Book Launch
Dr Matt Hurley, senior lecturer in politics, has released a book called ‘NATO, Gender and the Military: Women Organising from Within’. It was co-written with Dr Katharine Wright from Newcastle University and Col. (Ret) Jesus Gil Ruiz (former NATO IMS Gender Advisor) and was launched at the annual conference of the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives at NATO HQ in Brussels which took place from 4 – 7 June.
Dr Hurley advises that the book takes the long view of NATO’s engagement with gender issues and highlights the “work of some of the pioneering military women who have worked to advance the place and status of women in NATO forces from the 1960’s to the Alliance’s present-day engagement with the UN Women, Peace and Security agenda.”
Educational Video created by the Forensic and Investigative Research (FaIR) group
Dr. Marilena Kyriakidou, Dr. Charlotte Coleman, Dr. Jennifer Drabble and Dr. Jane Adlard from the Forensic and Investigative Research (FaIR) group have developed a short educational video addressing the collaboration between interpreters and interviewers when interviewing children in forensic settings. To develop the video they have reviewed police guidelines on how best to interview children with interpreters and gained feedback on the video narrative from police forces and forensic interpreters’ services from three countries (Cyprus, England, Netherlands).
The video is expected to be used in practitioners’ training or to be shown to practitioners before conducting an investigative interview. The project was funded by the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group. You can watch the video here.
Domestic violence paper published
Dr. Marilena Kyriakidou from the Forensic and Investigative Research (FaIR) group in SHU and colleagues, have published in one of the top journals in the field of domestic violence a paper on: How the national domestic violence reports in Cyprus (the 33rd smallest nation in the world) increased during the economic crisis in the island. Although many studies agree that unemployment may impact domestic violence, little is known about these effects in small nations. They studied how 5 million national unemployment records and 21 thousand domestic violence reports fluctuated from 1996 to 2011. They found significant changes to domestic violence when Cyprus plunged into economic crisis, meaning that when unemployment increased, domestic violence reports also increased. This provides evidence of the link between economic hardship and increased help-seeking behaviours in small nations. You can read the paper in full here.
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