For the sixth exhibition, Victorious Voices was hosted at Coventry University as part of the Sexual Violence and Health Research Day: Healthcare, Healing and Hope, an event focused on how institutions can respond to sexual violence with evidence, compassion, and responsibility.

Installed at the heart of the programme, the exhibition presented black-and-white portraits alongside survivor testimonies of childhood sexual abuse, placing lived experience in direct conversation with research, healthcare practice, and safeguarding work.

The work carried the same core mission that runs through every Victorious Voices showing: to confront stigma, restore dignity, and ensure survivor knowledge is not treated as an add-on, but as essential.

As part of the day, Lee Cooper spoke to an audience of around 130 guests, sharing the purpose of the project and what becomes possible when survivors are met with care, clarity, and respect.

In stark contrast to the University of Glasgow experience, Coventry demonstrated what supportive institutional practice can look like in real time: listening without defensiveness, engaging without erasure, and holding space without turning survivor visibility into a problem to manage.

Victorious Voices at Coventry University offered a grounded model of cultural and academic partnership: one where survivors are not merely included, but honoured, and where the conversation moves beyond awareness toward better systems of healthcare, healing, and hope.