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Dr. Theo Gavrielides
Director
Independent Academic Research Studies
Biography
Dr. Gavrielides is the founder and director of the youth-led social policy think-tank Independent Academic Research Studies. He is also a visiting scholar at Mount Royal University (Canada).
Previously, he was the chief executive of Race on the Agenda, one of Britain's leading social policy think-tanks focusing on race equality. He also worked at the Ministry of Justice as the human rights advisor of the strategy directorate. He is also a legal counsel specialising in criminal law, human rights and EU law.
Dr. Gavrielides obtained a doctorate in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (PhD, 2004) and a Masters in human rights law from Nottingham University (LL.M, 2000).
Dr. Gavrielides has published extensively in academic journals while his book
Restorative Justice theory and practice has been published by the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI) and Criminal Justice Press. Currently, Dr. Gavrielides is working on a new book titled
Rights and Restoration within Youth Justice.
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