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Professor Friedrich Lösel, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he was director of the Institute of Psychology and the Social Sciences Research Centre until 2005. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Formerly, he was professor of psychology at the Universities of Bielefeld and Erlangen, a university senior lecturer at Bamberg University and a lecturer at Erlangen University. He was also a project director at the Advanced Research Centres “Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence” and “Socialization and Communication” of the German Research Council. In recognition of his scientific work, he has received various honours including the Award for Lifetime Achievement of the European Association of Psychology and Law, the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology, an honorary Doctor of Science from Glasgow Caledonian University, the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and the German Psychology Prize. He was also elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. |
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Renos K. Papadopoulos, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of the Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees, and a member of the Human Rights Centre, at the University of Essex, as well as Honorary Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Family Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic; in addition, he is a training and supervising Jungian psychoanalyst and systemic family psychotherapist in private practice. As consultant to the United Nations and other organizations, he has worked with refugees and other survivors of political violence and disasters in many countries. He is the founder and director of the ‘MA / PhD in Refugee Care’ that is offered jointly by the University of Essex and the Tavistock Clinic, and the founder and co-ordinator of the course ‘Psychosocial dimensions to Human Rights’ that is offered by both the Human Rights Centre and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. He lectures and trains internationally and his writings have been published in twelve languages. |