Helena Kennedy Centre staff invited to Chair international advisory board:
Dr Katherine Albertson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology from the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at the Department of Law and Criminology is to share her research expertise by chairing an international advisory board on a substantial three year qualitative research project. The project – “Understanding ‘negative’ transitioning in British ex-Service personnel” is funded by the Forces in Mind Trust. The research project team is headed up by Professor John Brewer, from the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute at Queen’s University Belfast.
Helena Kennedy Centre staff to join Barnardo’s project advisory board:
Dr Katherine Albertson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology from the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at the Department of Law and Criminology has been invited to join a steering group made up of leading academics, managers and practitioners working with military veterans, offenders and their families. The advisory board will both support and oversee a Barnardo’s Health Needs Assessment project aiming to understand the needs of imprisoned veterans and their families. The Barnardo’s National Information Centre on Children of Offenders (NICCO) is undertaking the needs assessment work.
Helena Kennedy Centre staff invited to join Probation Institute Advisory Group:
Dr Katherine Albertson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology from the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at the Department of Law and Criminology has been invited to join the Advisory group for a Forces in Mind funded research project being conducted in partnership with the Probation Institute and Liverpool John Moores University. The research will explore the histories of ex armed services personnel who have committed offences of serious harm, focussing on matters of desistance and probation policy, respectively. The purpose of this research will be to understand points at which appropriate interventions by one or more appropriate agencies might have avoided the eventual harmful behaviour and to use this as future learning.
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