Dr Estelle Zinsstag's Recognition (89)

Interviewed by Dr Rahime Herbas (a Turkish Academic) as one of 3 experts on Restorative Justice for a book aiming to popularise RJ to the wider public in Turkey (book has been published in English and is being translated in Turkish)
2024

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Research Areas	Criminology Gender

Consultant on RJ (as part of a team of the EFRJ) to the Council of Europe
2023

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Research Areas	Criminology

Auditioned on the application of RJ and its potential in France with 2 other international experts by French Member of Parliament Caroline Yadan (Chair of the RJ working Group at the French Parliament)
2023

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Description	Invitation to be an international expert witness for the French Parliament's WG on RJ.
Research Areas	Criminology
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Member of the Advisory Board of the research project 'Restorative Justice and Sexual Violence research in the ACT (RJ4SV' at the Australian National University (Australia)
2023

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Description	I have been invited by colleagues Prof Miranda Forsyth and Prof Meredith Rossner (both at ANU) to join an international advisory board to advise/guide them in their research.
Affiliated Organisations	The Australian National University
Research Areas	Criminology Gender
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

National Hub on Restorative Justice for Sexual Harm based at Thriving Survivors in Glasgow (Scotland) funded by Scottish Government. In this framework I was a member of the advisory board, in charge of the specialist training and lead some working groups
2022 - 2023

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Research Areas	Criminology Gender
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Social Sciences Research Group
Org Units	School of Applied Sciences

Invited to join within the Stakeholder group of Scottish Parliament, the 'Code of Practice Development Committee' (as the only academic)
2021 - 2022

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Research Areas	Criminology

Invited to be a member of the focus group advising Thriving Survivors (a Scottish third sector org) on the preparation of a nationwide consultation with survivors of gendered violence on the use of RJ in Scotland
2021 - 2021

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Description	As part of the focus group I contributed also to a live panel as expert on Facebook to discuss the use of RJ for sexual/domestic violence along a survivor and a representative a Violence against women support organisation.
Research Areas	Criminology Gender
Org Units	School of Applied Sciences

Invited to participate as expert to a roundtable organised by UNODC on restorative justice pedagogy for higher education
2020

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Research Areas	Criminology

Invited to be an international consultant fro UNESCO (Iranian Branch) for a project to develop Yazd as a RJ city (currently on hold due to the pandemic/political situation)
2020

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Affiliated Organisations	UNESCO
Research Areas	Criminology Gender
Org Units	School of Applied Sciences

Invited to be a member of the RJ Stakeholder Group to advise and support Scottish Government's work on the development of restorative justice across Scotland following their 2019 RJ Action Plan
2019

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Description	Ongoing.
Affiliated Organisations	The Scottish Government
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
URL	https://www.gov.scot/groups/restorative-justice-stakeholder-group/

RJ consultant for the project CeSURE (Cercles sur l'Emprise) to work with a multi-disciplinary team on de-radicalisation in French prisons.
2016 - 2018

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Research Areas	Criminology
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Invited as 'Grand Temoin' (expert witness) at events organised bu 'Citoyens et Justice' and 'ARCA' (both NGOs working on Justice matters in France) to comment on their initiative to develop RJ in France. The event was attended by a number of heads of cabi
2016 - 2017

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Research Areas	Criminology
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Co-organiser of a field trip/workshop activity on gendered violence and RJ during the 12th EFRJ Biannual Conference
2024

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Description	During the EFRJ conference we co-organised a field trip/workshop session which included Estonian practitioners, judges, psychiatrists, support organisations workers and international participants of the conference. On the one hand I spoke to the group about the current research but then we organised peacemaking circles with the whole group which were quite tricky to set up but hugely successful and helped unlock a quite tricky situation as it allowed for frank but respectful and forward-looking exchanges on a complicated topic in Estonia and beyond.
Research Areas	Criminology Gender

Co-organiser of a Workshop on gendered violence and RJ for the RJS4C in Tallinn (Estonia)
2022

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Description	As a core member of the team representing Scotland in the 10-country European project (Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change/RJS4C) which lasted 4 years, I co-organised one of the workshops when the project meeting happened in Estonia.
Research Areas	Criminology Gender
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Co-organiser of the (online) day conference 'Measuring, researching, narrating: discussing the (social) impact of RJ' for the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ)
2021

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Description	As a member of RECOM (the research committee of the EFRJ) (which I was between 2020-2022) we co-organised this online/day conference and I also chaired the first session. We had 5 sessions altogether and 100+ participants.
Research Areas	Criminology

Co-organiser of the Scottish Network of Restorative Justice Researchers (SNRJR) yearly Webinars
2019

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Description	We created the SNRJR in 2018 with 2 colleagues and got funding from the SCCJR for the development of a network, in particular to organise a series of seminars. The main aim is to blend international and local expertise, form both academia and practice or policy, with the aim to support the development of RJ in Scotland. We did the first seminar on Arts and RJ with 4 speakers (from Belgium and Scotland, including Shetland) at the both international and local and had about 40 participants. Because of the pandemic we had to go online, and so far have kept it that way as it allows for different kinds of speakers and audience - for each event we have between 40 and 120 participants. In 2020 we had one on Education and RJ (with 4 speakers from Canada, Finland, England and Scotland) In 2021 we had one RJ and criminal courts (with 4 speakers, 2 from Belgium and 2 from Scotland) organised in collaboration with SCCJR. In 2022 we had one on RJ and policing (with 5 speakers from Denmark, Norway, Finland, England and Scotland), organised in collaboration with SIPR. In 2023 we had one on RJ and children's rights (with 5 speakers from Israel and Scotland) organised in collaboration with CYCJ. In 2024 we had one on serious crime and RJ (with 4 speakers from Belgium, England and Scotland). My 2 colleagues and I who co-chair the SNRJR organise those collectively and then I generally chair and introduce the webinar as well as close it, one of the other colleagues deals with registrations and the other practical bits and the last ones moderates the discussions between the papers and at the end.
Research Areas	Criminology Gender
Org Units	School of Applied Sciences

Co-organiser of a series of webinars and a final Symposium 'Is Restorative Justice Global? The Meaning, Opportunities and Challenges for Restorative Justice in European and Chinese Contexts' at Regent's Park College at the University of Oxford
2019 - 2024

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Description	I was part of the organising committee of the conference which was a collaboration between various colleges/centres at Oxford. Because of the pandemic the main conference was postponed and we organised a series of 5 preparatory webinars with European and Chinese colleagues - I contributed to the one on gendered violence in 2022. We finally were able to organise and have the conference in person in March 2024 at the Regents Park college.
Affiliated Organisations	University of Oxford
Research Areas	Criminology Gender
Org Units	School of Applied Sciences

Co-organiser of the TIJRJ Annual Lectures
2018

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Description	Every year, I co-organise the Annual Lecture of the journal 'The International Journal of Restorative Justice' in the framework of an international conference. Annual lecturers are all leaders in the field of restorative justice. The lectures are then published in the journal the year after. Previous lecturers include: 2018: Antony Pemberton in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina; 2019: William Wood in Perth, Australia; 2020: Jennifer Llewellyn (Canada/webinar due to Covid-19); 2021: Antoine Garapon (France/webinar due to Covid-19); 2022: Robert Peacock in San Sebastian, Spain; 2023: Claudia Mazucatto in Florence, Italy; 2024: Leanne Levers, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Research Areas	Criminology
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Co-organiser of the international cross-disciplinary seminar between the faculties of Theology, Social Sciences and Law at KU Leuven and Humanities, Law and Literature at Tarbiat Modares University (Teheran/Iran) entitled ' Gender, Religion, Law and Socie
2017

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Description	After visits/conferences in Iran by myself and my colleague Ivo Aertsen in previous years, we decided to reciprocate and invite the Iranian colleagues to come to Belgium and continue the conversation, which took place over 2 days in March 2017. It took place in Leuven (Belgium) with about 30 participants.
Affiliated Organisations	KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSTITEIT LEUVEN
Research Areas	Criminology

Member of the planning committee of the project 'Developing Restorative Justice in Scotland' which organised a series of 4 seminars/events and a conference run by the RJ Forum Scotland for civil society, practitioners, policymakers and academics
2017

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Research Areas	Criminology
Research Themes	Culture and Communities