Find an Expert
Are you 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.