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Call for European Probation Workers: Join Our Research Focus Group!
For an ongoing CEP project on the role of research in the future of European probation, led by Prof. Fergus McNeill at the University of Glasgow, we are seeking to recruit frontline practitioners to participate in an online focus group on that topic. This will be conducted in English.
Information about participants will be confidential to the research team. At present, we have volunteers to participate from Germany, France, Italy, and Romania. We’re keen to expand this to include probation workers from other European countries, including Ireland and the UK jurisdictions, Scandinavia, the Baltic states, the Low Countries, Central and Eastern Europe, and Spain and Portugal. If you would like to learn more about participation, in confidence, please email Fergus.McNeill@glasgow.ac.uk before 31st March 2024.

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