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Are you a journalist looking for an academic to provide expert commentary/analysis for a news story/documentary?
This experts directory is a searchable database of Queen¡¯s academics who are interested in talking to the media about their areas of expertise.
If you cannot find the right expert, please contact Queen¡¯s Communications Office and a member of the team will be able to help you.
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Dr Lawther is an expert on issues relating to victims and survivors and the legacy of Northern Ireland conflict.
Expertise: Transitional justice, victims and survivors, legacy, dealing with the past, truth/truth recovery/truth commissions, reparations, and memorialisation.
Professor McAlinden is a world-leading expert on the subject of sexual offending against children.
Expertise: sexual offending against children, grooming, child sexual abuse, exploitation, institutional child abuse, peer abuse
Professor Maruna¡¯s primary expertise is in the reintegration experiences of former prisoners in society.
Expertise: Probation, prisons, parole, personality disorder, punitive public attitudes, rehabilitation/resettlement, and desistance from crime.