SCJ/CDD Researching Powerful Elites & Researching Vulnerable Subalterns

Speakers

Olga Petintseva is a lecturer and a Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders, affiliated with Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Her expertise is situated at the intersection of several domains of social exclusion and relations of power: (crim)migration and ethnicity, gender-based inequalities, the (in)sensitivity to diversity of criminal (youth) justice institutions and (countering) discriminatory practices. Theoretically, her work is informed by critical, cultural and narrative criminology. Moreover, she has an outspoken interest in qualitative research methodology, including discourse and narrative analysis, visual methods, participatory action research, feminist research methodologies, and ‘elite’ and expert interviews. Recently, she has co-authored the monograph Interviewing Elites, Experts and the Powerful in Criminology (with Rita Faria and Yarin Eski, published by Palgrave).

Rita Faria is currently Assistant Professor of Criminology at the School of Criminology – Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, as well as Director and founding member of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Crime, Justice and Security – CJS. Her research interests include white-collar crime, financial, corporate and environmental crime. She has also been researching and written about the History and Epistemology of Criminology, mainly in Portugal, as well as research misconduct. In May 2015, she was awarded the Excellence in Doctoral Research on Research Integrity Award for “Creative and critical use of theory for understanding research behavior”, at the Doctoral Forum of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity.
She is board member of the European Society of Criminology’s European Working Group on Organizational Crime (EUROC) and Working-Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies (WG-QRME). Currently, she is also part of the Editorial Board of Crime, Law & Social Change.

Dr Turton is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Her interests lie in the intersection between the sociology of knowledge and security studies, and focuses on how knowledge is produced, embodied and practiced, especially around questions of sexual violence. She is interested in methodological innovation and in particular the use of co-production and artistic methods. Helen is currently involved in two major projects in this area: (a) the long-term consequences of sexual violence in armed conflict, which examines how knowledge on the subject is generated by academics and NGOs in conflict settings; and (b) peace and reconciliation in Colombia, which uses participatory video and photo projects to understand how people navigate the post-peace accord era in the country.

Dr Duriesmith is Lecturer in Gender and Politics at the University of Sheffield. His research explores the relationship between patriarchy, masculinities and violence from a pro-feminist perspective. He has published on preventing violence after war, men’s support for gender equality, foreign fighter networks, the transformation of war and feminist international relations theory. His three broad projects in this area examine: (a) masculinities and peacebuilding, with a focus on gender-sensitive programming in Fiji and Indonesia; (b) gender in foreign fighter networks, which involves taking detailed life histories from young men regarding their experiences of recruitment, training and disengagement from militant groups in the Philippines; and (c) the role played by masculinity in the transformation of war, by examining the breakdown of relationships between men in Sierra Leone and South Sudan.