Dr Siobhán McAlister is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, and a member of the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on the intersections between criminal justice, social (in)justice and children’s rights.

She has extensive experience in designing and carrying out research with children and young people on criminal justice processes and interventions, experiences of violence and victimisation, and conflict legacy. She has recently completed two large projects – one examining the transgenerational legacies of the Conflict in Northern Ireland (funded by the Commission for Victims and Survivors Northern Ireland), the other on enhancing child-rights responses to victims of violence (funded by the European Commission).

She led the team commissioned by The Executive Office to examine girls’ and young women’s views and experiences of violence in N. Ireland, which informed the Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls. Siobhán is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Youth Studies.

Children & Young People Conflict, Migration & Social Change