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Who we are<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Meet our board members and student interns, and find out how you can join us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The GJCJ is kindly funded by a University of Gloucestershire University Teaching Fellowship Grant for its first two years, guided by a volunteer board and enabled by volunteer mentor-editors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jump to:<\/strong> Board members<\/a> | Student interns <\/a> | Join our team<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Board members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Katherine Allen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Katherine (she\/her\/hers) is Senior Research Fellow in Institute for Social Justice and Crime (University of Suffolk). She has cross-disciplinary research experience in sociology, philosophy and literature, with strong research interests in sexual\/gender-based violence and the evolution of feminist ending violence movements, feminist and social epistemology, and philosophy of literature, mind and the emotions.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ashley Bushell<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ashley (he\/him) is a Postgraduate Researcher in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (University of Portsmouth). His research examines the normalisation and acceptance of violence within correctional settings. In addition to academic experience, Ashley has experience of working within a variety of practice settings within Prisons and Probation in an Offender Management capacity. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anita Dockley<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anita is an independent consultant focusing on criminal and social justice. She has spent more than 30 years working in penal reform latterly as Research Director at the Howard League for Penal Reform. Anita was managing editor at the Howard Journal for Crime and Justice for more than a decade and has been a member of the REF panels in 2014 and 2021 as well as an ESRC Grant Assessment Panel member.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tatiana Fernandez-Maya<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

First Issue Editor <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tatiana has a background in Philosophy and Physics and did her Master’s at the Essex Human Rights Centre. She is about to receive her Doctorate from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Her thesis explores the uses of artistic languages to implement moral reparations for victims of gross violations of human rights. Apart from that topic, she is interested in memory in postconflict settings and methodological issues in social research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kim Heyes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kim is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Justice in the School of Nursing and Public Health (Manchester Metropolitan University). Her research focuses on the societal intersections and inequalities in abuse, most recently focusing on female perpetrators, and victims of domestic and gender-based abuse. Kim has actively supported students to publish over her 12 years of academic teaching.  Kim is also the Vice Chair of PSS, a social enterprise that supports women who have been in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Louise Livesey<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

General Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louise (she\/they) is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology (University of Gloucestershire). She is passionate about learning being transformatory for the individual and for communities focussing on participatory, student centred and student-led learning which enables sharing knowledge and developing each person\u2019s sense of personal ability to make change, either of ourselves, communities or more widely. Her main teaching areas are Sexual Violence; Hate Studies and Genocide, Criminological and Sociological Theory; Injustice; Social Harms; Research Methods and Liberation campaigns. Her research focuses on sexual violence and on grassroots exchange. She established the Sexual Violence Research Group at the University of Gloucestershire which enables staff, students and community members to work together on commissioned sexual violence research projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Omar El Masri<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Omar is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology (University of Gloucestershire). His research interests centre on the intersection of arts and culture, urban regeneration, and ethnonational violence within the divided societies of Northern Ireland and Lebanon. His scholarly interests critically interrogate the legacy of colonialism in knowledge production and is actively engaged with decolonising the curriculum processes within Criminology. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lula Mecinska<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Events Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lula (she\/her\/they) is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Policing (University of Cumbria) and leads the MSc Criminology, Risk and Safeguarding. She runs regular writing sessions for UG and PG students, working alongside them to demystify the process of academic writing. Lula\u2019s research focus is victimisation and criminalisation in the context of reproduction justice which intersects with her interest in activism and digital victimisation, issues of health & justice, and crimes of the powerful. She is also interested in the role Police play in delivering health-focused interventions. Lula has peer reviewer experience and experience supporting UG, PGT and PGR students through the process of submitting their work to conferences and for publication.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mariana Lara Palacios<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mariana is a Guatemalan attorney and public notary with a Masters in Comparative Politics and Public Administration from Kyushu University (Japan) and a Masters of Law (KU Leuven). She is now pursuing a PhD in Law at KU Leuven on access to justice for indigenous women in post-conflict settings using a case study of Guatemala. She is member of the Editorial Board of the Leuven Transitional Justice Blog and Policy Officer at the International Development Cooperation Office, Herent, Belgium, where she works closely in partnership with Guatemalan indigenous communities at a local level. Her research interests include access to justice, conflict-related sexual violence, gender justice, transitional justice, intersectionality and indigenous women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cristiana Shepherd<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cristiana is an Academic Registrar and Controller of Examinations at Scholars School System. Prior to that, she was a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Programme Caretaker at Arden University. She has a PhD in Criminology, and her research focuses on ways to enhance community-based services for people who have a sexual attraction to minors, as well as those who are at risk of and\/or have perpetrated sexual abuse against children. Cristiana has also conducted research on public perceptions of people who commit crimes, the assessment of women who committed sexual offences, the role of vehicle repair workshops in car insurance fraud, and evaluated services aimed at reducing the impact of imprisonment and improving reintegration in the community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mette Roma Skjoldager<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mette Roma (she\/her) is a passionate advocate for social justice and equality with a Master’s degree in Criminology. She co-founded the Graduate Journal of Criminology and Justice, has played a key role in its establishment by conducting board interviews, leading student writing workshops and shaping the journal\u2019s scope and vision. Roma has previous experience in project management, counter-extremism, community engagement, and supporting youth development. Her research interests include hate crime, social cohesion, and promoting resilience in vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Niki White<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Website & Communications Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niki is Lecturer in Criminology (University of Gloucestershire) teaching across the undergraduate and postgraduate Criminology. Her research explores the operationalisation, meaning and expression of \u2018vulnerabilities to harms\u2019 in policy and practice contexts. Her current research focuses on women\u2019s prisons as localised drug use contexts and gendered harms. Niki is passionate about improving support for people in contact with the Criminal Justice System, those working within it and in adjacent sectors through trauma-informed, holistic and gender-sensitive interventions.  She is a Member of the British Society of Criminology and actively participates in the Prisons Research and the Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice Research Network.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Victoria Wozniak-Cole<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Writing Workshops Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoria is a 4th year PhD researcher (KU Leuven Institute of Criminology, Belgium) and a driven multilingual Victimologist and Criminologist. Victoria’s PhD seeks to further understanding of recovery and justice in legal, family and community, and peer contexts of victims of human trafficking. Alongside her studies, Victoria has previously worked at the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (Netherlands). She has experience in qualitative research methodologies and communicating research to diverse stakeholders. She is a Postgraduate Representative on the Victimology Working Group of the European Society of Criminology, a Communication Officer of the European Network of Qualitative Inquiry, and a Member of the Prize Committee of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Student interns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We currently have two interns who are also MSc Criminology students at the University of Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marketing intern<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our Marketing Intern works on establishing and running awareness raising a campaign for the establishment of the journal including online campaign and contact campaign with academics to encourage them to recommend submission to the journal and to be involved in the internal awareness baseline survey work.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the longer term, the Editorial Intern will continue to develop and refine processes, communicate with interested submitters and follow through the editing process to publication including supporting the online group meetings and to be involved in the ongoing evaluation of our Journal and its impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial intern<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our Editorial Intern designs and implement processes, communicates with interested submitters, conduct the initial (readability) review, contact potential reviewers and follow through the editing and review process to publication and to be involved in the internal awareness baseline survey work.\u202fTheir role is to communicate with interested submitters and follow through the editing process to publication including supporting the online group meetings and to be involved in the Year 1 awareness survey work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the longer term, The Editorial Intern will communicate with interested submitters, conduct the initial (readability) review, contact potential reviewers and follow through the editing and review process to publication and to be involved in our ongoing evaluations. \u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join our team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the current time, people can get involved as:\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Advisory Board members\u202f\u202f<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Mentor-editors\u202f\u202f<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Journal Ambassadors for your institution or research group<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Any combination of the above<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    We particularly welcome people from non-global north backgrounds, those with lived experience within any aspect of the criminal justice system, students who want to get involved and people from minoritized groups to get involved. However, anyone is welcome to join us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you’d like to join our team, we’d love to hear from you<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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