Duncan Craig OBE

Duncan is the Founder and Chief Executive of We Are Survivors, a leading voluntary sector organisation providing therapeutic and advocacy support to male victims/survivors of sexual violence.

Using his lived experience as a survivor of sexual abuse, rape, and sexual exploitation, Duncan has spent the last 15 years working extensively with the Government on the VAWG Strategy, Victim Strategy, Position Paper on Male Victims, and the Victims Minister’s Victim Advisory Board; the NHS on the SAAS Strategy; the Crown Prosecution Service; and various police forces across the UK. He was also a founding member of the Victims Reference Group for Dame Vera Baird in the Office of the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales. Locally, he supports the work of the Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester.

Duncan has worked as a script consultant and TV storyline advisor on male sexual violence narratives for Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, EastEnders, and Casualty; as an advisor and commentator for Crimewatch, BBC’s The Truth About Child Sex Abuse, BBC News, and other media outlets; and as Executive Producer on the male victims’ films Padlock (2017) and Ripped (2022).

His work has taken him internationally to Iceland, the USA, New Zealand, Cambodia, Uganda, and currently to The Hague with the International Criminal Court.

In 2020, Duncan received an OBE from Her Majesty the Queen for services to male victims of rape and child abuse. In 2022, he was awarded the University of Manchester’s Medal of Honour by Dame Nancy Rothwell for his work with male victims/survivors. He is also currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Criminology.



In 2024, Duncan co-authored the article, “Nobody believes you if you’re a bloke”: Barriers to disclosure and help-seeking for male forced-to-penetrate victims/survivors, in the International Review of Victimology.