
Research Committee
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Mission & Members
Objectives
The Committee will bring together researchers working on restorative justice, create an international and intergenerational network, and set together future research agendas and collaborations. More specifically, the EFRJ Research Committee will:
- support and encourage research on restorative justice,
- assist researchers in the field,
- develop strategies to better disseminate research outcomes,
- encourage the representation of research in other criminological or related events, conferences, publications,
- identify gaps in existing research and can suggest topics to be explored,
- share information on grant opportunities for researchers among EFRJ members and beyond,
- initiate project proposals,
- assist the EFRJ Secretariat to translate the existing research knowledge accumulated in the past years at the EFRJ to practice and policy.
Members of the EFRJ Research Committee
EFRJ Board representative: Brunilda Pali (Belgium)
EFRJ Secretariat representative: Laura Hein
- Anna Matczak (Poland) - chair of the committee*
- Katerine Barnekow (Denmark)
- Fernanda Fonseca (Brazil)
- Ena Kazic (Bosnia)
- Giuseppe Maglione (UK)
- Ian Marder (Ireland)
- Federico Reggio (Italy)
- Helena Soleto (Spain)
- Estelle Zinsstag (Belgium/UK)
*The Research Committee opted to have rotating chairs with a 6 months mandate in order to benefit of the expertise and different skills of its members. Brunilda Pali was the chair for a longer period coinciding with the establishment of the Committee (2019-2020). Anna Matczak started her 6 months mandate in Autumn 2020.
For more info you may contact the EFRJ Secretariat, or the Board representative, Brunilda Pali.
Brief history of the Committee
The EFRJ Research Committee has already existed in the past. Especially important contribution had been given to this committee by EFRJ member and researcher Borbala Fellegi, the work of whom we would like to acknowledge as an important part of our heritage. The gap left by the closing of this committee was and is still filled in by the work of researcher Ian Marder who created the virtual network Community of Restorative Researchers. The EFRJ Board and the Secretariat has in the past years felt the need to re-launch the EFRJ Research Committee

Save the date!
On 5 November 2021
the Research Committee organises the online conference
"Measuring, researching, narrating: Discussing the (social) impact of restorative justice".
Banner image: "Research" by Thomas Haynie on Flickr.com