force for world change.

Followed by panel discussion with host Mandy Sanghera OBE featuring Nushra Mansuri from Coventry University and Jayne Ross from Coventry City Council .

Doors open 6pm. Lecture starts at 7pm followed by questions, meeting and chat.

Mandy Sanghera OBE - Keynote speaker and panel host

Mandy Sanghera OBE is a distinguished winning philanthropist and international advocate, often hailed as a driving force for change across the globe. A British human rights activist, motivational speaker, and TEDx speaker , Mandy has journeyed extensively, inspiring and empowering individuals in various countries. With more than 30 years of expertise in development, Mandy has dedicated her career to fostering innovation, forging strategic alliances, and championing key issues such as human rights, gender equality, accountability, migration, and social justice on a global scale.

Jayne Ross

Jayne Ross is the Domestic Abuse Programme Manager for Coventry City Council. Over the past 40 years Jayne has been dedicated to safeguarding vulnerable individuals and championing initiatives that prevent harm and promote recovery, much of this during their time within West Midlands Police, in Coventry, within the Public Protection arena. Jayne's journey has been shaped by a deep commitment to addressing domestic abuse, violence against women and girls, and child protection. In Jayne's current role, continuing to maintain a hands-on approach to casework while also influencing policy, training, and inter-agency collaboration. Jayne is a passionate advocate for survivor voices. By working with individuals who have lived experience, Jayne aims to ensure that the programmes reflect real needs and priorities ensuring survivor-centred approaches genuine partnership working.


Nushra Mansuri

Nushra Mansuri is an Assistant Professor in Social Work at Coventry University. She is a registered social worker and as a practitioner worked extensively with children and families in a variety of settings including statutory, voluntary and multi-disciplinary. Her last job in direct practice was in a specialist service for children in the care system which enabled her to do a lot of direct work and advocacy with children and young people in order to try and improve practice and working relationships between various agencies to benefit children, young people and their families. Nushra was sad to end her time as a social worker working directly with children and young people but at the same time, felt frustrated by different aspects of the system. Her next position provided her with greater opportunity to affect change at a strategic level: she worked for the British Association of Social Workers leading on children and families social work in England. This experience helped her to understand in greater depth how policy is decided and the importance of representing the social work profession in co-production with children, young people and adults with lived experience through joint campaigns and shared activities enriching relationships and promoting a better understanding. Nushra now teaches social work students and hopes that she can influence the next generation of social workers to be compassionate and humane when working with people recognising that social workers have the potential to make a real difference in people’s lives. Nushra is a survivor of domestic abuse and was recently a lived experience co-investigator for a Vista project on Integrating Social Care in Response to Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse: Supporting the Adult and Child Victim. Nushra is also a Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Birmingham undertaking a doctorate exploring social workers experiences of parental alienation.

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