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This episode, featuring Dr Melanie Klinkner interviewed by Dr Lauren Dempster, explores issues relating to mass graves, exhumation, and the right to truth. Dr Melanie Klinkner of Bournemouth University is interviewed by Dr Lauren Dempster about her work on the Mass Graves Protection for Truth and Justice project, the use of evidence from mass graves at the ICTY, and the role of forensic science in...

Dr Andrew Godden talks to Professor Brice Dickson about his Stephen Livingstone Lecture, ‘The Problems with Human Rights’ On 21 November 2019, Professor Brice Dickson (Emeritus Professor of International and Comparative Law) delivered the Stephen Livingstone Lecture at the School of Law. His lecture, entitled ‘The Problems with Human Rights’, focused on the philosophical, legal and practical probl...

LawPod Director Rachel Killean talks to PhD candidate Meghan Hoyt about her research into misogyny and hate crime. Meghan Hoyt is a first year PhD researcher at Queen University Belfast. Her thesis is entitled Addressing Misogyny: Gender, Hate Crime and New Feminist Approaches and she is exploring whether or not current hate crime legislation in the UK could be used to tackle the gendered harms as...

LawPod Director Rachel Killean talks to PhD candidate Nkem Itanyi about her research into copyright infringement in the film industry in developing economies. Nkem is a second-year PhD research student at Queen’s. Her research is looking at copyright infringement in the film industry in developing economies using Nigeria as a case study. The Nigerian film industry is popularly referred to as Nolly...

LawPod Director Rachel Killean kicks off the PhD series by talking to PhD candidate Gillian Kane about her research into human trafficking. Gillian is a PhD candidate in the School of Law at QUB. Her research focuses on the role of international law in preventing and tackling human trafficking among refugees and asylum seekers.   UNHCR Figures at a Glance:  https://www.unhcr.org/uk/figures-at-a-gl...

QUB students Maeve Devlin, Jade Mc Cauley, Tavisha Sood and Alexandra Cook discuss rape myths and consent with PHD student and former journalist Rosie Cowen. Recommended Book 'A trial by Jury' https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trial-Jury-D-Graham-Burnett/dp/0375420398 Farooqui v State Government of Delhi https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/farooqui-v-state-government-of-delhi-confusing-consent/ How rape myths are us...

PhD student Samantha Hopkins talks to Professor Harry van Buren from the University of New Mexico about the responsibilities which corporations owe to society, based on both their vast impact and their reliance on society in order to function. Among the issues discussed are the role of states in regulating corporations, ways in which corporate measures for protecting human rights may be made more...

In this episode, the Law in Action team talks to Professor Brice Dickson and students from Hong Kong about the protest and whether the government intransigence and police overreaction would ultimately lead to Hong Kong becoming another Belfast. The ongoing Hong Kong protests were triggered via the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill by the Hong Kong government. If enacted the bil...

Women’s Aid representative Sonya McMullan gives an eye-opening and informative discussion with law student Katie Kennedy. Warning: this episode discusses sensitive topics surrounding domestic violence which some listeners may find upsetting. Women’s Aid representative Sonya McMullan gives an eye-opening and informative discussion with law student Katie Kennedy on the worrying levels of domestic vi...

Rachel Killean interviews Dr Peter Manning from the University of Bath about his research on the connections between human rights, transitional justice and memory. In this episode, Rachel Killean interviews Dr Peter Manning from the University of Bath about his research on the connections between human rights, transitional justice and memory, and discusses how these connections play out in the con...

10 - Criminology Matters - In this conversation, Shadd Maruna and Fergus McNeill reflect on what they learned from collaborating in making the documentary film ‘The Road from Crime’ and from the associated Desistance Knowledge Exchange project. They also stray into wider discussions about creative, sensory and public criminologies, musing on how researchers can and should engage with others in pur...

9 - Criminology Matters - Alessandro Corda talks to host Gillian McNaull about his research on criminal records. In it he examines the multiple collateral consequences experienced by individuals with a criminal record post-conviction. Additionally he outlines the impact of the market and technological forces that have dramatically reshaped the creation and sharing of criminal record data in recent...

Dr Luke Moffett talks to Dr Katharine Fortin about the complexities surrounding the obligations of 'non-state armed groups' under current legal frameworks. The majority of conflicts since the Second World War have been non-international armed conflict (civil war) involving non-state armed groups fighting against state forces, rather than traditional state vs state international conflicts. Yet inte...

8 - Criminology Matters - Host Rachel Killean talks to Eithne Dowds about her work on conceptualisations of rape under international law. (Content warning - this episode discusses sexual violence) Using a feminist methodology, Eithne discusses the nuances of consent and coercion, considering the potential of  'constructive force' to provide a framework for understanding rape in a global context. F...

7 - Criminology Matters - In this podcast co-host Gillian talks to Professor Phil Scraton about the harms of imprisonment and prison abolition. This entails an examination of issues of decarceration - decreasing existing rates of criminalisation and imprisonment. They also discuss the transformative justice dimensions of prison abolition, which sees building of community responses to harms that oc...

Dr Luke Moffett talks to Dr Elisa Novic from Advocats Sans Frontièrs about the challenges and developments with regard to victim participation in the prosecution of international crimes. Victim participation is a relatively recent development within international criminal justice, being introduced in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. However, given the scale of internation...

6 - Criminology Matters - Co-host Gillian McNaull talks to SSESW NINE MRes student, Angela Rogan about her research and activism in the area of corporate pharmaceutical crime. In this episode, Angela examines the gendered nature of medical implant harms against female reproductive systems and discusses her own experiences with the Essure Device and the radical activism this has provoked. Her resea...

5 - Criminology Matters - Rachel Killean talks to Dr. Amanda Kramer about her recent IHREC/NIHRC research with Rachael Dickson and Anni Pues on the potential impact of Brexit on Criminal Justice on the Island of Ireland. The research focuses on justice and security cooperation measures across five areas including the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), policing and prosecution cooperation, and data sha...

4 - Criminology Matters - Paul Gallagher, PhD researcher in the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s, and Dr Sarah Jankowitz, Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, discuss the complex concept of victimhood. Sarah begins with an overview of how victimhood as a concept is socially constructed, and discusses the implicatio...

3 - Criminology Matters - In this podcast Gillian talks to Dr John Topping from SSESW about his recent event - Patten 20 years on: Young People, Policing and Stop and Search. http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/patten-20-years-on-young-people-policing-and-stop-and-search/ They discuss the significance and implications of NI's disproportionate and rising use of stop and search - which is used to little eff...

2 - Criminology Matters - Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden and Dr Elizabeth Agnew speak about their individual research projects exploring young people and harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). Together they set out some of the key challenges in defining, conceptualising and responding to HSB among young people. To find out more follow Anne-Marie McAlinden https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/annemari...

1 - Criminology Matters: A criminology podcast series in conjunction with Lawpod - Gillian McNaull interviews Graham Ellison and Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill on their recent report. In this episode Gillian McNaull interviews Graham Ellison and Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill on their recent report: – ‘A review of the criminalisation of paying for sexual services in Northern Ireland’. They set out the context and scope...

Women in Law: Lucy Bill and Emily Dickinson interview Naomi Little, Nicola Mallon and Jilly Cameron from Axiom Managed Solutions. They each discuss how their law careers developed.

” In this episode, Rachel Killean sits down with Dr Tanya Serisier to discuss her book “Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics” https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319986685  and the successes, challenges and unresolved questions of ‘speaking out’ as a response to rape. This episode was recorded in conjunction with Dr Serisier’s visit to the QUB School of Social Sciences, Education a...

James Milliken talks to Claire Ussher from the Queen's University Careers Service about employability.