Dr Nina Francis is a trained family mediator (WTA), a published author and academic psychologist with a passion for bringing previously unspoken or little-understood experiences into the open, specifically experiences shaped by a rupture in a persons imagined future.
The language we use to talk about experiences and the assumptions we make about them shape how we understand them, and importantly, how that experience is lived. By creating space to explore these elements, we can begin to see experiences differently, challenge what we have come to assume, and help people find a way forward.
Nina’s research and professional work are distinct, but they are connected by a golden thread: an interest in the impact on people when the future they had imagined is disrupted, how that disruption is understood, and in what helps people make sense of that rupture and find a way forward.
Her professional work focuses on the use of family mediation to support families navigating separation, child arrangements and finances, this is also her active research area with the University of Aston, while her PhD research explored the psychological impact on mothers of what had been known as 'gender disappointment' but now RIFis (Rupture of an Imagined Future due to infant sex)
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