Since graduating from my MA in 2018, I moved to East London to work in frontline gang intervention. In my role as an Intervention Coach at Streets of Growth in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, I worked with a caseload of young people impacted by serious youth violence, the drugs trade, postcode wars, county lines and child criminal exploitation. In this time I encountered a number of obstacles in seeking to have criminal exploitation recognised in order to prevent the criminalisation of victims. In 2021 I decided to return to QUB to embark on a PhD looking at how child criminal exploitation is experienced in two case study areas, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and Belfast, Northern Ireland. This research explores how current modern slavery policy (the UK's National Referral Mechanism) responds to the experiences of these young people.
Experience
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–presentPhD Student, Queen's University Belfast
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2022–2023Research assistant, Queen's University Belfast/NI Children's Commissioner
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2018–2021Senior Intervention Coach, Streets of Growth
Education
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2018Queen's University Belfast, Masters in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice
Grants and Contracts
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2021NINE DTP PhD Scholarship
- Role:
- PhD Student
- Funding Source:
- Economic and Social Research Council
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