Violence against children persists not because people think it is right, but because everyone assumes everyone else accepts it.
Most adults in a community will say, privately, that harming a child is wrong. Yet the harm continues. That gap is not hypocrisy. It is a collective action problem: people hold a private belief but read the silence around them as consent, and so nobody moves first.
Kate’s work treats this as a measurable problem rather than a moral one. If violence is sustained by what people believe others believe, then the intervention is to make the private majority visible to itself, and to change what counts as normal in a school or a street rather than what is written in a policy.
What the work has shown
Where Kate is commissioned
Research design, social norms measurement, and theory of change development for organisations working on violence prevention.
