{"id":1884,"date":"2021-04-28T09:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T08:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:52:35","slug":"uwe-bristol-dr-alice-mary-young-shares-transnational-organised-crime-research-to-organisations-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/uwe-bristol-dr-alice-mary-young-shares-transnational-organised-crime-research-to-organisations-around-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"UWE Bristol Dr Alice Mary Young shares transnational organised crime research to organisations around the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Mary&nbsp;Alice Young, Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Transnational Organised Crime from UWE Bristol has&nbsp;been invited to a&nbsp;series of engagements and placements&nbsp;around the world to share her expertise and research.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Young has&nbsp;also&nbsp;been successful in applying for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/re.ukri.org\/knowledge-exchange\/the-higher-education-innovation-fund-heif\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funding<\/a>&nbsp;to undertake a project which focuses on exploring the resilience of transnational organized crime in the pandemic and post-pandemic world.&nbsp;She&nbsp;has also incorporated Dr Amber Philips from UWE Bristol Criminology to assist with the project.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the 23&nbsp;March&nbsp;2021, Dr Young was one of six world leading experts to consult with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalinitiative.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime<\/a>, at their Caribbean Experts&#8217; Meeting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This month, Dr Young and Dr Simon Sneddon (Law, Northampton) chaired the annual Transnational Organized Crime stream for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/slsa.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Socio-Legal Studies Association<\/a>&nbsp;conference.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dr Young has been invited to undertake visiting positions focusing on organized crime, with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/english.hi.is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Iceland<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunderland.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Sunderland<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"\/Users\/ac9-jones\/AppData\/Local\/Microsoft\/Windows\/INetCache\/Content.Outlook\/SQOR4NH5\/Virginia%20Commonwealth%20University%20in%20the%20US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Virginia Commonwealth University<\/a>&nbsp;in the US &#8211; working with law and criminology experts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These appointments will initially begin as virtual residences with a focus on existing research projects, and will also see Dr Young contributing guest lectures.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Young will&nbsp;also&nbsp;be undertaking a placement with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fid.gov.jm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Financial Investigations Unit in Jamaica<\/a>&nbsp;and also the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jcf.gov.jm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jamaica Constabulary Force&#8217;s Research and Policy Development Unit<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; both of these positions will involve assessing current legal frameworks on addressing organized and financial crime.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Young has been appointed as an editor for the Journal of Financial Crime, the Journal of Money Laundering Control and, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/standinggroups.ecpr.eu\/sgoc\/about-sgoc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">European Review of Organised Crime<\/a>. Dr Young has recently submitted an editorial for the former, and is being mentored by Professor Barry Rider (Cambridge) to undertake wider research dissemination duties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Mary&nbsp;Alice Young, Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Transnational Organised Crime from UWE Bristol has&nbsp;been invited to a&nbsp;series of engagements and placements&nbsp;around the world to share her expertise and research.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr Young has&nbsp;also&nbsp;been successful in applying for&nbsp;funding&nbsp;to undertake a project which focuses on exploring the resilience of transnational organized crime in the pandemic and post-pandemic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/uwe-bristol-dr-alice-mary-young-shares-transnational-organised-crime-research-to-organisations-around-the-globe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UWE Bristol Dr Alice Mary Young shares transnational organised crime research to organisations around the globe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":127,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,4],"tags":[14,553,550,552,551,75,226],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-business-innovation","category-uwe-bristol-research","tag-bristol-law-school","tag-criminology","tag-dr-alice-mary-young","tag-global-initiative-against-transnational-organized-crime","tag-transnational-organised-crime","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-uwe-bristol-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6559,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}