Biography
In my previous lives I worked as a welder, civil servant, TEFL teacher in Italy and Spain, and private sector research consultant. I took my first degree at the University of Leeds in 1996, followed by a Masters degree in Public Order at the Scarman Centre, University of Leicester. After six years doing policy evaluation research, I completed my doctorate at the University of Lancaster in 2011. My doctorate was entitled, 'The Basque Education Plan for Peace and Human Rights: Towards a More Sustainable Model of Peacebuilding in Euskadi' and addresses the politics surrounding this ground-breaking policy development. The two articles published from the thesis thus far are listed below, as are the publications from my period spent as a research consultant to one of the UK's government departments.
PUBLICATIONS
Academic Peer-reviewed
(2013) ‘Advancing peace culture in the Basque Autonomous Community: The Basque Education Plan for Peace and Human Rights (2008 – 2011)’, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 13 (3), Special Issue on Ethnicity, Nationalism and Education.
(2011) ‘Advancing a peace culture in Euskadi will require a more open confrontation with conflict culture’, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 24 (1), pp. 51-59.
Consultancy
Griffiths, R. and Durkin, S. (2007) ‘Synthesising the Evidence on Employment Zones’, DWP Research Report No. 449.
Griffiths, R. and Durkin, S. (2007) ‘Evaluation of Residential Training Provision’, DWP Research Report No. 448.
Griffiths, R., Durkin, S. and Mitchell, A. (2006) ‘Evaluation of the Single Provider Employment Zone Extension’, DWP Research Report No. 312.
